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