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Phoenix’s Latino Rockabilly Set Turns the Beat Around
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 26, 2009
On a small corner stage at Chopper John's, Marco Polo's getting ready to perform with his Mexican psychobilly trio, Curse of the Pink Hearse. Most of the patrons at this biker...
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Josh Hamilton
Published: March 26, 2009
Following the Cactus League game between the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Rangers outfielder and 1999 first overall pick in the Major League Baseball...
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Sarah "The Cheese Lady" Kaufman
Published: March 26, 2009
The world-renowned fromage sculptress from Wisconsin (naturally) will leave Arizona cheesier than she left it with a humongous "Arizona scene" carved from a big block of...
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Sarah "The Cheese Lady" Kaufman
Published: March 26, 2009
The world-renowned fromage sculptress from Wisconsin (naturally) will leave Arizona cheesier than she left it with a humongous "Arizona scene" carved from a big block of...
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Dark Sky Telescope Hike
By Leslie Barton
Published: March 26, 2009
We have some pretty sick fantasies, but none ever centered on staring at the night sky through a telescope. Undaunted punishment gluttons can rendezvous at the secluded...
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Elephant Mountain Fortress Hike
By Clay McNear
Published: March 26, 2009
Generally speaking, we frown on guided hikes. The Sonoran Desert is not the Louvre, and true hikers hardly need to have someone spell out its (fairly obvious) magnificence. The...
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"Touch the Stars: The NASA Experience"
Published: March 26, 2009
The touring exhibition features a collection of scaled-to-size spacecraft models, educational presentations by NASA reps, and a self-operated photo kiosk allowing attendees to...
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'Billies of the Bizarre
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: March 26, 2009
Rockabilly is a genre known as much for its flamboyant, ‘50s-rooted imagery as it is for its music, so the juxtaposition of rockabilly music and an old-fashioned burlesque...
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Celebrity Fight Night XV
Published: March 26, 2009
Muhammad Ali is the guest of honor at this year's fundraiser, hosted by Reba McEntire and also honoring Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, Michael Phelps, Stewart Rahr,...
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Phoenix Fringe Festival: Moby Dick Tonight
Published: March 26, 2009
Minnesota-based professional storyteller Loren Niemi wrote and performs this nontraditional whopper of a tale. Fri., March 27, 9:30 p.m.; Sat., March 28, 2 & 7:30...
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Phoenix Fringe Festival: Dial "S" for Stripper
Published: March 26, 2009
Artists' Theatre Project presents this hybrid of "Murder She Wrote and a strip club." Fri., March 27, 7 p.m.; Sat., March 28, 9:30 p.m.; Fri., April 3, 7 p.m.; Sat.,...
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Phoenix Fringe Festival: A Man, A Magic, A Music
Published: March 26, 2009
Austin's Movin' Melvin Brown takes us on "a magical journey through black music history of the 1950s through '90s." Sat., March 28, 9 p.m.; Sun., March 29, 1:30 p.m.;...
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Phoenix Fringe Festival: Poison Lecture
Published: March 26, 2009
Christine Rebet's performance piece is a more-complex-than-first-meets-the-eye take on the work of magician John Mulholland. Fri., March 27, 7 p.m.; Sat., March 28, 2...
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Phoenix Fringe Festival: Paisley Yankolovich
Published: March 26, 2009
The Valley musician wrote and named this one-man musical after himself. Sat., March 28, 7 p.m.; Sun., March 29, 2 & 8 p.m.; Sat., April 4, 4 p.m.; Sun., April 5, 7:30...
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Phoenix Fringe Festival: Head! A Symphony of Horror
Published: March 26, 2009
Kevin Frei (pictured) wrote the book, music, and lyrics for this musical based on the horror-camp-classic film. Fri., March 27, 8:30 p.m.; Sat., March 28, 5 & 9:30...
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Interleague Rocks
Dodgers/White Sox match-up highlights this week’s sched
By Steve Jansen
Published: March 26, 2009
Hardball purists may hate this, but whatever. We’re gonna say it anyway: One of the best things about Cactus League Baseball is that you don’t have to wait until...
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DIY Hard with a Vengeance
Indie musicians, scribes mix it up at Conspire
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: March 26, 2009
Enduring the hell of pumping out 50,000 words over 30 days for National Novel Writing Month won't guarantee you a book deal, nor will putzing around with Garage Band get you...
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Blazing Saddles
The gangs are all here again for 10-day-long bender
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 26, 2009
The Devil may or may not go down to Georgia on Friday, March 27, but he’d better steer clear of Chester’s Harley-Davidson in Mesa. That’s where his fiddling...
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Fringe Benefits
Provocative fest brings the outer edge in
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: March 26, 2009
You hear the word "theater" and visions of toothless Neil Simon plays and rehashed Broadway musicals start to dance in your head. Not so with the Phoenix Fringe Festival, which...
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Mojito Class
Published: March 26, 2009
Learn how to make the delightful rum-based highball from down Cuba way. Reservations are required. Thu., March 26, 6 p.m., 2009
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