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(10/25/11 4:00am)
I can’t keep a normal job to save my life. By the time most people reach my age, they’ve amassed a resume of respectable retail and/or food-service positions: cashier at a clothing store, server at a national chain restaurant, barista, bank teller – the list goes on and on. Meanwhile, I’ve spent the bulk of my working life shilling products made popular by cheesy, late-night infomercials and taking care of other people’s children.
(10/14/11 1:13pm)
Like the thousands of petroglyphs found in its more than 47 acres of land, the Deer Valley Rock Art Center has long been a hidden gem. Not hidden for hundreds and thousands of years, petroglyph-style, but hidden nonetheless.
(09/29/11 4:00am)
Matt Klassen, the driving force behind local band The Cold Desert, has achieved his childhood goal. As he sips iced coffee at Tempe’s hipster Cartel Coffee Lab, he oozes laidback cool. His thick-frame glasses, blue and yellow plaid shirt and sandy, floppy hair scream “indie frontman.” That’s exactly what he is.
(09/23/11 4:00am)
Longing for a tropical vacation after less than a month back at school? Escape the blistering Arizona heat by ducking into The Breadfruit and allowing yourself to be transported – if in mind and stomach only – to Jamaica.
(09/12/11 2:31pm)
Candlelight flickers from a dozen glass-encased votives scattered atop an earthy rug, while the intense aroma of burning sage permeates the sweltering heat inside the red tent. Women sit cross-legged, knees grazing neighbors’ knees, in a circle around the altar, a stretch of fabric littered with spiritually-significant objects brought by each woman. The ceremony begins with the passing of the “womb stick,” a rustic branch curved into that most feminine of shapes, a circle. Like everything here, it symbolizes and celebrates feminine power and ability. The Red Tent gathering has begun.
(09/08/11 4:00am)
Leo Staley has been holed up in Hayden Library for hours and will be there until his eyelids droop with scholarly exhaustion. At least four more hours, he says, because that’s how many hours of translating he will do for his Greek class, which is centered on the task of reading through the entire biblical Gospel of John in Greek.
(08/31/11 1:05pm)
It’s difficult to imagine the early days of wireless communication and entertainment, when families would gather around the radio to listen to the news, hear folksy chat shows or tune in to dramatic readings of plays and stories. Today’s radio is fast-paced, portable, highly customizable and, of course, digital. Music fans both casual and obsessive want a service that caters to them – their tastes, their preferences, their lifestyles. To that end, Internet radio services have proliferated and intensely competed for users. While Pandora has long been considered the gold standard in the industry, with its simple, free and user-friendly base format, music mavens eager to try alternatives should check out the following: