A Sassy Valentine’s Playlist For All You Sexy Beasts

It's Valentine's Day, and as much as we would like, we can't escape the flowers, chocolates, dinner reservations, and buying a whole bunch of sh*$t while retailers are moving on to milk the next holiday. It's a perfect rainy day...

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Get Your Hoop On!

Check out some of the snapshots we took at the 2018 World Championship Hoop Dance Contest. This legit competition takes place every year at the Heard Museum, and if you haven't had a chance to experience it, you must...

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10 Fuego Songs We Heard @ AfroFusion Friday

Dancing to the same tunes all the time must screw with your brain in some way. Seriously, that Top 40 or 100 loop never allowing you to venture to other sources of smashing hits must atrophiate it. The genre...

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La Phoenikera Women March to The Polls

Thousands of Phoenikerxs joined millions nationwide for The Women's March about a year ago. This event (the largest protest ever recorded in U.S. history) was a public demonstration against the recently elected Trump Administration and everything he stood for. As...

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Wanted: Phoenikera Poets for Public Art Project

If you think the world should hear or read the poetry you've locked away and only your friends stoically listen to, this is your chance. You have a little less than 10 days to scribble some cool ish and submit...

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Video Review: Estar Guars And Its Last Jedi

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Video Review: Estar Guars And Its Last Jedi

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Have a Matices Kind of Xmas

Melissa Quintans had a little chat with LA PHNKRA about ¿Navidad? a new Spanish-language production by Matices Theatre Company and she tells us that this new project is a window into contemporary society and approaches subjects like filial relationships,...

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12 Subversive Films in Spanish You Can Check From La Phoenikera’s Central Library

Sometimes the word subversive carries a negative connotation imposed by an established order. It says that if you have dissident ideas, your are part of The Red Menace, a commie, a trotskyist, an anarchist. As if any of these...

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Literature – Palabras Bilingual Bookstore

This Friday you'll be able to listen to stories written by local writes who participated in the 2nd Creative Writing Workshop in Spanish at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore. Aside from hearing their literary compositions, you'll be able to check out...

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ARTivism – EscuelitaPuente Ink

Join Puente Ink, as we cooperatively learn about the human rights, local human rights violation, how to create revolutionary vector art with Adobe Illustrator for protests and the basics of serigraphy. Requirements:  Bring your own laptop with Adobe Illustrator software. WHEN:...

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Music – Café Tacvba

To all the Chilanga Banda! Today this amazing band will play at the Arizona State Fair and there's no doubt that the chafiretes will give you chupe y pachanga. WHEN: 10/20 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Arizona State Fairgrounds 1826 W. McDowell Rd....

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