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   Mother, interrupted: CPS accused her of everything from neglect to excessive care, never proved anything, and took her daughter anyway

   By Megan Irwin

   Published: March 27, 2008

   On a cool winter day, late afternoon casts a creepy, lonely light across a little girl's bedroom. Madeline sits waiting for a tea party. A row of Disney princesses lines a bed...

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   The Ed Forman Show, With ME! ED FORMAN!

   By Clay McNear

   Published: March 27, 2008

   The brain child of Portland improv comic Aaron Ross, this touring production features Ross as a throwback windbag of a talk-show host based on the real-life author of a...

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   Fergie & Friends vs. Arizona All-Stars

   Published: March 27, 2008

   Hall of Famer and retired Chicago Cubs great Ferguson Jenkins leads a number of his celebrity friends against the All-Stars, a team composed of media figures and community...

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   Robin Miller

   By Clay McNear

   Published: March 27, 2008

   The sweetie-pie star of the Food Network show Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller unveils her new book, which is titled (take a deep breath, 'cause, appropriately, it's a real...

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   "Macro, Micro and Minimal: Repetition in Music" feat. Leslie Amper

   Published: March 27, 2008

   The National Endowment for the Arts medalist/pianist highlights repetitions in the works of Debussy, Satie, Faure, and Messiaen in this concert held in conjunction with the...

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   "Phoenix's Finest" at Ruby Room

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: March 27, 2008

   You'd be one crazy mofo to miss this shindig. On Thursday, March 27, Djentrification, Johnny Dee, and One Peso share four turntables during this DJ potpourri. One Peso, who...

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   Record Swap Meet at Arizona American Italian Club

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: March 27, 2008

   The Arizona American Italian Club will be a heaven for record nerds when they host a Record Swap Meet. Sat., March 29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 2008

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   Feet Accompli

   Shoes or no shoes, this babe wails

   By Adriane Goetz

   Published: March 27, 2008

   How does a British girl of average attractiveness (whose first single was a White Stripes cover, by the way) rise to international fame? For then-16-year-old Joss Stone,...

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   Teenage Wasteland

   Jordan Albertsen’s indie flick is too cool for high school

   By Jay Bennett

   Published: March 27, 2008

   High school and hyperbole go hand in hand. In describing grades 9 through 12, most people declare them the “greatest years of my life!” or “four years of living...

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    Iron Maidens

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Tiger Woods snubs the Valley every year. At least budding superstar Michelle Wie wanted to be here. The 18-year-old received an exemption from the Safeway International that...

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    Willo, Shmillo

    Check out the ’hood with the shiz

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 27, 2008

    While the Willo Historic District receives mad accolades and recognition, little ol’ Coronado – loosely bordered by Virginia Avenue to the north, McDowell Road to the...

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    Grand Endeavor

    PHX underground comes up for air in new documentary

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: March 27, 2008

    There's a dusty adage that says your likelihood of scoring with the opposite sex increases if you’re in a band or a movie. Double score if you're in a movie about being in...

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    Betting Zoo

    Our wad’s on Porky – and you can take that to the piggy bank

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: March 27, 2008

    You might think that Alternative Race Day means lesbians in wheelchairs, but at Turf Paradise on Saturday, March 29, there’ll be a veritable Island of Dr. Moreau on the...

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    Cocteau Party

    Backwards Theatre invokes the ghost of performance/art polyglot

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Chuck Taylor All-Stars, those venerable Converse sneakers, were once the cutting edge in athletic shoes. They've long since given way to NASA-level contraptions in competition...

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    Brokeneck Mountain

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: March 27, 2008

    It'd be easy to talk about a Canadian-sponsored film festival and slip in the requisite “Take off, hoser” and “Drink more Molson, eh?” comments, à la...

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    Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Phoenix Anymore

    Culture in the sticks? It’s true. We swear.

    By Niamh Wallace

    Published: March 27, 2008

    It's easy to scoff at Valley suburbs -- as if Phoenix proper is the condensation of all things urban and art -- but we’d generally rather gag than travel anywhere...

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    Let's Play Ball. Please.

    By Chris Bowman

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Arizona Cactus League baseball is one of the most anticipated sports happenings in town. But around this time in March, we’re way more jazzed about practice ball ending...

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    Film Noir

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Outside of blaxploitation and Spike Lee, motion pictures made by black filmmakers don’t get much love. That changes (at least in this town) when acclaimed African-American...

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    Bittersweet 16

    Devils get the NIT. Wildcats get the Dance. Insanity reigns.

    By Chris Bowman

    Published: March 27, 2008

    What does it take to get into the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament these days? How about a fifth-place finish in the stacked Pac-10? In the case of the ASU Sun Devils, the...

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    Theonix Arts Showcase: Volume II at Hollywood Alley

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 27, 2008

    The hip cats who put together the Theonix Arts Showcase know how to throw a slammin' shindig. 4 real dough. On Friday, March 28, the center of the cool universe takes place at...