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1. Feature

   Beach Blanket Bacchanal

   XXX marks the spot at Lake Havasu, "amateur porn capital of America"

   By Dewey Webb

   Published: June 17, 1999

   Mention Lake Havasu City, and most people will pounce on the hamlet's hellacious heat, a triple-digit mind-roaster that frequently tops out the nation's thermometer. Either...

2. Music

   On the Lightfoot

   Ron Sexsmith follows in the unfashionable path of his Canadian idol, and makes an art of understatement

   By Gilbert Garcia

   Published: June 17, 1999

   No one would have blamed Ron Sexsmith if he'd decided to skip the Valley on his current tour. His last visit here, in July of 1997, qualified as a perfect disaster. First...

3. Cafe

   Second Helpings

   By Howard Seftel

   Published: June 17, 1999

   Buca di Beppoed: Readers may recall the food fight in New Times' letters section several weeks ago over my review of Buca di Beppo. Some correspondents bashed me; others sided...

4. Film

   Vine Art

   Disney's version of Burroughs' wild man still swings, but he's a bit too tame

   By M.V. Moorhead

   Published: June 17, 1999

   Disney departed from its usual practice of basing its big animated features on classic literature or myth when it made what has proved to be one of the studio's most popular...

5. Night & Day

   Living Daylights

   By M.V. Moorhead

   Published: June 17, 1999

   In most parts of this planet, the arrival of the day of the year when the sun is out the longest is a cause for celebration. Here in Arizona, though, the Summer Solstice...

6. Feature

   The Terminator

   Trash-talking abortionist Dr. Brian Finkel has a message for pro-life zealots: "Kiss my ass."

   By Amy Silverman

   Published: June 17, 1999

   Step inside the "Vaginal Vault," Dr. Brian Finkel's nickname for the clinic where he performs more than 2,000 abortions a year. Finkel's clinic, the Metro Phoenix Women's...

7. Music

   Ford Tough

   Mississippi bluesman T-Model Ford has known little but chaos and violence, and that's what he sings about

   By Dale Baich

   Published: June 17, 1999

   When septuagenarian bluesman T-Model Ford sings "I'm Insane," he's not playing around. Even in a musical genre defined by tough times and hard-luck stories, Ford's life stands...

8. Cafe

   Tarbell for Two

   By Howard Seftel

   Published: June 17, 1999

   Barmouche, 3131 East Camelback, Phoenix, 602-956-6900. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Dinner, Saturday, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday, 5 to 10...

9. Film

   Five Uneasy Pieces

   The Red Violin unstrung by uneven quintet

   By Andy Klein

   Published: June 17, 1999

   Anthology films are an odd-duck genre: While there once was a time--long gone--when books of short stories were published with nearly the frequency of novels, their cinematic...

10. Night & Day

    Arts of the West

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: June 17, 1999

    It guards the door, like something out of whimsical sci-fi: a ferocious-looking dog pieced together out of rusted-out automobile parts. Shock absorbers form the legs, the body...

11. News

    Flashes

    Published: June 17, 1999

    Look, Ma, No Hands! Provoked by a heady blend of overwhelming demand and genetic tendencies toward shameless self-promotion, the Flash is pleased to turn this weekly column...

12. Music

    Dolls House

    Sylvain Sylvain pays tribute to three fallen former bandmates on his new album

    By Brian Smith

    Published: June 17, 1999

    Sadly, the Sunset-strip scene of the '80s took the New York Dolls' name and dragged it through a thick, shit-infested mud bath, the kind through which few other pop...

13. Film

    Erin Go Blah

    Morose This Is My Father serves us unsavory Irish stew

    By Bill Gallo

    Published: June 17, 1999

    It has not been lost on the Quinn brothers--actor Aidan, cinematographer Declan, and writer/director Paul--that in old Gaelic culture the tribal bard, or storyteller, was held...

14. Night & Day

    Night & Day

    June 17 - 23, 1999

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: June 17, 1999

    thursday june 17 Comic and masterful impersonator Craig Shoemaker--his repertoire includes ace renditions of Don Knotts and Patrick Stewart--returns to the Valley, the...

15. Letters

    Letters

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    Published: June 17, 1999

    Balkanization While online looking for an article, I not unintentionally arrived at New Times. My purpose was to take a quick look at what's really happening in the desert...

16. Music

    Recordings

    By Gilbert Garcia

    Published: June 17, 1999

    Cibo Matto Stereo Type A (Warner Bros.) When Cibo Matto made it to MTV in 1996 with a goofy, giddy novelty song called "Know Your Chicken," the natural reaction among...

17. Columns

    Knight Watchman

    Security guard Shaun is armed and ready for trouble at a Van Buren Circle K

    By Brian Smith

    Published: June 17, 1999

    We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight/Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane. --Bob Dylan A couple of prostitutes step off the dimly lit street...

18. Columns

    Sun Burned

    Gifted teacher branded a troublemaker after complaining of grade school's bizarre discipline

    By Terry Greene Sterling

    Published: June 17, 1999

    Before she burned her rear while sitting on a toilet in the kindergarten rest room, before she discovered that children were being forced to stand in the sun as a form of...

19. Columns

    Whither Warehouse?

    The county's new downtown jail would destroy valuable pieces of Phoenix's past

    By David Holthouse

    Published: June 17, 1999

    Looking over my county government's plan to destroy the warehouse district south of downtown Phoenix, I wonder if the schizophrenic crackheads who roam there at night came up...