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Burning Man: An Attorney Says He Escaped His Blazing Home Using Scuba Gear; Now He’s Charged with Arson
By Paul Rubin
Published: August 27, 2009
Shortly before Phoenix Fire Department investigators arrested Michael Marin for allegedly torching his plush Biltmore Estates mansion, he spoke about the fire he says almost...
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Psychic Sally Knows Why People Choose to Live Next Door to Businesses
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: August 27, 2009
I went to a psychic the other day. Not because I happen to believe that there are people who can see into the future or can tell you the names of your dead childhood pets...
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Margarita Monday
Published: August 27, 2009
A tequila expert -- where do we sign up for that job? -- shows off the subtleties of the worm-ridden firewater in this Maggie-tasting class. Reservations are requested. ...
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Atomic Comic Auction
Published: August 27, 2009
House overstuffed? Wallet on fumes? Bring your collectible goodies down to Atomic and sell 'em on consignment basis at this event. Thu., Aug. 27, 6 p.m., 2009
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"The 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts -- an Historical Perspective"
Published: August 27, 2009
ASU's Dr. Matthew C. Whittaker speaks in conjunction with the Faces of Diversity Brown Bag lecture series and the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which was signed...
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Sun Devil Football Kickoff Luncheon
Published: August 27, 2009
Head football coach Dennis Erickson and ASU athletics director Lisa Love head up the pep rally, which also features Sparky and the ASU Spirit Squad. Fri., Aug. 28, 11...
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Princess for a Day
Get swanky and wet at the Fairmont
By Lilia Menconi
Published: August 27, 2009
By this time, everything about summer sucks. The skimpy garb we eagerly threw on our summer bodies in May now makes us feel like unsophisticated slugs. And the backyard pool is...
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Tour de Trance
Daft Punk meets The Stooges in Parisian rave duo
By Leslie Barton
Published: August 27, 2009
Craving a rave with techno pumping, we're writing this at 4 a.m. after spending hours in our water closet, blasting Citizen Records' Teenage Bad Girl and flipping the light...
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Raven's Sexy Sundress Saturday
Published: August 27, 2009
The end-of-summer bash features a boutique, drink specials, spins by DJ Evan Samurin, and live music by Rockin' Ronda. Sat., Aug. 29, 8 p.m., 2009
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Arizona Ghostbusters
Published: August 27, 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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Shock Jock Itch
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: August 27, 2009
You’re a loser who can’t sleep, so what do you do? Listen to the nighttime shock jock on your local AM station. You listen just long enough to get pissed off, because...
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Digging up Bones
Forensic-mystery authors descend on the Biltmore
By Wynter Holden
Published: August 27, 2009
Lawyers call it the “CSI Effect.” Since everyone and their mother started watching behind-the-scenes forensics shows, juries expect to see crap like mitochondrial DNA...
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Wildcat Formation
UofA football celebrates a good season for once. In Phoenix?!?
By Steve Jansen
Published: August 27, 2009
How did this happen, exactly? The Wildcat Kickoff Party, a UofA football confab featuring a pump-you-up speech by head coach Mike Stoops, isn’t taking place at some...
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Blue Period
Pushing porn – for purely academic purposes
By Wynter Holden
Published: August 27, 2009
Her name may sound cute and innocent, but Phoenix artist Alison Sweet admits she likes porn. Don’t expect to find her surfing the Net for wet hunks or busty babes, though....
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Heartcore
Check out this posicore-metal band before it’s gone
By Adriane Goetz
Published: August 27, 2009
Newsflash: A positive musical message doesn’t have to be a Christian one. And, while we’re at it, straight-edge hardcore shows don’t have to be violent. If your...
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Bomb Squad
Palestinian flick explores the mind of the martyr
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: August 27, 2009
If you crossed the Elvis Presley movie Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, you’d get . . . well, a film absolutely nothing like Paradise Now. ...
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Too Cool for Public School
A feel-good education story? Here it is.
By Julie Peterson
Published: August 27, 2009
Every day since 1981, Rafe Esquith has faced an L.A. public schoolroom full of kids who nearly all live in poverty and speak a first language other than English. By the time...
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Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!
Published: August 27, 2009
Efraín Gutiérrez's indie 1976 film, billed as a "slice-of-barrio-life" and set in south Texas during the heyday of the Chicano Movement, screens in conjunction...
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Movie Mondays: Allan Houser Haozous: The Lifetime Work of an American Master
Published: August 27, 2009
Now 15 years in his grave, the monumental (and dainty) genius of the Apache artist lives on in myriad works and in this short documentary incorporating views of his art and...
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For All He-Mankind
Macho tome offers proof that two heads are better than one
By Clay McNear
Published: August 27, 2009
Some years back, we were figuratively pistol-whipped by a hyper-radical/feminist/queer/artist chick. She’d just lectured at a local college. When we were introduced, she...
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