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Hawaiian Luau
Published: June 4, 2009
The island bash in land-locked Chandler will features the inaugural Pulled Pork Slider Eating Contest and live music by Sean Mireau and the Volcano Island Band (pictured). ...
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Double Happiness: Red Hot Robot 2nd Anniversary Party feat. Obey the Altar Native
Published: June 4, 2009
The store celebrates with the launch of the new CD Red Hot Robot by the Valley hip-hop collective. Sat., June 6, 7-10 p.m., 2009
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Hitman of the Year
Former Phoenix undercover cop turns in his gun for a pen
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 4, 2009
You know those scenes in TV movies where the bad guy hires a hitman who turns out to be a cop? They’re real. Just ask Jack Ballentine, author and former Phoenix police...
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Pretty Things Peepshow
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: June 4, 2009
The California-bred burlesque show has shed vintage threads and bared its collective gams (and more) across the globe, with a vaudevillian hit list that includes the Vans...
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Literary Feast
Published: June 4, 2009
One of the featured authors at this event (Phoenix's Jana Bommersbach) is a writer's writer, with a reportorial bent that brings her nonfiction to vivid life, as in her latest,...
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Belly Up to the Barkeeps
State’s finest will have the cocktails flyin’ at CANAL
By Clay McNear
Published: June 4, 2009
The organizers of the Arizona Top Bar Chef Competition sniff at the term “flairtender.” The winner of this regional battle of the barkeeps will earn a slot in...
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Beat Wave
Super Bowl’s DJ Ravidrums spins at the Mondrian
By Adriane Goetz
Published: June 4, 2009
Nightlife becomes day life in the Arizona summer heat, and hotels pop off all-day pool parties like they’re Corona Light caps. But with so many wet-hot happenings, the...
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Taste Test
Like drunken beer bashes? You won’t like this sophisticated affair.
By Steve Jansen
Published: June 4, 2009
Beer fests are cool and all, but why they’ve become synonymous with “Let’s get fucking loaded, buddy, and embarrass the entire human race by acting like an...
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Lord of the Lap Dance
Doc profiles notorious owner of Florida’s Mons Venus
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: June 4, 2009
In the movies, Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone. Spencer Tracy played Thomas Edison, father of the electric light. Paul Muni played Louis...
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Alberto Rios
Published: June 4, 2009
The acclaimed Valley poet introduces his new collection, The Dangerous Shirt. Wed., June 10, 7 p.m., 2009
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Tim Link
Published: June 4, 2009
The "animal communicator" claims he can discourse with beasts via feelings, smells, tastes, emotions, and images. He discusses the gift and signs his new book, Wagging Tales:...
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Anti-War Monger
Mom on a mission calls for revolution
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 4, 2009
You know her as the woman who camped on the doorstep of George W. Bush’s Crawford Ranch in the summer of 2005. Cindy Sheehan’s month-long peace action, held after her...
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Hitman of the Year
Former Phoenix undercover cop turns in his gun for a pen
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 4, 2009
You know those scenes in TV movies where the bad guy hires a hitman who turns out to be a cop? They’re real. Just ask Jack Ballentine, author and former Phoenix police...
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Divine Trash
One artist’s junk is the same artist’s art
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 4, 2009
We’ll never forget the time our college art professor sent us Dumpster-diving for supplies. Two cracked frames, a dozen food wrappers, and a moldy banana peel later, we...
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Urban Legend
Our decoder ring says: Great show
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 4, 2009
We love it when “urban” is used to describe art. Our decoder ring says it’s a soft and very PC way of saying the works include racial themes. Such is the case...
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Still Life with Golden Arches
Former landscapist opts for pop culture
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 4, 2009
A few years ago, Scottsdale-based painter Nate Ronniger ditched majestic Western landscapes for still lifes. No worries, they’re not the stale-fruit-and-flowers crap your...
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Still Life with Golden Arches
Former landscapist opts for pop culture
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 4, 2009
A few years ago, Scottsdale-based painter Nate Ronniger ditched majestic Western landscapes for still lifes. No worries, they’re not the stale-fruit-and-flowers crap your...
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Tim Link
Published: June 4, 2009
The "animal communicator" claims he can discourse with beasts via feelings, smells, tastes, emotions, and images. He discusses the gift and signs his new book, Wagging Tales:...
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Phoenix Mercury vs. New York
Published: June 4, 2009
Cappie Pondexter (pictured) and the rest of the LifeLock, er, Mercury crew take on Shameka Christon and the high-powered Liberty. Wed., June 10, 7 p.m., 2009
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Bitter Tweet
Anything really tall boys can do, hustling girls can do better
By Lou Kummerer
Published: June 4, 2009
For those of us expecting a dramatic turnaround from the Phoenix Suns this year, things couldn't have turned out worse. In retrospect, it shouldn’t have been a surprise,...
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