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How a Teen Prostitute and Beautician Morphed Into a Minuteman American Defense Leader and Alleged Killer
By Rick Anderson
Published: July 16, 2009
Long before she was accused of robbing and murdering a Mexican man and his 9-year-old daughter in the southern Arizona desert — exposing the Minuteman movement to claims...
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Published: July 16, 2009
"Performance monster" Chris Danowski (pictured) and "dramaturg" Matt Watkins present the multi-media performance piece in progress, which also features Wilana White Coyote,...
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New Works Festival: 24 Hour Theatre Project
Published: July 16, 2009
Perhaps the most attractive feature of this year’s fest, which features fresh works by up-and-coming playwrights, is this showcase of five 10-minute one-act plays created...
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The Beats Go On
Second time’s the charm for Scottsdale dance night
By Adriane Goetz
Published: July 16, 2009
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if it is broke, make like the folks of Scottsdale’s giantONE dance night and start the hell over. After a brief hiatus, the...
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Shakespeare in Space
Paisley’s Horror series wraps with Freudian 1956 gem
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: July 16, 2009
“Monsters from the Id!” cries a supporting player, as he dies. But isn’t that where all good monsters come from? The poor man has figured out whence cometh the...
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Wicked Cool
Author uses smash musical to explore that ol’ good-versus-evil thing
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 16, 2009
Who was worse, the Wicked Witch of the West or Stalin? According to author Suzanne Ross, one was as bad as the other. Ross is in town to promote her new book The Wicked Truth:...
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Bombast Squad
Chicano activist breaks out the uncomfortable truths
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: July 16, 2009
Chicano artist Harry Gamboa Jr. knows the role of the court jester well, wrapping uncomfortable truths with disarming absurdity and punchiness. In 1981, Gamboa spoke about...
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Party Monsters
Sky Blu and Red Foo get the Ranch bumpin’
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: July 16, 2009
What are the necessary ingredients for an off-the-hook party anthem? Looking at some of the greats -- from LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali’s” to Lil’...
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Addicted to Love Dusties
Music to use your CrackBerry by
By Steve Jansen
Published: July 16, 2009
Maybe your favorite part of each calendar day is morning, when it’s too early to receive bugaboo messages on your CrackBerry. Or possibly it’s the afternoon, when you...
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Muttpop Star
Tcho! toy designer makes a Robot pit stop
By Leslie Barton
Published: July 16, 2009
Adult-oriented designer vinyl toys are all the rage right now. We don't mean your naughty Mistress XXX; we mean Muttpop's mini-figures featuring characters from the Tcho!...
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Splash Bash, Scottsdale-Style
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 16, 2009
If you're into the suicide-girl types, pool parties like Star Swim and Adult Swim are your place to spy some gnarly tats peeking out of bikini lines. On the other hand, if you...
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Raymond Chandler with Boobs
Neo-noir authors breathe new life into mystery fiction
By Clay McNear
Published: July 16, 2009
The perception is that mystery/crime is geezer fiction. It’s old. It’s lame. If it were a dude, it’d have ED and a bum ticker. If it were a broad, it’d have...
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Forbidden Fruit
Edgy production centers on homosexuality at Catholic school
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 16, 2009
Bare: The Musical is not about getting naked. Instead of tits and ass, this contemporary tuner offers tightly wound commentary about the influence of Catholicism and the evils...
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Competitive Wakeboarding
Published: July 16, 2009
'Boarders from across the state make gnarly waves at Pleasant's Two Cow Cove in this event sponsored by the Arizona Wakeboarding Association. Sat., July 18, 8:30...
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Daniel Silva
Published: July 16, 2009
The former CNN reporter knows that those who can't be spies write best-selling spy novels. And Silva does so superbly, recalling (in some minds) the golden era of Greene and le...
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Double Visionaries
Tilt’s View-Master-style art is twice as nice
By Wynter Holden
Published: July 16, 2009
Seeing double is usually a bad sign. Maybe you hit your head, were in a fistfight, or just pounded a few Everclear shots. Of course, it’s pretty sweet if you’re Hugh...
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Movie Mondays: The Return of Navajo Boy @ Heard Museum
Published: July 16, 2009
The film The Return of Navajo Boy, which premiered during the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the Cly's, a Navajo family that resides in Monument Valley. ...
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The Losing Art of Battle
Arizona pol delivers the Tao of Pooh for local lefties
By Stephen Lemons
Published: July 16, 2009
When it comes to left-wing politics here in Ari-bama, liberals can either resign themselves to being doormats for their Republican counterparts or grow a set of dukes and learn...
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Jennifer Steinhauer
Published: July 16, 2009
The L.A. bureau chief for The New York Times presents her first novel, Beverly Hills Adjacent, co-written by Jessica Hendran. The two describe the book as "a reproachful gaze...
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Back to the Sonic Future
Downtown gallery maps Valley music history
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: July 16, 2009
If you think of The Gin Blossoms as the primary legacy of Valley music, you're invited to hop into the Delorean that is "The Grid: Music Edition" exhibition. The Trunk Space,...
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