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Back Room with a View
Shedding light on Lisa Sette’s forgotten past
By Wynter Holden
Published: July 9, 2009
Every building has a “special” (read: scary) place where all the miscellaneous crap ends up. Maybe it’s a junk drawer, a closet, or a dank basement filled with...
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Frida's Birthday Celebration
By Leslie Barton
Published: July 9, 2009
Nobody ever called Frida Kahlo an asshole, though, in 1939, the Mexican artist dubbed André Breton and the European surrealists the "bitches of Paris." Oh, snap! Frida...
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Ling/Lee Vigil
Published: July 9, 2009
The event is designed to raise awareness of the two American journalists (Laura Ling and Euna Lee) who are serving 12-year hard-labor prison sentences in North Korea for...
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Divine Trash
One artist’s junk is the same artist’s art
By Wynter Holden
Published: July 9, 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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Night Flight Golf
Published: July 9, 2009
The nighttime course is lined with glowing lights, and each golfer receives a glow necklace and fluorescent ball -- the better not to brain the other players. The tourney...
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Spiked! Summer Vacation: Caribbean Beach
Published: July 9, 2009
The popular series of themed parties from last spring returns with more live music, appetizers, and signature cocktails. This month's entertainment: DJs dk.strickler and Rani...
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Break a Hipster
Panic! offshoot has good genes for an alt-dance party
By Adriane Goetz
Published: July 9, 2009
These days, you can’t check your MySpace bulletins without being bombarded by epileptic-seizure-inducing fliers for hipster dance nights. But none of these L.A. runoff,...
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Nonsense and Nonsensibility
Experimentalist may be a goofball, but he’s a freakin’ great one
By Steve Jansen
Published: July 9, 2009
If you’ve ever listened to Eugene Chadbourne and eternally wrote him off as a hack musician, we suggest taking life a little less seriously, bro. You see, performing...
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In Living Colour
“Warhol of the Wilderness” bags awe-inspiring views
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: July 9, 2009
Though British landscape painter Tony Foster is sometimes referred to as the “Warhol of the Wilderness,” it’s not because, say, he paints Mount Rainier as a...
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Ghost World
New Latina/o artists hijack Phoenix Art Museum
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: July 9, 2009
The art of the Chicano Movement of the late ’60s and ’70s sought to evoke the assertions of a burgeoning mass of people who had largely been treated as invisible. The...
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Glass Hero
The medium is the message for local kiln master
By Julie Peterson
Published: July 9, 2009
For an artist, finding the medium you were destined to work in is like finding a soul mate or the perfect home. John Modzelewski had been creating art for many years when he...
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Ipso Sacto
It’s one great forward, two steps back for lady flappers
By Clay McNear
Published: July 9, 2009
The rather unfortunate slogan of the WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs is “Expect Great Basketball.” Or not. You can certainly anticipate it from the Monarchs’...
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Upside Story
D-Backs’ Dan Haren, Cardinals’ DRC meet the fans
By Clay McNear
Published: July 9, 2009
They may not be the best-known athletes in Arizona, but Diamondbacks pitcher Dan Haren and Cardinals cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie have a ton of upside. This fact is...
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No-Star Break
By Clay McNear
Published: July 9, 2009
After a bone-pummeling, mind-numbing first 87 games of the season, punctuated by only nine days off since opening day on April 6, the only thing that stands between the Arizona...
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Arizona Derby Dames All-Girl Roller Derby: Brutal Beauties vs. Bombshells, Runaway Brides vs. Schoolyard Scrappers
By Leslie Barton
Published: July 9, 2009
Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum hasn't been "The Madhouse on McDowell" since the Phoenix Suns outgrew it in 1992. What better league to kick back open the cuckoo's nest than...
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Twentysomething Titans
Rise Against and Rancid bring out the angry young men
By Brian Bardwell
Published: July 9, 2009
As a well-adjusted 28-year-old man, I'm not really the kind of guy who listens to Rise Against. Luckily, my little brother is. You know the type: Well into his 20s, he still...
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Glass Hero
The medium is the message for local kiln master
By Julie Peterson
Published: July 9, 2009
For an artist, finding the medium you were destined to work in is like finding a soul mate or the perfect home. John Modzelewski had been creating art for many years when he...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 9, 2009
Published: July 9, 2009
YES, DEAR Martin sees the light: Finally, New Times gets it right. Dear and the Headlights are, indeed, the most important band in Phoenix, and I dare say they will become one...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Nothing Good Coming Out of California, plus Stupid Names
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 9, 2009
Why is it that ever since the U.S./California let you people immigrate, tunnel, weasel, or whatever into this country that nothing good has happened and/or come from it?...
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Music
Bitter Allegiance Drummer Russ Covner Quit the Scene For 16 Years Before His (Semi-) Triumphant Return
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: July 9, 2009
As a musician working the local club scene, Russ Covner has tasted his fair share of failure. So, when it looked as if his 48th birthday gig was about to be canceled, he was...
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