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FIRST FRIDAY

ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH FROM 6 P.M. TO 10 P.M., DOWNTOWN PHOENIX ALONG ROOSEVELT STREET AND GRAND AVENUE BECOMES THE COOLEST PLACE TO BE. AS THE SUN SETS, ART STUDIOS OPEN THEIR DOORS TO SHOW OFF THEIR NEWEST EXHIBITS, AND STREET VENDORS LAY OUT HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY, PAINTINGS AND CLOTHING. FOOD TRUCKS PARK ALONG THE STREET AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, YOUNG AND OLD, ROAM THE ROADS TO EXPERIENCE ONE OF THE LARGEST ART COMMUNITY EVENTS IN THE STATE. CARSON MLNARIK • COLLEGE TIMES

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11 BOXED IN Each First Friday features a pop-up art gallery in a repurposed 20-foot metal shipping container called “Hot Box Gallery.”

Each month features a new exhibit by a different artist.

10 GADGETS AND GIZMOS APLENTY Voodoo dolls, poetry books, records, pipes and vintage clothing are all staples at every First Friday. Spice it up and play a game of “I Spy” for these items next time you go.

9 ON THE MAP Roosevelt Row, which serves as the hub for First Fridays, was recently recognized by USA Today as one of the top 10 art districts in the United States.

8 BIRDS OF A FEATHER The flying birds depicted in the mural on the side of monOrchid gallery on Roosevelt is painted by Brian Boner and represents the “instinctual way they rely on each other, working together toward constant progress.”

7 ARTISTIC ADVENTURE There is a free shuttle that runs on First Friday to take patrons to and from five different hot spots, including the Phoenix Art Museum and CityScape.

6 DOWN TO A SCIENCE Arizona Science Center hosts an Adults Night Out every First Friday with a bar and access to the IMAX theater and the planetarium displays.

5 CAFFEINE CRAZE There are 13 coffee shops in the Roosevelt Row neighborhood alone, so if walking around and looking at art tires you out, there are plenty of pit stops for a pick-me-up.

4 KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ Each First Friday brings eight to 10 food trucks to downtown Phoenix that offer grub like grilled cheese, burgers, burritos, pizza, popsicles and sorbetto.

1 HUMBLE BEGINNINGS First Friday originated from the annual Art Detour held by Artlink which started in 1988.

Studios would hold a two-night self-guided tour of open-door galleries and studios.

3 THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE Heard Museum, the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum and the Japanese Friendship Garden all offer free admission during select hours on First Friday.

2 RULE OF THIRDS Many of the same galleries and studios also participate in Third Friday, which is held on the third Friday of every month. It is also known as “Gallery Night” and is more focused on art as opposed to food, vendors and entertainment.

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CITY LIGHTS MINIONS MOVIE NIGHT Come watch “Minions” at CityScape’s Movie Night under the downtown Phoenix skyline.

Not only will the movie be shown, but there will be fun minion-themed activities, a splash pad and dozens of delicious downtown food options. Make sure to get there early as seating is first come, first served. Don’t forget to bring your beach chairs, picnic basket and your own minions...or friends— whatever you call them!

CityScape, Central Avenue and Washington Street, Phoenix, bit. ly/2c2mIWD, 6:30 p.m. Friday, September 9, free.

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Don’t miss the next ASU home game as Arizona State takes on the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Make sure to stop by Devils on Mill, on Sixth Street in between Forest and Mill, to take advantage of all the tailgating fun with a Ferris wheel, carnival games and free food.

Sun Devil Stadium, 500 E. Veterans Way, Tempe, bit. ly/2bJEDkE, 7 p.m. Saturday, September 10, $40-$299.

HEALING FIELD The annual Healing Field hosted by the City of Tempe returns September 9 to September 11, displaying 3,000 8-foot U.S. flags throughout Tempe Beach Park.

Each flag represents a victim of the September 11 attacks. The Healing Field is the nation’s longest consecutively running memorial event. Visitors can attend a freedom concert on September 9 and a memorial ceremony and candlelight vigil on the 11th.

Tempe Beach Park, 80 W. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, bit. ly/VAF2sU, 5 a.m.- 11 p.m.

Friday, September 9 to Sunday, September 11, free.

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WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY

ROCKIN’ TACO STREET FESTIVAL

WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? Cast members from Emmynominated television improv show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” are bringing their hilarious styles to Arizona.

Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray will be on stage creating scenes before the audience’s eyes and playing some of the famous games from the show. All ages are welcome.

Don’t miss the chance to laugh until you cry with some of improv comedy’s funniest guys.

Ikeda Theater at Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main Street, Mesa, 480.644.6500, bit.ly/29aZ7Br, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, September 11, $32-$52.

DRINK AND DRAW BYOS—Bring your own supplies!

Changing Hands Bookstore is hosting a night of drinking and drawing for artists of all backgrounds and skill levels. A local model will pose for three hours while drinks are served, thanks to First Draft Book Bar, in the open studio workshop for anyone who wants to try their hand at drawing.

Changing Hands Bookstore, 300 W. Camelback Road, Phoenix, 602.274.0067, bit.ly/2bQKjqp, 6:30 p.m. Monday, September 12, $8.

CABARET The popular and scandalous musical is swinging back through ASU Gammage on its national tour. The Tony-winning show is about a young cabaret dancer who has to follow her heart, no matter how hard the world makes it seem. The show features some of Broadway’s most famous songs including “Cabaret” and “Maybe This Time.”

ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Avenue, Tempe, 480.965.3434, bit.ly/2bEwv64, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 13, to Friday, September 16, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, September 17, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Sunday, September 18, $20-$125.

DEMI LOVATO W/ NICK JONAS AND MIKE POSNER Throw it back to Disney’s “Camp Rock” days when Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas appear at Talking Stick Resort Arena. The night will surely feel cool for the summer when Lovato takes the stage with her hits “Cool for the Summer” and “Confident.”

You also won’t want to miss out on any of Nick’s R&B pop hits like “Jealous” and “Close.” Mike Posner, who is riding the wave from his summer mega-hit “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” will open up the show.

Talking Stick Resort Arena, 201 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, 602.379.7800, bit.ly/2brVJky, 7 p.m. Friday, September 16, $35.20-$85.20.

MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY This crazy, fun EDM festival is coming back to Arizona and it’s bigger than ever, having been expanded to two days. Started

by Grammy-winning and fan favorite artist, Diplo, the festival will feature him, Snakehips, RL Grimes Flosstradamus, and Baauer, known for his online hit “Harlem Shake.” The electronic artists will shake up Rawhide in Chandler during the two-day festival. The show is 18 and up and is sure to be a great night for the Phoenix EDM scene.

Rawhide Western Town, 5700 W. North Loop, Chandler, bit. ly/1lLsBpD, 6 p.m. Friday, September 16, and Saturday, September 17, $53-$169.

ROCKIN’ TACO STREET FESTIVAL The food festival season is upon us! Head over to downtown Chandler for Arizona’s finest tacos, tacos and more tacos.

Tickets are $8 online or $10 at the door and the party goes from noon to 9 p.m., so you have enough time to try every kind of taco imaginable. Vendors like Palacio Restaurant, the International Truck of Tacos, Rock a Belly and Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant will be there offering some of the most creative taco combinations.

There will also be Mexican desserts, margaritas, beer, Lucha Libre wrestling, taco eating contests, a piñata party and Chihuahua races. Don’t say “Adios” to this night out.

Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, 3 S. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, bit.ly/2bV87uj, noon-9 p.m., Saturday, September 17, $8 online and $10 at door.

I LOVE THE ’90S BAR CRAWL Stop! It’s Hammer Time…or just time to grab your friends and hit Mill Avenue for a night of partying like it’s 1999. I Love the ’90s Bar Crawl is coming to Tempe and hitting up bars like Mill Cue Club, Fat Tuesdays, Yucca Tap Room and Zuma Grill with ’90s music and drink specials. Expect tons of boy bands, grunge clothes, some old school Britney and probably too much denim. A ticket gets you a special “I Love the ’90s” mug to take with you on your journey along the map as well as access to drink specials and a ’90s party.

Mill Avenue, Tempe, bit. ly/2bTE8Su, 3 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday, September 17, $20.

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In town to play the Marquee in Tempe, Silversun Pickups headed over to Zia Records’ new Mesa location to play a free acoustic show. The band, who opened for Muse at then-US Airways Center in Phoenix several years back, is touring in support of its new album, “Better Nature,” which hit stores last fall. Nikki Monninger said during a recent interview that recording “Better Nature” was like going to rock ‘n’ roll camp. She was able to try new things, like play a vibraphone for the first time.

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1. Chris Weeks poses with Nikki Monninger after she signed his album. 2. Brian Aubert and Nikki Monninger sing for the audience.

3. Brian Aubert sings.

4. Brian Aubert makes his fan, Ryan Barclay laugh. 5. Layne Flath and Zander Espindola chat with the band members.

6. Alma Estrada waits patiently while she gets her album signed. 7.

Michael Jacques was thrilled to meet Nikki Monninger.

