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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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Home Grown
The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society
Electric Fan Sounds Works
(SonicAnta)By Steve Jansen
Published: August 7, 2008
We did it. We listened attentively — and when our habitually short attention span kicked in, inattentively — to Electric Fan Sounds Works presented by The Tucson Electr...
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Music
Americans recording Mexican songs: the bueno, the bad and the muy ugly
By Gustavo Arellano and John Nova Lomax
Published: July 17, 2008
Mexican artists have recorded English-language songs for decades, but the opposite is rare. American musicians have historically treated Mexican music like they treat Mexicans, and...
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Niki at Nite
Earth Kitt’s sensual crooning and revealing dance moves show she’s still got a little cat-woman in her
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 12, 2008
She's 81 years old, dressed in a curve-hugging black velvet dress with a slit all the way from waist to foot, exposing the dress' red satin interior and the entire length of her sh...
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Fenske
Prosecutors suggest charges for other driver in the Bryant Wilkerson case
By Sarah Fenske
Published: May 1, 2008
Guess who's still facing 21 years in prison? Yep, it's Bryant Wilkerson, the black driver who had the misfortune of colliding with a drunk driver last Cinco de Mayo — and wa...
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Music
Local musicians find a catalyst in the RPM Challenge
By Ryan Foley
Published: March 20, 2008
Some Native Americans believe peyote puts them in touch with divine powers. "The white man goes into his church and talks about Jesus," says Quanah Parker, founder of the Native Am...
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Resolution Guide
Hometown pride: Finding what's special about the 'Nix
By Sloane Burwell
Published: January 17, 2008
Okay, don't laugh: This year, instead of bashing this sprawling, hot vacuum we call home, I've resolved to stop dissing Phoenix. That's no simple task, because there's something ab...
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Music
San Francisco Strings
Kronos Quartet's David Harrington waxes melodic on '07
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: January 3, 2008
San Francisco's world renowned Kronos Quartet has charted an impressive course around the globe, commissioning more than 600 works — and releasing more than 40 records &mdash...
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