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Hybrid Prius Drivers May Be in for an Unexpectedly Wild Ride
By Paul Knight
Published: April 23, 2009
Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a brand-new Prius last year to shoot the bird at the oil companies. "I felt so...
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The Edge of Taste feat. Ed Kowalczyk, Art Alexakis, & Jimmy Newquist
Published: April 23, 2009
The lead singers for Live, Everclear, and Caroline's Spine perform to raise funds for Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix in conjunction with the annual culinary blowout...
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Elephant Mountain Fortress Hike
By Clay McNear
Published: April 23, 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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Dark Sky Telescope Hike
By Leslie Barton
Published: April 23, 2009
We have some pretty sick fantasies, but none ever centered on staring at the night sky through a telescope. Undaunted general-punishment gluttons can rendezvous at the secluded...
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O Tenor, Where Art Thou?
Published: April 23, 2009
The Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale will transport the audience from the hills of Appalachia into the Deep South as they blend folk songs, spirituals, gospel hymns (including...
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O Tenor, Where Art Thou?
Published: April 23, 2009
This Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale will transport the audience from the hills of Appalachia into the Deep South as they blend folk songs, spirituals, gospel hymns (including...
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Repo! The Genetic Opera With Shadowcast
Published: April 23, 2009
Repo Man meets Blade Runner in this chilling future-shock opus about a medical-transplant company that repossesses organs from those who miss their payments. Directed by Darren...
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Cold Play
Great white northern game heats up the desert Southwest
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 23, 2009
Because we're born-and-bred Phoenicians, we reacted to the Desert Ice Bonspiel similarly to how we did when the Phoenix Coyotes first set up shop here in the desert. It went...
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Mini Happy Returns
Euro mobiles aren’t just for poseurs anymore
By Leslie Barton
Published: April 23, 2009
Just because poseurs ride scooters doesn’t mean a Piaggio Vespa or Lambretti isn’t for you. Love them or hate them, it’s no accident that poverty-stricken Euro...
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Playing Dirty
Get wet, then wet your whistle
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 23, 2009
When we told a co-worker that we really wanted to cover the Dirty 6 event at Rawhide, he was all like, “Why do you like this shit?” We didn’t answer then,...
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Groove Merchants
Hippiefied shopkeepers dole out good vibes and daisies
By Julie Peterson
Published: April 23, 2009
When you wanna prowl a Real City, it's heartening to encounter a neighborhood that's nailed its identity -- Little Vietnam, say, or Gay Bar Intersection, or Block of Funky...
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Monster Mash
Check out the Suburban Commando of social activities
By Ed Kummerer
Published: April 23, 2009
Suburban Commando is the greatest movie of all time. Don’t believe us? Then name another motion picture that can top the Hulk Hogan classic in terms of pure entertainment...
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Booty Call
DJ Seduce roasts rumps with his Brazilian spins at Hotel Indigo
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 23, 2009
What do you think of when someone mentions Brazil? If you say Terry Gilliam, the filmmaker of the flick with the same name, then shut up, because you’re a big nerd. You...
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One Joke Over the Line
Pissing off Canadians is fine for this world-class stoner
By Ed Kummerer
Published: April 23, 2009
It takes a real a-hole to heckle somebody. This isn’t to say that we haven’t been tempted to, but whenever we consider it, we realize that we’ll piss off a bunch...
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Design of the Times
You won’t want your HGTV today
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 23, 2009
To heck with Home and Garden Television -- at least for today. The Phoenix Contemporary Design Fair will preempt HGTV in the hearts and minds of the design-savvy public by...
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Red Heat
Super Bowl birds flock to draft-day bashes
By Clay McNear
Published: April 23, 2009
There’s only one thing wrong with going to the Super Bowl. Well, two. One is, obviously, not winning in a painfully last-minute kind of way. Two is having to wait...
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Red Heat
Super Bowl birds flock to draft-day bashes
By Clay McNear
Published: April 23, 2009
There’s only one thing wrong with going to the Super Bowl. Well, two. One is, obviously, not winning in a painfully last-minute kind of way. Two is having to wait...
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The Wages of Sin
Arizona filmmaker explores the seedier side of Vegas
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: April 23, 2009
Gambling has a religious beauty to it: Blind faith, intense dedication, and a neverending hope for redemption form part of the gambler’s creed. Then there’s the...
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AZ Earth Day Coalition Celebration
Published: April 23, 2009
Eco-friendly exhibits and activities include hybrid, electric, and biodiesel vehicles; permaculture; green building construction; renewable energy; and water conservation. ...
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Fully Naked Theater
Nearly Naked production strips mythology bare
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 23, 2009
The dying queen of Athens is back, but chances are we won’t immediately recognize her in Nearly Naked Theatre’s workshop production of Phaedre -- at least, not if the...
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