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Feature
You May Already Be a Dupe
Ivan Reyna wins a contest and gets less than he bargained for
By Matthew Doig
Published: May 27, 1999
The September 3, 1998, issue of the Spanish-language newspaper Prensa Hispana made Phoenix residents Ivan Reyna and Greg McCain look like the luckiest people on the planet. ...
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Columns
Ranch Handout
Quit fiddling around with Spur Cross Ranch's owners, and condemn the land
By Amy Silverman
Published: May 27, 1999
Spur Cross Ranch has long been a jewel in Maricopa County's environmental crown, but it's fast becoming a political hot potato. U.S. Senator John McCain first fondled the...
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Music
Mojo Working
Local R&B pioneer Henry "Mojo" Thompson battles back from a devastating string of operations
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: May 27, 1999
Henry "Mojo" Thompson sits in his wheelchair, hunched over his kitchen counter, jotting down notes in a spiral notebook. His one-room South Phoenix apartment has the near-empty...
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Cafe
Haute Streak
Picasso / Le Cirque
By Howard Seftel
Published: May 27, 1999
Attention, gourmets! I've discovered an oasis of fine dining in the American desert Southwest. Unfortunately, it's not in Phoenix. It's in Las Vegas. Las Vegas? Isn't...
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Film
Pushing the Envelope
Sunny Love Letter receives big stamp of approval
By Andy Klein
Published: May 27, 1999
The Love Letter has the dubious distinction of being the other studio film to open this past week. In a week when all the other majors have run for cover, DreamWorks has taken...
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Night & Day
Peace Offerings
National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: May 27, 1999
Every two years, optimists and noncynics of various races and backgrounds get together and hold a National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution. In what some might...
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Feature
The Once and Future Mom
CPS slammed for severing parental rights while doing little to preserve the family
By Paul Rubin
Published: May 27, 1999
Mary C.'s husband bought her a computer for Mother's Day. She's interested in the Internet, but for now she'll get her feet wet by playing solitaire. Mary would like to...
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Columns
Culture War Heroes
William Bennett and the right make might at a Scottsdale resort
By David Holthouse
Published: May 27, 1999
Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean. --2 Corinthians 6:17 I am alone on a stage in the back of a vast,...
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Music
Love Connection
Why the current, slick Courtney Love actually rings truer than the disheveled baby doll of the past
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: May 27, 1999
Nick Broomfield's controversial 1998 documentary Kurt and Courtney works very hard to paint a negative portrait of Courtney Love. So hard, in fact, that by the end of it you...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
Can't afford dinner at Picasso or Le Cirque?
By Howard Seftel
Published: May 27, 1999
Buffeted: What if you can't afford dinner at Picasso or Le Cirque? (See this week's Cafe "review.) You can still eat well at the Bellagio, if not as elegantly, for just a...
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Film
Notting Special
What happens when two pretty movie stars fall in love? Uh, got us!
By Scott Kelton Jones
Published: May 27, 1999
Maybe it's the damned blinking thing, because it's not simply the foppish hair and boyish face--or, for that matter, even the vaguely befuddled reticence and wry, self-abasing...
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Night & Day
TV Wonder
PBS documentary series P.O.V. (Point of View)
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: May 27, 1999
Well, that time is upon us once again--the time of season finales, the time when dedicated sofa tubers harvest the big dramatic payoffs and revelations and cliffhangers we've...
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News
Parish Is Burning
With a controversial priest dividing the flock, a Mesa church may not have a prayer
By Tony Ortega
Published: May 27, 1999
Father Dennis Riccitelli, who's twice been transferred by Catholic Church officials after parishioner complaints, has another churchgoer revolt on his hands. But this time...
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Columns
He Got GameWorks
Where the inner consumer feasts, and everything but money is fantasy
By Brian Smith
Published: May 27, 1999
We walk through the concrete and steel structure that splays across 1.5 million square feet of desert called Arizona Mills. In its beige-toned, wood-floored, 65,000-bulbed,...
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Music
The New Old Sound
Branford Marsalis' new disc is a Requiem by and for a heavyweight
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 27, 1999
Branford Marsalis calls exactly at the appointed time, 3 p.m., despite a schedule that should not allow for such promptness. He is on a cellular phone, sitting on the front...
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Film
Space Cadets
Trekkies docu examines starship troupers
By Bill Gallo
Published: May 27, 1999
If your poodle is decked out in the complete Captain Kirk uniform, you've taken Klingon language classes, or you once mailed DeForest Kelley a joint taped to a piece of...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
May 27 - June 2, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: May 27, 1999
Thursday May 27 To Jeff Dunham's usual repertory company--fuzzy "Woozle" Peanut, crotchety old-timer Walter and pepper-on-a-stick Jose Jalapeno--the comedian and...
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News
Blowing His Cool
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is trying to fire another deputy who alleges wrongdoing in the sheriff's office
By Tony Ortega
Published: May 27, 1999
Maricopa County sheriff's director David Hendershott ordered detention officer David Cool to produce a false memo suggesting former sheriff's employee Tom Bearup was plotting...
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Columns
A Principal Problem
Why didn't Joanne Talazus believe the child who said his counselor abused him?
By Terry Greene Sterling
Published: May 27, 1999
Christopher was 10 years old when teachers at Longview Elementary School singled him out as a troublemaker. During that long 1993-94 academic year, Christopher regularly baited...
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Music
Recordings
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me / The Clash Tribute: Burning London / Jon Dee Graham
By Salvatore Caputo, Chris Farnsworth and Gilbert Garcia
Published: May 27, 1999
Various artists Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Maverick Records) The world inhabited by Austin Powers is more an evocation of the way the '60s were documented...
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