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Feature
Going Rogue: An Obsessive Phoenix Patrol Cop Tried to Nail the Wrong Guy in the Baseline Killer Case
By Paul Rubin
Published: February 4, 2010
The lead story on KPHO-TV's evening news last April 1 had bombshell potential. With a mug shot of a sullen-looking African-American man looming in the background, Channel 5's...
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Night & Day
Dance Dance Evolution
Save the grinding for the clubs
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 21, 2010
Regardless of continent or culture, humans have the irresistible urge to wiggle and flail their bodies to music. Unfortunately, American dance styles have been reduced to barbaric ...
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Needle Exchange
Dirty Funk
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: January 14, 2010
Blunt Club beat-juggler Pickster One is keeping things simple for his newest nightlife endeavor, Dirty Funk. "We're just gonna be drinking beer and listening to some cool music," h...
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Film Feature
Crazy Heart: Jeff Bridges Shines as a Country Music Has-Been, but Will the Elusive Oscar Finally Be His?
By Ella Taylor
Published: December 31, 2009
Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his ...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Gobbling Aztlan and Mexican Poetry
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: December 24, 2009
Can you recommend a solid, accessible history of California and Arizona so I can learn what really happened when the U.S. gobbled Aztlán? La Chica Confundida The holistic c...
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Music
My Name Is Jay Bennett, and I’m a Guitarist From Chicago
By Jay Bennett
Published: December 24, 2009
Would the "real" Jay Bennett have been disappointed in me? The late guitarist was, by all accounts, a free-spirited soul who appreciated mischief and who didn't shy away from good-...
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Music
Automatic Erasers Are a Band’s Band
By Jason P. Woodbury
Published: December 17, 2009
God bless the Internet jukebox. There's not much more glorious than sitting in your favorite neighborhood watering hole with the power to hear pretty much anything at your fingerti...
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Feature
The Pink Negro: As an Ivy League Lawyer, is President Barack Obama Hard Enough to Confront the Evil Personified by Sheriff Joe Arpaio?
By Michael Lacey
Published: December 10, 2009
President Barack Obama gracefully accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Here, in Phoenix, Arizona, we enjoy little peace; indeed, we live in the chaos generated by...
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Needle Exchange
Move Something
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 10, 2009
Draconian DUI penalties. Overpriced drinks. Snotty bartenders. There are any number of reasons why P-town urbanites haven't been willing to travel far from home to get to their fav...
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Night & Day
Bug Out
Veteran local hip-hoppers launch latest salvo
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: November 26, 2009
Tempe DJ and rapper duo Foundation and Brad B have been on their grind in the Valley hip-hop scene for about a decade as part of the bigger black-sheep squadron known as the Drunke...
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Shrapnel
Fake Kissing: A Tribute to the Long History of Kiss Tribute Bands
By Jay Bennett
Published: November 26, 2009
With the average ticket to see Kiss costing more than $50, there's definitely a chance your broke ass can't afford to witness the long-in-the-tooth cartoon rockers breathe fire and...
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Feature
Party Favors: At Rasputin's Equestrian Manor, the Debauchery Continues Well Past Closing Time
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: November 12, 2009
It's Halloween night, and the biggest party in metro Phoenix resembles Dirty Dancing as if imagined by the Marquis de Sade. A couple hundred people fill the dance floor, bathed in...
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Sonic Truth
Jason DeRulo Breathes New Life Into One Relationship and, Just Maybe, R&B
By Martin Cizmar
Published: October 29, 2009
Hating R&B is more or less the default setting for the critically inclined nowadays. I mean, who has anything nice to say about the genre? As one of our freelancers argued not too ...
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Night & Day
Collective Soul
Co-op boutique does it up, anniversary-style
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: October 22, 2009
Conspire, the co-op espresso bar and boutique, has blossomed in its two years downtown. The DIY outpost has not only given a home to locally created art, clothes, and goods, but ha...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Mexican Students Who Choose to Fail and Mariachi Shenanigans
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: October 22, 2009
As a teacher, we've been exhorted to expand our efforts in closing the achievement gap between majority and minority students (read: Anglos and Mexicans). I teach all my students i...
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Feature
Concrete Bungle: Tempe’s Twin-Towers Condo Project Collapses Financially, Leaving Investors in the Rubble
By Ray Stern
Published: October 15, 2009
The lofty Centerpoint Condominium towers broke ground in 2005 and were supposed to give downtown Tempe its own slice of Manhattan. Four years later, they've delivered just that &m...
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Night & Day
Private Lies
New exhibit crosses personal boundaries
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 17, 2009
Maybe it’s the gazillion YouTube videos of drunken mishaps, the preponderance of “up-skirt” porn, or the fact that you started taking shots with your iPhone instead ...
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Feature
Smooth Criminal: Urban Artist DOSE Takes Graffiti from the Street to the Museum and Beyond
By Stephen Lemons
Published: August 6, 2009
It's painfully early on a weekend morning in the 'hood, and Phoenix graffiti artist DOSE and his homie FOES head south through streets filled with homeless crack- and meth-heads. T...
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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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Feature
Arpaio’s Busts of Illegals at Popular Valley Water Parks Are All Wet
By Paul Rubin
Published: July 9, 2009
Russell Pearce, the powerful East Valley lawmaker, had this to say to the New York Times in June 2008: "It's about time and it's great. It's kind of like the shot fired at Concor...
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