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Film
Peter Pans Head for the Strip in Todd Phillips’ The Hangover
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 4, 2009
What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya, that's what 2003's Old...
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Film
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: Legendary Ivy League Football Game Documentary Wraps Up the Boomer Era
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 4, 2009
Pundits agree: The 2008 election has finally and forever rung down the curtain on America's longest-running psychodrama, namely the Boomerography, a.k.a. the '60s. The long,...
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Art
“Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor” at Lisa Sette Gallery Uses an Alternative Photographic Process to Burn Images of Khmer Rouge Victims Into Your Soul
By Kathleen Vanesian
Published: June 4, 2009
Ghostly traces of somber Asian children's faces are just part of the stark imagery that will haunt your dreams after seeing "Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor," the current...
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Surreal Estate
The Illusion of Seclusion in the Valley's Mountainside Homes
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 4, 2009
I can imagine living at the foot of a mountain. Except in my fantasy, it's a lush green mountain, not one of the dull, tan piles of rock of the Sonoran Desert. My mountain...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Shaking it Up with Valley Mixologists
By Sarah Fenske
Published: June 4, 2009
When I was young, a drink was just a drink — and the cheaper it was, the better. In those days, the dude who made your drink was a bartender. If you were really...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Cheap Beer and Summer Memories
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 4, 2009
It's with some regret that I recall the people in whose company I learned to drink. Not because they were sodden miscreants, but because our youthful friendships, born during...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Phoenix Pool Parties
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 4, 2009
You might have noticed that the shabby-chic masses have disappeared from the Bikini Lounge over the past few weekends. Ditto for the coifed scenesters of Homme and the indie...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Trek to Tucson
By Eric Manch
Published: June 4, 2009
Tucson is cool. That's "cool" in the literal sense — Tucson is a bit higher in elevation than the Valley and tends not to push the mercury level quite as high (it's...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Checking Out the Library
By Sativa Peterson
Published: June 4, 2009
When's the last time you visited your local library? Thought so. Think of the experience as retro, vintage — okay, as a way to save some cash this summer. And, hey, the...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Summer at the Library
Published: June 4, 2009
PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY • Chess for children and teens Where: Burton Barr Central Library When: Wednesday, June 10 and 17, July 1 and 8, 3:30-6 p.m. Ages: 5-16 Learn...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Coppolla, Mann, Allen, and Tarantino Bring the Summer Flicks
By Chuck Wilson
Published: June 4, 2009
"The cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake," Alfred Hitchcock once said, and if that's true — and who are we to dispute the Master? — then summertime is...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Discover Nature and Find Yourself
By C.M. Redding
Published: June 4, 2009
It's way too early on a Sunday morning. I'm lying in bed listening as the iPod magically shuffles to the Stones. "You can't always get what you want / you can't always get...
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