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2001 Stories by Dewey Webb

• Mary Jane Girl

  published September 13, 2001

  Last spring, Patrick Lange removed an ornate Persian urn from a shelf in his 1920s-era hacienda and carefully poured the contents of the small... More >>

• Chez Bye-Bye

  published September 6, 2001

  Here's mud in your eye.Last week, Bob Pavlovic, owner of the imperiled Chez Nous, informed his staff the landmark cocktail lounge will... More >>

• Oscar the Ouch

  published August 30, 2001

  In a parody of Sally Field's infamous Oscar acceptance speech, readers of a new book are exclaiming, "I dislike it! I really dislike... More >>

• Abuzz Kill

  published August 16, 2001

  For nearly 20 years, society tattletale Danny Medina, publisher of Arizona Trends, has tickled the Valley's upper crust with his newspaper... More >>

• Junkyard God

  published June 21, 2001

  A slab of tiling from a long-gone Valley supermarket. A 1958 Edsel station wagon with a bum transmission and four flat tires. A forest of fake... More >>

• Rock Garden Angel

  published June 21, 2001

  Marion Blake is stuck between a rock garden and a hard place.An art history major at New York University, Blake was visiting Phoenix when... More >>

• Donny Come Lately

  published May 24, 2001

  There are two kinds of people in the world.In the first camp are those who subscribe to the conventional wisdom that a solitary piece of... More >>

• I Know What You Did Off-Campus

  published April 12, 2001

  How far can a school go in policing a student's off-campus activities?Sitting at home when he ordinarily would have been at school, a... More >>

• Art Pulpitations

  published April 5, 2001

  When Norman Baer arrived in New York City to carve out a career in the advertising field in the early '50s, the art school grad's head was filled... More >>

• Sloshed Cause

  published March 22, 2001

  Since Chez Nous first opened for business nearly 40 years ago, thousands of Phoenicians have gotten hammered inside the glitzy, smoke-choked... More >>

• She's Got Bette Davis Ties

  published February 22, 2001

  Margo Channing came to dinner . . . Baby Jane stayed for breakfast!"That tantalizing teaser only sounds like a terrifying advertising... More >>

• Lame Time, Last Year

  published January 4, 2001

  Okay, so the much-anticipated Y2K disaster never reared its ugly head. But here in the Valley, that seemed to be about the only fiasco that... More >>

• Liz, They Hardly Knew Ye

  published January 4, 2001

  Valley couch potatoes know her perpetually perky persona from TV's "The Place With More Stuff." But after being denied entrance to a Scottsdale... More >>