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Catfished
Chris Johnson, a 30-year-old Detroit transplant, isn’t expecting to find love online anytime soon. Johnson, who works in technical support for a cellphone company, has had her fair share of experiences...
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Hidden Cool
With summer heating up, most of us in the Valley turn to daydreams about getting away to cooler climates, typically up around Flagstaff or Prescott. But what if you don’t have the time or enough...
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Friendship for Hire
I’m new to Phoenix, or at least that’s what Lady thinks. In truth I haven’t been “new” to any area since I moved to Gilbert as a 2-year-old. Not that it matters. I just needed a plausible backstory to...
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Spy Parents
Caroline Knorr has seen how suburban cyberspies are made. “I have a friend who was worried about her daughter,” she says. “She was concerned that her daughter was visiting these pro-anorexia,...
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Kids on YouTube
The website YouTube has been around for almost 10 years, and while it might be a go-to for music and videos of kittens, a whole wide world is teeming beneath the surface, with a unique culture and...
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Generation Text
Derek Neighbors works around young techies every day. As the co-founder of Gangplank, a collaborative workspace in Chandler and incubator for several small software startups, Neighbors is used to...
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The Fast and the Facebooked
It’s a slow night at the Big Kmart parking lot on 67th Avenue and Bell Road in Glendale. Normally at this hour on a Saturday night, on the sprawling square of asphalt shared between the Kmart, Chuck E....
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Getting in on the Act
As the lead singer-guitarist of the Tom Petty tribute act Breakdown, Scott Blackwell admits to leaving a few fans heartbroken. After performing as part of the players’ parade at Glendale’s Westgate...
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Corn Maze CRAZE
Fall, family and fun: It’s a winning combination for any family looking to spend quality time together. And for several families, business heats up as temperatures drop and people flock to local farms...
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Who’s So Fancy?
They could have just as easily been dishing dirt over dark chocolate soufflé at Petite Maison, unburdening together with magical Thoachta massages at Aji Spa or snapping champagne-sozzled selfies...
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Reality Swipes
In a commercial for the Danish TV talk show Søndag Live that went viral on YouTube this past spring, host Ane Cortzen demonstrates what life might be like if we could dismiss people with a simple...
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Unconventional Thanksgivings
Renowned chef Beau MacMillan pretty much embodies the spirit of Thanksgiving. The executive chef at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain hails from the land of all-things Thanksgiving, Plymouth,...
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Let There Be Light
“I’m looking forward to a bright 2015 and what a better way to say it than with a half million lights.” said Valley real estate investor Michael Pollack. Valley real estate investor/philanthropist...
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Paranoid Parents
Lenore Skenazy has turned her Internet fame as the “world’s worst mother” into a career as a reality TV star and inspirational speaker. Lenore Skenazy had her big “parenting fail” moment back in 2008,...
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