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ThriftyBeer.com lists cheapest prices around Arizona
The recession has caused a nationwide dip in beer sales, but with ThriftyBeer.com, drinkers don't have to sacrifice their beer-drinking habits. The Web site, whose Arizona listings launched this month, tells drinkers how to find the...

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Servers Who Serve gives back to community
The W Scottsdale’s servers aren’t all about taking care of themselves—with server Natalie Karmo’s program Servers Who Serve, the bartenders and servers are also giving back to the community. So far, the W wait...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Phoenix Improv Festival back for its eighth year
F-bombs, sex acts, unnecessary violence and random moments of insanity might not be what you expect from a show at the Herberger Theater, but when the Phoenix Improv Festival returns for its eighth year, you can bet things will get...

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The morphing mojito
At first sip, it doesn't seem like an obvious best-seller. With five ingredients, three of which must be crushed in the bottom of the glass before mixing even begins, the mojito is an unlikely up-and-coming cocktail. But in the past...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Spring training cocktails keep the fun going
As part of spring training in the Valley, Morton’s restaurants have launched two specialty cocktails for Chicago Cubs fans, in honor of the first Morton’s, which opened in Chicago in 1978. Each of the drinks is priced at...

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Give Real a new online cocktailing experience
It's your out-of-state friend's birthday, and you want to buy him a drink, but hopping on a plane to say hi at the bar just isn't feasible right now. That's where Give Real steps in. The fledgling start-up, which has been in the...

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Party Foul! brings diverse crowd, music
Homme Lounge in Phoenix may be a gay bar, but for its Party Foul! club night on Fridays, it has one of the most diverse clienteles in the Valley. A typical Party Foul!: At 9 p.m., 20-something guys and girls wearing bandanas and...

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Best Friends Forever a new all-ages party
You're not quite legal, and all you wanna do is dance. Two of the Valley's favorite DJs have got you covered with Best Friends Forever. The new dance night launches this Saturday, Feb. 7, at Club Red, brought to you by Kevin the...

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Repo! The Genetic Opera a cult classic musical for the new generation
It looked like Halloween in January Friday night at the Chandler Cinemas. Young adults wandered around the movie theater donning white masks and lacy black dresses, jumpsuits and blood-colored eye make-up. And don’t forget the...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Holiday visitor guide
Chances are, you’ve got some family coming into town looking to escape the wintry cold and don shorts in December. They’re also going to want some great places to party, and we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re...

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Quietdrive shakes up sound, successfully
Fans of pop rock band Quietdrive will be surprised, but pleasantly, at the edgier sound of their new album, Deliverance. The band kicked up the melodies a notch on their sophomore full-length effort. While the debut, When All...

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Vaudeville Barker Teaches Gals Tease Appeal
Valley loudmouth Lucy Morals aint shy on stage. She announces, yells, shouts, curses and spews like a raunchy sailor fresh off the boat. Lucy Morals is the Ringstress for area cabaret variety show called Romantasy Cabaret, recently...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Arizona State Fair always a great time
It’s not really fall without a trip to the Arizona State Fair (at 19th Ave. and McDowell Road in Phoenix), and I headed there recently for a wonderful time, as always. Go there on a discount day. You can’t beat $1 ride...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE 11/4: Cobra Starship
Sound: It’s like your charming, spastic, drunk friend who can’t really sing decided to grab the mike—but with the mix of disco-y, crunk-y and electronic-y sounds in the background, you dance to the groovy tunes anyway....

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE 10/28: All Time Low
Sound: Perfect for your little sister, sugary melodies that are more pop than punk. Claim to fame: These MySpace babies (the band’s average age is 20) have done it the grass-roots way—lots of viral marketing garnered them...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Silver Medallion shines in the Valley
It seems like an average night at the massive Old Town Scottsdale club Axis/Radius—beautiful people dance, mingle and sip cocktails. Then in walk two more — Oren Schauble, a thin, hip young man from Hawaii with long blonde locks, and...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE ‘Cake’ serves up tasty morsels of local art
Thinking about cake might conjure up images of something sweet, delicious, filling and special—and those are the types of feelings a group of Valley artists wants readers to have with their new art anthology, Cake, Volume One...

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Recession night out
While you may not be able to purchase any bottles of Courvoisier any time soon with the sluggish economy, that doesn’t mean you still can’t drink like a rock star. Here are some places in the Valley to get your alcohol...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Alternative dance bar Glam closes its doors
It’s really sweaty at Glam. Inside, more than 100 people are lining the walls in the dark, small bar that technically only holds 49. Outside, nearly another 100 more are “cooling off” in the sweltering Arizona night...

AMP.AZ FRONT PAGE Out of coffeehouses, onto Warped Tour
20-year-old Charlotte Sometimes has come a long way in signing with major label Geffen Records and landing a spot on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, which comes to Phoenix June 25. Before the singer’s career took off,...