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An Insider’s Introduction: The Sugar Thieves

July 30, 2020 An Insider's Introduction Arizona music Carly Schorman Featured Articles Interview

The Sugar Thieves came together in musical love and bluesy harmony more than a decade ago in a smokey dive bar with the fateful partnership of lead singer Meridith Moore and guitar player/vocalist Mikel Lander. Yes, it was Big Fish Pub and the year was 2006, the planets aligned to give the Valley this bastion of music from the American Heartland…

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Stray Cat Theatre’s ‘American Psycho: The Musical’ Strikes at Tempe Center for the Arts

November 17, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

A blood-stained shirt draped over a chair in the center of a room. Commercials from the nineteen eighties blaring overhead, into your bloodstream, from an intentionally forgotten period of cultural subversion. The mood is set. The show begins. And after a brief moment of overwhelming static and piercing radio waves, Toby Yatso – a megastaple of local Phoenix theatre – is standing on a nearly-bare stage, nearly-bare himself as Patrick Bateman…

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Welcome to Instrumental Hospitality’s World Food Tour

August 19, 2019 Arts & Culture Carly Schorman Featured Articles Food & Drink Japan Thailand Vietnam

by Carly Schorman

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I remember the first time I stopped in at Welcome Diner, even if I can’t remember the date. They had just settled into a convert trailer off of Roosevelt and 10th Street and I was in the neighborhood for a house show just across the street. There was furniture hobbled together in front of the trailer and iced tea was served in mason jars. Of course, I didn’t have time to order (that time) because the police were already busting up my boyfriend(now husband)’s show across the street because the homeowners forgot to secure permits for their impromptu First Friday concert…

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An Insider’s Introduction: Adam Townsend

June 25, 2019 An Insider's Introduction Featured Articles Indie Interview Mark Anderson

by Mark Anderson

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Persistence is the key.

Just ask about that with Tucson singer-songwriter Adam Townsend whose new album, All My Fires, is essentially a decade in the making. Produced by Grammy-nominated Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Langhorne Slim, Benjamin Booker), with both indie-rock and soul overtones, All My Fires caught my ear immediately and is one my favorite Tuscon albums of 2019.

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