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Night & Day
Italian Dressing
Flights of fancy at Sky Harbor
By Sloane Burwell
Published: January 3, 2008
No one likes to languish in airports. First, there's the tortuous wait, barefoot, in line to clear security, hoping your bottle of mega-hold gel isn't confiscated as...
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Night & Day
Cuisine Art
You don’t have to fly to France to get a great crepe
By Sloane Burwell
Published: January 3, 2008
Ask anyone who's been to France – it's all about the food. Wine, cheese, crusty baguettes, amazing sauces, fresh crepes, and appreciation of the culinary niceties in life...
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Night & Day
He Was a Quiet Man
By Clay McNear
Published: January 3, 2008
Christian Slater stars in Frank Cappello's film about a bland little man trapped in a bland little life whose bleak future is transformed by the unintentional intervention of a...
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Night & Day
Hole Lotta Love
Golf nuts salivate over the hot new hardware at Ping
By Steve Jansen
Published: January 3, 2008
You're a golfer. You just drove the piss out of the ball straight down that there fairway, Happy Gilmore-style. Then you sink a beast of a putt that’s more ridiculous than...
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Night & Day
Psych Record Listening Party at Revolver Records
By Steve Jansen
Published: January 3, 2008
Wear your tie-dye tees and pass the peace pipe during Revolver's Psych Record Listening Party. Feel free to bring your own obscure strange folk wax to spin. Sun.,...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Mexican Dogs
!Ay Chihuahua!
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 3, 2008
As everyone knows, dogs seem to reflect their masters' personalities. Likewise, the breeds invented by a nation say a lot about that nation. Germans bred the German shepherd...
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Music
Celebrity Playlist
Looking at the music of 2007 from a different direction
By Michael Gallucci, Lina Lecaro, Jennifer Maerz, Sarah Askari and Niki D'Andrea
Published: January 3, 2008
The holidays are a time of family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry, and if you are involved in music journalism, list-making. Lots and lots of...
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Club Candids
Happy Chez Nous Year
Hellooo '08!
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 3, 2008
We were super-nervous about Chez Nous' big move from Seventh Avenue to Grand Avenue. Change is scary, especially when it revolves around a Valley staple of nightlife. So when...
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Music
Hello, Cleveland!
A pseudo-Michael Stipe shares what's on his MP3 player
By Michael Gallucci
Published: January 3, 2008
Cleveland doesn't have celebrities. That's why our contribution to this year-end roundup is star-free. The biggest thing we've got (next to LeBron James, who was too busy...
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Music
Desert Heat
America's idol and a hoops star keep Phoenix's mercury rising
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: January 3, 2008
For basketball star Diana Taurasi, 2007 was a stellar year. The 6-foot guard for the Phoenix Mercury helped lead the franchise (and the city of Phoenix) to its first-ever...
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Music
L.A. Confidential
Margaret Cho and Dave Navarro share their sonic tendencies
By Lina Lecaro
Published: January 3, 2008
Margaret Cho has had her own TV show, a couple of bestselling books, a Grammy-nominated comedy album, and two feature films based on her national tours, but 2007 saw a new...
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Music
San Francisco Strings
Kronos Quartet's David Harrington waxes melodic on '07
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: January 3, 2008
San Francisco's world renowned Kronos Quartet has charted an impressive course around the globe, commissioning more than 600 works — and releasing more than 40 records...
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Music
Dan and the Deadhead
The music that moved Dan Wilson and Al Franken in '07
By Sarah Askari
Published: January 3, 2008
Dixie Chicks Grammy-winning-song collaborator Dan Wilson released his first solo album this year, the Rick Rubin-produced Free Life. The Semisonic songwriter and former Trip...
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Needle Exchange
Palazzo's Latin Ladies Night
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: January 3, 2008
Until recently, the dance floor at the opulent-yet-ookie nightspot Palazzo, 710 North Central Avenue, was solely the domain of the gothy boys and ghouls who turned out on...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing
Who's spinning what, where and when
Published: January 3, 2008
THURSDAY 3 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C's: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse: DJ...
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Cafe
Good to Be Bad
By Michele Laudig
Published: January 3, 2008
If 2008 goes according to plan, then I just might find a big ol' sack of coal under the Christmas tree at the end of the year. Lately, I've gotten so many holiday well-wishes...
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Booze Pig
Diving In To 2008
By C.M. Redding
Published: January 3, 2008
I don't know about you, but I'm happy as hell to get 2007 behind me. Maybe it's my age (38), or the fact that I hang out with other Booze Pigs, but it seems as though this has...
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Film
California Burning
An epic gusher that strikes oil, and then some
By J. Hoberman
Published: January 3, 2008
A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of...
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Film Feature
Final Cut
The very, very best of 2007
By Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Nathan Lee, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor and Robert Wilonsky
Published: January 3, 2008
It's that time of year again. Our six critics don't always (or often) agree, but we've combined their top 10 lists (allowing for ties) to pretend that they do! So without...
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Film Feature
Missed Opportunities
Kick yourself for not seeing these ten movies
By Jim Ridley
Published: January 3, 2008
How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the clogged distribution pipeline? Tsai Ming-liang, the Taiwanese/Malaysian...
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