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The Bird
One Mother’s Suffering, Joe Arpaio’s Bigotry, and Stories of Racial Profiling by the MCSO
By Stephen Lemons
Published: October 15, 2009
CELIA'S ANGUISH On the surface, a Sunday morning at the home of Celia Alejandra Alvarez Herrera seems bright and joyous. Her four children scamper and play as she sits at the thic...
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Shrapnel
GZA Heads to Gammage Auditorium for “Civil Disobedience WU”
By Craig Outhier
Published: October 1, 2009
Graffiti art has muscled its way into the mainstream. If you doubt it, just take a gander at one of Jon Gosselin's designer-douche T-shirts, or check out the packaging of virtually...
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Night & Day
FX Marks the Spot
West-side horror emporium centers on a bloody piece of local color
By Leslie Barton
Published: September 24, 2009
Most haunted houses try gamely to slay you with their imagination. The West Valley haunt named The Nest utilizes real-life local horror – and some badass FX – in re-ena...
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The Bird
Sheriff Joe’s Got Arizona ACORN in his Crosshairs, Plus a Black Cowboy from Tucson’s Got a Rap for Our Loony Lawman
By Stephen Lemons
Published: September 24, 2009
SHERIFF'S NUT I have to give Sheriff Joe Arpaio's regime props for creative abuse of the federal court system. Who else but a legal lapdog such as Timothy Casey, the guy making ba...
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Feature
Greek Ruins: Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright's Disciples — As Well As Ralph Haver, Kemper Goodwin, John Sing Tang, and Edward L. Varney — May Soon Be History, Thanks to Arizona State University
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 30, 2009
This is a story in which something marvelous happens. It's a story about how, not long ago, a bunch of bright, talented people came together to create a project both beautiful and ...
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The Bird
Our Michael Jackson Spoof Is Outed, Plus Connecting the Dots Between Shawna Forde and Her Ideological Confederates
By Stephen Lemons
Published: July 16, 2009
MURDEROUS INTENT You'd have to have aluminum flowing through your veins not to feel a chill crawl up the back of your neck as you listen to the 911 tape of the Arivaca killings. W...
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Live Wire
Skeletonwitch
By Wilson, Kelly
Published: July 16, 2009
Let's hope Midwest metal warriors Skeletonwitch preview new material this week when they headline PHiX Gallery. Though no slouches so far, the band — which revolves around tw...
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Stage
High School Musical at Broadway Palm Dinner Theater Is Nice Enough, but What If They Were Singing About Your High School?
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 25, 2009
Broadway Palm Dinner Theater's production of High School Musical was nice enough. My impression of the show was certainly helped by the fact that I, unlike most people my age, don'...
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Night & Day
Oh, Danny Boy
The punk scene supports one of it's own
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 11, 2009
Many people know Danny Marianino as “that one dude from the North Side Kings who punched Danzig the fuck out.” And while that’s completely true (click here for the v...
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The Bird
The Lumley Vampire Attacks Arizona Department of Corrections’ Charles Ryan for the Death of Marcia Powell, Arpaio’s Goons Zip-Tie a 12-Year-Old, and the Jail Lockdowns Are Over
By Stephen Lemons
Published: May 28, 2009
DARTH RYAN The Lumley Vampire, the underground newsletter purportedly run by current and former Arizona Department of Corrections employees, knows who killed 48-year-old Marcia Po...
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Night & Day
Shticks and Stones
Right-wing attack dog ain’t jokin’ around
By Clay McNear
Published: May 28, 2009
Whatever your stance on right-wingers, they’re not funny. Newt Gingrich. Not funny. Ronald Reagan. Not funny. Ann Coulter. Funny as a crutch. The Bushes. Okay, unintentionally...
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Film
Matthew McConaughey Is Scary Bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
By Melissa Anderson
Published: April 30, 2009
Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, another backward and ...
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The Bird
The Pelican Sticks a Fork in Nova M, Finds Out if Obama is a Red, and Logs On to Grant Woods' Web Cast
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: February 19, 2009
NOVA M MELTDOWN Is there anything sadder than the backstabbing pettiness of a liberal talk-radio station going under? The Bird would like nothing more than to listen to left-wing ...
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The Bird
“Baby Man” William Windsor Found Dead in Home
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: February 5, 2009
DEAD DIAPER BLUES This funky finch could hardly believe his feathered ears. On the other end of the horn was New Times reader Rose Hartman, a neighbor of none other than William W...
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Music
Danzig Leads the Blackest of the Black Tour Screaming into Town
By D.X. Ferris
Published: October 30, 2008
Glenn Danzig is the Devil's curator for the Blackest of the Black Tour, a metal mini-festival he's been presenting and headlining intermittently since 2003. The punk alumnus has re...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 16, 2008
Published: October 16, 2008
IMMIGRATION NATION Round-ups are a wasted effort: Your story demonstrates how a bunch of racist rednecks are driving the agenda on illegal immigration ("Police State," Ray Stern, ...
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Film
Oliver Stone Assigns Motive to W.’s M.O., but at This Point, Who Cares?
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 16, 2008
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this psycho-historical portrait of George W. Bush...
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Night & Day
None More Green
By Serene Dominic
Published: October 2, 2008
...e a morning zoo worth its oats in this town, this would be prime drive-time music. Who couldn't use a shot of Lady Van Buren first thing in the morning, elocutin' like Glenn Danzig after an estrogen shake? Or a bone-bashing horror-pop rhythm section pummeling behind her? Or GLK secret weapon D.F. Jimenez, who peels off the tastiest 20-second guit...
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The Bird
The Bird tsks at Phoenix Magazine, revisits Guadalupe’s recalls and takes one more swipe at Russell “White Pride” Pearce
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: August 28, 2008
READY DEBACLE Right about now, Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready must be feeling like John Edwards' mistress, or Shaq's estranged wife after reading about the Suns' center stepping out wit...
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Feedback
Feedback from the issue of Thursday, August 7, 2008
Published: August 7, 2008
TEXTING HELL Enough with the text-messaging: I always appreciate Robrt L. Pela's honest reviews. I've been a theater director and teacher since 1962 in the Valley and I become esp...
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