Tempe Music Festival takes the stage this weekend
Students and Valley residents alike are expected to pack this year's Circle K Tempe Music Festival at Tempe Beach Park, especially with headliners Fergie and My Chemical Romance.

'Hollow' EP lives up to its name
Please don't misunderstand: I'm a firm supporter of local music.

From the editor: May I present to you
Apparently my apartment has a to-die-for gay bar.

SPM Best of: Shopping
Charge it! Find out the best places to score sweet housewares, earn indie fashion cred and pick up a good read — all while running up that credit card bill.

SPM Best of: Campus
Can't figure out which street preacher you want to be yelled at by today? Confused on where to get your study, grub or snooze on? Trying to figure out where not to have sex? We've laid out the best places on campus just for you.

SPM Best of: Music
Get jiggy with the winner of our category for best music venue, and find your rebound store to replace the beloved Hoodlums.

SPM Best of: Food
Who doesn't like a good basket of chicken fingers? We know Celeste sure does. Find out which ones are the most rockin' in Tempe, along with the best places for some amazing hangover food and delicious milk shakes.

SPM Best of: Lifestyle
We know you've been searching for the best place to get your fortune read or the best place to act like a kid again. Check out the best hair salon, picnic spot and bars the Valley has to offer.

Opinions: Actions speak louder than clicks
KING: The fifth anniversary of the Iraq war has come and gone, and I'm worried that expressing revulsion to the war is in danger of becoming a banal, yearly occurrence — something like Flag Day. I fear that students will not be motivated to act against the war effort until next March.

Forty years ago, and for various (if sometimes connected) reasons, protests broke out all over the world. Black ghettos in the United States erupted against racial discrimination. French students took to the streets, calling for university reforms in massive demonstrations and launched an enormous social movement in the process. In London, students opposed to the Vietnam War put the U.S. Embassy under siege. Comparably, our generation is relatively tame like the Pope is relatively Catholic.