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UNTAPPED POTENTIAL

URBAN ALE TRAIL 2016 HIGHLIGHTS BEER, FOOD AND COMMUNITY OF DOWNTOWN PHOENIX MADISON RUTHERFORD • COLLEGE TIMES

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early 30 local restaurants and bars along the light rail corridor in downtown Phoenix will keep the beer and the conviviality flowing during the third annual Urban Ale Trail from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, September 10.

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The event is a walking tour that aims to not only spotlight the area’s craft beer and culinary scene, but the community and culture that pervades it.

Each establishment, which includes local favorites like Chambers, Jobot, Phoenix Public Market and First Draft Book Bar, will be serving three different 4-ounce beer samples, priced between $1 and $2 each.

Participating bars and restaurants are also required to serve a complimentary snack.

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in at the sponsor restaurant, District Kitchen and Bar, will receive a commemorative growler with the Urban Ale Trail logo on it. Bonus Round, an arcade and board game bar, will be giving away glassware provided by Mother Road Brewery.

The event is also sponsored

by Downtown Phoenix Inc., a nonprofit civic advocacy organization dedicated to cultivating a superlative street-level experience.

“As we assemble the restau-

rants, we try to cluster them so that people can walk to one place and hopefully have another place close by,” says R.J. Price, Downtown Phoenix Inc.’s vice president of marketing, communications and events.

“Ideally people can plan out their day and hopefully hit a half a dozen places, however ambitious they are, and use transit and a walkable downtown footprint to get there.”

According to Price, Phoenix’s first walkable culinary tour came in the form of Wine Walk in 2010, which occurred twice a year in the spring and fall.

“As the craft beer scene sort of gained more notoriety, people started asking, ‘Well, when are you gonna do this for beer?’” he explains. “So we

took the fall Wine Walk and turned it into the Ale Trail and made it more conducive to beer drinkers.”

Price says these events were created before downtown Phoenix became trendy.

“We wanted to bring people downtown to experience downtown in broad daylight, to get restaurants when they can put their best foot forward and give people a really good experience in hopes they would have a good time, discover new places and want to come back downtown more often and that was really the genesis of the event,” he says.

Price says he believes the deep sense of community is one of the biggest draws about downtown Phoenix.

“I always refer to downtown

as a small town in a big city, because it really is this small community trapped inside the sixth largest city in the country,” Price says. “Everybody kind of knows each other and there’s a real sense of community pride...

Yes, it has the big buildings. It has sports teams. It has culture, and nightlife and light rail and all of those great things, but what really makes it the best is the community.”

Urban Ale Trail allows residents to experience bars and restaurants that they may not otherwise discover. One such establishment is First Draft Book Bar, located in Changing Hands Bookstore on Camelback. It is one of only eight bookstore bars in the country.

“The urban Phoenix experience is about

there’s a lot of pride that goes into that, both pride in what they offer and pride in their community.”

Price says another unique element of the tour is the sense of autonomy that it offers to its participants.

Patrons can drink, eat, ambulate and socialize as much or as little as they want.

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“The only rule is the event goes from 1 to 6,” he says. “The cool thing about it is that it’s completely selfguided, so if there’s certain places that you feel really strong about, go there. But if there’s a place nearby there that you haven’t tried, try that too...I usually recommend people mix in new with old.”

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connectivity and great spaces,” says Cindy Dach, co-owner of First Draft.

“Phoenix is in a great place right now with its craft beer and culinary community,” she continues. “We have raised the bar and there are some incredibly talented makers in the scene. It’s also incredibly collaborative and creative. We’re proud to be part of this community.”

The local, small business element of Phoenix’s culinary scene gives it a personal touch that is absent from many city centers.

“Most of the places that are on our tour are local establishments,” says Price. “I think that

The first beer bottle was sold in 1850.

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THE SKATE ESCAPE

LOCAL NONPROFIT GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THROUGH SKATEBOARDING MADISON RUTHERFORD • COLLEGE TIMES

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kateboarder Ryan Lay is a self-proclaimed late bloomer.

Earlier this year, at age 27, he went pro and graduated from NAU with a bachelor’s degree in public administration.

Although Lay’s professional career seems nascent, his entrepreneurial endeavors were rather precocious. Four years ago, he started a passion project called Skate After School with long-time friends and fellow skaters Tim Ward and Bobby Green. The program, which is primarily donation and volunteer based, is now a Phoenix-based nonprofit that provides skateboard instruction to underserved youth in nine schools across the Valley.

Lay, Ward and Green started skateboarding at a young age and have been immersed in the culture and community for nearly two decades. It all started when the trio got the idea to refurbish old skateboards.

“Skateboarders just go through a lot of product and there ends up being a surplus of used product,” Lay says. “We 10 refurbished some boards and

were donating them to a local community center and from there that kind of evolved into a need for programming because kids didn’t really know how to use those skateboards.”

Ultimately, the project evolved into afterschool programming in local schools.

GETTING THE WHEELS TURNING “Really quickly we saw there was a lot of success, we were making an impact in their community,” Lay recalls.

Once they made the decision to turn their passion project into a nonprofit business, Lay went to Seed Spot, a “venture incubator” in central Phoenix.

“It’s essentially business school,” he explains. “You go through a semester-long program and we received a $15,000 grant at the end of that program.”

Lay and his co-founders then started reaching out to schools and charging them a programming fee. They then raised another $13,000 through a crowdfunding campaign.

“I think that community

support, it really showed... not only are the kids really interested, and the school administrators really interested, but just the community at large,” he says.

Though the process seems organic, Lay admits it wasn’t always easy.

“There are a lot of things that go into a nonprofit that you don’t really think about

when you’re just like, ‘Oh, I want to help kids or teach kids how to skate or keep them in a safe environment,’” he says. “(Seed Spot) helped us with all the paperwork and administrative side of things.”

Lay graduated from NAU in May. He says juggling Skate After School, a professional skating career and college classes was difficult but

rewarding, a sentiment he says most college students can relate to.

“I think a lot of people just go through that period in time where they don’t really have an ounce of free time and they’re just really focused on what they’re doing,” he says. “I think especially when you’re in school, you can really push yourself in a way that you can’t

LOCAL LOVE Skate After School relies almost exclusively on donations and the programming fees that the schools provide. The company has a storage unit that houses nearly 200 boards from donation bins at local skate shops like Freedom Board Shop, Cowtown and Sidewalk Surfer.

Cowtown, which has four locations in the Valley, just partnered with DC shoes to design a custom pair of footwear for the shop. For every pair sold, Cowtown will donate a complete skateboard setup to Skate After School.

The owner of Cowtown, Trent Martin, who Lay describes as the “grandfather of Arizona skateboarding,” approached Skate After School and told them about the exclusive collaboration and that they wanted to donate to a community project.

“When he asked me if we wanted to be involved,

obviously I mean that’s kind of a no-brainer,” he says.

According to Lay, they manufactured 100 pairs of shoes, 20 of which went to Cowtown employees.

“It should be somewhere around 80 completes that they’re going to donate which is pretty generous,” he says.

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career-wise because you know that there’s an outcome and an end in sight.”

AGE OF INNOCENCE Lays says kids respond well to skateboarding because it’s an individually motivated, accessible and affordable sport.

It also provides a community and a lifestyle that allows young people to find a niche.

“It’s a really easy sport to access, and I think also there’s just such a huge cultural aspect of skateboarding, because it’s more than a sport, it’s very much so an art form,” he says.

“You start seeing skateboard media and you get interested in art because of skateboarding, because of skateboard graphics and companies you like and from there, you want to produce videos, you want to produce photos, so it kind of opens up this whole world that

FOR SOME OF THOSE KIDS, THAT’S LIKE ALL THEY’VE GOT. STEADY GRIND The team’s immediate goals include making the program the best it can be, expanding locally and eventually nationally and globally.

“Ideally we’d just like to keep going, and evolve and make our program as beneficial as possible and then from there, we can say, ‘OK, this is the best version of the program we can come up with,’ and we can plug it into other areas,” he says.

Lay claims that when they started, it was just a group of friends that were passionate about skating and social impact. Now they have 20 to 30 volunteers from across the Valley. They also collaborate with local homeless shelters and refugee centers and are signed up with the service learning program at ASU so students can get credit for volunteering with the

organization.

“People see that you’re making an impact, I mean they want to help you and...the energy people give you, they really feel like you’re making a difference, they’re happy to help you, they want to see you succeed,” he says.

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I would say a lot of sports don’t really provide.”

Lay says introducing skateboarding to kids is like taking them to Disneyland for the first time. One of his favorite parts is reliving the pride of experiences like landing a trick for the first time through their eyes.

“It’s really exciting to see their passion for skating,” he says. “Even as a pro skateboarder, I don’t want to skate in the summer here, it’s just too hot, but I remember being young and just being like, ‘I’ll just go skate all day in 110-degree heat, I don’t care,’ so it’s fun to see that energy.”

