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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 --...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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