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Retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, Sr. is a godfather of the Vietnam War POW/MIA activist movement in America.
The Glendale resident has served both as executive director...
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Beastie Boys
Hello Nasty
(Grand Royal/Capitol Records)
Along with Beck, the Beastie Boys have become the embodiment of postmodern music in the late '90s. The comparison...
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Editor's note: Regular Cafe writer Howard Seftel is dieting this week. Our guest columnist dodges Seftel's calorie crucible entirely by exploring a unique...
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Smoke Signals is a rare drama about modern life on an Indian reservation that, unlike Hollywood fare such as Dances With Wolves, has been written and directed by Native...
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Something about Arizona brings out the rugged--or eccentric--individualist in people. It makes a certain kind of sense that the breeding ground of Barry Goldwater would also...
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Trainspotting
Nearly three years after Amtrak's Sunset Limited was sabotaged near Buckeye, firefighters who rode to the rescue remain on...
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James Mather and Mike Heffington have two consuming passions: recording punk-rock bands and drinking as much Natural Light as they can get their hands on.
Fortunately,...
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In The Mask of Zorro, Anthony Hopkins plays the eponymous masked hero as if he were doing Shakespeare. He's trying to turn a kitsch hero into a real one, and his efforts are...
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thursday
july 16
That least egotistical species of actors--puppeteers--convenes in Tempe for the Pacific Southwest Regional Puppeteers of America Festival, from...
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State medical officials are the latest to investigate the death of a teenage boy at the Arizona Boys Ranch. They're looking into the conduct of the nurse and doctor who...
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Mark Sandman can't help it. He knows he should be moody. He appreciates how he'd make a more lasting impression as a Gloomy Gus spinning torturous tales of woe. Fans expect...
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For those who thought Dumb and Dumber signaled the end of the world as we know it, my advice is duck and cover. Comedy avatars Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the odium savants...
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Every now and then, Theatre Works departs from its standard practice of serving up audience-pleasing productions of mostly conservative faves, and presents something odd to...
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For years, Phoenix firefighters have been contracting tuberculosis at an unusually rapid rate. Since 1992, about 250 city firefighters--roughly 20 percent of the force--have...
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"Shoeshine" Joe House, guitarist for Tempe funk-rockers Polliwog, looks like a cross between Medusa and a billy goat.
He's got enough shocking red hair in all the right...
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What Hoots-puh
Phoenix Fire Department whistle-blowers thought they'd seen the last of their prankster boss, former deputy chief Robert "Hoot" Gibson.
Gibson retired in...
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We may never know why sports elevated the ancient Grecian imagination to Praxiteles, and has lowered the current Phoenician one to the art at Bank One Ballpark. But the modern...
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According to the law, a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until he's proved guilty in court. But, in Maricopa County, the presumption of innocence won't protect...
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Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame formula does not apply to undiscovered playwrights. They get only seven minutes, if they're lucky, rarely get their work read or produced, and...
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Maquila Horror
Congratulations to John Dougherty and David Holthouse for their award-level reporting from the world of the Mexican maquiladoras ("Bordering on...
