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A pungent, ardent yearning permeated the big theater at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch one balmy evening in July. It felt like artistic homesickness. Walter Murch--the renowned...
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Anyone shocked by the rampant intrusiveness and utter lack of accountability of Ken Starr and his posse probably has never had a run-in with Arizona's liquor board.
For...
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Bugged: Remember the old joke?
Diner: Waiter, there's a fly in my soup.
Waiter: Lower your voice! Or everyone else will ask for one.
It's not a joke anymore, at least...
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Recently a woman I know in her early 20s--about the same age as Sarah Jacobson, the writer/director of Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore--told me that, though she was...
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Ancient Chinese esoteric disciplines are rarely associated with electronic music, but Orlando, Florida's Q-Burns (a.k.a. Michael Donaldson) uses them precisely to define the...
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The referee takes half a fresh lime, pushes it between his fingers to bring out the juice, then runs the pulp along each blade to make them shine. They're called Mexican short...
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In the state of Washington, 764-HERO is an instantly recognized alphanumeric code, and for good reason. The superlative phone number is omnipresent along the state's highways;...
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Little Saigon, 1588 West Montebello (Christown Mall), Phoenix, 864-7582. Hours: Breakfast, lunch and dinner, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 9...
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The Montreal World Film Festival ran for 10 days through Labor Day, and the Toronto Film Festival picked up a few days later and carried on for another 10. Twin colossi of the...
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Even a good laugh needs an administrator. Chicago native Daniel Mer came to the Valley about four years ago to manage the then-ailing Tempe Improv. "It had been losing money...
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Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley stood at a podium Monday afternoon and assumed his most determined prosecutor's face. The television cameras caught the moment for the 5...
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O'Shea Jackson, known to friends and enemies alike as Ice Cube, has a daughter, a son and a stepson whose ages range from 4 to 11. But despite their tender years, he sees no...
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thursday
october 8
Wild 'n' crazy guy turned sophisticated humorist Steve Martin's dramatization of an apocryphal 1904 meeting between Einstein and Picasso, Picasso at...
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In 1986, residents of the Kingdom of God--better known as Colorado City, Arizona, the headquarters of a fundamentalist Mormon religious cult that practices polygamy--received...
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PJ Harvey
Is This Desire?
(Island Records)
Because PJ Harvey's music changes so drastically from one album to the next, it's inevitable that with every new release you...
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At first glance, Proposition 202--the IRS Elimination Pledge Initiative--looks like the worst kind of amateur, copycat Contract With America drivel.
If passed, the...
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It's fairly easy to fall into the trap of looking to a nation's art for state department insights about its culture--one nation one art. But even before you're through the...
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The Hull Shebang
Hooray! I'd like to celebrate New Times and Amy Silverman for the expose on Granny Hull and her evil child, Mike Hull.
In "Silent Running" (Wonk,...
