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The cop and his prey faced each other in a quiet room at the Phoenix Police Department.
It was the early evening of September 14, 1995. Veteran detective Ed Reynolds had...
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Van Morrison
The Healing Game
(Polydor)
When you've put out 27 studio albums, as Belfast's finest has, your audience checks out every new release to gauge the subtle...
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Bagelmania: Last year, I devoted a column to the Valley's exploding appetite for bagels. I checked out 15 bakers, and came away depressed at the generally low quality.
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In the two decades since Eraserhead, David Lynch has established himself as American cinema's premier surrealist, our own Wizard of Weird. Although his first two Hollywood...
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thursday
february 27
Cactus League Baseball: The boys of spring are back for this year's slate of preseason games, which opens with a couple of charity matches on...
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The Lopezes are like a lot of South Phoenix families. They work hard, obey the law and pay taxes like their neighbors. But for years they've been frustrated that the public...
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David Bowie
Earthling
(Virgin)
One of several striking, almost iconic images that adorn the self-designed cover of David Bowie's new album, Earthling, is a "Kirlian...
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Wrap City Grill, 4423 East Thomas, Phoenix, 956-9727. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
We Valley...
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The ingredients are familiar: Donnie Brasco stars Al Pacino as a Mafia soldier and Johnny Depp as an FBI undercover agent who infiltrates the mob. But there's a twist. Based...
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Warner's Warning
When Department of Public Safety lieutenant colonel Charlie Warner summoned the troops in the Criminal Investigations Bureau to an emergency meeting on...
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Mountain-Vu Trailer Court. Apache Junction, Arizona. 2:30 a.m.
I had the Clash going. Loud. The trailer was pumping. Pabst Blue Ribbon flowed freely through my veins, and...
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Marvin's Room, starring Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep as sisters who reunite uneasily for the first time in 20 years, is one of those movies about people who confront the...
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At first, Rosemary Diehl didn't realize she had been robbed.
She owns two houses in northwest Phoenix. Her mother lives in one, but over the Christmas holidays, her mother...
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Once again, the Valley music scene took it on the chin from the showcase selection committee of the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference.
No point in going off...
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Bargain Debasement
I was very disappointed in Amy Silverman's article about Last Chance ("Possessed!" February 13). As the manager of the store, I want to assure every...
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Beck
Celebrity Theatre
February 20, 1997
Beck's not himself these days. The stage-frightened, rain-soaked, coffee-house kitten has turned into a blow-dried lion in...
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Sometimes a workingman gets bored.
It's the same grind, shift after shift, everything heading forward like a crippled sludge barge into the vague promise of those sacred...
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Let the drums roll out,
let the trumpet call
while the people shout
--strike up the band.
--Ira Gershwin
Gershwin probably had no idea that, 65 years later, the...
