I love the student athlete and coach highlights that the Tribune does for sports programs around…read morethe valley. It's nice to see their hard work, dedication, challenges, and successes being acknowledged. It seems that, often times, all we see and hear about in the news relates to the thugs who choose to disrupt our society. Yay for focusing a part of the paper each week on something positive....especially our youth.

From the owner: EastValley.com is a digital aggregator of community news in the East Valley of the Phoenix…read moremetropolitan area, including Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Queen Creek, Scottsdale and Tempe.

This rag looks cool. They review all the trendy-ass-kissing bands. They have a great layout. And…read morethey want so badly to be a mover and a shaker in the community. So what's wrong? They (like a lot of publications) are entirely blinded by the bottom line (rather than readership), which is why you'll NEVER see them be even a little critical of ANY local business no matter how crappy they are. Everything in this rag is GREAT and GROOVY and COOL. All style. Zero credibility.

Java is the 944 for the hipsters and wannabe hipsters of Central Phoenix…read more Dig it? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the issue, the coverage and how many times I have to see the same DJs, artists, advertisers and the same lanky disheveled stoic Downtowners profiled. Other times I have found a perfect new gallery to fall in love with or read about the newest wine bar opening up the street. Love it or not it this free monthly rag does a better job of covering Central Phoenix, Tempe and other hipster pockets than -- oh wait, zero, zilch, zippo. Yes, no one else is covering it.

Recently picked up this Magazine and was very impressed with the editorial and the layout. Great…read morespread on Alice Cooper! I was happy to know that there is a quality magazine in our growing North Valley area. I live in North Scottsdale and found the editorial versus the advertising a very nice balance. I actually just subscribed today online to make sure I get this mag in the mail every issue.

North Valley always has interesting articles to read and cool interviews with people like Alice…read moreCooper and Young MC (Bust a Move!). The magazine covers the entire north valley, which is very spread out. And you can find it in many different places, from Kierland to Anthem. It's free, but you can also get a subscription online.

Picked up this free newspaper at the Sprouts on Ray and Dobson and learned a little more about the…read moregoings-on in Chandler and thereabouts. Self-declared as "relentlessly local coverage of Southern Chandler and our neighboring communities", the news features cover community theater, upcoming festivals, local impacts of impending legislation, puff pieces on local businesses, and school sports. With free publications such as these, I often get more out of the ads and hunt down restaurant coupons as an excuse to try new dining establishments (spoken like a true Yelper, ahem, gourmand). This newszine does not disappoint. I found plenty of buy-one-get-one-free offers and other enticing coupons for local eateries and food shops. They also have a respectable restaurant guide derived from the on-line resource www.chandlerlocalbites.com. Now that I'm better informed, I won't have to trek through Hell and Creation to find my nearest dining adventure. But I'm still gonna stick to my budget and save me some money on the meal. All the more reason to go a little nuts and splurge on drinks and dessert! (Yes... there is a method to my madness.)

It's a great newspaper, and it's free! I get information from my community, school districts,…read moreadvertisement, and coupons!

Snooty magazine day! Snooty magazine day!…read more I guess one of the perks of living in Scottsdale is that I get this magazine for free and really, who would pay $4.95 for it?! Self described as "Arizona's luxury magazine for affluent desert living" it features everything you need to make it in Scottsdale. Honestly though, snootiness and kidding aside, it is pretty useful. They always have features on new restaurants and shops in the area, a fashion and style section, and information on events and day trips. The plastic surgery and cosmetic dentistry ads are hilarious and the ads for million dollar homes make me drool.

This magazine is a fabulous resource for both local residents in Az but tourists as well. I love…read morethe Trendsetters page. Beautiful photos and articles make me a huge fan of your magazine!

I grabbed East Valley Woman to flip through while waiting for my bagel and coffee. That was the…read morelast positive impression I had. I have never been so motivated to write an unpleasant review. There are some great free and low cost pro-business woman magazines. Some of them are actually quite good. So I'll admit I was expecting it to be something the level I'd seen before. Heck no. This magazine is the equivalent of watching an hour long infomercial. Sure, there might be some funny parts or things that make you go Hmmm, but you can't go more than a minute without that reminder that they are trying to sell you something. I think there might be 2 whole "articles" there that are not sharing ad space on the same or facing page for whatever business or service is being discussed in the article. (Example, 1st faux-article "My New Year's Resolution: Become a better networker" filled with how important networking is for your business and an ad at the bottom for the author's company, with her email and phone number for a seminar for "International Networking Week.) And if the ad isn't right there, flip a few pages - because they're all here. And of course, there are no "Advertisement" notes at the top of these things because they might as well just put it on the front cover. It's a giant ad! Anyhow, I'm guessing their ad space is cheap because all the articles are in big font and double spaced and the ads are huge. This 28 page magazine is New Times sized when it should have been Old TV Guide sized. Their tag line? "Empowering Valley Women" Really? Really? I know it may be asking too much, but how about a little more honesty in advertising? If you see this laying there next time you're out, I suggest just letting it lay there. Unless you really love infomercials.

