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A vase of plastic flowers rests on its side atop a tiny unmarked grave in Section 53 of Phoenix's Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery. Valeria Rico Romero was 10 months old when she...
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Run-D.M.C. created the perfect dramatization of what can happen when rap and heavy metal collide in their landmark 1986 video for "Walk This Way." The now-classic image of...
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Done right, beef bourguignon should be a classic dish that cravings are made of, with economical beef chuck made glamorous from a roll in flour, a lusty browning in oil, and a...
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Ask David Lynch, and he will tell you apple-pie America just isn't what it seems. People behave strangely, sometimes violently, and sometimes they even transform into different...
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Nearly 35 years ago, Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- radical Marxist revolutionary, trained medical doctor and severe asthmatic -- was captured and killed in Bolivia by Bolivian...
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Before this week, if Arizona knew more about Rioja than did, say, South Dakota, that owed less to residents' discernment than to their Spanish-language exposure: at least we...
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The party's over for Safari Media Inc., but the company keeps getting crashed by the Arizona Attorney General's office.A Safari financial advisor indicted by the AG and accused...
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The Amor Belhom Duo is the kind of group that people need to see about three times before they're fully converted.The first time, audiences simply try to find an applicable...
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Here's a recipe for weirdness: Put about 100 food writers from across the country in a convention center at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Load them up with jellybeans, Q-Tips...
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Here you'll find madness, mayhem and murder, in no short supply. The Hughes brothers, Albert and Allen, have always had a knack for horror, as evidenced by their edgy gangster...
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Just before the curtain goes up on each of Black Theatre Troupe's productions, executive director David J. Hemphill makes a gracious speech in which he thanks the company's...
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Three weeks ago, on a hot September night -- the air rising from the asphalt made its own hot draft -- a very small crowd collected outside the old PlayWrights Workshop Theatre...
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Dr. Brian Finkel, the Phoenix abortion doctor now under criminal investigation for allegedly molesting several of his patients, has been suspended from practicing...
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No one was very surprised when Tenacious D -- the duo composed of vocalist/guitarist Jack Black and guitarist/backing vocalist Kyle Gass -- finally made it big. It was clear...
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In Sunny's world, his favorite customers wait for their barbecued ribs, beef and chicken the longest. Tonight, it's his sister Clara's birthday and she's been patient for over...
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Some guys have the kind of face that suggests they've been to hell and back. The narrow, steely eyes, graying hair and deep lines crisscrossing the countenance of a James...
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Two weeks ago, it would have been possible to use the name of the man interviewed below; indeed, it would have been expected, as he is no mere "spokesman," the only identifier...
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Jerry Ostwinkle's battle to get his eagle back is over.In a decision that ends Ostwinkle's nearly three-year struggle with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to regain his...
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Angry Dirty Sanchez used to be the toast of Central High School.
The teen punk trio, which consists entirely of 16-year-old Central High sophomores, was so popular with...
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Half-Baked TalesWhale snit: Holy shit, a "special ongoing" series on whales ("Survival," David Holthouse, October 11)! Say, while looking at maps of where whales actually are,...
