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Voas
Glad-Hander No More
Hot-headed PR flack cools off in a jail cell, again
By Jeremy Voas
Published: April 5, 2001
On a good day, David Hans Schmidt is a name-dropper, glad-hander and hobnobber extraordinaire.But this is not a good day. He sits in a visitation room at Maricopa County's...
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Music
Voices Carry
GBV's Bob Pollard shoulders some personal burdens with Isolation Drills
By Bob Mehr
Published: April 5, 2001
Rock 'n' roll has given Bob Pollard a lot -- certainly more than any fourth-grade teacher who decides to become a full-time musician at the age of 37 can expect. As leader of...
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Cafe
Four Ever Young
Vive la France! Bistros bring fine, fast fare to the Valley
By Carey Sweet
Published: April 5, 2001
Au Petit Four It was her diet that did it. Not many people would dare consume such a steady stream of ultra-rich foods like chicken pâté, roast duck and Yule log,...
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Film
A Kinder, Gentler Dope Fiend
In Ted Demme's Blow, Johnny Depp summons an American snowstorm
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: April 5, 2001
Hello, what's this? Why, could it be another cautionary tale from Hollywood about recreational drugs being -- alert the media! -- not particularly good for people? (If only...
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Stage
Lady Sings the Blahs
Actress Toni Robinson is the only uplifting note in off-key The Jazz Club
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 5, 2001
Rose Robinson is tired. She's tired of white men calling all the shots; tired of dreaming about one day being a famous singer, like Billie Holiday; and sick of working in seedy...
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Night & Day
Stag-geringly Good Show
Julie Taymor's The King Stag
By David Gofstein
Published: April 5, 2001
Theater fans like to have it both ways. Sometimes it can be a small, bare-bones, black-box production with no frills to take away from the actor's work and the author's words....
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Feature
Joe Arpaio's Balloon Payments
It hasn't been cheap keeping the Joe Show aloft. Now, his employees, his inmates and the citizens of Maricopa County are paying the price.
By Robert Nelson
Published: April 5, 2001
Hitmen hurriedly stabbed Jaime Sanchez four times, then dashed for anonymity among the other inmates on the sixth floor of Madison Street Jail.Then Sanchez waited, and waited,...
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Music
Garden Party
A new live CD set and TV special document Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's New York City serenade
By Fred Mills
Published: April 5, 2001
That staple (some call it a cliché) of rock 'n' roll, the double live album, rears its head once again this week in the form of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's...
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Spice
Karsh Reality
Bakery reopens for Saturday business
By Carey Sweet
Published: April 5, 2001
Answering to a higher power shouldn't lead to lower profits. But for one Valley kosher bakery, observing Orthodox Jewish rules has proved too costly.After a six-month...
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Film
Bite It
Along Came a Spider is so bad it'll bug you
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 5, 2001
Easily the most creepy (and, by far, most interesting) thing about Along Came a Spider, yet another adaptation of one of James Patterson's alleged mystery novels featuring...
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Stage
Sun Dance
West African dancers in Compagnie Jant-Bi (the sun) bring the power of Senegal to Gammage
By Merilyn Jackson
Published: April 5, 2001
When German expressionist choreographer Susanne Linke visited Senegal in 1998, her collaboration with the men of Compagnie Jant-Bi produced Le Coq est Mort (The Cock Is Dead)....
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Night & Day
Last Tour Bus to Clarksville
Hey, hey, it's the Monkees
By David Gofstein
Published: April 5, 2001
Here we come, Once more down the street. Still gettin' funny looks from Ev'ry old fan we meet. Hey, hey, we're the Monkees, And people say we've done this before, But...
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Flashes
Flashes
From the week of April 5, 2001
Published: April 5, 2001
Dun-derheadsYou've got to spend money to make money. Just ask the folks at Maricopa County who decided recently to appeal a $1,144.19 judgment issued against the county in U.S....
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Music
Blues Valentine
After nearly three decades, the fateful desert meeting between Tom Waits and John Hammond is fully realized with the release of Wicked Grin
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 5, 2001
By 1974, John Hammond had played with damn near every great bluesman who ever lived: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Duane Allman, Charlie Musselwhite, Mike Bloomfield, John Lee...
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Lunch Meet
Beyond Repairman
Could Gordon Jump really fix your washer?
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 5, 2001
At the moment, Gordon Jump really does look like the Maytag Repairman. It isn't just that he's wearing the outfit -- the blue jacket, the cap, the bow tie. He's also sitting,...
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Film
Guillotine Romance
Love cuts both ways in passionate The Widow of Saint-Pierre
By Andy Klein
Published: April 5, 2001
French director Patrice Leconte is a chameleonlike talent: Among his films to reach American screens are the psychological thriller Mr. Hire, the period satire Ridicule and the...
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Stage
Scope Opera
Sweeping production of Verdi's Don Carlo scores big
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 5, 2001
Arizona Opera's last offering, Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, was slim and frothy to the point of forgettability. No one is likely to have the same complaints about...
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Feature
Art Pulpitations
Sun City artist Norman Baer looks back at babes, blood baths and bazookas.
By Dewey Webb
Published: April 5, 2001
When Norman Baer arrived in New York City to carve out a career in the advertising field in the early '50s, the art school grad's head was filled with visions of Madison Avenue...
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Music
Fortunate One
Back with what may be his best album, Texas treasure Delbert McClinton looks back on five decades of music making
By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: April 5, 2001
Delbert McClinton talks like he sings, like the songs he writes and the songs that inspired him, in simple declarative phrases that sound like children's verse, but which...
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Eater's Digest
Chick Filet
Would you like a lap dance with that sandwich?
By Elan Head
Published: April 5, 2001
Christie's Cabaret claims to have "the most amazing lunch in town," and the fact is, it probably does. Topnotch sandwiches. Chicken wings that are nothing short of perfect. The...
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