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Night & Day
Erin Go, Brah
By Kurt Brighton
Published: March 13, 2008
If your cheesy, green-beer-swilling, American version of Saint Paddy's Day got a Mohawk and a few tattoos, then did a fat line of blow along with its usual bucketfuls of...
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Night & Day
"The Art of John Lennon, Presented by Yoko Ono"
By Clay McNear
Published: March 13, 2008
George couldn't draw to save his life. Linda was into photography, and thus went Paul. Ringo still uses Crayons to pen his daily mail -- so we hear. That, by default, makes...
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Night & Day
Desert Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale
By Clay McNear
Published: March 13, 2008
It's soooo tempting to buy one of those cheerful-looking succulents you see in the Garden department at Target. Don't succumb! They're mass-produced and babied in nurseries,...
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Night & Day
The Phoenix Lights . . . We Are Not Alone
Published: March 13, 2008
The documentary examines the Valley's mysterious UFO "invasion" of the late '90s, and the theories behind it. Sun., March 16, 1, 4 & 7 p.m., 2008
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Night & Day
Tammy Lechner
By Clay McNear
Published: March 13, 2008
Despite the bold assertion in the accompanying photo, author/photojournalist Tammy Lechner should've titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high...
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The Bird
The Bird praises L. Ron Hubbard, skewers a bladder-challenged bigot and offers a warning to the Big Cactus
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: March 13, 2008
WHITE-TRASH WEENIE Like you needed more proof that immigrant-bashing nativists are low-life garbage. Noted Yosemite Sam impersonator "Buffalo" Rick Galeener was allegedly...
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Fenske
A shocking court decision might free builders from responsibility for home defects
By Sarah Fenske
Published: March 13, 2008
This is just what you homeowners need. After all, home sales in parts of the Valley have slowed to a trickle. (Thought you could buy a new house and flip it in a few months?...
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News
A key witness in the Robert Ortloff murder trial recants what she's been telling authorities for 24 years
By Paul Rubin
Published: March 13, 2008
Lisa Pickett Steedman, a key witness in Robert Ortloff's murder trial, had just torpedoed the defense with startling courtroom testimony that contradicted everything she'd told...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 13, 2008
Published: March 13, 2008
DRUG DOCS A history of abuse: Your story on the addicted doctors was scary as hell ("The Doctor is Out," John Dickerson, March 6). Can you imagine? Your physician goes out of...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Ask a Mexican breaks into your house to talk border control and illegal immigration
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 13, 2008
Mexicans are angry that the United States might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly...
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Music
Al Perry and Fish Karma reflect on decades in the desert
By Sarah Ventre
Published: March 13, 2008
Phoenix was built on a desire to buy and to have. People can own acres of land on the side of a mountain, and they can go to the outlet mall to pick out all the finest...
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Club Candids
Home is where the art is
By Lilia Menconi
Published: March 13, 2008
We love Art Detour weekend. Not only does it bring out the best of downtown, but it's also one event we can cover that doesn't result in a hangover the next morning. On Friday,...
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Shrapnel
Firestorm Fest: It's the best lineup of crappy band names in the biz
By Cole Haddon
Published: March 13, 2008
There are a lot of bad band names out there, but no genre suffers from titular uncoolness like metalcore (which we'll admit we're not fans of). The Firestorm Fest — a...
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Shrapnel
For St. Paddy's Day drinkers, here are superior alternatives to those tired Irish folk songs
By Ryan Foley
Published: March 13, 2008
In the opening to his 875-page treatise on Irish nationalism, The Green Flag, Robert Kee attempts to decode the DNA of that island's people, sketching an ancestral tree that...
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Home Grown
Alive In Wild Paint
Ceilings
(Equal Vision)By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: March 13, 2008
In a world, as Elvis Costello recently described it, full of noisy things, it takes a lot of perseverance and guts to be quiet. If Ceilings, the Equal Vision debut album from...
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Home Grown
Mello Mello
An Abstract Love Story
(Mello-Soul Records)By Ryan Foley
Published: March 13, 2008
Despite An Abstract Love Story's playfully ribald themes, orgasmic vocal snippets, and big-person talk of wine and toking cabbage, one just can't shake a rather juvenile image:...
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Listen Up
Cavalera Conspiracy
Inflikted
(Roadrunner)By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: March 13, 2008
It goes without saying that Sepultura's indelible impact on metal hinged on the chemistry between the band's sibling co-founders, Max and Igor Cavalera. But despite the buzz...
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Listen Up
Sheryl Crow
Detours
(A&M)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: March 13, 2008
Sheryl Crow is back to her old self after the fiasco that was 2005's Wildflower. By renewing her partnership with Bill Bottrell (who produced her first CD in 1993), she comes...
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Live Wire
The English Beat
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 13, 2008
In the beginning (i.e., 1978), the music gods created The Beat. And verily, the firmament known as Birmingham, England, brought forth a mighty 2-tone ska revivalist group,...
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Live Wire
Nile
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: March 13, 2008
Everybody together now: Anoint my phallus with the blood of the FALLEN!! With that quaint little sing-along, South Carolina death metal institution Nile takes cock rock to an...
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