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Issue: December 3, 1998
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17 stories found - 1 through 17
  • 1. Feature

    Night In The City

    By Brian Smith
    Published: December 3, 1998

    About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well they understood. --W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts The Taxi Driver "Hey man, you wanna buy this...

  • 2. Music

    Kind of a Drag

    By Gilbert Garcia
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Okay, so here's a scenario for you: You're minding your own business, gamely trying to do your job, when two hostile skate punks come up and stick their stiff willies in your...

  • 3. Cafe

    Second Helpings

    By Howard Seftel
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Up in Smoke: If you run a wine and liquor retail operation, you look forward to the holiday season with the same sense of anticipation as a kid with a notarized "good...

  • 4. Film

    Pig in a Poke

    By M.V. Moorhead
    Published: December 3, 1998

    If Brecht had ever written a kiddy movie, it might have come out something like Chris Noonan's Babe. Co-adapted by its producer, George Miller, from a book by Dick King-Smith,...

  • 5. Night & Day

    Tripping the Lights Fantastic

    By Tricia Wasbotten Parker
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Clark Griswold, the hapless fool played by Chevy Chase in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, is just a hair too familiar. Clark's house-lighting ceremony is a hilarious...

  • 6. Feature

    Unpleasantville

    By Chris Farnsworth
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Mary Corona and Nora Arbizo sit on the porch and play a morbid board game. With a cardboard box lid between them, they tally up the sick and the dead. Drawn on the lid is a...

  • 7. Music

    Life After Death

    By Bob Mehr
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Not long after the death of former Gin Blossoms founder Doug Hopkins five years ago, his family began the task of assembling his musical legacy. With the help of one of...

  • 8. Cafe

    Tabbouleh Market

    By Howard Seftel
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Years ago, living in Los Angeles, I had Middle Eastern neighbors, refugees from the civil war in Lebanon. The wife seemed to have superhuman energy--working full-time, keeping...

  • 9. Film

    Enemy of the State: Totaliterrible

    By Andy Klein
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Here we go again. Enemy of the State is Fascism in America 1998, Chapter Four . . . or Five . . . or whatever we're up to. It readily invites comparison to The Siege, but, for...

  • 10. Night & Day

    Fired Up

    By M.V. Moorhead
    Published: December 3, 1998

    To describe the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting as a big building full of old fire trucks is accurate enough, but nowhere near complete. It may sound like a tourist...

  • 11. News

    Flashes

    By
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Hookers for the Holidays The holiday spirit has infected the Flash. Consequently, this Burst of Light is pleased to pass along the following little advice column by Sam...

  • 12. Music

    Renaissance Farrell

    By Brendan Joel Kelley
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Washington, D.C.'s Jason Farrell is a man with big ideas and skills to match. Besides playing concurrently in two bands on two different labels (vocals and guitar for Bluetip,...

  • 13. Night & Day

    NIGHT & DAY

    By
    Published: December 3, 1998

    1998 DECEMBER 3-9 december 3 thursday Does the phrase "A river of liver and an ocean of fish" ring a bell? If so, then you're probably a rerun junkie--it's from the...

  • 14. News

    America's Toughest Suspects

    By Tony Ortega
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Last week, the U.S. Attorney's Office said it will look into allegations that some of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies faced gestapolike tactics in Arpaio's...

  • 15. Stage

    Frying Chaucer

    By Robrt L. Pela
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Someone asked me the other day what I want for Christmas, and I didn't have to think very long before replying that I want no one in Arizona--no one in the world--to make the...

  • 16. Letters

    Letters

    By
    Published: December 3, 1998

    Peak Performance Michael Kiefer's comprehensive article about the Phoenix Mountain Preserves ("Deconstructing the Phoenix Mountain Preserves," November 26) is one of the...

  • 17. Columns

    Burns and ALEC

    By Amy Silverman
    Published: December 3, 1998

    For a one-party state, Arizona has a surprisingly split political personality. On one hand there's proposition politics. Place a question on the ballot, and Arizona...

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