He says it’s a great outlet because they have unlimited time and unbridled passion to hone their skills on something they may not otherwise be exposed to.

“For some of those kids, that’s like all they’ve got,” he says.

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Being in an office and being surrounded by other people who are doing their job would just help me keep on task and motivated.

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At an office.

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Helpful, depending on the job because if you get a job that’s related to your major and what you’ll be doing for the rest of your life, then that’ll be helpful. You’re getting more experience and more stuff to put on your resume and actually seeing that it’s something that you want to do in the future.

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Having the job security.

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rand ArtHaus, the brainchild of artists Laura Dragon, Robert Gentile and Michael Viglietta, is more than an art gallery and studio. According to Viglietta, it’s a “creative oasis.”

In a nutshell, it is a collaborative environment that allows resident artists to work on and display their artwork. At its grand opening at First Friday on September 2, creativity, potential, passion and community were also displayed. These are all sentiments that Dragon said she feels describe the artist collective and the Phoenix art scene as a whole.

“It kind of feels like my version of Andy Warhol’s factory,” says Dragon, who is also the owner and a curator at 14 {9} Gallery on Grand Avenue.

The weekend before First Friday, the team was hard at work painting walls and getting everything into place.

The space features a series of small studios separated by partitions. Though each artist has a different style, technique and medium, Dragon says collaboration and a sense of community are a salient part of the space. Movable walls are used to display the artwork and hide each artist’s workspace when Grand ArtHaus has a show.

Dragon says the space was “buttoned up” for First Friday. It transformed from a space where art is created to a space where art is displayed.

A DJ, candles and an eclectic crowd of old and young art appreciators completed “the gallery feel.”

The team treated the space like a piece of art; they started with an empty building and a lot of creativity. Since mid-July, they’ve added track lighting, insulation, air conditioning, heating units, partitions and the movable walls.

“We had a blank canvas to work with, so we really could make this whatever we want,” says Gentile.

Aside from giving professional artists a space to paint, Dragon says they will offer an immersion program for young emerging artists.

She also wants to provide workshops for the general public.

Immersion participants will pay $85 with a 12-month commitment and will be entitled to all of the workshops.

They will also participate in

group and solo shows, market their art and meet with different gallerists.

“We’re looking for people that are in the early stages of their career...you’ll have the opportunity to have the immersion experience, of being involved with this space and the cooperative feeling of being with working artists, so it’s not necessarily something you get in a classroom,” she says. “It’s very hands-on.”

Dragon says they will have open hours on Saturdays so the public can visit working artists’ studios, something that has not been previously done in Phoenix.

“We want the general public to find the art in downtown Phoenix accessible, that there’s more of an open dialogue between the public and the

working artists...so they’re not so mysterious,” she says.

They will also offer drop-in day rates if an artist wants to work on a project but doesn’t have their own studio space to execute it.

“The center spot is very fluid,” Dragon says of the open space in the center of the resident artists’ studios.

“Someone can come and throw up an easel or a specific wall and do their thing.”

Dragon believes that communities in the Valley lack connectivity. She hopes that Grand ArtHaus will bring artists and art aficionados together and spread knowledge about the importance of Phoenix’s art scene.

“The problem in Phoenix is that we do have this urban sprawl and a lot of artists work

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out of their homes, out of a home studio or a garage, so it’s not always easy to set up a tour of studios in Phoenix because it’s so spread out, so this kind of gives us the opportunity to see that in really close proximity,” she says.

The art scene in Phoenix is shifting, according to Dragon.

Though areas like Roosevelt Row and Grand Avenue are witnessing a lot of change, she says these districts possess a rich history that is responsible for the scene’s evolution.

“I just continue trying to step out of the box, and to raise the bar on what’s happening in the

Phoenix art community,” she says. “There’s really nothing that I could ever say without giving props and respect to those people who came before me, and that are still here fighting the fight. A lot of people have been here much longer than I have that have really stood for art and stood for the local community.”

Gentile, who moved to Phoenix from New York eight years ago, says the art community in Arizona pushed him to get in touch with his creative side, to participate in local shows and eventually to open Grand ArtHaus.

“Everyone has played a part in getting me to where I am right now,” he says. “I’m eternally thankful and I want to be that type of person for other upcoming artists, bring people together, collaborate and really come out with something special.”

The artist wants to “break the stigma of the southwest being cactus and cowboys.”

“There is a thriving arts scene here, we just need to make it known, on a national level, on an international level and to be taken seriously, we have to be serious about what

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“If we don’t take ourselves seriously, then no one else is going to.”

He says he believes Grand ArtHaus will be a driving force in putting the Phoenix art scene on the map.

“We have some legitimate, nationally, world-renowned artists in this space and we want to be able to be a hub for that type of collaboration,” he says.

He also hopes the space will make Grand Avenue a more lively, creative destination.

“It may look a little shoddy on the outside, but there are a lot of creative people on this block and I want to see that grow,” he says.

At the end of the day, they want to create a space that represents the community and the art that they are passionate about.

“I want to see a place where it’s bringing people together. I don’t want to compete against anybody,” he says. “This isn’t about competing; this is about making the art scene legitimate.”

“It’s all about the art,” Dragon adds.

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ason and Taylor Ake’s love story started at ASU homecoming in 2005, when Taylor was a freshman and Jason was a junior. Nearly a decade later, after graduating, getting married and having two daughters, they’re going back to their maroon and gold roots to tell a different story: “Protectors of the ‘A.’” “Protectors of the ‘A’” is a children’s book that the husband and wife co-authored and released through their independent publishing company, Sun Devil Storytellers on July 22. Jason says they started “really pushing it hard” on August 1. They have already sold all 300 copies from the book’s first run.

The book takes the reader on a whimsical journey of ASU traditions, walking them through what they need to do to protect the “A” from rivals like the Wildcats, the Ducks, the Trojans, the Beavers and the Bears.

Taylor says the last scene of the book features the three young protagonists looking at “A” Mountain with maroon and gold capes on, “ready to take on the world.”

“We wanted to create a story where the kids became super heroes of the school,” Taylor says. “So toward the back of the book they have capes on... they’ve become the protectors.

TAYLOR AKE, JEF CAINE AND JASON AKE POSE WITH A COPY OF “PROTECTORS OF THE ‘A.’”

Children love the idea of being the protector. They love the idea of being the super hero.”

The couple initially wanted to write the book to share their adoration for their alma mater with their two daughters. They wanted to accurately represent the heart and soul of ASU, which was something they felt was previously absent in children’s books.

“We love reading to our two girls,” Jason says. “It’s just like a big value that we have. Prior to ‘Protectors of the ‘A’,’ there were only two ASU children’s books and they were just kind of lacking the true heart of ASU.” The Akes chose the tradition

of protecting the “A” because it conveys a deeper message of preserving something important and valuable. They hope their “heart of maroon and gold” is palpable throughout the book.

“It was more about sharing our love of ASU and the traditions of ASU with our kids and wanting them to be raised not just loving Sparky, not just loving maroon and gold, not just loving ASU football or baseball, but truly loving the university,” she says.

Jason says he and Taylor always joked about co-authoring a children’s book. A year ago, Jason had an epiphany.

“I woke up in the middle of

the night, and I woke up Taylor and I told her I had this idea for an ASU children’s book.

She said, ‘Yeah, I’m going back to sleep.’ From there, we just started writing and started having some fun with it.”

Once the couple decided they could no longer tweak the story, they sought feedback from editors and close confidants. The next step was to incorporate illustrations. The book’s illustrator is Jason’s close friend and co-worker Jef Caine, a graphic designer at Jason’s fulltime job as creative director at Central Christian Church.

“I always share what we’re working on, personally, and I shared that I was working on this children’s book and he said, ‘I’ve always wanted to illustrate a children’s book,’ and Jef’s style is exactly what I was looking for,” Jason explains.

“We started with drawings and we went to digital. It was just a really cool progression because we worked so closely together. We were able to really fine-tune exactly what we were looking for and he embellished it with all the fun little things.

It was really organic from the get-go and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.”

The couple says they are “blown away” by the support and positive feedback they’ve received since the book’s debut.

“It’s been great seeing the

camaraderie among alumni,” Jason says.

In addition to providing future Sun Devils with an inspiring story, the couple are donating 5% of all book sales to ASU scholarship programs.

Jason, who is originally from Flagstaff, says he wouldn’t have moved to Tempe without his scholarship.

“The partnerships that have started to happen over this have been really amazing and just seeing where doors have been opened as we’re having conversations with people and the responses have just been overwhelmingly positive,” he says.

The book can be purchased on Amazon, the “Protectors of the ‘A’” website— protectorsofthea.com—and at Cactus Sports on Mill Avenue in Tempe. Jason and Taylor are also working on getting the book on shelves at the ASU bookstore and Barnes and Noble.

The couple is tight-lipped about the details, but they hope to produce more ASU-themed books in the next couple years.

