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Janet Napolitano plays it straight.
While her opponent, Republican Tom McGovern, is chasing down the soccer moms and dads with boomer-ready buzz words, the Democratic...
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Geoff Brown is a junior-high science teacher. He's also a dedicated Christian. He has short, dark hair and is dressed conservatively in slacks and a green short-sleeve shirt....
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Montana Grill & Bread Company, 3717 East Indian School Road, Phoenix, 553-8553. Hours: breakfast, lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday, 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Can we talk?...
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It comes as no surprise to learn that Paul Devlin, the producer, director and editor of SlamNation, is an Emmy winner for his work on TV sports shows like NBC and CBS Olympic...
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thursday
october 22
Coming at a time of growing curiosity and concern about the nature of the Valley's own emerging urban sprawl, ASU's Western Humanities conference...
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Each day, a squadron of earthmoving machines tears through rolling Sonoran desert 30 miles north of downtown Phoenix, ripping out native plants, destroying wildlife habitat...
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There's a famous old skit on Saturday Night Live in which a series of cheesy spokespeople vied with each other to prove that their brand of jam was the best, simply because it...
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Tough Customers: When you attend the theater, do you demand the actors put on Rent? At football games, do you urge the players to dribble the ball? When you go to a Garth...
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At the beginning of Gary Ross' Pleasantville, fraternal twins who are unhappy suburban teenagers (is there any other kind?) fall down the rabbit hole of their television set...
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Although psychologist Mel Roman took down his shingle more than 10 years ago to concentrate on his visual art career, he's still manipulating minds. Roman draws his viewers in...
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The Secret Files of BOMEX
The Arizona State Board of Medical Examiners (BOMEX) voted last month to cut off public access to thousands of complaints filed against doctors.
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Tempe street artist, avid cyclist and self-made celebrity Frankie Martinez, known to most as Elvis, died October 8 after one of his lungs collapsed. This came as little...
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A riveting but darkly disturbing thriller, Apt Pupil isn't easy to sit through. The subject matter proves deeply unsettling, while two brief acts of sadism are so horrifying...
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Know how to give CPR to a lizard? According to one of the illustrated handouts in the Arizona Red Cross Pet First Aid course, there are four steps. The first two are my...
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The Joke's on Katie
Sheriff Joke Arpaio made another stellar showing in his ongoing campaign to promote all-that-is-backward about the great state of Arizona.
On...
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Wailing Souls founder Winston "Pipe" Matthews has been working on his car.
It's a chore he knows plenty about: During the early '70s, when Bob Marley and other reggae stars...
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Arizona Veterans Service Commission executive director Norman Gallion retired last week--hours after a New Times story reported on continuing problems in the troubled state...
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Reubens Accomplice
"Borders" b/w "O' the Night"
(Jerk Records)
The four young men who comprise Reubens Accomplice have, over the course of time, developed into...
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The City of Tempe is about to serve notice on the "crusties," or homeless youths, who flock to Mill Avenue for the winter: "Watch your butts. Literally."
The Tempe City...
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Great art from past civilizations always seems to contain more future than past. Some of that might be because of the money and grandiose faith we cast in the direction of old...
