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Feature
A Vision Gone Bust
Police have ripped up Leo Mercado's "sacramental" peyote garden. His claim that he has constitutional rights to use the drug for religious purposes may be shredded next.
By Terry Greene Sterling
Published: February 18, 1999
Seven years ago, Leo and Raven Mercado grew tired of living in a converted school bus, so they settled down in ranch country near Kearny, a town of 3,000 located about 70...
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Music
Disco Infernal
Rhino's new collection proves that you have no hope of getting disco in a box without leaving something out
By Serene Dominic
Published: February 18, 1999
Disco dead? Hardly. According to Headbangers Against Disco (or H.A.D.) it's still alive and sucking. This self-proclaimed "idealistic organization that works to prevent the...
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Cafe
"I Am Not a Cook!"
By Howard Seftel
Published: February 18, 1999
Nixon's, 2501 East Camelback (Shops at the Esplanade), Phoenix, 852-0900. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Dinner, Sunday, 4 to 11 p.m. A...
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Film
Comic Strip
Jawbreaker, Office Space no laughing matters
By Andy Klein
Published: February 18, 1999
Plot is a central problem in both Jawbreaker and Office Space, two comedies opening this week: The first has too much; and the second (and far better of the two movies) has too...
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Night & Day
Let's Twist Again
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: February 18, 1999
Those of us who believe that had Beavis and Butt-Head and the South Park gang never made the scene, American culture would be worse off, not better, owe Spike & Mike's Sick and...
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Feature
If You Spend It, Will They Come?
Jerry Colangelo got a crash course in baseball economics. Time will tell what his grade will be.
By John Dougherty
Published: February 18, 1999
It was a short honeymoon, far more fleeting than Jerry Colangelo and the Arizona Diamondbacks expected. The lovefest was supposed to last for years--just like it has in...
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Music
Stompin' at Balboa
Phoenix Jazz Orchestra launches its assault on Tempe after only one rehearsal
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: February 18, 1999
As a kid, I went through a very brief infatuation with the clarinet after watching The Benny Goodman Story on TV with my dad. All these years later, it's as clear to me as the...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
By Howard Seftel
Published: February 18, 1999
Art of Cooking: Some weeks back in this space, I took a few swipes at a new book, Dining Out: Secrets From America's Leading Critics, Chefs, and Restaurateurs, by Andrew...
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Film
Stark Victory
Nick Nolte, James Coburn bring brilliance to bleak Affliction
By Bill Gallo
Published: February 18, 1999
In the archetypal dead-end town of Lawford, New Hampshire, cold-eyed men looking for trouble prowl the streets in four-by-fours with chrome spotlights and loaded gun racks. The...
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Night & Day
Weiser's Bud
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: February 18, 1999
The Best Actor nomination which Nick Nolte garnered last week for his superb star turn in Paul Schrader's Affliction (see page 63 for review) is a boon not only to his career,...
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Feature
Stadium District Riding High
By John Dougherty
Published: February 18, 1999
A popular notion during construction of the Bank One Ballpark was that Jerry Colangelo and his Diamondbacks were hosing Maricopa County taxpayers for millions of dollars while...
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Music
Duke of Earle
Steve Earle makes a brilliant detour into bluegrass with The Mountain
By Bob Mehr
Published: February 18, 1999
In the liner notes to his new bluegrass album, Steve Earle concedes that his primary motive for engaging in the project in the first place was to achieve immortality. An...
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Film
Stone Age Family
James Woods heads up druggie clan in preachy Another Day in Paradise
By Bill Gallo
Published: February 18, 1999
For better or worse, the father figure in Larry Clark's ironically titled Another Day in Paradise turns out to be Mel, a foul-mouthed, 40-year-old junkie wearing a devil-red...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
February 18 - 24, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: February 18, 1999
thursday february 18 Karate demonstrations, children's singing and dancing groups, strolling clowns, face painters, live music and radio remotes, a carnival midway with...
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News
Flashes
Published: February 18, 1999
En Garde, Bundgaard State Senator Scott Bundgaard--convicted felon, Freon fan and free-market freak--has apparently misplaced his copy of Emily Post's Guide to Etiquette. ...
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Art
Memory Shards
Production inspired by Olympia Dukakis' family tragedy
By Merilyn Jackson
Published: February 18, 1999
You knew Olympia Dukakis was an Oscar- and Obie-winning actor. You saw her in Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias and in many other films. So what's she doing acting as creative...
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News
Slipping Through the Net
"Internet Internist" caught in web of investigations
By Paul Rubin
Published: February 18, 1999
It's small consolation to Debbie Knight that Pietr Hitzig, the self-proclaimed "father of Fen-Phen," surrendered his license to practice medicine in Maryland last week. The...
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Stage
Suffer Club
Raised in Captivity is by turns hilarious, wrenching
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: February 18, 1999
I may see another show this season that I like as well as Raised in Captivity, but I doubt it. With this production, the folks at Planet Earth Theatre have succeeded in...
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News
Lost Brunch
El Chorro Lodge fans find discontinued Sunday tradition hard to digest
By Dewey Webb
Published: February 18, 1999
Legendary as it is, the Sunday brunch at El Chorro Lodge has never come close to the culinary excess of the Valley's more sumptuous spreads. Gluttonous brunchers looking for...
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News
Paying the Price
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: February 18, 1999
The New Mexican Mafia put a price on Steve Benitez's head, but it's the taxpayers who will have to pay for the Arizona Department of Corrections' failure to protect him....
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