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Night & Day
All that Jazz
By Steve Jansen
Published: February 5, 2009
You don’t know bass improv until you’ve heard the sweet stylings of David Friesen. In the past two years, he’s been named one of the top 20 most influential jazz...
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Night & Day
Rick Barry Autograph Signing
Published: February 5, 2009
Meet the Hall of Famer and Golden State Warriors/New York Nets great in the Suns Team Shop. Wed., Feb. 11, 3-4 p.m., 2009
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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...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 5, 2009
Published: February 5, 2009
PILOT ERROR I don't want to ever be on his flights: After reading this article, it makes a person wonder what's necessary to stop a pilot from making a serious mistake. I...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Drug-Using Gabachos, Limp Bizkit, and MP3 Playlists for Gringas
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: February 5, 2009
I can't tell you how disappointed I've been these past few days, as a U.S. citizen and ciudadano mexicano, how I've been seeing more and more stories about los narcos and how...
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Music
The Maine Achieved National Success Thanks to Twitter, MySpace, and Buzznet
By Kelly Wilson
Published: February 5, 2009
They Twitter to tell fans what they're doing. They use MySpace to post bulletins and blogs. And they use Buzznet to post videos and photos to let their fans in on some of their...
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Shrapnel
American Idol: Why I’ll Never Watch It Again
By Chris Hansen Orf
Published: February 5, 2009
There's a scene in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange in which ultra-violent "droog" Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, undergoes "aversion therapy" to cure his...
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Live Wire
DeVotchKa
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: February 5, 2009
It would seem unlikely that indie-rock scensters, art-house film snobs, and video game geeks would converge in the same place at the same time, but those disparate groups will...
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Live Wire
Ska is Dead Tour
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: February 5, 2009
Cockroaches and ska music have a few things in common. Both are reviled by a large portion of the population and, despite repeated attempts to stamp each out, neither will ever...
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Live Wire
Eagles of Death Metal
By Michael Lopez
Published: February 5, 2009
What started as an innocuous side-project — a kitschy little experiment to pass the time in Palm Desert — has exploded into a full-fledged career for Jesse Hughes...
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Live Wire
Little Ones
By Michael Lopez
Published: February 5, 2009
There are a staggering number of new American indie bands out there. And that means there are plenty of bands going unnoticed. But Little Ones, from Los Angeles, somehow...
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Live Wire
Black Tide
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: February 5, 2009
When you see photos of the grimacing, vaguely ethnic, dark-haired teenagers known as Black Tide, you may think for a split-second you've stumbled across vintage shots of...
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Needle Exchange
Best Friends Forever
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: February 5, 2009
The members of the 'Nix's hipster electro DJ crowd are spreading out across the Valley like some American Apparel-clad invasion force. It seems they're effin' everywhere,...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing
Published: February 5, 2009
THURSDAY 5 Axis/Radius: Valentine's Day Lingerie Ball with DJ MCB (Top 40, rock, mash-ups) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Busdriver, Pickster Uno,...
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Cafe
Two Hippies Magic Mushroom Burgers Snub the Recession with $5 Burger Deals and '60s Kitsch
By Michele Laudig
Published: February 5, 2009
I'm so sick of hearing about the recession. Aren't you? There's got to be a bright spot in the midst of dark economic times, and for me, it's the way folks are starting to get...
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Film
In Coraline, Neil Gaiman’s Book is Brought to Life By Henry Selick’s Stop Motion
By Scott Foundas
Published: February 5, 2009
If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored, blue-haired 11-year-old of the...
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Film
Not Even Aniston, Johansson, or Connelly Can Get Us Into He’s Just Not That Into You
By Ella Taylor
Published: February 5, 2009
The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You seizes on some partial truths about the gender wars and blows them up into...
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Film
Steven Soderbergh’s Two Che Guevara Films in One Four-Hour Sitting Make for a One-Ton Guerrilla
By J. Hoberman
Published: February 5, 2009
And so the endless campaign wraps up with a flurry of virtual leaders. Richard Nixon will always be part of America's dreamlife, with or without David Frost; the Bush II legacy...
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Surreal Estate
Condo Complex PRD845 May Be Eco-Friendly and Full of Modern Amenities, But That Doesn’t Make It Less of an Eyesore
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: February 5, 2009
I've been working overtime lately to not hate the newish, ultra-modern condominium complex that was dropped into my historic neighborhood near Seventh Avenue and McDowell Road...
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