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Abortion-rights supporters launch push for Arizona ballot measure in 2024
Phoenix New Times
Expect to see petitioners asking for signatures outside businesses, libraries and theaters as the voting season gears up. One group, Indivisible Arizona, may be one of the most prevalent this fall…
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Sweeps Appear to Be Only Way Into Housing Under Denver House1000 Plan
Westword
The residents of homeless encampments that are cleaned up by the city often remark on how disruptive the process is, saying that it leaves them with no place to go. But sweeps appear to have become the only way for people living on the streets to get decent housing under the city's new homeless initiative…
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God Goes Green: Feds Helping Colorado Churches Reduce Carbon Footprint
Westword
Since 2018, the First Universalist Church of Denver has dramatically reduced its environmental impact, emitting nearly 100 fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide after installing solar panels and a geothermal heat pump temperature-regulation system. As part of an almost $4.5 million project to upgrade the facility at 4101 East Hampden Avenue between 2015 and 2018, the church installed $443,000 worth of renewable-energy improvements…
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Biden focuses on Arizona with new ad featuring Phoenix carpenter
Phoenix New Times
With 13 months before the 2024 presidential election, Phoenix is getting special attention from President Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris reelection campaign launched a new ad focused on the economy featuring a Phoenix carpenter…
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Brought Taxpayer-Funded Bodyguards on Asian Voyage
Miami New Times
In mid-February, as plum blossom season kicked off across Japan, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez packed his bags and jetted off to the bustling streets of Tokyo. On Valentine's Day, he popped in to visit the country's Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs during the little-known trip, memorialized in a series of photos on a Japanese government agency's website, which feature Suarez schmoozing with the foreign leaders over cups of tea…
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'This Has Been So Unfair': Short-Term Rental Owners Sue Dallas Over New Ban
Dallas Observer
In some ways, the late-night Dallas City Council vote on June 14 felt like a dramatic end to a contentious debate that had endured, often frustratingly, for years. By an overwhelming 12-3 vote, the city signaled it was ready to change the rules regarding short-term rental properties (STRs), drastically decreasing the areas such properties would be allowed…
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'Drastic Change' Could Keep Shingle Factory in West Dallas
Dallas Observer
West Dallas residents and their allies, some carrying yellow signs that read “shame,” showed up to City Hall to oppose a change being considered by Dallas’ Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee. The proposed change could take away residents’ rights to kick noncompliant properties out of their communities…
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McDonald's Customer Arrested for Slapping Coffee Out of Manager's Hand in Miami Springs
Miami New Times
If this McDonald's customer ever returns to the drive-thru, he might want to consider a Happy Meal. Ba-da ba-ba-ba…
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Maynard James Keenan adds second 2024 Phoenix birthday concert date
Phoenix New Times
Tickets for a 60th birthday concert in Phoenix in honor of musician Maynard James Keenan sold out almost immediately a few weeks ago. In response, a second Valley show was added, and tickets are still available…
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Steve Kilbey of The Church talks about this weekend's concert in Phoenix
Phoenix New Times
Every conversation comes with the potential for doubt, greatness, joy and pain. In its simplest forms, communication is about connection…
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Mac Sabbath's Manager Explains What Exactly is Going On
Westword
Managing a fast food-themed Black Sabbath tribute band was not something Mike Odd ever saw himself wanting to do. But since assuming the role for Mac Sabbath in 2014, he watched the bizarre concept transform into something truly terrifying and awe-inspiring…
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Mitski Will Bring Theater Tour to Miami Beach
Miami New Times
Update: The Fillmore Miami Beach announced today, October 4, that due to the overwhelming demand, a second Mitski show has been added for January 27, 2024. It's a bit astonishing to witness the relatively massive stardom of Mitski…
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10 Best Depeche Mode Synth-Pop Songs
Miami New Times
After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth's sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic prog-rock concept albums…
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Richard Elfman Talks About His Fever-Dream Film Forbidden Zone Ahead of Dallas Screening
Dallas Observer
Somehow words like "weird" or "absurd" really don't do justice to the cult classic Forbidden Zone. directed by musician, food and wine columnist, and filmmaker Richard Elfman…
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Why Are Conservatives Fighting Over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?