Candice Scott & Rich Lastra at O'Neil saved my ass! A vendor I had worked with for years dropped…read morethe ball on a project and O'Neil's team saved the day. They turned around my projects quickly and were so kind and gracious about it. I love working with this team and will be sending all of my poster and banner projects to them.

Nothing could be more serious than what I'm about to say... Listen. Up…read more We have been using another local print shop for several years that shall go unnamed because of how much I hate them. They're nice, talented people for the most part, especially Robert, but holy hell I don't understand how they stay in business. We used them despite them. In the most recent situation that draws my ever-loving ire, they sent us a half order and accused us of losing the other half. Then, we tried to switch over to Impact, who on two occasions ignored my requests for a quote. That was awesome. So I begin to scour the Interwebs, high and lo, begging, praying, beseeching the Gods above for a printing company to just be effing awesome. Lo and behold, such a company exists. The Heavens parted, angels sang to Odysseus' Sirens, and I found O'neil. O'neil is the real deal and if you don't get your stuff printed here you're evil. It doesn't matter if you've never heard of them. Even if you don't need stuff printed, you should make something up and send it here. They're hyper local and by that I mean they're not only local but locally EMPLOYEE owned. Yeah boooooiiiii! They've been in business for about 103 years or some crazy number to which I can hardly count. If you want to know the truth, I think in the future, I used a time machine to go back to the past to influence my future by founding this company that year just so that 100 years later I could look like a genius for finding such a great company to print our shite. In case you need to visually verify the veracity of my claims, pull a Cosmo Kramer like I did and just bust down their front door. It's probably not locked though they claimed upon my departure there'd be a "Dallas G" policy. I'm so happy. Even if they send me a box of flaming dog excrement they'll have done it with way more class, style, and responsiveness than the others in town. O'Neil for President!

I made a huge mistake to get in bed with phoenix new times. I signed a contract for their local SEO…read moreservices and have been paying 350 a month to have them send me the same report I can look up on google. They show no progress to brining in more clients to my business. on top of not performing well at their job they hide the cancellation fees in the contract. when you see the contract it shows nothing about cancellation. you have to click on a link to go to another page then scroll to the bottom. Don't make the same mistake its a scam.

After holding them accountable for a legally binding contract, they decided to drop me as a client…read more Buyer beware of your contracts, and your "reports" you're given as well. Our numbers didn't match their very inflated numbers.

Brandon Cook, the owner of splinter, will give you a price to do something and when it doesn't work…read morewill charge again to fix it. He charged for a core feature on our website that him and his team developed. It didn't work for over a year. He then tried to bill us to fix it. The website had 404 errors way before he changed servers and then sent a bill to fix it, but he blamed it on the new server. He also illegally got into our customer database, on the server, and retrieved one of our admin log in credentials and then used those log in credentials to make himself another admin account after we terminated his services. To this day he refuses to give us our backups of the website or ftp log in credentials so we can migrate the site to another host after we spent upwards of 150k with him. I would steer clear of this company because they charge to fix issues that should have worked from the get go and break in to the backside of your website after their services were terminated. For specific details and info reach out to me at 720-614-6970.

Brandon and his team have given my old and outdated website a fresh and modern look. Not only is it…read morefaster and easier to manage but it is now performing better. They helped me with design, content and SEO. I highly recommend Splinter if you want someone to build you a professional website that you can be proud of. They not only answered all my questions during the builprocess but also after it was live. Thanks Splinter!

In a city that's filled with magazines that seem to only care about covering where the coolest…read moreclubs are, where the richest people shop and eat, or how to be a hip college student this magazine is clearly unique. Cheeky, irreverent, subversive and deceitfully honest, this magazine covers (or rather uncovers) aspects of Phoenix that are much less obvious than than the chic trendiness of other magazines and is so much more interesting because of this. Issues can be hard to come by since they only come out with new issues every 3 months but their site claims you can reserve issues and have them sent to you for a nominal fee. I should say that I wrote an article for hoozdo for their first issue. All writing and photography for this magazine is contributed by volunteers for the love of the game and for the love of Phoenix. Bottom line -- great read with a true subversive, big-city edge.