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Feature
Street Without Hope
On Madison Street, crowds of crack-addicted homeless are plaguing police and downtown businesses. But no one seems to be doing much about it.
By Edward Lebow
Published: May 6, 1999
Through binoculars at night, the corner of Ninth Avenue and Madison Street is a murky scene of people milling in the dark. Yet the few lights in the area radiate just enough to...
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Music
Slaves to the Grind
Unruh carries the bloodied flag of grindcore into the next millennium
By Thom Gabaldon
Published: May 6, 1999
By definition, grindcore is an abrasive form of music. It's fast, harsh and noisy, residing somewhere between metal and punk, and inevitably confusing fans of both. Born out of...
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Cafe
Low Steaks Game
By Howard Seftel
Published: May 6, 1999
Michael Monti's of Scottsdale, 7500 East Pinnacle Peak Road, Scottsdale, 480-585-3000. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and...
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Film
Pupil Reign
High-school-themed Election scores a winning ticket
By Bill Gallo
Published: May 6, 1999
The latest release from Paramount Pictures' bouncing baby, MTV Films, is set in a high school and has been inoculated with the usual doses of teenage angst, teenage wit, and...
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Stage
Dumb-Dumb Shells
Targeting Eighties' idiocy, Gun-Shy hits the bull's eye
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: May 6, 1999
There's something unsettling about the overwrought lunatics created by playwright Richard Dresser. It isn't their crabby personalities or their limitless capacity for...
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Night & Day
Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: May 6, 1999
My eldest sister--though she is herself the wonderful mother of two devoted daughters, and the devoted daughter of a wonderful mother--once told me that she had no special...
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Feature
Twisted System
A Phoenix family stumbles through the tangled bureaucracy of modern medical care
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: May 6, 1999
Sitting on the couch, Shawndra Lee stretches, bored, as her mom talks about their HMO coverage. Her back cracks with a sound like a rifle shot. The loud snap is one of the...
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Music
True Wes
For Wesley Willis, a mind is a terrible thing to waste
By Thomas Peake
Published: May 6, 1999
The scene is a self-serve copy shop on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, the time is several years ago and the protagonist is Wesley Willis, beloved local icon. Willis is built like...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
By Howard Seftel
Published: May 6, 1999
Cheese Wiz: Readers with long memories may recall a column I did in this space about a year ago about one of the world's great cheeses, mozzarella di bufala. Italians have...
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Film
Finger-Nickin' Good
A disembodied thumbs-up for gory Idle Hands
By Glenn Gaslin
Published: May 6, 1999
The most surprising thing about the new teensploitation horror film Idle Hands is the lack of masturbation jokes. It is a movie about a 17-year-old boy who loses control of his...
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Night & Day
Brothers--and Sister--in Arms
By Merilyn Jackson
Published: May 6, 1999
Early in this century, Russia's western borders rippled like a ribbon in the wind. Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed--you could wake up on the wrong side of the...
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News
109 Degrees of Incarceration
County inmate Lance Hawthorne died in a cell whose vent had been closed as a form of punishment
By Tony Ortega
Published: May 6, 1999
Lance Paul Hawthorne was not a model citizen. When a landlord attempted in 1989 to evict Hawthorne for not paying rent, the overweight, sparsely employed photographer...
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Music
Harm's Way
Arizona Music Forum finally reaches local musicians with its first local jam
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: May 6, 1999
"Who's in charge of this? Is it okay if I sing?" The question came from Peacemakers guitarist Steve Larson. The answer was a soft murmur, neither affirmative nor negative....
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Film
My Own Private Utah
SLC Punk! is a sorry state of affairs
By Michael Sragow
Published: May 6, 1999
The "SLC" in SLC Punk! stands for Salt Lake City, but it might as well stand for Some Lucky Chump. The filmmaker, James Merendino, has stated that this tale of two punk buddies...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
May 6 - 12, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: May 6, 1999
thursday may 6 Veteran comic Jackie Mason--namesake of Oxford's postgraduate Jackie Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism--brings his show "Much Ado About Everything"...
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News
Flashes
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Published: May 6, 1999
Grandstanding Maricopa County has a critical stadium/arena shortage. Sports venues are few and far between. At least you'd think that was the case, based on the...
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Music
Recordings
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: May 6, 1999
Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (550 Music) It's a strange paradox of the music industry that a recording artist's most common response to...
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Columns
This Magic Moment
Pee-wee, the Duke, some quarrelers, a drunk and a magician
By Brian Smith
Published: May 6, 1999
In familiar, stoic poses, the Duke hangs purposefully among framed moments of bronco busting, ranch landscapes, and flyers publicizing an event called "Bill Williams Steak Fry...
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Music
Devil's Triangle
A guided tour through the world of barflies, club crawlers, and other creatures of the night
By Mr. P-Body
Published: May 6, 1999
We keep hearing rumblings that Phoenix has emerged as a major metropolis. Some inhabitants even take pride in the smog they inhale, viewing it as confirmation that we're in the...
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Columns
Panacea Tranquility
Spiritual healing in Sedona hits a nerve
By David Holthouse
Published: May 6, 1999
Outside the Center for the New Age in Sedona, Oak Creek babbled like an inner child as rental SUVs on Highway 179 roared like angry parents. Above the din, professional...
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