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Dumpster Dining: For Freegans, Eating Garbage Is Getting Downright Trendy
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: August 20, 2009
On a Wednesday night, four people are gathering boxes of vegetables from a dumpster behind an organic foods market near Scottsdale. The scavengers — four 20-somethings...
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If John Shadegg Wants People to Take Him Seriously, He Should Give Drug Companies Their Money Back
By Stephen Lemons
Published: August 20, 2009
BULL CONGRESSMAN Next time Congressman John Shadegg holds a town hall meeting, remind me to clothespin my nose. What's wafting from the Republican pol is the stench of...
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John Hughes Film Festival
Published: August 20, 2009
Today's '80s bill of fare includes Weird Science, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Sixteen Candles. See the Web site for...
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Arizona Ghostbusters
Published: August 20, 2009
The fan club, "bound together by . . . mutual love for the Ghostbusters license in all its forms," gets together for a little pop-cultural fun in honor of the 25th anniversary...
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Sex Scenes Late at Night with Diana Gabaldon
Published: August 20, 2009
The best-selling Phoenix author re-creates a program she did in Chicago in June, reading from her upcoming Outlander novel An Echo in the Bone (slated for a September release)...
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Jennifer Storm
Published: August 20, 2009
The former teenage burnout -- now executive director of the Victim/Witness Assistance Program in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania -- signs her Girl, Interrupted meets Prozac Nation...
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Exile on Main Street, U.S.A.
SoCal artist punks Disney
By Wynter Holden
Published: August 20, 2009
What do Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, and Keri Russell have in common? They each got their start in the Mickey Mouse Club, and, whether in real life or on film, they’ve...
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Smackdown on Jefferson
Grappling groupies stave off March madness with WWE appetizer
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: August 20, 2009
For Valley pro-wrestling fanatics, March 28 can’t get here quick enough. That red-letter date is when next year’s WrestleMania XVII comes to town, and the...
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Cooking the Books
MADE readers bite into Julia Child
By Wynter Holden
Published: August 20, 2009
Book discussions are always a crapshoot, but their location will give you a clue to the tome’s level of suckage. Meet at a comic-book store and you’ll get Pride and...
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Soapbox Opera
Bluegrass punks tell it like it is
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: August 20, 2009
To be honest, we sometimes cringe when one of our favorite musicians pipes up to speak his or her piece. It's not that we believe the nonsense about entertainers not being fit...
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Wax Museum
Local scenester breaks out the golden-age vinyl at Bikini Lounge
By Leslie Barton
Published: August 20, 2009
DJ Gramophonic, a.k.a. Pete Petrisko sporting a golden tuxedo jacket, yanks the time-traveling rug from under us via his dual wind-up Decca gramophones, spinning the warm...
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Foie Mardi Gras
Salt River Tubing throws a Deep South-style bash
By Steve Jansen
Published: August 20, 2009
We like the attitude put forth by the folks who work at Salt River Tubing & Recreation. Inspired by a National Forest Service announcement proclaiming that America’s...
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Shake Your Atrophied Booty
By Steve Jansen
Published: August 20, 2009
Are you reading this while lying in bed in the middle of the day? If so, you’re probably afflicted with a heavy case of the hot August blues. No worries, though, because...
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Knock on Wood
MST3K alums crack wise at expense of lovable ’59 stink bomb
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: August 20, 2009
Would that we lived in a world in which Plan 9 From Outer Space truly was, either aesthetically or morally, the Worst Movie Ever Made. Alas, countless films, some from big...
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"Alison Sweet: An Illuminated Look at Movement and Cultural Gesture via 16mm Film Strips" Third Friday Reception
Published: August 20, 2009
The Phoenix artist takes found 16mm educational and pornographic film strips and creates short, still-life movies that hang silently on the wall. Fri., Aug. 21, 5-9...
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Superhighway to Hell
Viral comedian makes successful leap to brick-and-mortar yuks
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 20, 2009
As a rule, Internet sensations rarely find success in the real world because our online standards are pathetic. Remember when everyone got swept away by the bit of nothingness...
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Female Trouble
Local theater spotlights Mamet the misogynist
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: August 20, 2009
David Mamet has been rather widely referred to as a misogynist, and Theatre Artists Studio has set out to consider the question. With David Mamet -- Mothers, Daughters and...
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Thin Line Between Love and Heat
Trunk Space has a cure for the summertime blahs
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: August 20, 2009
An endless summer might be perfect for sun-bleached surfers dreaming of the perfect wave, but by now, you've watched your electric bill skyrocket and have cooked your hand...
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Community Move Night: The Weather Underground
Published: August 20, 2009
Changing Hands and Hoodlums Music co-present the documentary about the hyper-radical '60s-'70s splinter group that waged homeland guerrilla warfare against the U.S. government...
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Strange Fruit
Tempe studio takes the sting out of Spain’s Tomatina Fest
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: August 20, 2009
It’s messy, this Tomatina festival. Not the one being celebrated at Flamenco! . . . the Studio on Saturday, August 22, but rather the traditional version celebrated in...
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