Dallas Observer
It’s been a long and exhausting year for people who keep up with Taylor Swift’s love life. Though it may seem like a million years ago, it was just this past April when news broke that Swift and her boyfriend of six years, actor Joe Alwyn, had called it quits…
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Find 24/7 Food in Denver at These Mexican Drive-Thrus
Westword
The pandemic nearly crushed Denver's late-night food scene with the loss of former 24/7 favorites like Denver Diner, Tom's Diner and Breakfast King. While no one can re-create the kind of iconic appeal those spots had, demand for late-night food is coming back, and there are some places catering to people who are hungry for a full meal after midnight…
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Find the best food at the Arizona State Fair at Chubs
Phoenix New Times
Chef and food truck owner Emily Machelor’s brain never turns off. “I was looking up Poison Apple Funnel Cake Bites last night at midnight,” says the 30-year-old co-owner of Chubs, a Casa Grande-based food truck that does the fair circuit…
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Pork Chop Friday at Perry's Steakhouse Might Be the Best Lunch in Dallas
Dallas Observer
Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille offers the kind of meal you plan your week around. Then, for the next month or so, you find yourself telling everyone how good it was…
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TRVE Brewing in Denver Is Opening a Second Taproom in RiNo
Westword
“The opportunity really just dropped in our lap,” says Nick Nunns, owner of TRVE Brewing, which is planning to open a second taproom at 4290 Brighton Boulevard in 2024. He adds — perhaps to the collective groan of business owners across the city — that a typical real estate marketing email got his attention…
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Mi'talia Kitchen in South Miami Offers Bold New Flavors
Miami New Times
You barely notice the cars whizzing past on U.S. 1 or the Metrorail trains chundering past while visiting Mi'talia Kitchen & Bar in South Miami. With its simple, modern interior at once welcoming and elegant — and a menu rife with hearty Italian cuisine — it's a pleasant upscale neighborhood restaurant one might call ideal for almost any occasion…
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Slutty Vegan Gets a Cheesy Heaux, TJ's Closes and Cowboy Chow News
Dallas Observer
A few things going on this week to note, including a new dish from our favorite saucy vegan and some cowboy news, but not those Cowboys. Not-That-Cowboy Chow Jerry Jones' hospitality business, The Legends, recently took over operations of the AT&T Discovery District downtown, so a Cowboy-themed restaurant was as assured as the sun shining awkwardly into AT&T Stadium during the NFL playoffs…
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Where to Find Pumpkin Spice Food and Drink in Miami
Miami New Times
Much like the Kardashians, most hadn't heard of pumpkin spice until the mid-2000s, and by then, it was too late — it was everywhere. Whether you love or hate it — pumpkin spice is here to stay…
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Your guide to Taste of Japan, a new downtown Phoenix food festival
Phoenix New Times
This weekend, downtown Phoenix's Heritage Square will transform into a two-day Japanese festival featuring food, art and shopping vendors. After a successful Taste of Japan event in California drew over 30,000 attendees, the organizers came together to bring the event to Arizona…
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The 'girl math' trend got appropriated by incel men, and women had the last laugh
Phoenix New Times
It seems like no one can ever have a little bit of innocent fun on the internet without a bunch of weirdos chiming in and ruining things. Seriously: You could post an innocuous 30-second video teaching people how to open a can of beans, and there would be a slew of controversy, social commentary and outright vitriol within the next 48 hours…
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The 'Girl Math' Trend Got Appropriated by Incel Men, and Women Had the Last Laugh
Westword
It seems like no one can ever have a little bit of innocent fun on the internet without a bunch of weirdos chiming in and ruining things. Seriously: You could post an innocuous, thirty-second video teaching people how to open a can of beans, and there would be a slew of controversy, social commentary and outright vitriol within the next 48 hours…
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UwU Con, WrestleDrag and Phoenix’s nerdiest events in October
Phoenix New Times
We're into October and there’s a lot happening in the Valley's geek scene. Since it’s the scary season, Halloween-inspired events are in abundance, including a horror convention and readings of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous poem…
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The 'Girl Math' Trend Got Appropriated by Incel Men, and Women Had the Last Laugh
Miami New Times
It seems like no one can ever have a little bit of innocent fun on the internet without a bunch of weirdos chiming in and ruining things. Seriously: You could post an innocuous 30-second video teaching people how to open a can of beans, and there would be a slew of controversy, social commentary and outright vitriol within the next 48 hours…
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"Nam June Paik: The Miami Years" Opens at the Bass Museum
Miami New Times
Plenty of famous people have called Miami home, but from the late '90s to the early 2000s, the city was home to one of the most important and celebrated artists of the 20th Century: Nam June Paik. Usually based in New York, the globe-trotting, Korean-American artist wintered in Miami Beach, living in a beachfront condo at 1390 Ocean Drive until his death in 2006…
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Dallas' Best Things To Do, Oct. 4–Oct.10
Dallas Observer
Wednesday, Oct. 4 Dr. Brian Williams at Interabang Books Maybe you know his name because Dr. Brian Williams was the trauma surgeon in charge of the Parkland ER on that night in 2016 when five Dallas police officers were shot and subsequently died from their injuries. Or, perhaps you know him from his current run for Congress in Texas’ 32nd District…
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The 'Girl Math' Trend Got Appropriated by Incel Men, and Women Had the Last Laugh
Dallas Observer
It seems like no one can ever have a little bit of innocent fun on the internet without a bunch of weirdos chiming in and ruining things. Seriously: You could post an innocuous 30-second video teaching people how to open a can of beans, and there would be a slew of controversy, social commentary and outright vitriol within the next 48 hours…
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