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11 Best Concerts in Phoenix This Weekend.

If ever there was a time to see Bob Dylan in concert, it’d be this weekend. As you might’ve heard by now, the folk legend is making headlines for winning the Nobel Prize for literature earlier this week, arguably one of the proudest accomplishments of his 57-year career in music...
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11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, August 19, from Sunday, August 21. For more events, see our curated calendar.  "Hare" Everything for sale at Practical Art is handmade by artists and is useful, though you might not be able to bring yourself to use...
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R.T. O’Sullivan’s Closes Its Stapley Road Location in Mesa

East Valley residents will have one less place to celebrate during Saint Patrick’s Day later this month as one of the two R.T. O’Sullivan’s in Mesa is no longer in business. The Stapley Road location of the Irish-themed pub and sports bar reportedly closed recently after four years of serving...
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All The Famous Musicians Who Died In June 2016

Here we are at the midway point of what has been the worst year for music having nothing to do with what was issued and everything to do with who was discontinued. "Sure," you say. "We lost a lot of giants early in the year like Bowie and Prince, but...
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It’s So Sleazy: Guns N’ Roses Gave Coachella Its Most Epic Rock Set Ever

“Internal fixation.” That’s how Axl Rose’s good-looking foot specialist Dr. Rachel Triche described the lead-singer’s broken foot on April 8. Her ESPN-esque medical update, in which she sat in front of all her various credentials, was both great reality TV and evidence of Team GNR’s belief that rock & roll...
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5 Best Non-Halloween Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

Day of Our Lives Book-Signing Watch out for fan apoplexy at the Days of Our Lives: 50 Years book-signing event at Changing Hands Tempe. It’s not just a soap opera; it’s a fiercely beloved soap opera that’s been on since 1965. The lovely commemorative book ($34.99) gets you and a...
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WWE Smackdown Returns to Phoenix in October

US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix has hosted plenty of big battles during its 23-year lifespan – and were not only referring to all the showdowns by the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Rattlers with their respective opponents. Over the decades, the venue (which will soon be rebranded as Talking Stick...
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Modest Proposal: It’s Time to Rethink Nü-Metal

I have a modest proposal that I doubt many of you will cotton to: It’s time to critically re-evaluate nu metal. You remember nu metal, right? Chugging riffs. Grunted vocals. Big pants. Soul patches. It’s one of the last remaining mutations of rock that no one has bothered to pick...
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WWE Live: Road to WrestleMania

The 31st edition of WrestleMania is next weekend and, in recent years, the annual event has managed to grow to the grandeur to which it always aspired. The trick for the WWE to pull off isn’t having the premier bash in sports entertainment go off without a hitch as much...
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Batkid Begins Reveals the Epic Origin Behind a Make-A-Wish Triumph

Dana Nachman's Batkid Begins marches in with the mini-movie you've already seen. (Unless, as Bruce Wayne suffered in The Dark Knight Rises, you've spent months in a hole.) On a November weekday in San Francisco — a.k.a. Gotham-by-the-Bay — 5-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott rode shotgun in a Lamborghini Batmobile,...
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Club Deportivo Coliseo

There’s nary an empty seat to be found on Sunday afternoons in the grandstands of El Gran Mercado. That’s because more than a hundred fans of lucha libre (a.k.a. Mexican-style professional wrestling) never seem to miss the weekly wrestling action put on by the stars of Club Deportivo. As with most lucha events, many of […]
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Ken Shamrock’s Lion’s Den

Former UFC and WWE star Ken Shamrock has been training fighters in mixed martial arts for years at his Lion’s Den dojo in Reno, Nevada. In 2008 Shamrock opened a location in Scottsdale, boasting 8,000 square feet of training space, including a boxing ring, a fighting cage, and a fully equipped weight room. Shamrock handpicked […]