“Once you’ve been through it, you’ve had the good days and the bad, you’re excited about it and you love the school for what it’s provided and the friendships that you’ve made,” he says. “We wanted to carry that out in a book.”

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fter searching for a subscription box that satisfies the needs and wants of college students, Laura Irvin decided to think outside of the box.

Subscription boxes allow customers to pay a monthly flat rate to receive a box with an assortment of products.

Boxes on the market contain everything from health food and pet supplies to beauty products. Irvin noticed that a significantly large demographic was missing: college students.

Her daughter, a student at Hobart and William Smith College in New York,

pitched the idea that led to CampusCube, which launched in mid-August.

Irvin says CampusCube differs from other subscription boxes on the market because the customer knows exactly what goes in each box, while similar companies have an element of surprise.

CampusCube handpicks and tests each product that goes into its boxes.

The company also offers separate boxes for girls and guys. The September box contains nine items including personal care products like razors and hair ties, healthy

snacks and a reusable water bottle. CampusCube strives for organic, natural products made in the United States. The September girls box features a 300-thread count pillowcase emblazoned with the popular catchphrase “I Woke Up Like This” that the CampusCube team designed themselves.

“We didn’t want to do stuff that was over the top girly or macho, if you will, because that’s not really a relevant identification for most young people,” Irvin says. “We kind of played around with the idea for a box that’s totally unisex and we can do it, but it takes a little bit of the fun stuff out.”

She adds that the company will rotate certain items monthly, such as Modern Oats, a company that purveys gluten-free and non-GMO oatmeal with innovative ingredients like goji berries and chia seeds.

The oats appear in the male counterpart of the September box and Irvin says it will probably show up in the girls box in October.

“It’s a great product and we

didn’t see any need to limit that,” she says.

Irvin says the feedback so far has been great and that the team is constantly coming up with new ideas and partnerships. Though she takes great pride in their selections, she believes they will keep getting better.

Each box costs $29.99 and customers can sign up for three or six months at a time.

The September box is set in stone and they are still tweaking the content for the following months. Irvin says she wants to make them seasonal, aligning the content and shipping time with holidays and finals. They also offer a birthday box that includes themed snacks and trinkets.

“That was a challenge that I found as a parent...it was hard to find a fun little thing that I could send if a kid had a birthday during the school year,” she says.

Each box is also designed to be used as storage, something Irvin says students need when living in cramped dorms and

apartments. The lid of each cube is perforated and has popup handles to provide stackable storage reminiscent of milk crates. Each cube includes a binder clip that can be used to clip the boxes together to create a makeshift shelf.

Irvin wants each box to evoke versatility, creativity and sustainability; the cubes are recycled and recyclable.

“At the end of the year, if you don’t take your flip flops and last-minute junk home in them, you can just put them into the recycling bin,” says Irvin. “You can use that binder clip to turn your homework in too.”

The subscription startup wants to give more than gourmet snacks, gadgets and personal care products. Irvin says the company partners with colleges to donate to Scholarship America, a national organization with more than 400 local affiliates, including Tempe and Phoenix.

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of their fashion business, an experience Mendicino says she will always cherish.

“I learned a lot and it really just reinforced what I thought I knew, having never been in fashion before,” she says. “It did reinforce that I was doing things the right way and how to add to it and come up with different strategies to really maintain the business and make it profitable and sustainable.”

The skills she honed during her time in the program allowed her to win Phoenix Fashion Week as Designer of the Year in 2014.

MAKING WAVES Mendicino says her latest collection draws a lot of inspiration from South Africa and Bali, which is demonstrated through a mix of tropical and tribal prints. Her latest line, Evolution, came out at the end of August. The collection features a versatile combination of dresses, kaftans, rompers and ponchos.

“I am evolving with the brand, and taking more abstract prints and designs and just creating a different look,” she says. “I would say that we’re expanding, we’re broadening the brand to just create a lot of different pieces that I think a lot of different women will like.”

The designer says there is more to “feeling” a fabric than physically touching it.

“Fabric represents the mold,” she says. “Like an artist would see a piece of clay and they want to do sculpture out of it, I think the same way in fabric to bring out the style that’s meant to be with that fabric.”

Along with the colorful, tropical element of her designs, there is another component that remains consistent in her clothing.

Mendicino donates 5% of her

revenue to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. It is the world’s largest rescue and rehabilitation center for elephants.

“I’ve always loved elephants,” she says, “My mother collected them when I was growing up, so she was very instrumental in my love for elephants and I really associate the elephants with my mother...I have that tremendous love for the both of them.”

The elephant was a constant trope in many of Mendicino’s initial designs and has remained a permanent fixture ever since.

In fact, her logo features an illustrated elephant with its trunk turned upward, a symbol of good luck.

“Each one of our pieces has always had an embroidered elephant at the nape of the neck or somewhere on the garment, sometimes you see it, sometimes you don’t, but just knowing that it’s always there signifies an authentic Misha Mendicino piece,” she explains.

Designs, has helped with that aspect.

Mendicino’s clothing is available in 65 stores worldwide, including boutiques in California, Florida, Michigan, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Arizona.

“In the next couple years I want to be in over 250 boutiques,” she says. “We just want to

PERSONAL RENAISSANCE In the beginning, Mendicino was also printing most of her own fabric. She says her latest collection features more sourced fabrics.

“It’s a big change from the last collection because I was printing all my own fabric and doing all my own prints,” she says. “It was labor intensive for sure and a lot goes into it, but I feel that this year is just the start of a whole new life for the brand.”

She describes designing as “the fun part,” a portion of her profession that is often glamorized. She says people tend to forget that fashion is a business. The majority of her time is spent marketing and driving sales. The recent launch of her app, Misha Mendicino

expand and keep growing... but we really want to build up Arizona because this is my hometown now, we really want to be that household name in Arizona so that’s what we’re working on doing this season.”

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In 2014, Mendicino reached out to Phoenix Fashion Week to be a part of the runway show. They informed her that to participate, she had to go through the Emerging Designer Boot Camp. The designer says she was initially turned off by the idea because it sounded too much like Project Runway.

Mendicino says she took a leap of faith and submitted a last-minute application.

She was one of 14 designers selected for the Boot Camp.

Every week for four months, she went through an intensive program that taught her and the other designers how to develop and maintain the backend

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is where I left my heart,” she reminisces.

This is a sentiment that she says translates through her clothing. Her designs feature striking color combinations, “simple, elegant tropical prints,” and comfortable, flowy fabric.

Mendicino says she draws inspiration from everywhere she has visited, including Europe, Asia and islands like Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas.

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hoenix-based fashion designer Misha Mendicino didn’t go to design school.

In fact, she spent the majority of her life in aviation. It wasn’t until 2013 that she decided to touch ground and take her creative side to new heights.

“I really wanted to create something that was totally me, that just speaks to my soul and I could outwardly project that in clothing that all women could wear and enjoy, and get the same feelings and inspiration,” she muses.

Mendicino says she spent years looking for the designs she had in her head. She scoured clothing racks and online stores to no avail. Eventually, after a fruitless search for the elusive garments she sought after, she decided to take matters into her own hands and design them herself.

Her time as a flight attendant, and eventually as a commercial pilot, influenced her immensely.

Though she now calls the desert home, she says she is a “coastal, beach girl at heart.” Originally from Santa Barbara, she lived in Maui before she relocated to Phoenix for flight school.

“I always say that Hawaii

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Come to Chase Field for the fierce competition as the D-backs take on the Boys from the Bay. Stay for the special fireworks show after the game, which is sure to get downtown Phoenix riled up whether the Diamondbacks celebrate a victory or not.

Chase Field, 401 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, arizona.diamondbacks. mlb.com, Friday, September 9, 6:40 p.m., $14-$170.

HISPANIC HERITAGE DAY WITH THE D-BACKS Los Gigantes play the D-Backs again for Hispanic Heritage Day. Enjoy a street festival before the game from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. that includes food trucks, a beer

garden and live music.

The first 20,000 fans in attendance will receive a special “Los D-Backs” soccer jersey courtesy of Pepsi. The team will also be sporting it’s “Los D-backs” uniforms.

Chase Field, 401 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, arizona. diamondbacks.mlb.com, Saturday, September 10, 5:10 p.m., $19-$185.

CARDINALS VS. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS The Red Sea comes back full force as the Cards take on New England in their first game of the regular season. The Cardinals lost to San Diego and Oakland in the preseason, so hopefully they have a few tricks up their sleeve for the first game.

University of Phoenix Stadium, 1 Cardinals Drive, Glendale, azcardinals.com, Sunday, September 11, 5:30 p.m., $140-$1556.

This game is sure to hit a fever pitch as spectators stand by to witness the latest installment of the Dodgers-Diamondbacks rivalry. Even if LA wins the game, 20,000 lucky early bird fans will still walk with a David Peralta bobblehead.

