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Dave Knutson must have looked out of place at the Aspen Correctional Facility in Phoenix, compared to the inmates and corrections officers working on renovations at the...
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Al Casey is rocking.
But the 61-year-old guitar legend isn't plugged into an old Fender tube amp. His custom Gibson L-5 guitar is nowhere in sight. No, he's idly swaying on...
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Hail to the Chefs: Interested in having Christopher Gross come over to your house and cook for you and your guests? Maybe you'd prefer Vincent Guerithault (Vincent's), RoxSand...
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Weed is a documentary chronicle of the "8th Annual Cannabis Cup & Hemp Expo," a competition among the marijuana coffee houses in that fabled civil-libertarian utopia known as...
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thursday
november 20
The Food Chain: Though Nicky Silver is one of America's more promising comic playwrights, his writing sometimes straddles the line that divides...
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Bear the front door of his northeast Phoenix home, Richard Aiello has screwed a small brass plaque to the stuccoed wall. It reads:
NEVER MIND THE DOG--BEWARE THE OWNER.
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Xanadu. It was the colossal palace that Charles Foster Kane built as a monument to himself in Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane. Xanadu was staggering in scale, and...
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Arizona Burrito Company, Gateview Shopping Center, 6941 North Hayden, Scottsdale, 922-9466. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m....
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Ignorance is bliss and success and virtue. The spoils of life go not to the planners but to those who are too dim to know the risks they're taking. That very American notion...
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For Steve, a Door?
In recent days, Arizona Republic managing editor Steve Knickmeyer has busied himself doing in-house damage control. By the end of last week, he was...
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I confronted the want ads this morning. Help wanted. Yeah. The agony. If I ever commit suicide, there'll be a newspaper open to the want ads somewhere near my dead body.
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Disney Studios has nearly monopolized feature animation for almost 60 years now, only occasionally encountering successful forays by others into its animation realm. Now...
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Trailer Thrash
"Journalist" Barry Graham insulted a lot of good people when he characterized Joe Arpaio as being "low-class. He's one step from the trailer park" ("Waiter,...
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Tito & Tarantula
Tarantism
(Cockroach Records)
Tito Larriva is the very definition of a rock 'n' roll journeyman. His stints with influential but obscure L.A. bands like...
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John Grisham's The Rainmaker lulls you into the mindset you get while reading a best seller at the beach. What a sad thing to say about a Francis Ford Coppola movie! Rather...
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Like many Arizonans, I want to believe both Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and his former colleague Paul Eckstein.
Each man has an almost folkloric reputation for...
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The Ensemble Theatre's production of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story is the sort of theater we see precious little of these days: a spare, uncluttered production that emphasizes a...
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Among this month's local events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel is a pair of thoughtful, Jewish-themed theater productions. Both detail the Nazi...
