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Change Put in Tempe Red Meters Aids Needy, but Supports Bigots
I’ve always been a little bit dubious of the red parking meters set up alongside many of the maps and signs along Mill Avenue. They come along with notices that point out that “a hand out is not a hand...
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Fire at My Big Fat Greek Restaurant and Urban Outfitters
Thursday afternoon saw a crisis hit Mill Ave when fire broke out on the roof of Urban Outfitters and My Big Fat Greek Restaurant. The Tempe Fire Department shut down Mill around the intersection with...
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Suspicious Package Near ASU shuts down Mill Ave Last Night
A report that appeared this morning in MyFoxPhoenix.com relates the news that part of Mill was shut down by a “suspicious package” that local bomb squad detonated. The report is extremely short, Police...
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Historic Hayden Flour Mill opens to the public as events venue
This is awesome! Visitors may start touring the grounds now. A grassy area and walkway with trees was created. The area is set up to host concerts, outdoor movies, corporate picnics, and weddings for...
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Fiction Spotlight: “Something Funny Happened At Matsuri”
I remember Matsuri festival back in Phoenix, it’s a fun and interesting time of cultural discovery and development. For a portion of desert in southern Arizona, the city does have a notable contingent...
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Moving (again) Not the Site, Just Me
Hails everyone, I know this place has been eerily silent for a while. That’s because most of my attention right now is on the property of Black Hat Magick (one of my geek friends, Elaine Mercer, is the...
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Tempe Turns Down the Noise on Mill Avenue with Amplified Sound Ban
Mill Ave may become a quieter place this week after the Tempe City Council authorized a program to ban amplified music/speech on the Ave and enforce permits for people who want to use it. The program...
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To Mill Ave by *yungstar on DeviantART
This is a very small portion of a larger image by *yungstar on DevianART. It’s a beautiful representation of the bridge that spans the lake (the river turned into the Tempe Town Lake) and a...
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Light Rail Passenger Defends Assault Victim with Katana
The title here should say it all, just watch the video immediately below and then we’ll discuss (the important action starts at about 22 seconds in): If you watched the same video that I just did, then...
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Happy Halloween and Samhain everyone
It’s that time of year again! Even with Hurricane Sandy making everyone much wetter, I hope it doesn’t dampen the festivities and celebrations much – although I heard Manhattan lost power and that...
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City of Tempe Preparing to Amend City Code to Stomp “Aggressive Panhandling”
The City of Tempe has been flirting with amendments to the city code designed to stomp down on “aggressive panhandling.” Since Tempe doesn’t have a very good or compassionate history with the treatment...
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Geek’s Night Out at Tempe City Hall
I might not be able to be at this, but it doesn’t mean that you should miss out: Be part of a very special Third Thursday on Mill Avenue on Feb. 21 from 5 to 10 p.m., themed to bring out the curiosity...
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Mill Avenue Headed for a New Renaissance?
Many of us recall Mill Avenue as a cultural space filled with interesting music, amazing artwork, and a sort of strange Bohemian-revolutionary crowd-filled-menagerie (this was basically what it was...
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What a long, strange trip its been
I had to go out of state for a while — 3 years in fact — and a lot has changed about Mill Avenue since then. I’m still digesting some of the new developments. The battle over condos and the luxury...
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An Uber self-driving car just hit and killed a woman on Mill Ave, Vex Harrow...
Today, a woman lost her life on Mill Avenue after being struck by a self-driving car operated by Uber, the ride sharing company. I don’t know that there’s a lot of people looking for the opinion of a...
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Mill Avenue empties with ‘stay-at-home’ pandemic response in Tempe
Today was the first full day after the “stay-at-home” order from Governor Doug Ducey. This is regarding the current outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus, which causes people to become violently sick and...
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