Chase Field, 401 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, arizona. diamondbacks.mlb.com, Saturday, September 17, 5:10 p.m., $19-$185.

ARIZONA UNITED SC VS. REAL MONARCHS SLC Phoenix’s Soccer Club doesn’t have an official mascot, but that doesn’t mean fans have a lack of team spirit.

Spectators can cheer on Arizona United in their penultimate game of the season against Utah’s Real Monarchs.

Peoria Sports Complex, 16101 N. 83rd Avenue, Peoria, arizonaunited. com, Saturday, September 17, 7:30 p.m., $10-$20.

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ASU QUIDDITCH SOARS INTO SEASON MADISON RUTHERFORD • COLLEGE TIMES

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n the Harry Potter franchise, quidditch is like the football of the wizarding world.

In the movies and books, the students of Hogwarts zoom around on broomsticks, avoid bludgers, try to get quaffles in one of six hoops to score, and attempt to catch the elusive golden snitch to win the game.

Some may think that the magic and mischief required by this fictional game couldn’t possibly translate to the “muggle” world. However, that didn’t stop students at Vermont’s Middlebury College from sticking brooms, lamps and vacuum cleaners between their legs, tying sheets around their necks to mimic capes and trying to get a volleyball through six ring-shaped goals of varying heights one October day in 2005.

Since then, quidditch has found its way onto college

campuses nationally and internationally. The original rulebook has gone through a plethora of revisions since its inception. For example, it’s no longer required to don a cape while playing.

Quidditch was introduced to ASU in 2009 and the team’s president, Jarrod Bailey, says many team members have never even watched the movies or read the books.

Even if wizard jargon like “Nimbus 2000,” “Whomping Willow” and “Hippogriff” sound

like gibberish to those who don’t identify as Harry Potter nerds, quidditch can still be enjoyed by everyone, he says.

“People who play it aren’t as avid about Harry Potter as you might think,” says Bailey. “Really the majority of the players who do this sport do it for the love of the sport itself, they love being physical, they love how the game is played.”

Bailey is a veteran of the sport, having launched a team at his Burbank, California high school.

Bailey says the biggest difference about “muggle quidditch” is the snitch. In the movies, it’s depicted as a small golden sphere with wings.

“In real-life quidditch, how we play it here, the snitch is actually a person,” he says.

“They’re a third-party member so they’re not affiliated with either teams playing and they wear these yellow shorts and have a tail in the back connected with Velcro. The tail has a tennis ball inside and the seekers have to pull the tail, and

pulling that tail ends the game.”

According to Bailey, games can last from 18 minutes to an hour. Each team is comprised of chasers, keepers, beaters and seekers. The chasers and keepers are in charge of throwing around the quaffle, which is a volleyball. Beaters use dodge balls as bludgers to hit the chasers and keepers and make them lose the ball. If they get hit by a bludger, they must drop the ball and return back to their hoop.

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IN QUIDDITCH, YOU CAN BE BIG. YOU CAN BE SMALL. YOU CAN BE FAST. YOU CAN BE SLOW, THAT’S ENTIRELY A VARIABLE. community teams for those who aren’t in college. In time, he believes it could someday make its way to the Olympics.

“I’ve got big hopes for it personally, because I love it so much. I can see so much potential and the happiness it brings its players and just the athleticism of quidditch already and how it’s expanding,” Bailey says.

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times a week,” Bailey says. “We have outside workouts two more times a week, so we see each other a lot. We hang out.

We have parties together. We do extracurricular activities.

We’re definitely a family,” Bailey says. “At practice, it’s a little bit more laidback. We work on fundamentals. We work on bonding as a team, becoming more of a cohesive unit, but at games we get so killer.”

Bailey says that quidditch is like any physical sport in the sense that it incorporates strategy, speed, teamwork and agility. However, it does not rely heavily on a player’s size.

“In quidditch, you can be big.

You can be small. You can be fast. You can be slow, that’s entirely a variable,” Bailey says.

“You could be 300 pounds. You could be 100 pounds. If you get hit by a dodge ball, you still have to get off your broom, drop your ball and you’re out. That’s a great equalizing factor.”

Eventually, Bailey would like to see a quidditch team at every college in the nation and more

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requirements, the team needs to have six to eight tournaments per season. Its regional tournament is in February and that determines if it moves on to the World Cup. If quidditch is like football for wizards, the World Cup is like the Super Bowl. It features 80 teams and is considered the pinnacle of the season.

The ASU quidditch team doesn’t need magic to succeed.

Last year, the team took first in an on-campus invitational that featured 12 contestants. ASU placed second in regionals and qualified for the World Cup. “We’re definitely a skilled team and we just want to keep on being on top, keep on representing ASU, and giving quidditch a good name,” Bailey says.

Aside from being a mix of zealous “Potterheads” and those who’ve never cracked open a Harry Potter book, the team also shows diversity in majors, stature, gender and skill. Bailey describes it as a giant family.

“We come out here three

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im Commerford may be the bassist for Prophets of Rage, but the former Rage Against the Machine musician is also the rap-rock band’s biggest fan.

Founded this year, the supergroup features Rage Against the Machine guitarist/ Prophets of Rage mastermind Tom Morello and bandmate drummer Brad Wilk, with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord and Cypress Hill’s B-Real.

“I’m a fan of Rage. I’m a fan of Cypress Hill. I’m a fan of Public Enemy,” Commerford says. “I know if I weren’t a member of Rage Against the Machine, I would certainly go see Prophets of Rage. There are a lot of people out there in the world who feel the same way.”

He can say that on good authority. Social media went nuts when videos teasing to the band’s creation were 24 posted. Subsequently, tickets

for shows, including a September 17 gig at Ak-Chin Pavilion, are selling briskly. The setlist features original songs and covers of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill tracks.

“It’s like playing with my idols,” Commerford says. “It feels so good and so right to look back at Tom and Brad.

It’s easy to write music, and hooking up with two idols like Chuck and B-Real, I couldn’t be more enthusiastic about playing music.

“Everyone’s really psyched about everything that’s happened. I’m excited about the music we’re recording. I’m excited about the shows we played. I’m excited about the shows we’re about to play. I’m excited about the world that we will ultimately conquer.”

At the time of the interview, Prophets of Rage had recorded two songs, including the recently released aggressive

track “Prophets of Rage.” It was produced by Brendan O’Brien, who turned the knobs for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave collections.

“Both sound like jams to me,” Commerford says of the songs. “They came together in a similar way as the first Rage record. It was easy. It was fun.

It was exciting. We just rode on that wave. What we came up with was spectacular.”

Commerford, whose band played a “guerrilla” gig near the Republican National Convention, is just as caught up in the whirlwind of Prophets of Rage.

“This happened pretty quickly,” he says. “That’s the beauty of hip-hop and rock music. Back in the day of the first Rage record, it was too easy. You don’t have to worry about the melody and crafting the music to support the melody. You’re crafting the music to support the attitude.

“This has come together quickly, sure, but it’s par for the course in writing the kind of music that we write.”

That music is the perfect amalgamation of Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy, he describes.

“The best thing I can reference is the first Rage record,” he says about “Rage Against the Machine.” “I am a different musician now because of the different things I’ve done in my career. I want to get better as a bass player.

I can’t wait to come off tour and look at the calluses on my fingers and be proud.”

How can someone as acclaimed improve on his craft?

“Better by being proud of what we’ve accomplished and better by being a better musician,” he says. “Better by knowing I gave the people what they wanted.

“We are 50% of the show and

the audience is the other 50%.

I can look out at the audience and see if we’ve succeeded, and see if they are reacting the way they should be. If they are, then we’re getting it done.”

With the taglines #MakeAmericaRAGEAgain and #TakeThePowerBack trending virally, Prophets of Rage are hoping to bring some peace to a troubled world.

“The world is going through some heavy (stuff) right now—sorry for swearing,” Commerford says. “It feels so good to be able to go bump against that with music.

Music is a language that we all understand.”

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Mad Decent Block Party. Festivalgoers will trade in their lassos and cowboy hats for neon clothing and glow sticks when this two-day EDM festival takes over the Rawhide Lawn. Friday, September 16, to Saturday, September 17, 5 p.m., $87.50-$169.

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LA GATTARA WILL BE THE FIRST CAT CAFE IN PHOENIX MADISON RUTHERFORD • COLLEGE TIMES

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elissa Pruitt was 25 the first and only time she met her father. It wasn’t until after he died that she found out they shared a mutual love for cats.

“He was the ‘cat guy’ in town, he saved all of the cats, he would keep cat food in the back of his car and he had this huge cat collection of like, cat figurines and cat stuff,” she says. “It’s so weird because I was like that before we even met, so I feel like it’s kind of in my blood.”

Pruitt’s intrinsic passion for felines led her to visit the country’s first cat cafe, which opened in California in 2014.

When she returned to her hometown of Tempe, she decided that the Valley needed a cat cafe of its own.

