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Johnny Lee Riley spent his 48th birthday in court, charged with a crime he thought he'd run away from 24 years earlier.
Armed robbery. Burglary. And, a big surprise to...
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Only three months ago, Autumn Teen Sound heralded its name change with a big bash at Hollywood Alley in Mesa. The beloved local power-pop quartet took to the stage and played...
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Hiro Sushi, 9393 North 90th Street, Scottsdale, 314-4215. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 3 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through...
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A cappella except for hand-clapping, Taj Mahal growls "John the Revelator" under the titles of Blues Brothers 2000. That was enough to make me glad I had gone. What I didn't...
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thursday
february 12
Desdemona--A Play About a Handkerchief: This "deconstruction" of Shakespeare's Othello by playwright Paula Vogel posits the Moor's hapless wife as a...
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John Wozniak's seen the review. It's hard to miss. There, big as life, in a recent edition of Rolling Stone, Wozniak's band, Marcy Playground, received all of one and a half...
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Birdland, Part I: Are you the sort of fussy diner who always demands the freshest foods? Do you insist on just-picked fruit and vegetables, bread right out of the oven and...
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In these paradox-ridden times, producers on the hunt for cutting-edge fantasies look back--they visit their boyhood or girlhood rooms and ransack their old books and videos,...
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Sweeping Indictment
A week into the current sweeps period, local news is awash in sleaze.
Monday night at 10 p.m., for example, KNXV-TV Channel 15's Bill Spencer...
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A few months ago, indie folkstress Ani DiFranco complained to Rolling Stone that the media are so fixated on her image that they rarely consider what she's doing musically.
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"After you've been dead, everything else is just . . . something to do," said Dannion Brinkley.
Brinkley said that in September on the phone from his hospital bed in...
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It's a testimony to the talents of director Marshall W. Mason that the opening-night crowd for King Lear stayed to cheer his achievement. Because, despite Mason's expertise,...
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Senator John McCain likes to play on the national stage; that's why many of his constituents were startled January 30 to find him taking off after a local entertainment event....
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Last month was the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the war over women's right to abortion is no nearer to being over than it was in 1973. The discourse has been pretty...
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A View to a Kill
The death penalty is revenge, pure and simple ("Curtains for Ceja," Barry Graham, February 5). It is handed out inconsistently and is an ineffectual...
