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News
New Times Wins Arizona Press Club Awards
By New Times staff
Published: May 21, 2009
Phoenix New Times writers won top honors for column writing and blogging at the Arizona Press Club's annual awards banquet, held Saturday at Arizona State University's Cronkite...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 21, 2009
Published: May 21, 2009
JOE AND HIS NAZIS It only makes sense: "Ja, Joe!" was interesting and seems reasonable and reasoned. It's only logical that neo-Nazis would gravitate toward someone who, in...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Mexican Pirates, Cheech Marin, and Stereotypical Double Standards
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 21, 2009
My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And since you are the source for all things Mexican. I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish and Portuguese...
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Music
In The Detroit Cobras' Quest to Cover Motown B-Sides, Many Musicians Have Been Laid to Waste
By Craig Outhier
Published: May 21, 2009
Garage-rock gal pals Rachel Nagy and Mary Ramirez have gone through a lot of men in their day. Drummers. Guitarists. Bassists. All kinds. When an interviewer makes light of...
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Sonic Truth
Detroit Cobras in Phoenix: Like Jazz in Japan
By Martin Cizmar
Published: May 21, 2009
I've never understood the obsession with garage rock you'll find in some corners of Phoenix. I like garage rock, sure, but I'm from Akron, Ohio, a Rust Belt town with strong...
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Shrapnel
Lindsay Lohan in Steve Nicks’ Life Story?
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: May 21, 2009
After conducting a thorough scientific evaluation (involving an array of test tubes and beakers, a Bunsen burner, and some heavy duty tongs) of Fleetwood Mac's 17 studio...
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Shrapnel
The Format Founder Just Wants to Have Some “fun.”
By Michael Lopez
Published: May 21, 2009
It's a liberating feeling to break free from a commitment or relationship that was holding you back. From time to time in the life of an artist, a creative funk comes along...
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Live Wire
Taylor Swift
By Craig Outhier
Published: May 21, 2009
So lovely. So talented. So appallingly young. Can there be any doubt that Taylor Swift was sent to Earth to make the planet's collective over-20 population feel like a bunch of...
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Live Wire
Dark Lotus
By Craig Outhier
Published: May 21, 2009
Are you "down with the clown?" Which is to say, are you the slightest bit interested in watching five sugar-crazed Midwesterners don face paint and rap about ax murder? If so,...
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Live Wire
No Doubt
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: May 21, 2009
Back when I used to write for another Valley weekly that shall remain nameless, we used to play a game called "Nickelback Or . . . ?" The object was to determine...
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Live Wire
The Thermals
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: May 21, 2009
Two things about The Thermals: The Portland, Oregon indie-punk band made its first album, 2003's More Parts Per Million, for approximately $6 (they recorded it at home on six...
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Live Wire
Propagandhi
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: May 21, 2009
Ho-hum. Another week, another militant vegan band comes to town. If you didn't get your fill (pun intended) at last week's Earth Crisis show, the lovable "veganarchists" in...
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Needle Exchange
Adult Swim
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 21, 2009
Few things symbolize summertime in the Valley better than a raucous pool party. Many a scorched Phoenician has found relief from the triple-digit temps while lounging around...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing
Published: May 21, 2009
THURSDAY 21 Bomberos: DJ Rani "g," dk.strickler, & guests (house, global soul) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house,...
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Cafe
Scramble: The Future of Phoenix Breakfasts Comes Loaded with Bacon and Cheese
By Michele Laudig
Published: May 21, 2009
I've seen the future of breakfast in Phoenix, and it is called Scramble. I say that not because the menu is so cutting-edge — it's heavy on classics like biscuits and...
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Film
Terminator Salvation: Don’t See This Film if You Want to Live
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: May 21, 2009
Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...
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Film
The Brothers Bloom Is No Joke, Despite Its Stylish Trappings
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 21, 2009
Writer-director Rian Johnson fashions a universe in which time is a fluid thing — where everything takes place in a familiar today and an otherworldly yesterday, where...
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Art
SMoCA’s “Seriously Funny” Exhibit Will Leave You Either in Stitches or Wondering How You Missed the Punch Line
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 21, 2009
Walk through SMoCA's "Seriously Funny" exhibition and you'll be entertained. But don't expect every piece to make you, um, lol. At first, I was disappointed with the show. I...
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Surreal Estate
Katz’s Deli Sandwiches Have Been Replaced with Postino’s Apple Bruschetta — and We Wonder Who’s Next
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: May 21, 2009
"Okay, so, the guy was like a total loser." "No way!" "Way. His Facebook photo is like 20 years old, and he hasn't worked since March." "I thought this was the one!" "Yeah,...
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