“Once I went there, I said, ‘This is what I’m meant to do, this is how I could make a bigger purpose in life,’” she says. “People are saving the world with hunger, but I can do it with cats.”

Since then, she has been planning Phoenix’s first cat cafe, La Gattara. The name comes from an Italian term that Pruitt says roughly translates to “crazy cat lady.”

Cats are highly revered and respected in Italy and “la gattara” is the nickname given to women who take care of the street cats.

The cat cafe concept started in Taiwan in the late ’90s and grew to other parts of Asia, eventually making its way across the globe. The idea is simple: patrons can sit, sip

tea or coffee and hang out with cats, which roam freely around the cafe.

According to Pruitt, nearly every major city in the United States either has a cat cafe already open or in the works.

Cafes have popped up in San Francisco, San Diego, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City.

Pruitt has worked in property management for nearly 20 years and says she finds stray cats and kittens while on the job. She estimates that she has rescued nearly 300 cats during her career.

Pruitt’s goal is to create a space where customers and cats can feel at home. She wants to advocate adoption and spread awareness on spaying and neutering.

“We ultimately want to adopt cats, but...one of my ultimate goals for the cafe is for educating the community,” she says. “I want to educate people on how important it is...how many cats are really getting put down every year.”

Pruitt’s journey has been dynamic and exciting, but it hasn’t always been easy.

“Raising the money was a huge challenge because banks are not going to give you a loan for a cat cafe,” she says. “So you have to do crowdfunding or you have to have a lot of your own money, which obviously I don’t have that, and most other people that open cat cafes don’t have that, so pretty much all cat cafes that have opened have all done a crowdfunding campaign.”

Pruitt did everything on her own for the first year of the project, including making several Kickstarter pages to raise funds for the cafe. She says she did well, but needed assistance if she wanted to

make it the best it could be.

“I just decided after the second Kickstarter that I need a business partner,” she recalls. “I’m good at the cat stuff, I need somebody that just knows the business side of things.”

Pruitt and her business partner, ASU alum Mike Simmons, made a Kickstarter and raised $18,000.

Pruitt says a lot of donations came from friends and family, but they have also built a loyal fanbase since the conception of La Gattara.

Their saving grace was a local rescue that donated the last $1,000 to meet their goal.

La Gattara partners with Lost Our Home Pet Foundation. Pruitt and Simmons will also have cat stylist Kate Benjamin in their corner. Benjamin is a New York Times best-selling author and Phoenix native. The cafe will serve as a showroom of sorts for her state of the art cat furniture.

“In the cat world, she’s

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YOU’RE DOING YOGA, BUT THEN THERE’S THIS KITTEN LAYING ON YOU AND YOU CAN’T STOP SMILING. huge. Having her behind us is priceless,” says Pruitt.

“She has designed other cat cafes and she charges them a pretty penny for it, we get that service for free because we are in Phoenix.”

The cafe will purvey wine, beer, coffee, tea and light fare.

It will feature a main cafe area and a separate room for the cats.

“My vision is like, very clean but lots of vibrant colors, we want to have cat murals on the walls and tons of shelves on the walls for the

cats to go on,” she muses.

Pruitt says there will be no “ugly cat trees” anywhere in the cafe.

“We want people to go in there and basically see what they can do at their house in the cafe, like different types of structures, it doesn’t have to be the ugly cat tree,” she elaborates. “We will have nice, cool sleek cat furniture.”

Pruitt is looking at two potential locations for the cafe, one on Rural and Baseline in Tempe, and one next to Cartel on Fifth in Old

Town Scottsdale. She hopes to have the grand opening before the end of the year.

In the meantime, she is working on getting the word out and doing pop-up events, the most recent of which was a yoga event at Funky Yoga

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in Scottsdale. Participants paid $25, which went to the Kickstarter fund, and did yoga while the cats roamed around the studio.

“You’re doing yoga, but then there’s this kitten laying on you and you can’t stop

smiling,” she laughs.

Pruitt hopes to bring the same therapeutic sentiment to the cafe.

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ktoberfest is a twoweek festival held each year in Munich, Germany, during late September and early October, and is attended by 6 million people each year. Can’t make it to Germany this year to celebrate? Don’t fret—you can celebrate at many events across the state!

Sierra Vista Oktoberfest: Friday, September 9, to Saturday, September 10.

The Sierra Vista Oktoberfest returned to Veterans Memorial Park in 2012 after a two-year hiatus. It now boasts a beer garden, German cuisine, 28 live entertainment from the

Hamptons, kid’s carnival and arts and crafts vendors. If you go: 3105 E. Fry Boulevard, Sierra Vista. sierravistaaz.gov/ event/oktoberfest/2016-09-09/ Heber/Overgaard Oktoberfest: Saturday, September 17, and Sunday, September 18. Join the 29th annual Oktoberfest in the Pines at Tall Timbers County Park. Enjoy a beer garden, hay rides, kid’s inflatables and anvil shoots. There will also be more than 60 arts and crafts vendors. If you go: Tall Timbers Park, Highway 260, Overgaard. heberovergaard. org/community-events/

Brat Haus Oktoberfest: Saturday, September 17. Brat Haus Oktoberfest will be an affair for those 21 and older with themed activities, food, craft beer and entertainment.

Grab your lederhosen and dirndl and enjoy beer garden games, brat eating, stein holding and beard contests.

If you go: 3622 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. brathausaz. com/ Fountain Hills Oktoberfest: Friday, September 30, and Saturday, October 1. This Oktoberfest at Fountain Park is hosted by the Southwest German Society, AMVETS Post 7, Fountain Hills Elks

Lodge #2846 and the Town of Fountain Hills. Join this party for authentic German music, food and beer. If you go: 12925 N. Saguaro Boulevard, Fountain Hills. experiencefountainhills. org/events/2016/oktoberfest Flagstaff Oktoberfest: Saturday, October 1. The eighth annual Arizona Oktoberfest event supports the Flagstaff Sunrise Lions Club. Live polka music, German beer, and free root beer floats for kids in the root beer garden. Contests for yodeling, costume, brat eating and beer hoisting. If you go: Wheeler Park, Flagstaff. flagstaffoktoberfest.com/

SanTan Oktoberfest: Saturday, October 1. This is the ninth annual Oktoberfest for SanTan Brewing and downtown Chandler. The event will include stein races, keg rolling, tricycle races, a keg contest, bratwurst eating contests and a beer pong tournament. If you go: 3 S. San Marcos Place, Chandler. santanoktoberfest.com/ Brew and Brats Oktoberfest: Friday, October 7, and Saturday, October 8. Visit the ninth annual twoday Oktoberfest hosted at Locomotive Park by the Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club. In addition to the beer

Oktoberfest at Tempe Town Lake: Friday, October 7, to Sunday, October 9. Tempe Sister Cities hosts the 43rd annual Tempe Oktoberfest as a fundraiser for its student and teacher exchange program. At the three-day Oktoberfest, you will find a carnival, dachshund runs and a 5 Mile / 5K / 1-mile race on Saturday in addition to German food, beer and wine gardens and live music.

If you go: Tempe Town Lake. tempeoktoberfest.com/ Haus Murphy’s Oktoberfest: Fridays October 14 and October 21, and Saturdays October 15 and October 22. German restaurant Haus Murphy’s in Glendale hosts an Oktoberfest celebration for two weekends in October. Enjoy beer and food, in addition to authentic German music. The band Die

Guggenbach Buam flies in from Germany for this event. If you go: 5739 W Glendale Avenue, Glendale. hausmurphys.com/ location.html Red Rocks Oktoberfest: Saturday, October 22. The Sedona Oktoberfest features local Arizona craft brewers who bring their Oktoberfest beers. In addition, the fest features German-style bratwurst, potato salad and big pretzels! If you go: Los Abrigados Resort, 160 Portal Lane, Sedona. redrocksoktoberfest.com/

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Goodyear Oktoberfest: Saturday, October 29. The Goodyear Oktoberfest will feature authentic Bavarian food, Oktoberfest beer and beer mugs. If you go: Goodyear Municipal Airport, 1658 S. Litchfield Road, Goodyear. oktoberfestgoodyear.com No matter how you decide to celebrate, there is no shortage of festivals to get your fill of beer, brats and blues.

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named after an exit outside of the Valley that encompasses the beauty and peaceful setting a band yearns for.

“It’s off the I-17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff,” he says. We love that drive and it’s one of our favorite camping spots. We always do our best on the return trip home to go that way. It’s a nice, therapeutic introduction back to Arizona, starting with the high pines through high desert and then the Valley. It’s a great return trip home.”

The songs on “Orme Dugas” are just as varied as the Southwest. The lead track is “Keep Me Going” a country-hooked-powerhouse about the hopeful but hesitant feeling one has when starting a new relationship. The Western-tinged song “Lost Scared & Tired” details the struggles and sacrifice of touring life, while the pedal steel-driven “Still Alone” captures the apprehension of going through a breakup while on the road.

