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Night & Day
The Greatest No-Show on Grass
For Tiger Woods, the desert’s always greener in Dubai
By Jay Bennett
Published: January 24, 2008
As an excuse to get loaded with half a million of your closest polo-shirted friends and at least one major airline executive, you can’t get much better than the FBR Open....
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Fantasy Football
Games that not-quite-good-enough people play
By Chris Bowman
Published: January 24, 2008
Right now, many NFL enthusiasts around the country can be found at home crying in their beers, bellyaching about their favorite squad being unceremoniously ousted from...
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Skeer Tactics
By Steve Jansen
Published: January 24, 2008
We ain’t skeered to admit that we gots a bit of white trash in us. We’re also not scared to admit that we say “ain’t skeered.” That’s why...
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Phoenix Suns vs. Atlanta Hawks at U.S. Airways Center
By Steve Jansen
Published: January 24, 2008
The Atlanta Hawks make their one and only visit of the 2007-08 season when they take on the Phoenix Suns. Tue., Jan. 29, 7 p.m., 2008
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Dope Floats
If Gilligan creator has his way, the Minnow never will be lost
By Clay McNear
Published: January 24, 2008
TV mogul Sherwood Schwartz, creator of barking mutts like Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, can’t let a bad thing go. Consider 2002’s The Brady Bunch in the...
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Will Leitch
By Clay McNear
Published: January 24, 2008
Will Leitch don't like the bling, yo. Referred to by some as the sports world's Jon Stewart, this outspoken/irreverent young grump founded Deadspin.com with the notion of...
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Sami Yaffa at "Shake!" Motherfucking Dance Party"
Published: January 24, 2008
The bassist for the New York Dolls and Hanoi Rocks spins some wax with host William Fucking Reed. Sat., Jan. 26, 9 p.m., 2008
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Bob Riggle
Published: January 24, 2008
The correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart performs. Sat., Jan. 26, 8 p.m., 2008
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The Bird
The Bird wonders just what Joe Arpaio's top dog is doing down in Honduras
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: January 24, 2008
JABBA IN PARADISE This incredulous avian kept rubbing its peepers in disbelief. Was that really Sheriff Joe Arpaio's chief deputy, David Hendershott, looking like a cross...
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Fenske
Guess which driver's facing 21 years in prison — the drunk , rich, white one or the sober, poor, black one?
By Sarah Fenske
Published: January 24, 2008
Two cars collided last year on Cinco de Mayo. Considering the date, you might assume that at least one of the drivers was drunk — and you'd be right. Laura Varker was 17...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, January 24, 2008
Published: January 24, 2008
A HOUSE DIVIDED Finally, some authenticity: I couldn't side with The Bird more about the Phoenix hip-hop scene ("Wigga, Please," Stephen Lemons, January 17). I'm a huge...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
More than mariachi: Yes, Mexicans dig your rock 'n' roll. So why can't you listen to some Café Tacuba?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 24, 2008
At a weekly gig by a Doors tribute band, I've noticed the majority of the crowd is Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems the crowd missed the exit to the Lupillo Rivera show or...
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Music
Yeasayer's experimental rock finds a way to make a connection
By Rob Trucks
Published: January 24, 2008
"It's like almond," Anand Wilder says, "like the nut." No, this isn't a setup for a nut joke. Wilder, the guitarist/vocalist of the abruptly acclaimed, suddenly sanctioned...
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Club Candids
North Scottsdale's newest slice of La Vocé Vita
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 24, 2008
Considering the stiff penalties for drinking and driving, it's not often we make our way to the outskirts of town for a cocktail. But on Friday, January 18, we were feeling...
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Shrapnel
3 Inches of Blood pools together a classic metal sound
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: January 24, 2008
Ah, the new wave of British heavy metal. Affectionately known to metalheads the world over as the NWOBHM, the genre's sound was characterized by galloping rhythms, operatic...
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Shrapnel
Why wait until December? Let's commence with the 2008 music year in review
By Serene Dominic
Published: January 24, 2008
For those of you going through "year-in-review" withdrawal, here's a day-by-day account of what the year's given us so far. January 1: Dick Clark's "New Years Rockin' Eve"...
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Joe Jackson
Rain
(Rykodisc)By Thomas Bond
Published: January 24, 2008
The first two lines on Joe Jackson's new album are: "Hey, can you hear me now, as I fade away and lose my ground? Maybe you'd like to know what I'd have to say, if I was still...
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Cheb i Sabbah
Devotion
(Six Degrees)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: January 24, 2008
On his previous disc, La Kahena, San Francisco-based, Algerian-born DJ Cheb i Sabbah explored the sounds of his native North Africa, adding tracks and loops to the material he...
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Kate Nash
Made of Bricks
(Interscope)By Ben Westhoff
Published: January 24, 2008
Kate Nash's debut LP, Made of Bricks, was released last summer in the U.K., where she became an overnight sensation; both the CD and single, "Foundations," charted at number...
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Various Artists
Juno: Music From the Motion Picture
(Rhino)By Michael Roberts
Published: January 24, 2008
Too many movie tie-in collections put profits before cohesion. Tunes by widely disparate performers, most of whom just happen to record for companies affiliated with the film...
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