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The mainstream media is making big noise of Sonia Sotomayor's likely being the first Latina Supreme Court justice, and that all Latinos should be proud. But Puerto Rican ain't...
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The music editor cornered me.
"Hey," he said, all friendly-like. "The Wiggles are coming to town. Want to review the show?"
Damn, I thought. I really should cut my bangs to...
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Some people look to holy texts for guidance on how to live their lives. Me, I look to George Thorogood. See, George is from Wilmington, Delaware, and I grew up in nearby...
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Given the name Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, it'd be reasonable to assume that the lo-fi songs of one-man band Owen Ashworth are cringe-worthy emo stuff that reasonable...
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Castanets auteur Ray Raposa resides in a sparse, windblown expanse where his creeping country-folk echoes through the cavernous emptiness, shimmering for a moment like hot...
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A funny thing has happened in country music in the past decade or so. Acts such as Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, and Keith Urban and Sugarland (who share a bill this week)...
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Southern rock never dies; it just hangs on the sidelines until another of its native sons takes up the mantle. Maylene frontman Dallas Taylor is another artist picking up the...
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Pals since elementary school, The Donnas marked their 16-year anniversary of friendship and slumber parties with a greatest-hits album, released earlier this month. The poppy,...
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The cover of Asher Roth's latest album, Asleep in the Bread Aisle, employs all the subtlety of a sledgehammer in its portrayal of the rapper passed out on a grocery store...
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The Motor City is the site of the three-day Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Meanwhile, Miami holds the ginormous Ultra Music Festival during the annual Winter Music...
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THURSDAY 23
Bikini Lounge: INTOXICA! with DJ HFE (blues, R&B, rock, rarities, vintage)
Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Club Red: The...
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You'd think that my recent run-in with a jalapeño at a central Phoenix hole-in-the-wall Mexican joint would've killed my appetite for the spicy stuff.
It did. That...
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Toot, toot!
It's summertime in Phoenix, meaning the streets are as deserted as a Wisconsin cul-de-sac in December. We're all inside, watching TV. I've been watching a lot of...
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On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different from, oh, The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun box-office gold from romantic comedy's...
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In the lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV producer who is also...
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Terry Helland, director of Desert Stages Theatre's Jekyll and Hyde, took the stage just before curtain. "This show is the most difficult I've ever worked on," he announced...
