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1. Feature

   Think Tank Warfare

   Barry Goldwater's widow says the conservative institute that bears his name is twisting his legacy

   By Tony Ortega

   Published: May 13, 1999

   Nearly a year after his death, Senator Barry Goldwater's legacy lives on, continuing to affect his beloved state and its contentious politics through the Goldwater Institute, a...

2. Music

   Recordings

   By Bob Mehr

   Published: May 13, 1999

   Old 97's Fight Songs (Elektra) On "Victoria," the opening cut off the Old 97's 1994 release Wreck Your Life, front man Rhett Miller sings, "This is a song about...

3. Cafe

   Second Helpings

   By Howard Seftel

   Published: May 13, 1999

   Wright's and Wrongs: The Arizona Biltmore has been a resort gem ever since the Hoover administration. A recent multimillion-dollar renovation has polished up this jewel even...

4. Film

   The Down Underdogs

   Aussie and harried, Castle stormers wage losing battle

   By Andy Klein

   Published: May 13, 1999

   The Castle is a modest little comedy from Australia and director Rob Sitch that falls into the subgenre of Capraesque idealism, in the...

5. Night & Day

   Toyz N the Hood

   By M.V. Moorhead

   Published: May 13, 1999

   "See? You thought I was the only crazy one." A young man was saying this to his girlfriend or wife as, dumbstruck, she surveyed the long line that stretched from the front door...

6. Feature

   The Jokemobile

   Published: May 13, 1999

   Convinced that cabals of international terrorists want him dead, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has ordered and obtained a $70,000 armored car to assure his safe passage...

7. Music

   Mystery Men

   Face it, you don't really know what the Everly Brothers have been doing all these years, do you, Bird Dog?

   By Serene Dominic

   Published: May 13, 1999

   If rock's first half-century ends with Korn's "Rock Is Dead" tour pulling down the largest 1999 concert receipts, what hope could there possibly be for people to get excited...

8. Cafe

   Asia Vu

   By Howard Seftel

   Published: May 13, 1999

   Zipangu, 1006 East Warner, Tempe, 480-839-3924. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through Thursday, 5 to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 5 to...

9. Film

   Stalk Like an Egyptian

   Exhumed Mummy still has a lot of life in him

   By Hal Hinson

   Published: May 13, 1999

   In 1932, when director Karl Freund wanted to scare the socks off the brave movie patrons who had come to see the original Universal Pictures production of The Mummy, he didn't...

10. Night & Day

    Risque Business

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: May 13, 1999

    From now on, when Robert Schimmel sits down to swap war stories with other comics, he'll have one that's hard to top. Could there be a much tougher room to play than a comedy...

11. News

    Doctoring the Bills?

    FBI investigates possible Medicare fraud in county health-care system

    By Chris Farnsworth

    Published: May 13, 1999

    A federal grand jury is investigating possible billing fraud at Maricopa Medical Center, the county hospital. It's unclear how much money may be involved, but a former...

12. Music

    Arrested Development

    There's inconvenience in store when cops interrupt a late-night Circle K run

    By Bill Blake

    Published: May 13, 1999

    After 11:00 on any uneventful night, the bicycle ride to Circle K takes maybe 10 minutes, tops. And that includes stopping, avoiding eye contact with the crack dealers and the...

13. Film

    Good Will Shakespeare

    Stellar cast brings A Midsummer Night's Dream down to earth

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: May 13, 1999

    A Midsummer Night's Dream came early in Shakespeare's career. He had written it by at least 1598, in roughly the same period as another lyric-romantic masterpiece, Romeo and...

14. Night & Day

    Night & Day

    May 13-19, 1999

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: May 13, 1999

    thursday may 13 Athens, Georgia-based instrumental-surf-rockabilly-pop-punk blend The Woggles, touring in support of their Telstar Records CD Wailin' With the Woggles,...

15. News

    Flashes

    By

    Published: May 13, 1999

    Unsportsmanlike Conduct? Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano is furious over the Fiesta Bowl's last-minute endorsement of Rio Salado Crossing, the $1.8 billion boondoggle-in-waiting...

16. Art

    Tush Push

    Art takes a seat at the Phoenix Art Museum

    By Edward Lebow

    Published: May 13, 1999

    Compared with its recent exhibitions of paintings on copper and works from ancient Egypt, the Phoenix Art Museum's "Great Design: 100 Masterpieces From the Vitra Design Museum"...

17. News

    Underwear Under Scrutiny

    FBI subpoenas Posse Foundation records of sale of pink boxers

    By Tony Ortega

    Published: May 13, 1999

    In January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confiscated the financial records of the Posse Foundation as part of the U.S. Attorney's probe of misdeeds in the Maricopa...

18. Stage

    Jews of Denial

    The Last Night of Ballyhoo dances around anti-Semitic issues

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: May 13, 1999

    In Adolph Frietag's house, Jewish customs have long been buried. Although he and his family--sister, sister-in-law, and two nieces--are themselves Jewish, they decorate a...

19. News

    Reporter's Notebook

    A year of checking dangerously

    By Paul Rubin

    Published: May 13, 1999

    Of the many scenes I'll take with me from the Phoenix Coyotes' 1998-99 hockey season, this one first comes to mind: It happened on Easter morning. It was a rainy, cold day,...

20. Columns

    Little Green Grapples

    There's always room for Jell-O wrestling

    By Brian Smith

    Published: May 13, 1999

    Late on a brassy Sunday afternoon, Celia Putty stands beneath the velvet curtain, loaded on sass and confidence. Stretching diagonally over his frilly shirt and ample breasts...