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1. Feature

   Suzi Dodt’s on a mission to return the nameless dead to their loved ones

   By Paul Rubin

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Suzi Dodt, who sees dead people, is speed-talking about one of her "unidentifieds." "99-305 has a name, a family, a story, but we just don't know it yet," says Dodt, a death...

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   Italian Night Concert and Dinner

   Published: July 17, 2008

   No, we're not talking Dean Martin and meatballs. This delightful annual affair pays homage to the homeland of architect and Arcosanti founder Paolo Soleri with a scrumptious...

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   The Kids Stay in the Picture

   Doc burrows beneath high school archetypes

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: July 17, 2008

   You’ve met them before, and you may have even loathed them in high school: the nerd, the jock, the popular girl, and the quirky/arty chick. But you haven’t met the...

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   Con Artists

   Students get digital in Mesa

   By Wynter Holden

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Some pretentious art critics think digital photography’s a con -- that with the right software, you can turn a blurry snapshot of your ugly Aunt Sally into a computerized...

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   Pitchers at an Exhibition

   Diamondbacks hurlers meet and greet the fans

   By Chris Bowman

   Published: July 17, 2008

   The baseball-card-collector subculture is a far cry from that of a generation ago. Two decades back, folks could purchase packs of Topps and Fleer with pocket change. Today,...

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   Up Jumps the Boogie

   Cool cats congregate for Atomic Age bomb

   By Jose Gonzalez

   Published: July 17, 2008

   If your last get-together had all of the fun of a Tupperware party and the thrills of a snail race, you should look to the good folks of AZ Rockabilly for inspiration. The...

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   Unholier than Thou

   Badass punkers bring their communion sideshow back to the stage

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: July 17, 2008

   It’s been a while since we devoted ink/digital pixels to NunZilla, the punk-rock darlings of New Times cover-story fame (“Bad Habits,” April 5, 2007, Niki...

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   Souse Party

   Under-the-table tennis, anyone?

   By Lilia Menconi

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Calling all bros, duders, and anyone who's ever puked for sport: The World Series of Beer Pong is coming to Tempe. This, being the perfect opportunity to prove your ultimate...

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   World Beater

   Travel without moving at Bar Smith

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: July 17, 2008

   What can you expect from Ubiquity Records artist and badass producer John Beltran’s first-ever performance out this way? Everything. You see, one never knows where a...

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    Catcher in the Wry

    Tragicomic new book is full of dead bodies and phantasms

    By Frances Michelle Lopez

    Published: July 17, 2008

    How do you tell someone that you found the girl you just broke up with dead along the railroad tracks? Was the breakup clean? If not, someone’s gonna be asking questions,...

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    Do the Write Thing

    Kick the gods to the curb

    By Nina Carapetyan

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Writer’s block has you in a chokehold, and you spend many a night writhing naked on the kitchen floor, awaiting some flare of inspiration. The ceiling lights shine down on...

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    Spy Hard

    Former MI5 head brings the bona fides back to suspense

    By Clay McNear

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Though we hate to generalize, we must in the case of those bodice-ripping potboilers called suspense novels. Generally speaking, they suck. Ours is not a time of giants like...

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    Maximum Strategery

    East Valley facility woos cheapskate Rambos

    By Jose Gonzalez

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country, said Roman poet Horace. However, if you’re more comfortable watching Stripes than...

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    All Talk

    All action

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Worried that the New Times Summer of Sound: Experimental/Eclectic show is no bang for your five bucks? Then let us break it down for you: Black Carl: White kids playing...

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    Club Wet

    Bust out the bikinis at San Carlos

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Say "pool party" to any woman and you'll notice a slight quickening of the pulse as her underarms begin to moisten. Ever since middle school, when pool parties suddenly turned...

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    Punk'd

    No fashion sluts allowed

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: July 17, 2008

    We're all about covering the scene, if you will, so does that make us scenesters? We hope not, because we totally want to attend the weekly Punk Nite at Q-Lounge, whose MySpace...

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    Thank Buddha It's Friday

    It couldn’t come soon enough

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Work headaches, traffic snarls, unresolved personal issues. If you’re like us, you’ve got Yang coming out of your butt, so maybe it’s time we all took a long,...

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    Meet Cute

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st century pop band. Almost purpose-built for short attention span marketing campaigns, the four gents in CIWWAF focus so...

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    Pet Project

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: July 17, 2008

    When we told our dog about Lappy Hour, a monthly networking and adoption opportunity for canines and their humans, all he wanted to know was if there’d be any bitches...

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    Darkness Calls

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: July 17, 2008

    While parents have predictably freaked out over the social menace imposed in turn by the blues, jazz, secular R&B, rock and roll, heavy metal, rap, and techno, they never...