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Night & Day
Phoenix Mercury vs. San Antonio Silver Stars @ U.S. Airways Center
By Clay McNear
Published: July 10, 2008
Missed the Phoenix Mercury during the Olympic break? Jonesing for some women's basketball on account of all of that sweet balling in Beijing? Then you can totally score when...
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Night & Day
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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Night & Day
Give it to me, Straight
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 10, 2008
Not to be confused with the ultra-polished Indiana University a cappella group of the same name (though that would be funny as shit), this extreme metal outfit dares to go...
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Night & Day
Make the Switch
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: July 10, 2008
We were surfing through DJ Tranzit's impressive-looking MySpace page the other day, and besides being amused by the house music maestro's catchphrases ("Some people call it a...
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Night & Day
Bug
Published: July 10, 2008
A couple years back, this "bloody-disgusting love story" from playwright Tracy Letts was made into a feature film directed by William Friedkin and starring Ashley Judd and...
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Fenske
He wasn’t driving drunk, he didn’t hit anyone, but he might still go to jail
By Sarah Fenske
Published: July 10, 2008
Two drivers stopped at a red light one night in April 2007. One driver was drunk — and not just a little drunk. Jonathan Hernandez was a convicted felon on probation,...
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Feedback
Feedback from the issue of Thursday, July 10, 2008
Published: July 10, 2008
BUZZ-WORTHY It's no coke: Your recent article on Agwa de Bolivia ("Liquid Blow?" Niki D'Andrea, June 26) was interesting and funny. I went out and bought a couple of...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on gabachos trying to be Mexican and Elvis’ cult following
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 10, 2008
What's the fascination Mexicans have with Elvis? Good Roceando Tonight Your question is spot-on, but it's taken a while for Elvis to achieve icon status amongst Mexicans. As...
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Music
Mariah Carey, Death Cab for Cutie, and a few other buzzworthy CDs from 2008’s first half
By Michael Gallucci
Published: July 10, 2008
July is the time of year when families get together for cookouts, kids stay up late to watch TV, and music critics compile their midyear Top 10 lists. Yes, we live for this...
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Shrapnel
Toby Keith seeks blue-collar cred to net him white-collar cash
By Cole Haddon
Published: July 10, 2008
Country audiences have always been strongly working-class, and such country greats of yesteryear as Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard sold albums based on how they answered the...
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Shrapnel
Wolf Parade bites back at critiques of At Mount Zoomer
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: July 10, 2008
Montreal indie-rock quintet Wolf Parade — relentlessly championed by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock — made a huge splash in 2005 with their exhilarating debut...
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Listen Up
Sigur Rós
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
(Beggars XL Recording)By Michael Roberts
Published: July 10, 2008
Sigur Rós' latest is positively festooned with danger signs: first album to be recorded mostly outside the band's home base of Iceland, first to feature a track sung in...
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Home Grown
Traindead
Traindead
(self-released)By Serene Dominic
Published: July 10, 2008
The only thing music correspondents are concerning themselves with right now is what's the song of the summer gonna be — that special confection that encapsulates in 3...
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Home Grown
The Black Jacket
The Black Jacket
(Woodspine Records)By Steve Jansen
Published: July 10, 2008
What's the most surprising characteristic about this DIY-sounding album? That it's not just some dude holed up in his parents' basement multi-tracking in the bathroom to...
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Live Wire
Hot Topic Summer Slaughter Tour
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 10, 2008
With 10 like-minded bands on the same bill, it'll be damn near impossible to avoid death metal overkill here. But if you can find a way to conserve your energy, the Summer...
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Live Wire
Straight, No Chaser
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 10, 2008
Not to be confused with the ultra-polished Indiana University a cappella group of the same name (though that would be funny as shit), this extreme metal outfit dares to go...
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Live Wire
Todd Rundgren
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 10, 2008
A Todd Rundgren performance could include just about anything from the multi-instrumentalist's 41-year career: the '60s garage rock of his old band Nazz, his early '70s power...
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Live Wire
Coldplay
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 10, 2008
Chris Martin and company return to the road in support of their latest album, Viva La Vida, their follow-up to the number one, 10-times platinum album X&Y. Critics are already...
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Live Wire
Tilly and the Wall
By Tamara Palmer
Published: July 10, 2008
Omaha's Tilly and the Wall doesn't have a drummer. But the band's figured out a way to lay down the beat just the same: Member Jamie Pressnall provides percussive rhythms by...
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Live Wire
Rusted Root
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 10, 2008
This Pittsburgh jam band has long been a shared favorite of Deadheads everywhere (the devout are known as "Rootheads"), as the band's music incorporates world-music percussion...
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