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It was Kieran Doyle's 33rd birthday, and for once he was relaxed. Swigging beer and laughing it up with some friends at home, the burly Irishman allowed himself to forget for...
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"This is where we do it," Survivalist's most garrulous MC, Preacha, welcomes you upon your arrival at Fo' Life Records, the tiny independent record label from west Phoenix...
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Back Porch Cafe
President Bush is encouraging Americans to band together and support our country, and we're doing it. In this time of flags rippling from the rooftops and...
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This may be a strange time to release a thriller about the dangers of corrupt law enforcement, but Training Day -- with no explosions, no cheap thrills, no international...
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Long before the economy took its most recent nosedive, the state of the contemporary art scene in the Valley of the Sun could be labeled as pretty abysmal. Only a handful of...
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Broadway's Tony Awards -- a celebration of New York theater's best -- is not the first place you'd look for controversy. But the award of the coveted Best Musical for 2000 to...
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Arizona Republic restaurant critic Howard Seftel has been around so long it's tempting to characterize him as being here since Native American Indians settled the Sonoran...
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It's Saturday afternoon during this year's South by Southwest, and the collection of independent parties known as South by South Congress is in full swing along the main...
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There are two reasons to frequent Chez Bubba's, the wonderful Caribbean and Creole restaurant on First Street downtown. One of them is Bubba. Myron "Bubba" Stephenson is such...
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Serendipity already feels archaic, like some dusty relic that's been unearthed from an antique store attic and polished off for display. It reeks of quaint and cute, from its...
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T he truest test of any great piece of theater -- or any drama whose title is routinely appended with a superlative, has been produced for years on Broadway to great critical...
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Arizona cowboy Cody Hancock rides bulls. It's something that he loves to do and that his father did before him. It's also how he makes a living. When Hancock, a national...
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The Phoenix Zoo is known for preserving wildlife, fostering environmental education and nurturing animal populations.For nearly 40 years, the privately funded facility has...
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No matter what some delusional musicians might spew forth in their diatribes about "art" versus "commercialism," few bands would call for a ghostbuster if the specter of...
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Talk is swirling that the massive Mondo's restaurant may be closing, barely a year after opening at The Promenade on Scottsdale Road south of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard....
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It's generally considered a violation of the unwritten code of film criticism to reveal anything that happens more than halfway into a movie, let alone near the end. But these...
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Before he was editor in chief at Marvel Comics--which, by all rights, makes him the man who tells Spider-Man what he can do with himself and the X-Men where to go--Joe Quesada...
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Updated October 5, 2001
Washington, D.C. -- Florence Mahoney is a testament to the National Institute on Aging, an agency she helped create three decades ago.At 102 years...
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To those who grew up hearing -- and watching -- the best Brazilian and Afro-Cuban bands on the planet, chances are Ozomatli are L.A.'s most overrated band. When the Ozos go...
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Pressing MattersMedia muzzle: I enjoyed your column ("Nine One One," Kristi Dempsey, September 20). I have to put in my two cents, though. The U.S. media as a whole have...
