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Rasta Redmon: Hopi Reggae Artist Casper Lomayesva Brings Redemption Songs to the Desert
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: October 1, 2009
On a sunny September afternoon, the pulsing sounds of reggae rise from a red brick house in downtown Phoenix. Inside, chinking guitars and bouncy bass lines resonate through...
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Bill Rankin: "Radical Cartography"
Published: October 1, 2009
Who knew mapping was so controversial? This historian, that's who. In his Atlas of Radical Cartography and on his Web site (www.radicalcartography.net), Rankin takes the gov...
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F. Paul Wilson
Published: October 1, 2009
In mystery fiction, you've gotta have a catch, and Wilson's got a doozy in Repairman Jack. Jack's the ultimate shadowy character, hunting down terrorist goons in his...
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Heartbreak Hotel
Famed Phoenix haunt capitalizes on its phantoms
By Leslie Barton
Published: October 1, 2009
May 8, 1928. 2:45 in the morning. The wretched figure of Leone Jensen has flung herself off the seventh-floor rooftop of the Hotel San Carlos, finishing like a broken doll on...
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Weed and Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana
Published: October 1, 2009
Midnite Movie Mamacita strikes again with this pairing of now-deadpan flicks from the early '70s. The first examines the many attempts of the government to rein in pot use and...
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Otsukimi Moonviewing Festival
Published: October 1, 2009
The freshly reopened Garden celebrates the autumn harvest and the full moon with food, drink, haiku readings, Iaido sword dancing, live music, calligraphy, and tea-ceremony...
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American Casino
Published: October 1, 2009
Leslie and Andrew Cockburn's stellar documentary transforms the subprime-lending scandal into a gripping, Raymond Chandleresque detective tale about the bounds of American...
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WNBA Finals, Game 2: Indiana Fever vs. Phoenix Mercury
Published: October 1, 2009
The best damned sports team in Phoenix continues its quest for its second WNBA title in three years against the East's best, the Fever, led by Tamika Catchings and Katie...
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NHRA Summit Racing Series Pacific Division Finals
Published: October 1, 2009
Dragsters, roadsters, sedans, and coupes compete for points and cash awards at this National Hot Rod Association-sanctioned event. Fri., Oct. 2; Sat., Oct. 3; Sun.,...
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Diana Gabaldon
Published: October 1, 2009
Stephenie Meyer may get most of the headlines these days, but Arizona’s other world-famed author of atmospheric romantic fiction is getting some new due of her own with...
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"Artificial Agents: The Robot Art of Brian Kappel"
Published: October 1, 2009
Like his spiritual kin, Phoenix's own Jon Borette, Brian Kappel makes quirky robot art. The works by the Portland artist, however, tend to be a wee bit more warm and cuddly...
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Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series: Heather Rae
Published: October 1, 2009
The Cherokee film producer/director (Trudell) speaks about her Academy Award-nominated Frozen River and other works. River won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Mon.,...
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Frozen River
Published: October 1, 2009
ASU presents the film about a "trailer mom" and a Mohawk Indian girl who go into business smuggling immigrants across the U.S.-Canadian border at the St. Lawrence River....
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Suzanne Szucs: "Journal, in Progress"
Published: October 1, 2009
The artist speaks about her obsessive photo-journaling project, in which she photographed herself every day for 15 years, in conjunction with the "Hall of Mirrors" exhibit. ...
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Sun Angel
Into the Wild author tackles the too-brief life of Pat Tillman
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: October 1, 2009
The word “hero” is too often bandied about, but when distinguished author Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air) writes a book about Pat Tillman and refers to...
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Hallow Victory
Twin haunted houses fuel Rawhide’s Old West-themed attraction
By Leslie Barton
Published: October 1, 2009
Giddy up, Skelly! We're galloping your bleached bones to the 2009 incarnation of Rawhide’s annual haunted attraction, Doomtown: Refuge of the Unwanted, and keeping our...
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Hall of Femme
Michelle Tea’s queer-core tour makes a pit stop at Trunk
By Gren Radcliff
Published: October 1, 2009
When it comes to the members of Sister Spit – a touring group of queer-core performance artists – scandalous may just be the half of it. Gathered from the ’zine...
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Twisted Tales of the City
International noir-anthology series gets the yahoo treatment
By Clay McNear
Published: October 1, 2009
For a place with an overall IQ of about 32 – to judge by all the shotgun-toting boobs sporting Sheriff Joe bumper stickers – Phoenix has an ace literary scene. Many...
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Out on a Limb
One-legged cagefighter engages in a butt-kicking contest
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: October 1, 2009
Compared to Matt Betzold, you’re a major pussy. While you’ve wasted your life in front of the TV, the 25-year-old Payson resident and mixed martial arts competitor...
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Eighth Time's The Charm
Actually, darling, they’re all delightful
By Clay McNear
Published: October 1, 2009
The Rainbows Festival & Street Fair is sweet in the old-fashioned sense of the word. It’s feel-good but non-saccharine, communal but non-violent. No death metal. No...
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