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A Guide to 2015’s Alt-Holiday Music

Arts, Culture & Media

Sharon Jones, Fetty Wap, Bill Murray, and even goats release Christmas music this season. And it’s all good!

Overhead shot of crowd flanked by police SUVs, evening time

Phoenix residents take over city council meeting for five hours to protest police use of force

Justice
People sitting on pavement holding hands

Attorney says woman deported from Phoenix might have had her conviction overturned

Justice
On the 15th anniversary of the hate crime shooting of Sikh American Balbir Singh Sodhi, about 130 people gathered at his gas station in Phoenix to remember and pay tribute.

The brother of one of the first hate-crime victims post 9/11 keeps on teaching tolerance

Belief

Phoenix Lander begins search for life on Mars

Environment
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Space Poem

NASA’s Mars lander may have failed; but as poet Christine Hemp explains, there are other, more literary, ways to get our message into space.

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Space Survival

A team of University of Arizona scientists use hydroponics ?a self-sustaining watering system ?to grow plants in a greenhouse designed for Mars.

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Turns out Joaquin Phoenix is still here

Arts, Culture & Media

Yesterday, Casey Affleck, Phoenix’s brother-in-law and director of “I’m Still Here,” a so-called documentary about Phoenix’s downfall, announced that Phoenix’s behavior over the last two years has been part of an elaborate performance for the film.

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Mars lander

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Phoenix Lander reaches Mars, begins search for life in polar ice

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Phoenix

Arts, Culture & Media

French pop and rock has been mostly ridiculed in the US. Phoenix is different � Lead singer Thomas Mars tells Marco Werman the success of the French band may be due to the fact they were influenced by the right musical role models.

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