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Issue: December 6, 2001
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23 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. Feature

    For the Love of Jamie

    Cheryl Moore expected a healthy baby to come off the plane from Korea. She got Jamie instead. And then she and her family made a surprising choice.

    By Amy Silverman
    Published: December 6, 2001

    Spaghetti-Os slide down Jamie Moore's chin and onto his paper-towel bib as he strains away from mom and spoon to get a better look at the television. Jamie is a discerning --...

  2. Music

    Oto So Far

    The band behind the Japanese name reclaims the spotlight from its departed front woman

    By Serene Dominic
    Published: December 6, 2001

    For Chrissakes, you wouldn't buy a car without first dialing in the radio. And you wouldn't rent an apartment without asking if it came with its own indigenous creepy crawlies....

  3. Cafe

    Bizarre and Grille

    How to put some thrill into a grill at DG's Metropolitan Deli.

    By Carey Sweet
    Published: December 6, 2001

    Well, whack me over the head with a lamb chop. Just when I think I've seen everything possible on a restaurant menu, something new sneaks up and surprises me. And not because a...

  4. Film

    Walking Away a Loser

    Soderbergh and Clooney knock over Vegas without much to show for it

    By Gregory Weinkauf
    Published: December 6, 2001

    The lights go down, and the puzzlement begins. Ensemble cast of superstars? Check. Loose remake of amusing curiosity? Check. Built-in, prefab sense of cool? Check. A little...

  5. Stuff

    Hunger Strike

    Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: December 6, 2001

    "Mr. Human Rights," they once called him, and though his was never the most famous name on the bill--that was Bono or Bruce Springsteen, Sting or Peter Gabriel--as the...

  6. Night & Day

    Reel Strange

    Prefer quirky movie houses? You'll take a shine to the Monkey Show.

    By Elan Head
    Published: December 6, 2001

    The idea behind The Monkey Show Movie Theater -- a place "to watch a really strange movie with a small and intimate audience" -- is not a new one. But unless one considers...

  7. News

    Disbar Dispute

    The jig may be up for a Tempe 'lawyer'

    By Paul Rubin
    Published: December 6, 2001

    If you're thinking of hiring a woman by the name of Connie Zakrajsek to be your attorney, think again. Maricopa County court officials recently learned that Zakrajsek -- who...

  8. Music

    Day Break

    Before they hooked up with Vagrant Records, Saves the Day were obscure pop-punks. Now they're the hottest indie-rock band around.

    By Brendan Joel Kelley
    Published: December 6, 2001

    "This song will become the anthem of your underground."This first line of "At Your Funeral," the first track on New Jersey emo quintet Saves the Day's album Stay What You Are,...

  9. Cafe

    Big Apple appeal

    The ambiance at Times Square Deli is Anywhere, USA, but the food is New York all the way

    By Carey Sweet
    Published: December 6, 2001

    Deli lovers have had their noses pressed against the glass at Times Square Deli since late spring, awaiting its planned August opening. Inevitable delays resulted in a November...

  10. Film

    Yearning Japanese

    A talking hand, a vampire hybrid and the exquisitely dark fantasy of Bloodlust

    By Luke Y. Thompson
    Published: December 6, 2001

    Of all the Japanese-made animated films to get a theatrical release in the United States in recent years, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is by far the most cinematic. It has a...

  11. Art

    Going Overboard

    Sifting through the wreckage at the Arizona Science Center with a serious Titanic fanatic

    By Robrt L. Pela
    Published: December 6, 2001

    My friend Paul is, among other things, a devoted Titanic enthusiast. While other little boys were playing kickball, Paul was playing "Capsize," a game he'd invented about being...

  12. Night & Day

    Merry-achi

    Music fest is a fine way to say Feliz Navidad

    By Sage Dillon
    Published: December 6, 2001

    Polish up your "La Bamba." For the 10th year in a row, some of the top mariachi groups in the country are coming to Phoenix to help ring in the holiday season.The Christmas...

  13. News

    Dry Noon

    In Bumble Bee ghost town, two Wild West-style businesses square off over the old town well

    By Jennifer Markley
    Published: December 6, 2001

    It's high noon in Bumble Bee, or at least it would have been a century ago. In the sleepy ghost town between the encroaching suburbs of Phoenix and Prescott, a couple of Wild...

  14. Music

    Dark Horse

    Though defined by the Beatles, George Harrison's greatest musical breakthroughs were very much his own

    By Gilbert Garcia
    Published: December 6, 2001

    It's one of the sad ironies of George Harrison's passing last week to cancer that he was memorialized by the international media as little more than a member of the world's...

  15. Eater's Digest

    Thrill of the Grill

    There's nothing brisk about brisket Texas-style

    By Dan Knight
    Published: December 6, 2001

    I have lived here in the Valley of the Sun for just a few weeks now, having moved here from Texas, where I grew up and spent most of my life.As soon as I got here, I picked up...

  16. Stage

    Simple Simon

    Is What It Is Theatre manages to make one of Neil Simon's smaller comedies into a pretty big deal

    By Robrt L. Pela
    Published: December 6, 2001

    Some weeks my job is less about offering opinions about theater than it is about dodging Neil Simon comedies. This week I failed to completely avoid my least favorite...

  17. Letters

    Letters

    From the week of December 6–12, 2001

    Published: December 6, 2001

    Back to Baja Scientific integrity challenged: It is unfortunate that Jill Stewart, Michael Lacey and Susan Goldsmith ("Crying Whale" and "The New Economy," November 22)...

  18. Music

    Still Rising?

    Racing to release part two of its Art Official Intelligence trilogy, De La Soul finds itself at a crossroads

    By Tim Grierson
    Published: December 6, 2001

    About a year ago, Prince Paul, as part of Handsome Boy Modeling School, opened for Radiohead at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, segueing playfully behind the turntables from...

  19. Spice

    Curious Gouge

    Asking for tips for takeout may be counterproductive

    By Carey Sweet
    Published: December 6, 2001

    It seems diners are tired of being taken to the cleaners when they order takeout. In an increasing trend across the Valley, tip jars are showing up on the counters of fast-food...

  20. Molten Wax

    Sugar High

    Saccharin & Trust

    By Brian Smith
    Published: December 6, 2001

    The dreaded word in "local scene" is, of course, the operative one: "local." In this context, local generally suggests unending mediocrity, the kind of excessive...

Issue: December 6, 2001
Page: 1
23 stories found - 1 through 20
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