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This mystery begins with the five known, credible witnesses to a car crash. The scene was north Phoenix. The time was 1:43 in the morning.
Robert Nettles was on his back...
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Big Red is MIA.
We last glimpsed our superheroine--Governor Jane Dee Hull's tough-talking, get-the-job-done alter ego--in early January, when she gave her State of the...
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It's impossible to talk about Valley music for long without the subject turning to the sad state of local radio. Even natives frequently shake their heads in disgust, unable...
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What kind of south-of-the-border traveler are you? Do you get on an airplane and head to a fancy resort? Do you stay where the drinking water is pure, the swimming pool is...
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In Hungary, the Holocaust lasted only for a year. But the word only is deceptive in this context. The Nazis, who entered the country in March of 1944, had been in the...
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You don't have to travel to a coast anymore to experience the wonder of the Magic Kingdom. Disneyland has dropped its own little mecca right here in the desert--Club Disney....
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At the swap meet on 35th Avenue and Buckeye, the smell of duros fritos blends with car exhaust and dust stirred up from the parking lot. Festive banda music pumps through the...
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"I'm workin' tonight," says the lanky, 30ish man who looks like he hasn't slept for 60 hours. We are waiting outside the men's room at Cruisin' Central, waiting because the...
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Irony visited Charles Brown in his final months.
The great rhythm-and-blues pianist and vocalist, best known today for having penned "Merry Christmas, Baby," made it...
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Steakout: Do you think this is still a cow town? Judging by the number of new steak restaurants that are opening, you'd be right. The only other place on earth where cows...
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Short of nuclear holocaust, a major sale at Kmart, or a confirmed Clint Eastwood sighting back in rural Iowa, there's probably no way to keep the movie version of Message in a...
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That corner of Civic Center Plaza next to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts has been under construction forever. But now, where once there stood a discount movie theater, is...
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"What's in the mountain preserve now?" asked Ruth Hamilton, the octogenarian stalwart of the Phoenix Mountains Preservation Council (PMPC), a citizens' watchdog group that...
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Jon's On
You've got to hand it to U.S. Senator Jon Kyl. With the exception of the impeachment torch-bearers in the House of Representatives, perhaps no other politician has...
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For years Nick Francis dreamed of producing a contemporary instrumental album. For years Cliff Sarde dreamed of having a producer to help him shape his musical ideas.
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"When I was in film school, I was the guy who was gonna resurrect screwball comedy," says filmmaker James Moll.
It was an odd ambition for the man who would go on to make...
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Thursday
February 11
The area dance music weekly Kind celebrates six months with guest DJ Lady Kier of Deee-Lite fame. The songstress turned mixologist captured a worldwide...
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A few years ago, a pal of mine pointed out a tall, pale man leaning on his walker in front of the Luhrs Building in downtown Phoenix.
That's Neal Roberts, he told me, the...
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Built to Spill
Keep It Like a Secret
(Warner Bros.)
Since the dawn of psychedelic music in 1966-1967, rock auteurs have searched for ways to stretch the pop song into...
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While the state board that regulates medical doctors is still going easy on its own, the board that oversees osteopaths continues to crack down on its doctors.
The Arizona...
