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Mesa Police Chief George Gascón stares down Sheriff Joe Arpaio
By Ray Stern
Published: July 10, 2008
The police chief had stolen the spotlight, and the sheriff was furious. It was a scorching hot day in late June, and dozens of demonstrators had turned up at a Maricopa County...
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Keep on Trekkin'
Just don’t forget the body armor and the beer helmet
By Clay McNear
Published: July 10, 2008
Telling people they should hike in 115-degree heat is like plopping the London Bridge in the middle of some podunk Arizona town. Oh. Right. That hiking hard-sell is at the...
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Coaster Oven
Ah, another glorious day in Eden
By Clay McNear
Published: July 10, 2008
The Castles -n- Coasters Summer Fun Days promotion is a smoking deal -- if you don’t spontaneously combust. We’re just tossin’ out a caveat emptor, ’cause...
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Addicted to Dove
Booster club salutes Kahlo at 101
By Leslie Barton
Published: July 10, 2008
Nobody ever called Frida Kahlo an asshole, though, in 1939, the Mexican artist dubbed André Breton and the European surrealists the "bitches of Paris." Oh, snap! Frida...
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KEF Muon Speakers Debut
Published: July 10, 2008
If these babies sound as good as they look, mama. Designed and numbered by industrial artist Ross Lovegrove -- known, among other things, for designing the Sony Walkman and the...
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The ID Girl
Hapless heroine comes home
By Leslie Barton
Published: July 10, 2008
Why did Laurie Notaro leave her hometown of Phoenix, AZ? Had she sucked the last drop of marrow from every 1990s Mill Avenue moment and chewed the bones into dust? (She does...
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Synth and Sensibility
By Adriane Goetz
Published: July 10, 2008
Since the dawn of its invention, music fans have held the synthesizer in direct conflict with the drum kit. While these opposing camps may never lay down arms, Phoenix’s...
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South by Midwest
AZ newbie recycles, but he’s no hippie wacko
By Wynter Holden
Published: July 10, 2008
We’re all for hybrid cars and green cleaners, but if we have to look at one more painting exploring the dangers of deforestation, we’re gonna blow chunks. What’s...
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A Midsummmer Month's Dream
PT fest saves us from post-theater of the absurd
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 10, 2008
Most big cities have summer stock of some kind. Phoenix’s post-theater season typically equates to a handful of remounts and three months of dinner theater. For the past...
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Heard Mentality
Don’t shop around. Go here.
By Clay McNear
Published: July 10, 2008
Indian jewelry is one of the Southwest’s signature art forms, and one of the loveliest. Unfortunately, even the best of it’s often lumped in with the Native dreck...
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Show of Farce
Andy Warhol meets “Weird” Al
By Leslie Barton
Published: July 10, 2008
When you think of a ukulele, do you think of Joan Rivers and Cheech & Chong? You will once you get a load of Ukulele Ray & The KokoNutz, a tropical/classic rock/comedy act from...
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Hiero-Learning
The underground is where it’s always been
By Niamh Wallace
Published: July 10, 2008
One of the most lamentable facts about the ’90s was the inability of underground hip-hop to register even the slightest blip on the mainstream radar. While gangsta rap...
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Let's Get Physical
Hardy lads bring dance tunes to Trunk Space. Really.
By Steve Jansen
Published: July 10, 2008
L.A. four-piece HEALTH sounds more suited to the hipster-tastic Rogue Bar than Trunk Space, where the band will be posting up tonight. We felt this especially after we listened...
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Camp Rock
The geekiest show on Earth rolls into Modified
By Jay Bennett
Published: July 10, 2008
Leave your cynicism at the door for the totally unironically named Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo (subtitle: Camp Jump & Yell for Girls and Wizards). The package tour features three...
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Falling-Down Sober
Snow-cone kids tear it up at AREA
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 10, 2008
The longest span of any American's life is from age 18 to 21. You're old enough to vote, own property, and carry a firearm, but you don't have the right to get shitty drunk at...
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2 Live Crews
NCT teams face off in Mesa
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: July 10, 2008
Audiences love epic showdowns. Ali versus Frazier. Jerry Springer brawls. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. This weekend, National Comedy Theater-Phoenix (NCT for short) squares off...
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Writers of the Purple Sage
North Valley scribes earn a brief moment in the spotlight
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: July 10, 2008
Ernest Hemingway famously sought depth and heartbreak in the extreme brevity of a six-word story by penning, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." While not as restricted by...
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The Sod Couple
Capturing life in the urban jungle – so-called
By Wynter Holden
Published: July 10, 2008
There are plenty of words to describe Phoenix. Dusty. Sunlit. Sprawling. Somehow, “green” doesn’t make the list. Artists Lindsay Palmer and Rebekeh Brems might...
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The Frisco Kid
Up-and-comer’s set to rattle the comic Richter scale
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: July 10, 2008
West Coast Comedy 101: To springboard into acting, you strike out for LA. To perform standup for – gasp! – standup’s sake, you slug it out in the wilds of the...
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Hollywood Ending
These nanny-bashers may be brutes, but they have good eyes
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: July 10, 2008
Onetime Hollywood strongman Michael Ovitz used to make news for all the wrong reasons: voicing paranoiac slurs about the “gay mafia,” causing schisms in the Mickey...
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