Issue 10 - October 2009

Well, we survived the summer, but only just. The chances were slender, the beauties were brief, but we dug deep into our hearts and found enough love to get us through the next three months. Thanks to all who contributed in large or small measure, the bird continues to be the word. Our fall issue features:

  • the discreet charm of Phoenix's yard sale signs
  • what happens to Phoenix when you all go to bed
  • desire paths and the beauty of determination
  • vmc - a spaceship palace birthed on daydreams


hoozdo 10 can be found at these fine establishments, but don't hang around, that's for bats!

Issue 9 - June 2009

We're back. Our manes have been combed, our hair curried, our bodies brushed and our fetlocks, er, fettled. We're in such great shape we recommend putting the house on us in next Saturday's race at Belmont. Our way to help you avoid foreclosure. Or, you can open the latest issue and read about:

  • Axe Handle Saturday, a southerner's take on racism in the southwest
  • a dead French postman and his connection with two eccentric Phoenix homes
  • the Horny Oryxes of the Maytag Zoo
  • our Urban Hike around Sky Harbor Airport


or enhance your wardrobe with a FREE hoozdo button. hoozdo 9 can be found at these fine establishments, but don't wait too long - there might be another pony coming up fast on the rails!

Commute Work Commute Sleep tees

Commute Work Commute Sleep tee shirts are a collaboration between hoozdo magazine and Jason Hill Design. Jason Hill Design creates fine art prints, illustration and award-winning graphic design for businesses, residences and galleries in Phoenix and across the country.

Printed in limited editions of 100 using quality inks on fitted American Apparel and Anvil wear, the tees explore new ways of commenting on sustainability and American culture. Available at Gold Mine, Red Hot Robot, Stinkweeds, Conspire and the Phoenix Art Museum Store in Phoenix - or order them now online!

Issue 8 - March 2009

As the world goes to hell in a handbasket and the very fabric of existence threatens to unravel faster than a ball of wool in a room of meth-cranked kittens, hoozdo 8 appears in a puff of blue smoke, ready to salve your fragile psyche and help you make sense of the whole sorry mess. So sit back and relax as we plunge our latex-covered fingers deep into your most private places and:

  • get your feet moving and your hips swaying with a FREE MONDEGREEN CD
  • deliver a little consumer advocacy on the dangers of photo booths
  • uncover the truth behind the Food Cart King of Phoenix
  • rediscover the plangent delights of Metrocenter
And lots more! hoozdo 8 can be found at these fine establishments, but don't wait too long - let us be your guide as we wend our merry way towards the apocalypse!

Issue 7 - December 2008

Is there a better way to spend the dark, chilly winter evenings than hunkered down beside a warm hearth with a good read? Well, yes, probably, considering this is Phoenix and a couple of drops to the low thirties is the worst we'll likely see. So un-mothball that coat, get out and do whatever it is you do, but know that when you come home, hoozdo 7 will be curled up in front of the fireplace waiting for you. This time out we:

  • Hike the labyrinthine spaces of underground Phoenix
  • Contemplate the broken dream of John F. Long
  • Exclusively undertake the first Consumer Review of the Light Rail car - Ralph Nader watch out!
And lots more! hoozdo 7 comes on mistletoe-scented paper, so carry it in your purse or back-pocket for that instant-kissability moment.

Click here for a list of those fine establishments where hoozdo 7 can be found.

Issue 6 - September 2008

The melted sidewalks having congealed once more and with the prospect of 6 months of scarily perfect weather around the corner, what more excuse do you need to get out, about, over, under, sideways, down in the City of the Flaming Bird. Let hoozdo be your guide as we:

  • Take Urban Hikes along the alleys of Camelback and the Vale of the Temple of Arcadia
  • In fierce anticipation of Light Rail, we hop a box car in Tempe
  • Stuff our faces à la Bluto at the Ranch Market
  • Swing in Suburbia

  • top the whole thing off with a free CD featuring: Colorstore, Turn Back, O Man (the Power of Positive Thinking), Sweetbleeders, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Courtney Marie Andrews, the Necronauts, Hexaclops, Fatigo, Mer (Merrily), Farewell Review, Sonorous, Larry the Lounge Lizard & the Low Life Bastards, Jon Rauhouse and Lonna Kelley.


  • How's that for a slice of fried gold!

    PLUS a hoozdo competition with ltd. edition CWCS tee-shirts up for grabs.

    hoozdo 6 - spreading the love, one little germ at a time.