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Former Judge Bud Lee Would Rather Go to Jail Than Give Up His Fight for Off-Res Poker Parlors
By Paul Rubin
Published: April 16, 2009
The folks at the Arizona Department of Gaming are convinced that onetime Phoenix Justice of the Peace Harold "Bud" Lee isn't playing with a full deck. It infuriates them that...
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White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix
By Stephen Lemons
Published: April 16, 2009
HATE CRIME When Orlando Diaz returned to his mobile home recently from a two-week vacation in Mexico, he found the remnants of what looked like a skinhead hoedown. On the...
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Back to Afrika
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: April 16, 2009
The Wednesday night electro/hip-hop affair Pinky Ring has offered some choice guests over its six months of existence (including local legend Z-Trip and NYC/ATL funkmeister...
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Expresiones Dos Dance Festival
Published: April 16, 2009
Candy Jimenez (pictured) and Dulce Dance Company, who are hosting the fest, aim to put contemporary dance in the audience's lap, almost literally, by performing in this...
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Hunt's Tomb Makeover Celebration
Published: April 16, 2009
Check out the newly spiffed-up resting place of former Arizona governor George Wylie Paul Hunt (Papago's famed pyramid) at this official-unveiling ceremony. Hunt, who died in...
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Urbane Legend
By Clay McNear
Published: April 16, 2009
As you know -- because you’re a New Times reader and we’re New Times -- we’re not the sort to glad-hand politicians. If we were clinging to the lip of a crevasse...
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"Refugee Status at School: Photographs by Eliza Gregory" Opening Reception
Published: April 16, 2009
The Phoenix photog details the plight of refugees from nations like Iran, Burundi, and Serbia in Arizona's public education system. Fri., April 17, 5-9 p.m., 2009
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Expatriate Act
Phoenix photog gives names and faces to Arizona castaways
By Julie Peterson
Published: April 16, 2009
Nineteen-year-old Aline Sibomana was a toddler when her family fled their Burundi home for a refugee camp in Tanzania, but says, “I remember pretty much everything. You...
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Tour de Paradise
Published: April 16, 2009
The fundraiser for Beatitudes Center DOAR features 62-, 30-, and eight-mile bike rides. Sat., April 18, 7 a.m., 2009
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Scottsdale Culinary Festival: Great Arizona Picnic
Published: April 16, 2009
The annual culinary blowout features food samples by 50-plus area restaurants, cooking demos, specialty cocktails, the Southwest Festival of Beers, the "Challenge to the Chefs"...
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Scottsdale Culinary Festival: On the Rocks at the Mondrian
Published: April 16, 2009
Party with the beautiful people at this "libation lover's delight," featuring hand-crafted cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a "hot, urban vibe." Yowsah. Thu., April 16,...
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Beer Wars
Published: April 16, 2009
This "no holds barred exploration of the U.S. beer industry" from director Anat Baron offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on the cutthroat world of corporate brewski via the...
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Coming-Out Party
Queers, straights, kids, and ponies descend on Indian School Park
By Leslie Barton
Published: April 16, 2009
Still in the closet pretending it’s 1952? Drop the H-bomb at the Gay Pride Parade and Festival during the Gin Blossoms set and your flaming ass will suddenly seem...
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Club Kismet
New venue offers a change in the PHX routine
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: April 16, 2009
We heart Phoenix, but sometimes bouncing from one familiar haunt to the next can feel a bit too much like a routine for our comfort. So it's serendipitous that a new spot named...
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Slippery Slope
A year wiser, NoPho hood goes off with a new, improved art walk
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 16, 2009
Thanks to First Friday, Phoenix is nationally known for its pretty sweet-ass art scene. Also thanks to First Friday, a bunch of other Maricopa County ’burbs and boroughs,...
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Pop Goes The Easel
Painter interprets tunes by Sinatra, KISS, The Cramps, and others
By Wynter Holden
Published: April 16, 2009
What do cold gin, David Bowie, and a Ouija board have in common -- besides the eighth-grade sleepover party where we first got felt up? You’ll get a smarter and far less...
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Trunk Junkies
Downtown art/music mainstay celebrates five years of good times
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: April 16, 2009
The years might be creeping up on us, but we still have the youth, fun, and exuberance embodied by the Trunk Space, the art gallery/performance venue that recently turned 5....
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Hope Precariously Floats
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 16, 2009
The outside world must think of Arizonans as big, fat poseurs who are always looking to copy character instead of creating their own. And they may have a point. Ten years ago,...
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SITI Company's Under Construction
Published: April 16, 2009
The New York-based experimental-theater troupe wraps up its three-year ASU residency with playwright Charles Mee's work about America ("a nation forever unfinished") from the...
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A-S-Boo
It’s “yay” today with win-win events
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 16, 2009
Were you an ASU football fan in 2008? We’re sorry. Not only did you endure a 5-7 overall record, but also a six-game tailspin and a bowl-killing embarrassment in...
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