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Night & Day
Riff Ripper
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 12, 2009
At just 12 years-old, Jack Ripper has shredded his way to acclaim (literally), formerly playing with local metal band Kraized and opening solo for national acts. Ripper is...
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Night & Day
FauxSW
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: March 12, 2009
Young Jeezy rapped it best: "It's the recession — everybody's broke!" That being the case, South by Southwest, Austin, Texas' annual orgy of music and networking, is...
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Night & Day
Rock the Mic
Published: March 12, 2009
What better way to start the workweek than to watch people get onstage and share their talent? Whether it's a longhaired hippie dude with a guitar doing a Simon & Garfunkel...
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Night & Day
Rosie-Colored St. Patrick's Day
Published: March 12, 2009
There’s a reason that Rosie’s usually brings in more than a thousand peeps for it’s annual St. Patrick’s Day fete. It’s because the celebration offers...
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Night & Day
Tent City
Published: March 12, 2009
This westside drinkery usually puts on one of the biggest St. Patty’s bashes every year, and this time around is no different. Underneath a 16,000-square-foot tent, a...
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Fenske
The Three US Airways Attendants Have Been Vindicated, So Why Doesn’t the Company Have Their Back?
By Sarah Fenske
Published: March 12, 2009
Sue Burris was fast asleep when the phone rang just before midnight that Saturday. Rousted from her bed, at first she didn't understand what Paula Walker was saying. They'd...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 12, 2009
Published: March 12, 2009
STEPPIN' OUT Joe's on Barack's "radar screen," big-time: Can anybody now deny that there are thousands of people willing to take to the streets who detest what Joe Arpaio has...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Only Coast That Counts
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 12, 2009
Not sure if this has been asked before, but how do you feel about Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio? I think the guy's a fucking racist who's just out to get Mexicans to fulfill his...
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Music
Miniature Tigers: Almost Everyone Loves Charlie Brand
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 12, 2009
Like many musicians, Charlie Brand was not a happy high-schooler. Discussing his days as an art school dropout — a troubled kid sent to a Scientology-run youth camp,...
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Shrapnel
Can’t Make it to SxSW? Check Out These Shows
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: March 12, 2009
Young Jeezy rapped it best: "It's the recession — everybody's broke!" That being the case, South by Southwest, Austin, Texas' annual orgy of music and networking, is...
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Shrapnel
The California Wavves’ Wavves (Fat Possum) Is Insane and Out of Control, Just Like Real Life
By Ray Cummings
Published: March 12, 2009
What Wavves' Nathan Williams vividly renders on cassette and aluminum isn't the Beach Boys' carefree beachscape, with its bathing beauties, surfboard-wielding Adonises, and...
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SxSW
Arizona's SxSW Contingent
By Martin Cizmar and Mike R. Meyer
Published: March 12, 2009
PHOENIX Kinch: The piano has gotten a bad rap lately, thanks mostly to schmaltzy lite-pop bands like Keane and those dueling piano bars that seem to be springing up...
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Listen Up
VW Trainwreck
Dramaturgy
(self-released)By Martin Cizmar
Published: March 12, 2009
"Punk rock, comedy, and politics" can be a great combination — look at NOFX. But when a local band declares in its self-penned biography that it's playing with these...
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Live Wire
Walter Trout
By Mark Keresman
Published: March 12, 2009
Though the term "guitar hero" means less in mainstream music than it did, say, 25 years ago, that doesn't mean the world doesn't have or need them anymore. Clapton and (Jeff)...
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Live Wire
Shizzfest
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: March 12, 2009
Valley indie rockers Emperors of Japan have already contributed two excellent albums to the local music canon in the form of 2006's Your Freak Majesty and last year's...
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Live Wire
Cursive
By Michael Lopez
Published: March 12, 2009
Trying to pull off a cello in today's indie/alternative rock scene is tricky. On one hand, a cello can set a band apart from a mass of whiny, boring acts, and having an...
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Live Wire
Slightly Stoopid
By Michael Lopez
Published: March 12, 2009
On St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish, and everyone's liver gets a workout. Music is, of course, a big part of the fun. Who doesn't love day drinking while listening to the...
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Needle Exchange
Endless Summer
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 12, 2009
It seems as though the summer arrives earlier and earlier each year, as that unforgiving beeyotch Mother Nature delights at ratcheting up the Valley's thermostat way before...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing
Published: March 12, 2009
THURSDAY 12 Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Tricky T, Pickster Uno, DJ...
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Cafe
Chef Wade Moises, Owner of PastaBar, Hopes His Italian Eatery Will Help Put the Corner of First and Pierce on the Map
By Michele Laudig
Published: March 12, 2009
I doubt I'm the first person to say this, but I'm certain I won't be the last: First Street and Pierce has become the coolest corner in downtown Phoenix. It happened in a...
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