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Flushing Them Out
Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants
By Megan Irwin
Published: December 27, 2007
Daniela's world is very small. Though she was born in Mexico and traveled thousands of miles to Phoenix, she might never leave her neighborhood again. As an undocumented...
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Wrassle Mania
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 27, 2007
Good news for all of you fans of faux wrestling. The two largest wrasslin’ organizations in town -- Impact Zone Wrestling and Rising Phoenix Wrestling -- have literally...
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Out With the Auld
Waiting for the bomb to drop in Phoenix, Tempe
By Clay McNear
Published: December 27, 2007
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why are we directing you to the Rogue Bar and Coach & Willie’s for New Year’s Eve? Easy. They’ve got the...
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Wonderdogs
Poor Al and gang say “nyah, nyah” to their detractors
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: December 27, 2007
We all love underdogs. Overlooked and underestimated, they rise to the occasion and put the critics in their place, like that spindly kid in fifth grade who kicked Sister...
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March Madness
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: December 27, 2007
If you need a good excuse to salivate over estrogen-rich cheerleaders and huge inflatable dolls, tell your wife that you’ll be attending the Fort McDowell Fiesta Bowl...
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Shock ’n’ Roll
Underground-theater group wants to make you squirm
By Leslie Barton
Published: December 27, 2007
Local theater director Joseph Benesh won't go so far as to say there’ll be nudity in the underground production The Bobo Theatre Project: A Lullaby Jubilee in 3 Acts, but...
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Sexy Beasts
Gussied-up varmints put their best hooves forward
By Leslie Barton
Published: December 27, 2007
Yippee-ki-yay! The Arizona National Livestock Show presents its 59th annual critter competition with more than 2,000 cream-of-the-crop cattle, ewes, horses, and swine from...
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Female Bonding
By Niamh Wallace
Published: December 27, 2007
The Invisible Pink Unicorn, birthed on the whim of early Internet users fed up with religion, gained underground ubiquity as a symbol of atheism. LAS Gallery's “The...
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Purr Diem
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 27, 2007
The folks at Cherry Lounge & Pit bill the clientele who come to Kitten Thursdays Ladies Night “cougars in training.” Hey, gals, aren’t you offended? Oh, you...
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Happy Jew Year
Swinging-single meshuggenehs hit the big time
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 27, 2007
What do you do while you’re waiting for your hit stage play to be adapted into a feature film starring Henry Winkler and Carrie Fisher? Why, you tour the country with a...
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Creature Feature
John Carpenter’s classic flick slays
By Adriane Goetz
Published: December 27, 2007
If you thought McLovin from Superbad was a badass, wait ’til you get a load of MacReady, Kurt Russell’s alien-slaying character in John Carpenter’s classic...
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West is Best
Published: December 27, 2007
The uber-chic retail center adjacent to Jobing.com Arena is promising a huge celebration featuring live entertainment from swing kings Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Times...
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Kung Fooey
Cult flick is artistically challenged
By Clay McNear
Published: December 27, 2007
Among other carny-style curiosities, the 1979 kung fu film The Crippled Masters features an evil hunchbacked warlord, a warrior who lost the use of his legs when the warlord...
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Devils’ Advocate
Sure, ASU got the boot, but the Fiesta parties on
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 27, 2007
Question for ASU football fans: Did you really want to face the mighty Oklahoma Sooners in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? Wouldn’t you rather enjoy the game instead of watching...
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Screening of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas at Arizona Museum for Youth
By Julie Peterson
Published: December 27, 2007
Everybody has a soft spot (pun intended) for the floppy, colorful characters in the "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" exhibit, a traveling show that begins its Southwestern...
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Coyboys and Indianans
By Clay McNear
Published: December 27, 2007
There’s no way the teams playing in the 2007 Insight Bowl – the Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 and Indiana Hoosiers of the Big Ten – can top last...
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Ship Happened
Kickass doc tells it like it was
By Clay McNear
Published: December 27, 2007
Cabin boy Leo DiCaprio and society princess Kate Winslet sucking wind on the bow of the Titanic – yeah, that’ll happen. Director Stephen Low’s doc Titanica tells...
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Out With the Auld
Waiting for the bomb to drop in Phoenix, Tempe
By Clay McNear
Published: December 27, 2007
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why are we directing you to the Rogue Bar and Coach & Willie’s for New Year’s Eve? Easy. They’ve got the...
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Black Comedy
Chris Rock takes out the poor white trash
By Peter Breslin
Published: December 27, 2007
You know what’s great about America? Well, for one, superfunny black comedians. From Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor to Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, African-American...
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Paper Heart Failure
Last one out turn off the life support
By Adriane Goetz
Published: December 27, 2007
This week, a wave of sorrow will crash over the artists, bands, and performers of Phoenix as they endure the loss of a dear friend: the Paper Heart. For the past seven years,...
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