“The Gin Blossoms and Jimmy Eat World were explosive pre-indie takeover,” Kolesar says. “A lot of people have told us what we believe: We’re a true sonic representation of Arizona and the Southwest.

We have the influence of mariachi, we have aspects of American country and the post-folk movement that’s all over the nation.

“We take all of this and all of those different cultural

ingredients in the same way that Arizona does. We’re proud as heck of this record.”

Kolesar explains that Jared & The Mill have a natural chemistry that dates back to before elementary school.

“Me and the banjo player have been best friends since

to me,” he says. “I acknowledge that my bandmates also have the same desires. It wasn’t that difficult to give up.

They’re good friends of mine.

“We’ve always had the same lineup. It’s always made too much sense for us to play music together.”

the seventh grade,” he says.

“Same with Larry and Josh.

There are these two duos in the band. Larry and Chuck have known each other since they were babies because their dads play music.

“It’s very much like a brotherhood. We’re very close to one another. It’s almost like we’re friends before we’re a band.”

That made it easy for Kolesar to loosen the songwriting reins, as Carter and Gast contributed as well.

“The artist in me loves to write songs and know that the songs we’re playing are internal thoughts I’ve had and something I’ve had really close

The EP reflects a common vision between the musicians.

“This EP is the truest form of us,” Kolesar says. “We’re a group of rascals who grew up in a borderland that mixes several prominent cultures that all equate to the Wild West. We love deeply and fully and are old enough to have regrets. This record reflects that.”

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ared Kolesar is proud of Jared & The Mill’s new EP “Orme Dugas.”

It’s not just that the songs are strong, or the band clicked. Kolesar sees “Orme Dugas” as the ultimate tribute to the Southwest.

“I think this time around we proved to ourselves that we could develop a sound that is very true to where we come from,” says Kolesar, who grew up in Scottsdale.

“One thing I really wanted to express was a Southwest sound that hasn’t been explored thoroughly in contemporary music.”

Kolesar and his band—Michael Carter (banjo), Larry Gast III (guitar), Chuck Morris III (bass), Josh Morin (drums) and Gabe Hall-Rodrigues (accordion/keyboard)—will celebrate the release of “Orme Dugas” with a party and concert at Livewire in Scottsdale on Saturday, September 17.

“We really feel strongly that this is a representation of Arizona as we know it,” he says. “I can’t dictate how other people perceive Arizona. They might see it as a hip-hop or metal album. This is a sonic representation of where we are from a place that we really love.”

Produced, mixed and engineered by Grammy winner Ryan Hewitt (Tom Petty, Dixie Chicks, The Avett Brothers) at House of Blues Studios in Nashville, “Orme Dugas” is

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OUR FRIENDSHIP HAS BEEN FULL OF GREAT MOMENTS THAT WERE CHALLENGING, BUT I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY IT’S A LOT OF LOVE AND A LOT OF CARE AND VERY, VERY GENUINE.

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emi Lovato and Nick Jonas have grown personally and professionally since their days on “Camp Rock.” But appearing together in the Disney movie meant much more than just hanging out.

“Not only was it a great friendship with lots of differences in our personality, but also on creative and artistic levels, I think we were a big support,” Jonas says.

The two are still supporting each other, as this summer they’re touring as part of the “Future Now” jaunt which comes to Talking Stick Resort Arena at 7 p.m. Friday, September 16.

While touring may sound glamorous, Lovato admits that it isn’t always that way. Moments of loneliness are quelled

by Jonas’ company.

“Getting homesick is rough but that’s why I’m excited to tour with Nick because it’s going to be amazing having one of your best friends on the road with you whenever you do get homesick or you’re having a rough time.” she says.

For Jonas, touring has become

awkward as well. A few years ago, he broke free from the Jonas Brothers to launch what would be a very successful solo career. Touring without them has been a stumbling block.

“I’m so accustomed to traveling with family and having that be my version of touring,” says Jonas, who will appear in the upcoming James Franco-produced film “GOAT.” “Thankfully, by touring with Demi, we share a management team who are some of our closest friends and it makes the environment on tour feel less lonely than it probably would.”

MISSION STATEMENT Lovato says this tour is her way of showing fans that she’s a stronger person after stints in rehab to help with eating disorders, depression and drug abuse.

While in treatment, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and it is something with which she still struggles.

“I wanted to prove to people that I wasn’t just a stereotypical Hollywood starlet that goes to rehab and falls back

Demi and I, that has less importance,” Jonas says. “It’s about building content that is unique and speaks to what we’ve gone through in our lives and isn’t just straight down the middle.”

Lovato and Jonas also became business partners and founded Safehouse Records last year. They have been learning how to balance their business and personal relationships.

“I think that Demi and I are the first to say that we still have a lot of growing to do still and that when it comes to our business as it relates to our friendship, that’s something you have to take day by day,” Jonas says.

With all of the difficulties that a tour production brings, Lovato and Jonas are staying grounded and letting their music take center stage.

“Our friendship has been full of great moments that were challenging, but I think at the end of the day it’s a lot of love and a lot of care and very, very genuine,” Jonas says.

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into the trap of the things that got her there,” Lovato says. “I wanted to make sure that the music I made was great and that I was passionate about the music that I put out.”

Lovato’s latest album, “Confident,” reflects that and showcases her ability to sing about what matters to her.

“I’m going to make the music that I really want to make,” she says.

“I’m going to say the things that I’m terrified to say in my music, but that’s honest and the honesty in my new music is what I’m really proud about.”

Jonas is celebrating his new music as well, as he just released “Last Year was Complicated.”

“I see every challenge as an opportunity to pivot and find something, a new way of showing people what you’re all about and giving them some more depth,” he says. “Demi pushed me to be more vulnerable in my music with this next record and encouraged me to really open up about some things that happened in my life.”

Both artists are excited about performing together, but want to bypass the usual pomp and circumstance of tour productions.

“I think the focus is less on big gags and production elements because for

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CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 8

Fifth Harmony w/ JoJo, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7 p.m., $27-$80 Cedric Burnside, Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $10-$15 Puddle of Mudd, Marquee Theatre, 6:30 p.m., $21 Run Boy Run, Crescent Ballroom, 7:30 p.m., $12$15 Tempe Sour, Yucca Tap Room, 8 p.m., free The tens, The Lost Leaf, free Buckcherry, District Stage at Tempe Marketplace, 7 p.m., free Red Green, Celebrity Theatre, 7 p.m., $53.50 Sink or Swim, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $10 Kenny Holland, Pub Rock Live 6:30 p.m., $15$18 The Convalescence w/ Apothica, Dead Eyes Always Dreaming, Joe’s Grotto, 7 p.m., $12 Los Secretos, Orpheum Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $70$105

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Kim E Fresh, Dilly Dally Lounge, 9 p.m., free The Blunt Club, Valley Bar, 9 p.m., $5

SEPTEMBER 9 3Nations, District Stage at Tempe Marketplace, 7 p.m., free Royal Southern Brotherhood, Rhythm Room, 9 p.m., $15 Coobee Coo, Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $10 Laura Ruggles, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m. $5 Kublai Khan, The Underground, 6 p.m., $12 Master, Club Red, 6 p.m., $10-$17 Ryan Sims Band, Cactus Jack’s, 8 p.m., $10 74th Street Band, What The Hell Bar & Grill, 8 p.m., free Southwest By Midnight, Rockbar, 8 p.m., $5 Fight Clvb, Gypsy Bar, 9 p.m., $10 Phoenix Blues Society Showcase w/Smokestack Lightning, The

Blueshounds, JC & the Juke Rockers, Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $8 Mike Pinto, Wasted Grain, 10 p.m., free

SEPTEMBER 10 5 Seconds of Summer, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $25-$80 Trevor Hall, Marquee Theatre, 8 p.m., $17-$27 Beth Hart, Livewire, 7 p.m., $26 God is an Astronaut, Crescent Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., $16 Mana, Talking Stick Resort Arena, 8 p.m., $46.25-$185 Bayside w/The Menzingers, Sorority Noise, The Pressroom, 7:30 p.m., $19 Goya, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., free The Jangles, Club Red, 8:30 p.m., $10-$12 Tommy Trash, Talking Stick Resort Pool, 12 p.m., free Analog Outlaws w/ Don’t Tell Mom, Good Boy Daisy, The Rebel

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DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS W/MIKE POSNER Talking Stick Resort Arena, 7 p.m., $29.95-$89.95

Pop fans get ready. Two favorites, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas are going on tour together. With the former having released “Confident” and the latter’s “Last Year Was Complicated,” both artists have plenty of new music to premiere for fans at Talking Stick Resort Arena.

