Artists of La Phoenikera: Noemi

On December's First Friday, the Phoenix Art Museum is hosting "After Hours," a multi-disciplinary event showcasing music, visual art, performance, food and opportunities to create art. We hit up one of its featured artists to get to know her...

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Arizona Center for Empowerment Premiers New Short Film

On November 15, we made our way to The Garden (central Phoenix venue) to attend the private screening of “Genesis of Empowerment,” a film produced by Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE), directed by Gina Mendez, the organization’s democracy director. According...

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Cosas que no debes creerte del genocidio en Palestina

Que no es un genocidio. Que Israel no sabía qué pasaba con Hamas y sus intenciones antes del 7 de octubre (¿no tienen la mejor inteligencia del mundo y el ejército más fuerte del Medio Oriente?). Pero resulta que después...

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The Pijama Piyama People and La Phoenikera’s Restless Cumbia Heat

The first time someone invited me to a Pijama Piyama show, I initially rolled my eyes so hard I saw my own Karenness, thinking, 'Not another cumbia band in La Phoenikera,' as if we were saturated with them. I...

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20 Pussy Power Films for Your Wokeness

For a few months, we've wanted to write a list of pussy power films that don't appear on your typical lists (i.e., the ones that want to represent strong female leads but always seem to have a component of...

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Cuba is Not Its Beaches or Its Whores

Cuba is not its beaches or its whores. It's not the sadness of its streets or romanticism of the "máquinas" (cabs), the Moskovich, Lada or the American classics with loud hot-wired sound systems. It's not the elders’ acquiescence or...

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Movies at Public Library That’ll Help Purge Your Mommy Issues

Having a Bolivian mom (Mother's Day is celebrated on May 27th there), who lives in Mexico (there it's observed on the 10th), and me living on this side, generates a lil' anxiety during these days. Especially because IDKWTF (that...

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Birria Ramen For Your Mexican-Japuco Fix

It's no secret that birria-ramen has mad buss status, slaps the street food scene, and is as hot as the scorching streets of La Phoenikera. And it's fucking crazy 'cause even if it's raining fire outside, this culinary lovechild,...

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Choose Something Else…

Choose skipping T2 Trainspotting. Choose other flicks that gladly empty your pockets and deliver a sultry sip of pus. Choose to wait until you can stream it from the comfort of your house: pause it, check your social media...

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Questions Answered By The Prince of Puke

When we found out John Waters was doing stand-up at the Celebrity Theatre we almost choked with happy vomit. I've been friend-crushing on this man for most of my life thanks to a really bad copy of Pink Flamingo in...

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BlakTinx PHX Announces Fire Lineup For 2019 Festival

When we asked Liliana Gomez what is the most important thing about BlakTinx and she answered "the brown and black experience through movement," our knees jerked a bit y sudamos frío de la emoción. Although the festival focuses on contemporary...

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Bands We’ll be Rocking With At McDowell Mountain Music Festival

The McDowell Music Festival is on this weekend and we're ready to catch up some of its bands to see wuzzup wit dem live. We've heard most of them and we know some have new material out. Others, we're...

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