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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Lydia Lunch

September 28, 2019 Amy Young Dan Schwartz Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

On this edition of It’s Not Our Fault w/ Tom and Amy on Radio Phoenix, Tom talks to the fierce, confrontational writer, visual, and spoken word artist and musician Lydia Lunch! Join as they chat about her new book, So Real It Hurts, her show at Valley Bar, and more. Lunch has worked with artsy visionaries including Nick Cave, Karen Finley, Jerry Stahl, and Hubert Selby Jr….

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Prizefighting Kangaroo Episode 10: Whit’s Up! — Movies Directed by Whit Stillman

June 5, 2019 Amy Young Ashley Naftule Featured Articles Podcast Prizefighting Kangaroo Tom Reardon

In our continued celebration of directors in 2019, for this episode we’ve invited a guest — Phoenix-based journalist Tom Reardon — to join us to chat about one of his favorite directors, Whit Stillman. With only seven movies under his directorship, Stillman hasn’t been terribly prolific but he has managed to maintain a following and create opinions about his movies that often follow the lives of young, rich kids in NYC. Let’s just say not everyone in this convo holds the same level of fandom… of the director and of socialites…

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Social Savvy: A Claire Slattery

February 13, 2019 Allyson Bills Band Basics Featured Articles Interview

by Allyson Bills

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If you are active in the Phoenix arts and music scene, there is a high probability that you have run into A Claire Slattery.

The brainchild behind world-famous Tempe social outings such as The Vanishing Show and the Grand Opening of Chili’s, in curating these hot events it’s evident that Slattery has an intrinsic knack for bringing the Phoenix area community together through socially-conscious discourse and ironic fun…

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