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Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills between both fingers?
El Zorro...
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There's an adage in the business world that goes something like this: You've got to spend money to make money. It's a mantra Tempe metal band The Asylum has taken to heart,...
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When a white man writes and publishes a song with the N-word in the title, the racist label tends to, you know, stick.
Tell it to David Allan Coe. For three decades, the...
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In the pantheon of Horrible Things That Can Happen to a Band — drug overdoses, plane crashes, getting shot by a crazed fan, marrying Courtney Love — a broken...
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It's an event that happens once a generation. If you'd had a child in 1987, the last time the Beatles catalog was re-mastered for release (on CD, for the first time), the kid...
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Valley bluesman Bob Corritore is a self-contained synergistic event. He performs. He produces. He owns the live-music venue where he and his recording partner will hold their...
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So maybe this is the year of the celebrity death, but 2007 had its share. That year, all sorts of heavy-hitting jazz musicians crossed to the other side, including Alice...
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Somewhere along the line, Apple Computer Inc. started hiring staffers with a knack for searching out perfect pop songs. These employees have an acute sense for picking catchy,...
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If you're a rock band that hails from pretty much anywhere in New Jersey, perhaps the greatest honor that could be bestowed upon you — more than a Grammy or induction...
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They were among the first punks to go Americana. Like The Blasters dipped in acid and sun-baked by the Arizona heat, The Meat Puppets play cosmic country and blues, ranging...
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When Bill Murray made glorious lounge-mockery of the Star Wars theme on Saturday Night Live all those years ago, little did he know that the bit would inspire, if not one of...
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The swanky and sinful Pussycat Lounge, 4426 North Saddlebag Trail in Scottsdale, underwent a big-time renovation in August, hitting the F5 button on its décor and...
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THURSDAY 10
Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop)
Bomberos: Rani G., dk.stricker, & more (lounge, house)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Club Red: The Blunt Club with...
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Have you ever gotten on an evil junk food binge that you know you need to kick?
That's been me lately. I'm usually a well-balanced omnivore even when I'm not on the job, but...
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Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular numeral emblazoned on his...
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Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, secular worker-priests of the Belgian cinema, emerge once more from their lower depths. In describing one of their movies, you describe them all....
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We've got a monster problem in Scottsdale.
These gigantic creatures are over seven feet tall. They look like humanoid aliens that sprout heavy coats of...
