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Live Wire
Cyndi Lauper
By Annie Zaleski
Published: June 19, 2008
Cyndi Lauper's crazy hair, outrageous clothes, and Noo Yawk accent pegged her as a patron saint of goofballs, thrift-store queens, and misfits in the 1980s. But underneath her...
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Home Grown
James Fella
Salvaged Tapes
(C-Salt/Gilgongo Records)By Steve Jansen
Published: June 19, 2008
Patchwork tapestries glued together from trash, cityscapes made out of discarded glass bottles, and junk mail assembled into fancy wall collages are just some of the scavenger...
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Home Grown
The Brazen Heads
Who's Yer Paddy?
(self-released)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 19, 2008
Fans of Irish folk-rock like Flogging Molly will go Paddy-batty for this local release, which blends traditional tunes like "Hag at the Churn" and "One Eyed Reilly" with...
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Listen Up
Girl Named Kyle
Let's Build
(Invicta Records)By Michael Roberts
Published: June 19, 2008
No, the world hasn't been waiting for another folkish band fronted by a precocious, big-voiced singer, and the familiar nature of the strummier material on Let's Build doesn't...
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Booze Pig
Booze Pig’s off on a jaunt to Tallyho! Cocktail Lounge
By C.M. Redding
Published: June 19, 2008
I'm driving to work. It's not my usual pound-as-much-coffee-as-you-can-while-not-hitting-anything-and-still-drunk-from-last-night commutes. It's a caffeine-free jaunt, filled...
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Needle Exchange
Energy Thursdays
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 19, 2008
Back in 2004, DJ guru Rod Carrillo was all over the Valley's airwaves and club scene, broadcasting his style of trance and progressive house on Energy Radio 92.7/101.1 FM and...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: June 19, 2008
THURSDAY 19 Axis/Radius: Divine Shady Whiteout Party with DJ White Shadow, Demar, & MCB (various) Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJs Brazilia, & Mara...
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Cafe
Pizza A Metro offers up tasty Italian and wood-fired pizza by the meter
By Michele Laudig
Published: June 19, 2008
How do you say "wildfire" in Italian? I can't tell you, but that's the idea I get when I think of the incredible buzz about Pizza A Metro, a fantastic new Italian restaurant...
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Film
Carell and Hathaway’s Get Smart is a remake that works on its own terms
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 19, 2008
As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows are spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's an iron law of the culture...
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Film
Mongol paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of Genghis Kahn
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 19, 2008
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI...
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Film Feature
Mongol director Sergei Bodrov on navigating the perilous Hollywood battlefield
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 19, 2008
Just over a decade ago, Russian director Sergei Bodrov made his mark on the West with his Academy Award-nominated movie Prisoner of the Mountains, which transplanted a Tolstoy...
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Brown Town
Marcos Najera wants a Latino cultural center in Brown Town
By Marcos Najera
Published: June 19, 2008
Wendy Weston is one fierce chick. She's loud, proud, and puro Native-American badass. I want to be her. More to the point, I want a space like hers. She's the director of...
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Stage
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf at Kerr Cultural Center
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 19, 2008
My friend Michelle and I were the only white people in the audience at last week's performance of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, which...
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Game On
Ninja Gaiden II delivers buckets of blood but no polish
By Gary Hodges
Published: June 19, 2008
It's probably a good thing Game On wasn't around to review Ninja Gaiden when it hit Xbox in 2004 — we probably would've written An awesome, brutal, majestic action...
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