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Maria Sepulveda's father so offended her, she doesn't want anyone else from his native Chile to come to the United States. Or at least not many more. As a spokeswoman for a...
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At the heady peak of his career, Frank Sinatra's vocal mastery was so absolute that his pop peers simply called him "The Voice."
In the emo-punk wing of the local music...
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It's the season for fantasy.
But I don't fantasize about the meek inheriting the Earth, smooth sailing on the rush-hour Squaw Peak Parkway or mandatory IQ testing for...
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If Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown didn't arrive weighted with post-Pulp Fiction expectations, it might be easier to see it for what it is: an overlong, occasionally funky...
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thursday
december 25
Salvation Army Christmas Dinner: If you're using this publication for warmth as well as reading material, you may want to drop by this free,...
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He subscribes to the National Enquirer, lives for tabloid TV and trawls the Internet for wire-service reports of horrific crime.
And last fall, Ryan McNamara's...
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Although Pie Gomez is too humble to admit it, his band was initially conceived--much in the tradition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein--as the local MC's personal creation. Six...
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The ad line for As Good As It Gets is "a comedy from the heart that goes for the throat." Isn't this simply another way of saying, "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gag"? Jack...
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Fly Me to the Roof
Bank One Ballpark's builders pulled out the stops last week in an effort to get the $354 million project on schedule--they hired a helicopter to hoist...
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By Brendan Joel Kelley, Gilbert Garcia and Serene Dominic Published:
December 25, 1997
Prince Paul
psychoanalysis (what is it?)
(Tommy Boy Records)
"As long as I can remember, people have hated me."
With that repetitive sample, Prince Paul sets the...
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Deconstructing Harry opens riotously with a middle-aged man and his lover--who is also his sister-in-law--surreptitiously coupling at a family get-together. It seems at first...
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On a bulletin board in the break room at the City of Phoenix's Squaw Peak Water Treatment Plant is a notice to all employees: "As an organized employee, you have the right to...
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Why do they still bill James Brown as "The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business"? He's barely broken into a cold sweat since dodging the police in the '80s. Once, you could've...
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And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning...
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"Domestic Pottery," the title of the current show at the Joanne Rapp Gallery, seems less a holiday sales pitch than a lesson in how far the reputation of useful, handmade...
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Bury Graham
After reading Barry Graham's work during the past few months, I was not surprised at all to see him singing the praises of a no-talent literary thief like Kathy...
