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61. Live Wire

    The Nadas

    By Michael Lopez

    Published: January 22, 2009

    The Nadas are not a forgotten band from that "the" band explosion from 2000 that featured the likes of The Strokes, The Hives and The Vines. Sure, The Nadas existed back then,...

62. Resolution Guide

    I Flew

    By Julie Peterson

    Published: January 22, 2009

    Left to my own motivation, I don't tend to follow through on things I decide to start doing. My legs don't get tan (1973); I don't exercise (1994-present); I don't tweak the...

63. Live Wire

    Snot

    By Mike R. Meyer

    Published: January 22, 2009

    In the '90s, a dead lead singer seemed like a surefire ingredient in the formula for musical immortality. Jeff Buckley garnered way more fans after his 1997 drowning death than...

64. Live Wire

    Al Di Meola

    By John Roos

    Published: January 22, 2009

    Guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola is quite dazzling when it comes to technique. His blazing riffs exploded in the '70s as a member of the groundbreaking jazz-fusion group Return to...

65. Live Wire

    Amy Ray

    By Annika Dukes

    Published: January 22, 2009

    There's a well-known saying among diehard fans of dyke-folk duo the Indigo Girls: "Everyone wants to marry Emily; everyone wants to sleep with Amy." With a new solo album on...

66. Live Wire

    James Intveld

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: January 22, 2009

    In the 1990 film Cry-Baby, Johnny Depp played a rebellious rocker named Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Walker's singing voice, however, was provided by rockabilly revivalist James...

67. Live Wire

    Combichrist

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: January 22, 2009

    On its new album, Today We Are All Demons, the band's fourth, Combichrist effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering machine intro with a message from an...

68. Needle Exchange

    TheDirty.com's West Valley Invasion Party

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: January 22, 2009

    To say that Nik Richie has had a beef with the West Valley is as an obvious understatement as saying that Hamas and Israel are known to get into a minor dust-up once in a...

69. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Published: January 22, 2009

    THURSDAY 22 Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, & more (hip-hop) J-Heads: Thursday Night Artist Spotlight with DJ...

70. Cafe

    Hanny’s Infuses Downtown Phoenix with Classic Fare in a Historic Building

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: January 22, 2009

    Finally, something to cheer about. In a city where preservationists have new reasons to gripe all the time — sharp mid-century homes getting razed to make way for...

71. Film

    Waltz with Bashir Is a Remarkable Bubbling Up of Repressed Violence

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: January 22, 2009

    Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz with Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. Folman, whose magic realist...

72. Film

    Inkheart, Starring Brendan Fraser Has Direct Appeal for the "Reading is Fundamental" Crowd

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: January 22, 2009

    Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex daycare as "Mo" Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In Inkheart's opening chapter, he's identified as a...

73. Film Feature

    Sundance 2009: Less Money, Fewer Hits

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 22, 2009

    What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left?...

74. Art

    “Angela Ellsworth: Underpinnings” Has Us in Stitches

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: January 22, 2009

    Multi-media artist Angela Ellsworth never, ever disappoints me. And just when I think she can't outdo herself, she proves me wrong. Her aesthetic coup this time can be seen in...

75. Surreal Estate

    Playboy Apartments Maintain a Swinging Style That’s Renovation-Proof

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 22, 2009

    When my friend Michele and I were teenagers, her mother had a totally cool boyfriend. Steve was ripped from the pages of Hip Swinger magazine: Bell bottoms, puka shells,...

76. Resolution Guide

    I Quit Lying

    By Wynter Holden

    Published: January 22, 2009

    I've always had a love-hate relationship with truth. As an only child with a vivid imagination, lying came easy. By junior high, I was an expert forger, using carbon paper and...

77. Resolution Guide

    I Gave Up My Favorite Bar

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: January 22, 2009

    The most degrading moment in my life was when a peanut bounced off my head in a bar. It led to the only resolution I can remember actually sticking to. Teakwoods was a great...

78. Resolution Guide

    I Gave Up Women with Bad Taste in Music

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 22, 2009

    I'm currently residing in the land of the not-very-thrilled-to-be-single and I think it's on account of a New Year's resolution I made a few years ago. On the afternoon of...