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Feature
Confessions of a Gay, Right-Wing Mormon
State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction
By Amy Silverman
Published: April 29, 1999
The date is February 24, but the calendar pages in Steve May's office haven't been flipped since January 11, the first day of his first session as a member of the Arizona House...
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Music
Carry That Waits
Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait
By Jonathan Bond
Published: April 29, 1999
Tom Waits has unleashed his first album of new material in more than six years. For those who have followed the lowlife renaissance man's career over the past 26 years, that...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
By Howard Seftel
Published: April 29, 1999
Mommy Dearest: If you haven't already made reservations for a Mother's Day meal, chances are you'll be feeding Mom in the back seat of your car, after a stop at a drive-through...
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Film
Quibbles and Brits
Wry Metroland whips life choices into an English lather
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 29, 1999
Based on the first Julian Barnes novel, Metroland is essentially a dramatization of the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime": "You may find yourself/In a beautiful...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
April 29 - May 5, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 29, 1999
thursday april 29 Seventeen of the Valley's top harp-blowers--Bill Tarsha, Dave Trippy, Roy Pinn, The Root Doctor, Mississippi Catfish, Bill Frain, Gypsy, Mark "Moose"...
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Feature
Tributary Bypass
Ninety years ago, an electric company harnessed all 14 miles of Fossil Creek. Now, environmentalists want the water set free.
By Michael Kiefer
Published: April 29, 1999
Fossil Creek, a major tributary of the Verde River, doesn't flow over travertine and river rock, bedrock gorges or deep canyons. It runs through pipes and tunnels, through...
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Music
Recordings
By Ted Simons and Dave McElfresh
Published: April 29, 1999
Fountains of Wayne Utopia Parkway (Atlantic Records) At year's end, when critics and other know-it-alls compile their best-of lists for 1999, Fountains of Wayne's Utopia...
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Cafe
Mother Load
By Howard Seftel
Published: April 29, 1999
T. Cook's, Royal Palms, 5200 East Camelback, Phoenix, 602-808-0766. Sunday Brunch: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. She carried us for nine months, then brought us into the world. She fed...
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Film
Snatch 22
Entrapment's guilty of bungled box-office robbery
By Hal Hinson
Published: April 29, 1999
Sean Connery has always been a terse, minimalist actor, spitting out his lines in tight bursts of Scottish brogue. But in Entrapment, the kingly Scot goes beyond minimalism to...
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Night & Day
Beak Experience
By David Gofstein
Published: April 29, 1999
Amazing. For six years (an eternity in TV time), there was a hilarious, loud, wild, entertaining and educational show on TV every Saturday morning. Beakman's World was a...
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News
Smoke Screening
ASARCO says it will pay for health tests in Hayden, but residents' lawyers fear a cover-up
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: April 29, 1999
The Arizona Department of Health Services plans to study the possible health problems caused by the ASARCO smelter in Hayden, despite officials' earlier dismissals of any...
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Music
Life of O'Reilly
The Valley's best drummer is moving to Boston, and a handful of bands are feeling the crunch
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: April 29, 1999
About a month ago, singer-songwriter Pete Forbes and his band were in Los Angeles rehearsing for a club gig that night. During a short break, the band's drummer, a wiry,...
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Film
Indies Exposure
Saguaro Film Fest unspools again
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 29, 1999
Remember Keiko Ibi, the pretty Japanese woman who gave the touching acceptance speech after she won for Best Documentary Short at this year's Oscars? The chance to see her...
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Night & Day
Titan of Trash
By David Gofstein
Published: April 29, 1999
As a puppeteer, political satirist, performance artist and even as host to a long-running Saturday morning kid's science show, Paul Zaloom puts the most unusual things to work...
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News
Flashes
Published: April 29, 1999
The Spider Mafia In case you missed the hilarity in an Arizona Republic story Sunday that was toned down so as not to offend too many readers in Sun City and other Sheriff...
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Music
Go Ask Alice
On the eve of Alice Cooper's boxed-set release party, several local musicians are cursing the bar that bears his name
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: April 29, 1999
Look through the north window of Alice Cooper'stown and the message is clear. You're greeted by a life-size cardboard cutout of the king of shock rock in black leather,...
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News
Insider Account
One of sheriff's former henchmen tells of dubious tactics
By Tony Ortega
Published: April 29, 1999
During Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tenure, several of his employees have come forward with damaging information about what really goes on in the offices of "America's Toughest...
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Stage
Double Billing
Two theater legends team up for ASU production
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 29, 1999
Who says Phoenix isn't a theater town? For the past five years, a real live Broadway legend has walked among us--not that most people here probably care. In Phoenix, you're...
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News
Dead Dog Day Afternoon
Phoenix company has the scoop on road kill
By Matthew Doig
Published: April 29, 1999
Paul Peaty rolls up to the scene in his white pickup truck. The victim lies lifeless on the side of the road. Hit and run. "That's a nice one," Peaty deadpans. He gets...
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Letters
Letters
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Published: April 29, 1999
Killers Behind Badges I'm still reeling from David Holthouse's column ("Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix," April 15), although I'm still not quite sure why. Both Scott...
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