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Home, Tweet Home: Jeff Moriarty Is Trying to Create a Cultural Identity for Phoenix, 140 Characters at a Time
By Jonathan McNamara
Published: September 3, 2009
Jeff Moriarty is standing across the street from the Borders at Scottsdale Fashion Square, wearing a sequined Elvis outfit with a removable ball of oversize chest hair and a...
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The Bird
Sunday Service at Obama-Hater Pastor Steve Anderson’s Tempe Church, and Details of Inmate Marcia Powell’s Autopsy
By Stephen Lemons
Published: September 3, 2009
CORPUS DELICTI We already know the real cause of death of Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old inmate at Goodyear's Perryville Prison who collapsed after being left in a shadeless...
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Night & Day
Javelina 12 Hour Night Run
Published: September 3, 2009
The full-moon 101.4-miler comprises six loops on the 15.4-mile Pemberton Trail and a final “partial” loop on the Pemberton and Tonto Tank trails. Sat.,...
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Philip Zimbardo: "The Journey from the Psychology of Evil to Heroism"
Published: September 3, 2009
Former college professor Zimbardo headed the now-famous (and infamous) Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison...
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Tempe12 Calendar Release Party
Published: September 3, 2009
Meet this year's ASU calendar girls at this party celebrating Arizona State grad David Freedman's annual cheesecake-marketing phenomenon. Thu., Sept. 3, 10 p.m.-2...
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Godzillafest
Published: September 3, 2009
The celebration of the giant Japanese thunder lizard features screenings of Godzilla vs. Megalon, Gamera the Brave, Godzilla 1985, X From Outer Space, Monster X Strikes Back,...
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Lime-Green Day
These Texans aren’t punk, but they still rock
By Adriane Goetz
Published: September 3, 2009
If you don’t know how to categorize a band, just call it “punk.” From Blink-182 to Green Day, musical acts are constantly given the label for lack of a more...
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The Importance of Not Being Earnest
Bluesman’s son keeps wicked slide alive
By Clay McNear
Published: September 3, 2009
Let’s face it: Elmore James Jr. rings a hell of a lot swanker than “Earnest Jr. -- Mr. Soul," the name the son of the late slide-blues great Elmore James was using in...
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Chick Magnates
Modest Proposal/Muff Mondays alums return with subversive showcase
By Leslie Barton
Published: September 3, 2009
Sometimes, too many high-powered, intelligent women in one small pot creates a bitches’ brew of throat-lunging and back-stabbing (we've seen the diabolique that is...
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Gay Caballera
Latina pop icon hits Forbidden
By Steve Jansen
Published: September 3, 2009
In 1995, an international pop star in the making released a Euro-electro-heavy debut album that influenced kids from Mexico to Panama. Fourteen years and seven albums later,...
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Tale of "Whoa"
Moore and Zahn strike again with offbeat-crafts emporium
By Steve Jansen
Published: September 3, 2009
Phoenix must be the capital of the “Whoa, I didn’t know this was here.” We hear this sentiment often, especially when downtown newbies are cruising Roosevelt or...
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Jane Doe
Published: September 3, 2009
Jane Fendelman's documentary follows her trials and tribulations through her discovery that she had breast cancer. The Phoenix-based filmmaker will host a Q&A following the...
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Murder, She Wrote
Journalist Camille Kimball memorializes Phoenix’s year of fear
By Julie Peterson
Published: September 3, 2009
The setting sun's pale, delicate fingers caressed the chain restaurants and MILFy boutiques of Mesa’s Village Square at Dana Park, illuminating the stragglers hurrying...
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Dennis Oppenheim
Published: September 3, 2009
The Washington State-born, New York City-based sculptural artist discusses his career (which includes his "earthworks," "body-works," and "machine pieces" series), his current...
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Dunny Series 2009 Trading Party and Pre-Release
Published: September 3, 2009
Collectors get their Kidrobot on at this event celebrating the (highly anticipated) release of the new blind boxed set of figurines by DevilRobots, Mori Chack, Huck Gee, Frank...
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First Fly Day
Skate extravaganza stops traffic on Roosevelt Row
By Adriane Goetz
Published: September 3, 2009
Four wheels good, two wheels better. Unfortunately, it takes more than an Orwell allusion to pull off a serious manual combo on your skateboard, so you better leave it to...
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Turbo Tox
Author exposes the nasty little chemicals that lurk beneath
By Lilia Menconi
Published: September 3, 2009
Do you like horror movies? Do you get a kick out of being too scared to piss by yourself for a week? You do? Well, then, we’ve got the book for you. Only this time,...
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First Friday Poetry: Elizabyth Hiscox, Douglas S. Jones
Published: September 3, 2009
The two former poets-in-residence at Britain's Durham University now work at ASU and collaborate on chapbooks such as their Inventory from a One-Hour Room. Matthew Frank...
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Crystal Skulls 09.09.09 World Mysteries Conference
Published: September 3, 2009
This conference won't, ahem, be for all tastes, but those who believe that those alleged pre-Columbian artifacts called crystal skulls pack psychic power -- and perhaps even...
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Ink Inc.
Tat franchisers bring edgy con back to the Biltmore
By Clay McNear
Published: September 3, 2009
It’s official. The tattoo has been franchised. The folks behind this marketing of body art to the masses are the ones who run the Hell City Tattoo Fest, which takes...
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