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Chartered to raise funds for religious charities, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona and its web of subsidiaries have neglected good works in favor of financing real-estate...
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A few months ago, Pollen had a dilemma on its hands. The local pop-punk quintet was being actively courted by some heavyweight labels, most prominently Interscope Records. The...
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I've got some marvelous summer adventures planned. Among my ideas: 1) Hiking Squaw Peak during an electrical storm with a copper helmet strapped to my head; 2) Supplementing...
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You're not likely to come out of the bone-chilling documentary Waco: The Rules of Engagement with the belief that David Koresh was angelic, or that he had no hand in the...
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thursday
april 16
"You guys got baseball now!" says Tom Paxton, by phone, of the Valley. "I'll have to remember to do some baseball songs. I've got one called 'My...
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Organicide: If you're one of the growing number of folks who makes a point of buying organic produce, the news is grim.
For more than 20 years, through no-nonsense state...
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Bionic Jive
Six Million Dollar Band
(Rorschach Records)
Larry Elyea, guitarist and mastermind behind Bionic Jive, had a flexible but definite concept in mind last year...
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Getting it on with a heavenly being must be just about the ultimate New Age sexual fantasy--so City of Angels is like soft-core for New Agers. That, and the current taste for...
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We wrote the book to be almost like a tuneup on your car--you'd do it, and a year later, it'd be like, that was great, let's do it again.
The "we" is Janet Lever, a.k.a....
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Central High School's ringer is coming down with the flu. Albert Cho is ingesting fluids as quickly as he can, but it isn't doing much good. In the big competition tomorrow,...
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Machines are made by men for man's benefit and progress, but when man ceases to control the products of his ingenuity and imagination, he risks losing the benefits.
--Rod...
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Lovers of American movies used to joke that foreign films wouldn't look so good if you saw them without subtitles. John Sayles' latest movie, Men With Guns, plays better than...
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"I'm a true dirtball," says David Spade, and visiting his home state of Arizona allows him "to get back to my dirtball roots." As if to prove his assertion, he does "an...
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In order to understand the audited financial statements published annually by the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, New Times hired Robert Mroz of Barrington Consulting Group,...
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No question about it. Years from now, people will grill each other about it. "Where were you when you first heard the news?" And the response will go something like this:
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On March 23, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona hand-delivered a letter to New Times in response to written questions. The letter, signed by Chairman of the Board Berry Norwood...
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It's tough to miss the new mural wrapping the Mercer Mortuary building, on the southwest corner of 16th Street and Thomas Road. Its big, stylized figures and scenes in bold...
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He's Not Joking
Sheriff Joke Arpaio's crack PR staff can't get the Crime Avenger out of the publicity tailspin of the past few months. After years of doing his...
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If there's anything wrong with Steven Dietz's plays, it's that they're so complex that audiences rarely agree on what they're about. This isn't a bad thing. In a town where...
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The legal skirmish between a local pro-life group and the City of Phoenix is now in the hands of a federal appeals court.
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White...
