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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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....