Lounge, 6 p.m., $8 Black Sun, Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $8 McRad, Yucca Tap Room, 7:30 p.m., $12

SEPTEMBER 11 The Zombies w/Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Talking Stick Resort, 8 p.m., $25-$80 Muskellunge and James Reams & the Barnstormers, Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m, $25.50-$31.50 Wes Williams Band, Last Exit Live, 9 p.m., $7-$10 SOMOS, Rebel Lounge, 7 p.m., $12-$15 Wolves of Winter, Tempe Tavern, 8 p.m., free House of Stairs, Crescent Ballroom, 7:30 p.m., $6-$8 Wyves, Rockbar, 7 p.m., $10

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5 SECONDS OF SUMMER Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $25-$80 Aussie pop stars 5 Seconds of Summer are returning to the Valley to promote their adrenaline-fueled studio album, “Sounds Good Feels Good.” The Rolling Stone cover boys spent three months living together in a studio in Los Angeles, writing and recording “Sounds Good Feels Good.” Check out the music live when they hit Ak-Chin Pavilion.

Alan DeQuina, Old Town Tavern, free If These Trees Could Talk, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $12 Keith Harkin, Last Exit Live, 8 p.m., $35-$55

The Guild, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $5

SEPTEMBER 13 Counting Crows w/ Rob Thomas, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 6:45 p.m., $26$81 Brian Fallon & the Crowes w/Ryan Bingham, Marquee Theatre, 8 p.m., $25 Deep Sea Diver, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10-$12 Watermelon Slim, Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $10 Porches, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $13 kidDEAD, Time Out Lounge, 7 p.m., free

SEPTEMBER 14 O.A.R., Livewire, 8 p.m., $33.25 Jon Pardi w/Drew Cooper, Rialto Theatre, 8 p.m., $21-$26 Hall & Oates, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7 p.m., $25-$125 Ray LaMontagne, Comerica Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $38.50-$50

SEPTEMBER 15 St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $25$38 The Monkees, Ikeda Theater, 7:30 p.m., $37$100 Kraftwerk, Orpheum Theatre, 8:30 p.m., $49.50-$69.50 VanLadyLove, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10 Nanami Ozone, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $8 Way Under, Fiftyonewest, 6 p.m., $10

SEPTEMBER 16

Boyce Avenue w/Leroy Sanchez, Marquee Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $25 Jared and the Mill, Livewire, 7 p.m., $24 Mad Decent Block Party w/Baauer, Grandtheft, Lil Dicky, Rawhide, 6 p.m., $53$169 Prophets of Rage w/ AWOLNATION, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7 p.m., $20$69.50 Khruangbin, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $12 El Komander, Comerica Theatre, 7 p.m., $25-103 The Linecutters, The Underground, 6 p.m., $8

SEPTEMBER 18 This Wild Life, Pub Rock Live, 7 p.m., $15 Steel Pulse, Livewire, 7 p.m., $29 Tom Rush, Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $43.50-$53.50 Dick Stusso, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., free

SEPTEMBER 19 Dinosaur Jr., Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $30.50$35.50 The East Cameron Folkcore, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m. $8-$10 Davina and the Vagabonds, Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $28.50-$38.50

SEPTEMBER 20 Def Leppard w/REO Speedwagon & Tesla, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7 p.m., $25-$125 Leon Bridges, Ikeda Theater, 7:30 p.m., $37$45 Geoffrey Keezer and Friends w/ Keola Beamer, Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m, $38.50-$43.50 Matt Wertz, Last Exit Live, 8:30 p.m., $15-$18 Marion Hill, Crescent Ballroom, 7 p.m., $20$22 Still Corners, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $13-$15

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PROPHETS OF RAGE W/AWOLNATION Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7 p.m., starts at $20 When you mix Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy, you get a reason to make America rage again, as they say. Prophets of Rage, as they’re collectively known, have only released a few songs, but that isn’t stopping fans from buying tickets. Most of the shows on the tour are selling briskly.

SEPTEMBER 21 Black Sabbath, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7:30 p.m., $30$167 Bloc Party w/Corbu, Marquee Theatre, 8 p.m., $25 Highly Suspect, Crescent Ballroom, 8 p.m., $15-$18 Mike Easterday, San Tan Flat Saloon and Grill, 6 p.m., free Foy Vance, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $16-$20

SEPTEMBER 22 Diego’s Umbrella w/ Dry River Yacht Club, Valley Bar, 8 p.m., $10$12 Luke Bryan, Ak-Chin Pavilion, 7 p.m., $67-$450 Carach Angren, Joes’ Grotto, 7 p.m., $20 Twin Peaks, Crescent Ballroom, 7 p.m., $13-$15 The Spill Canvas, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $15-$17 The Weeks, Rhythm Room, 8 p.m., $10-$12 Spiritual Rez, Last Exit Live, 9:30 p.m., $5-$8

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MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY

Rawhide Western Town and Event Center, 6 p.m., $52-$169 Mad Decent Block Party is returning to Rawhide this year— this time as a two-day event. Among those scheduled to play are Diplo, RL Grime, Flosstradamus and others. Bringing a mix of trap, hip-hop and dubstep, Mad Decent Block Party accommodates all corners of the EDM crowd. There are not too many curveballs in this lineup, but Mad Decent fans are likely to be impressed with the inclusion of essential trap artists and popular rapper Lil Dicky. If you can dance to it, it’s likely to be there.

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Demi Lovato w/Nick Jonas and Mike Posner, Talking Stick Resort Arena, 7 p.m., $25.20$85.20 Mad Decent Block Party w/Brillz, Diplo, RL Grimes, Rawhide, 6 p.m., $52-$169 Post Malone, Marquee Theatre, 8 p.m., $27-$75 Pat Metheny, Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts, 8 p.m., $55-$85 Anthony Green, Nile Theater, 7:30 p.m., $17.50 Crystal Castles, The Pressroom, 8 p.m., $20$25 Swans, Crescent Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., $25-$30 Weslynn, Rebel Lounge, 8 p.m., $10 Dead Shall Rise, Club Tazec, 6 p.m., $10 Sam Bush, Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $38.50-$53.50

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Local Natives w/ Charlotte Day Wilson, Marquee Theatre, 8 p.m., $30 The Movement, Last Exit Live, 9 p.m., $12 The Kickback, Rebel Lounge, 7 p.m., $10 Banda Magda, Musical Instrument Museum, 7 p.m., $33.50-$38.50 Desert Dixie, Bourbon Jacks, 8 p.m., free Quiet Morning, & the Calamity, Rogue Bar, 10 p.m., free

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WE DON’T BELIEVE IN

HOROSCOPES! TOTALLY ACCURATE PREDICTIONS YOU SHOULD PROBABLY TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT

AQUARIUS

PISCES

ARIES

TAURUS

(JANUARY 20 – FEBRUARY 18)

(FEBRUARY 19 – MARCH 20)

(MARCH 21 – APRIL 21)

(APRIL 22 – MAY 20)

You know what they say, Aquarius: you’ve made your bed, now you have to lie in it. A great way to avoid facing your problems is never getting out of bed.

Although the water looks a little choppy in the next few weeks, it’s important to be the captain of your own life and steer yourself in the right direction, Aries.

Maybe rock an eye patch and a hook for a hand to complete the aesthetic. Full speed ahead!

When things get too heavy, Taurus, it’s always important to take a step back, or a leap. In fact, maybe just keep walking backward until you can’t see the problem anymore.

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

(MAY 21 – JUNE 21)

(JUNE 22 – JULY 22)

(JULY 23 – AUGUST 22)

(AUGUST 23 – SEPTEMBER 22)

Everyone knows your attention span is shorter than the average goldfish, Gemini. In fact, you probably won’t even finish this senten…

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You might be feeling a little anti-social this month, so why not change your clothes to match your mood? It’s never too late to bring back the ’80s Goth look. Wearing all that black clothing in 110-degree weather will also give you a nice sweaty glow. So adorable.

You won’t have to worry about making ends meet this month, Cancer, when you rear end a Hummer trying to take a photo of their hilarious vanity plate and cause a three-car chain-reaction crash.

All good things must come to an end, Leo, unless of course you get it permanently tattooed on your skin.

Impulsivity is in the air this month, so it’s a great time to make reckless decisions that you will likely regret forever. If you’re dating someone, consider preserving your love by getting their name tattooed on your forearm, preferably in comic sans font.

Beyonce is a Virgo, so channel your inner Sasha Fierce, sip some lemonade and walk through the streets wielding a baseball bat, elusively talking about your unfaithful significant other. Sparks are obviously in the air, so why not set a few fires here and there?

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

(SEPTEMBER 23 – OCTOBER 22)

(OCTOBER 23 – NOVEMBER 21)

(NOVEMBER 22 – DECEMBER 21)

(DECEMBER 22 – JANUARY 19)

You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but why would you use either when you can just use a fly swatter? This is 2016, Libra. Think about it.

Things may come to a head this month, Scorpio, especially a wayward Frisbee around the middle of the month. Maybe it’s best to avoid outdoor areas where wholesome, recreational fun may be enjoyed.

Sagittarius is known as one of the most adventurous signs of the zodiac. No wonder your friends are always telling you to take a hike!

You will eagerly bite into an oatmeal raisin cookie this month thinking it’s chocolate chip. Godspeed, Capricorn, sometimes life just isn’t fair.