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Feature
Fare Game
Why did Phoenix police let an armed and dangerous suspect climb into an unwitting cabdriver's back seat before they opened fire?
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: March 11, 1999
Frank Leyvas had barely asked his passenger, "Where to?" when the cops, like a black cloud in their raid gear, stormed his cab. An officer aimed a rifle at his head. Leyvas...
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Music
Double Dutch
How two best friends from Holland gave up nursing and became club owners
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: March 11, 1999
Willa and Corrie Alexander aren't related, but it's natural to assume that they are. Granted, they don't look much alike, and the statuesque Corrie literally towers over her...
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Cafe
Outta the Park
By Howard Seftel
Published: March 11, 1999
Alice Cooper'stown, 101 East Jackson, Phoenix, 253-7337. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, Saturday and event nights, 11 a.m. to 1...
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Film
My Two Left Feet
Sit this Tango out
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 11, 1999
There's no faulting Tango where technique is concerned. This collaboration between the Spanish writer-director Carlos Saura, the great Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro...
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Night & Day
Teddy As He Goes
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 11, 1999
When you think of actors well-suited to the role of Teddy Roosevelt, John Davidson isn't likely to be the first name that springs to mind. Or the second, or the eighth. But the...
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Feature
Wordstock Nation
Valley Scrabble fanatics rack havoc with America's favorite word game
By Dewey Webb
Published: March 11, 1999
The inventor of the granddaddy of all word games was a man by the name of Butts. Maybe that's why hard-core Scrabble aficionados have such a healthy respect for double...
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Music
Tupelo Honey
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy sinks his Summer Teeth into the sugary pop he was always meant to play
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: March 11, 1999
Elvis Costello once told the story of giving an advance tape of his 1982 masterpiece, Imperial Bedroom, to the artist who was going to paint the album cover. Costello...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
By Howard Seftel
Published: March 11, 1999
How Not to Succeed in Business: Will somebody please explain to me how Michael Jordan could have ever thought of giving up basketball for baseball? Can somebody tell me why Mel...
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Film
Depth Takes a Holiday
The Deep End of the Ocean turns out to be mighty shallow
By Michael Sragow
Published: March 11, 1999
The Deep End of the Ocean starts out as a maternal horror movie and ends up as a family therapy session. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the photographer wife of a restaurateur (Treat...
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Night & Day
The Famous Mr. Ed
By Tricia Wasbotten Parker
Published: March 11, 1999
"Like any writer, I'd rather be read than dead. Like any serious 'author,' I'd rather be dead than not read at all." This from Edward Abbey, famous Arizonan and desert and word...
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News
One Way Out
By Paul Rubin
Published: March 11, 1999
Jan Solomon made two huge mistakes in early 1997. First, the Scottsdale man--then 57--resumed a romance with a woman he had dated when both were in their teens. Trouble was,...
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Music
Kramer vs. Kramer
MC5 founder Wayne Kramer constantly competes with his revolutionary past and can still kick out the jams
By Serene Dominic
Published: March 11, 1999
Everybody has an agenda, you say? That may well be true, but it's hard to imagine Creed, Fastball or whatever selections you can order from the BMG Music Club putting...
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Film
Youth Must Be Serviced
Horny high schoolers, dangerous liaisons and Cruel Intentions
By Andy Klein
Published: March 11, 1999
For Cruel Intentions, his directorial debut, writer Roger Kumble has come up with the clever idea of updating Choderlos de Laclos' durable 18th-century novel Les Liaisons...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
March 11 - 17, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 11, 1999
thursday march 11 For the second year in a row, the Phoenix Art and Antique Show offers a staggering array of bric-a-brac, objets, macguffins and other assorted...
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News
Flashes
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Published: March 11, 1999
Mean Streets Two national traffic research groups proclaimed last week that Phoenix is one of the deadliest places in the U.S. to drive, prompting the Flash to shoot the...
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Music
Recordings
By Brian Smith, M.V. Moorhead and Jonathan Bond
Published: March 11, 1999
DGeneration Through the Darkness (C2/Columbia Records) Produced by famed glam hag Tony Visconti (T. Rex, Bowie, etc.), Through the Darkness differs little from DGen's...
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News
Shadow of a Doubt
A lawyer suggests racism, a victim's mother begs leniency for PV Mall stabber
By Michael Kiefer
Published: March 11, 1999
On February 23, Michael Shoemaker, 20, was sentenced to one year in jail and three years probation for his part in a fatal knife fight at Paradise Valley Mall in 1995. His...
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Stage
Feud for Thought
Appealing Lemon Sky hasn't yellowed with age
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 11, 1999
A theater critic can't afford to have a favorite play. Saddled with personal preference and fond memories of a first performance, he's apt to overlook the show's flaws once...
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News
Squeeze Play
Contractor sues to get stadium district records
By John Dougherty
Published: March 11, 1999
A major contractor for Bank One Ballpark has gone to court to obtain construction records for the $360 million stadium. Perini/McCarthy contends that the Maricopa County...
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Stage
What a Dick!
Nixon's Nixon offers an embarrassment of Richard's
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 11, 1999
There are few of us born before 1965 who wouldn't have given our eyeteeth to be a fly on the wall of the Lincoln Room on August 7, 1974, when, on the fateful eve of Richard...
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