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Feature
Is John McCain a War Hero?
The senator's five years as a prisoner of war have been widely viewed as heroic. But as he prepares a White House bid, a small group of detractors is determined to expose him as a wartime traitor
By Amy Silverman
Published: March 25, 1999
Craig Willbanks wants you to know that John McCain--former prisoner of war, current senator, White House aspirant--is a traitor, a liar and a wimp. Willbanks and McCain...
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Music
Glass Houses
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson once again shatter the bounds of musical theater with the digital opera Monsters of Grace
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: March 25, 1999
Monsters of Grace, the latest in a series of collaborations between composer Philip Glass and theater mastermind Robert Wilson, is commonly described in press releases as a...
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Cafe
Won Ton Abandon
By Howard Seftel
Published: March 25, 1999
Flo's, 14850 North Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, Scottsdale, 661-8883. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday,...
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Film
Candied Camera
Lightweight EDtv could stand some dramatic fine tuning
By Michael Sragow
Published: March 25, 1999
"I hope it's better than The Truman Show," said the woman in line behind me at the publicized "sneak preview" of EDtv. Afterward, a man in my row declared, "That was a lot...
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Night & Day
Fest Market
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 25, 1999
So you've seen all the Oscar winners and also-rans, and you've caught up with whatever might vaguely be interesting among current releases. Don't panic, you needn't resort to...
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News
Flashes
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Published: March 25, 1999
Closed Government The Arizona Legislature thinks you're an idjet. Yeah, you. Specifically you, sitting there, sipping your (insert name of tasty beverage here) and...
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Music
The Wizard of Austria
At 67, jazz great Joe Zawinul is just beginning to peak
By Paul Rubin
Published: March 25, 1999
Joe Zawinul is discussing the kinship between musicians and boxers. "When I see a fighter, like when I hear someone play music, I know right away if the motherfucker has got...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
By Howard Seftel
Published: March 25, 1999
Channel Eight Is Enough: If you watch public television's KAET-TV, you've probably seen enough promos for its new cooking series, Savor the Southwest, to think you've already...
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Film
Fink Piece
The rerunners stumble in big-screen Mod Squad remake
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 25, 1999
Ginger and Fred. Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. To the list of unforgettable movie dance partnerships, we may now add Omar Epps,...
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Night & Day
HIV League
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 25, 1999
"It's a serious subject, and people tend to put it in this sort of serious shelf," says Rodrigo Duarte Clark. "But life doesn't stop being humorous just because people are...
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News
Joe's Spies
Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance
By Tony Ortega
Published: March 25, 1999
For six months, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has ordered one of his employees to spy on a key member in the election campaign of Tom Bearup, the only announced candidate seeking to...
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Music
Growing Pains
After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: March 25, 1999
Leave it to Austin. The self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World" finally has a band go platinum after two decades of false alarms, and it's deemed such an epochal...
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Film
Siam Difference
Anna one, Anna two . . . animated The King and I cels itself short
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 25, 1999
Imagine a bunch of kids watching the classic 1956 film musical The King and I on television, then going outside and spending the rest of the afternoon acting it out in the...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
March 25 - 31, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: March 25, 1999
thursday march 25 In Paula Vogel's drama How I Learned to Drive, a teenage girl known as Li'l Bit is taught to drive by her Uncle Peck in '60s-era Maryland. Arizona...
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News
Oh, You Kid!
Something's in the kitchen with Channel 3's Jan D'Atri
By Dewey Webb
Published: March 25, 1999
Improper food storage! Clogged sinks! Insect residue! Tagging along with county restaurant health inspectors, KTVK-TV Channel 3's crack news team regularly brings viewers...
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Music
Recordings
By Robert Wilonsky and Dave Clifford
Published: March 25, 1999
Blur 13 (Virgin Records) In the end, "Song 2" meant nothing. It was Britpop masquerading as Seattle rock, a hit single that was all release and no tension. How very...
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News
Block Botch
Neighborhood group prints a cop's racist comment, then the city clams up
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: March 25, 1999
Rudy Mendoza says he believes in working through the system. So when he found a racially charged statement by a Phoenix cop in his neighborhood's Block Watch newsletter, he...
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Art
Unbeara-Bull?
Will patrons sit still for 12 hours of performance art?
By Edward Lebow
Published: March 25, 1999
Mimes are usually mute and wave gloved hands in the air. Actors pretend to be someone--anyone--else. Yet you never know what to expect from performance artists. One day they're...
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Letters
Letters
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Published: March 25, 1999
Tile Counsel I just finished reading your article in the Phoenix newspaper ("Wordstock Nation," Dewey Webb, March 11) and it was such a masterpiece I just had to write and...
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Stage
Don't Carry Me Back to Ol' Virginny
Way-back machine strips gears in continuum-tripping Insurrection
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 25, 1999
Those who enjoy wasting time and money on one spectacularly horrible theater production per season shouldn't miss Insurrection: Holding History. This perfectly execrable...
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