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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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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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...