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Feature
Grist for the Millennium
Y2K hucksters cash in on fear of cataclysmic calendar crash 'n' burn
By James Hibberd
Published: June 3, 1999
After two days of lectures, product pitches and apocalyptic rhetoric, it is time for a panel of self-proclaimed Y2K experts to take questions from the audience. The crowd,...
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Music
Taking Liberties
Elvis Costello's recent collaboration with Burt Bacharach restores order to his maddening decade
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: June 3, 1999
For a guy once known for his unwillingness to do interviews, Elvis Costello has turned out to be one of pop music's most insightful commentators. Over the years, he's actually...
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Cafe
Second Helpings
By Howard Seftel
Published: June 3, 1999
Eat Beat: You don't need much incentive to eat at Restaurant Hapa (6204 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-998-8220), one of this town's very best restaurants. I recently...
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Film
Virtual Reality Bites
Maybe this really is the best of all possible worlds
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: June 3, 1999
Deja vu is usually a sign of love at first sight. Says who? Says the heroine of The Thirteenth Floor to the hero that she's on the verge of kissing. Though they've just met a...
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Night & Day
Thrush Hour
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: June 3, 1999
Asked if the emotional pain that suffuses so many of her songs comes from real pain in her life, Jill Cohn offers a common-sense answer: "Oh, sure. It would seem strange to me,...
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Feature
To Serb With Love
Pavle Milic untangles his Balkan roots and discovers a cauldron of ancient passion and prejudice
By Michael Lacey
Published: June 3, 1999
As the cruise missiles fell in her Belgrade neighborhood, one woman's writing floated her spirit with the buoyancy of hope. Maritza Yosimlevic longed that her short stories...
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Music
Blythe Spirits
Van troubles spoil Chula's maiden trip to California, but the band is back to christen an explosive new CD
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: June 3, 1999
It hasn't been the easiest of weeks for the band Chula. For their first real road excursion, the emo-punk quartet had lined up a couple of Southern California gigs along...
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Cafe
Repast Imperfect
By Howard Seftel
Published: June 3, 1999
Milton's, 3159 East Lincoln, Phoenix, 602-667-7644. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner, 5 to 10 p.m., seven days a week. I've had a letter on my...
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Film
Fast Times in Ethiopia
Docudrama reconstructs the life of African runner
By Bill Gallo
Published: June 3, 1999
The peerless Ethiopian distance runner Haile Gebrselassie is a tiny man--5-foot-3 and barely 115 pounds--but in his native country, his heroism looms large. Since 1994 he has...
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Night & Day
Here's to You, Mr. Robinson
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: June 3, 1999
Remember Andy Robinson, the busy, reliable character actor who played, among many, many other roles, the psycho killer in the original Dirty Harry, and Liberace in an '80s TV...
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Feature
Saving Grace
By James Hibberd
Published: June 3, 1999
Using heat and pressure, more heat and pressure than one can imagine, a 3,150-ton factory press turns solid cylinders of pure aluminum into long, thin rails. The shiny rails...
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Music
Recordings
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: June 3, 1999
The Negro Problem Joys and Concerns (Aerial Flipout) If there's a weakness surrounding L.A.'s recent pop renaissance, it's that too many of the bands settle for...
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Film
Mamet's Boy
Swathed almost with warmth, an old-fashioned turn from the playwright turned director
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: June 3, 1999
David Mamet, famous for his in-your-face characters, brutal and frequently raunchy dialogue and deliberate, staccato prose, would seem an unlikely choice to write and direct a...
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Night & Day
Night & Day
June 3 - 9, 1999
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: June 3, 1999
thursday june 3 Bona fide show-biz legend Mickey Rooney plays the title role in The Wizard of Oz when a touring stage version of the L. Frank Baum tale comes to the...
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News
Death and Laxness
Family horrified at funeral home's gruesome handling of body
By John Dougherty
Published: June 3, 1999
Vicente Gurrola's shattered body lay by the roadside on 35th Avenue as a white Toyota pickup sped away shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday, May 16. His back broken, the...
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Music
Touch of Evil
Blood, sweat and no tears, as Gwar and Derrick May infiltrate the Valley club scene
By Mr. P-Body
Published: June 3, 1999
It was probably pure coincidence, but Gwar fans entering Club Rio's "21 and over" patio on Tuesday, May 25, received a stamp on their wrist that read: "Circus." The word...
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News
Relapse in Judgment
Reorganizing the BOMEX
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: June 3, 1999
The troubled Arizona Board of Medical Examiners has again shut the public out of information about the state's MDs, this time blaming a change in the law meant to provide more...
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Stage
Toto Recall
The stage version of The Wizard of Oz is a dull remake of the film
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 3, 1999
There's an unfortunate trend in musical theater, a genre of live performance that can hardly afford another deadfall these days. Book musicals, once based on literature (A...
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News
Flashes
Published: June 3, 1999
Soldiers of Fortune Public Campaign, the D.C. interest group that brought Arizona last fall's successful "Clean Elections" initiative, has released a list of the biggest gun...
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Columns
Just Plain Wong
A noisy but vague lawmaker gets his wayauditor general Norton quits after 23 years
By Amy Silverman
Published: June 3, 1999
Most Arizonans have never heard of Doug Norton, but we all owe him our thanks. For more than two decades, Norton has served us as state auditor general, watching over many...
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