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Feature
Capitol Cop-Out
The Capitol Police is one of the state's smallest law enforcement agencies, and some say one of its worst
By John W. Allman
Published: April 25, 2002
For years, Capitol Police officers have arrested people without cause and harassed the homeless. They target those who hang out along the sidewalks and parking lots near state...
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Music
Feelin' It
Hard-house veteran DJ Feelgood still has the fever
By David Holthouse
Published: April 25, 2002
"Disco sucks" are fighting words to the finely honed ears of Charles Fields, widely known in the world of house music as DJ Feelgood. As a child growing up in Baltimore during...
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Cafe
Sakes, Rice and Videotape
Sushi enthusiasts belly up to the buffet
By Carey Sweet
Published: April 25, 2002
I'd have to be a moron not to go for the deal the Blockbuster guy is offering. I came in for one DVD, but the store is running this special, and the salesman's got me doing the...
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Film
Chairmen of the Board
Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys
By Bill Gallo
Published: April 25, 2002
The most compelling element of Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta's valentine to a crew of footloose Southern California teenagers who set a radical new style in skateboarding...
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Stuff
Lazarus, Reborn
Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 25, 2002
Peter Bogdanovich, maybe the last man alive who wears a neckerchief without irony, holds a copy of a newspaper article in which his old friend Larry McMurtry is saying nice, or...
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Night & Day
Fright Path
Stage play takes audience inside the black box
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 25, 2002
On a stark set dressed only with a nondescript console and a couple of chairs, three actors read verbatim transcripts from cockpit voice recorders of six real-life airline...
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Spiked
Wily Coyote
Team owner Ellman skates over financial inquiries
As told to John Dougherty
Published: April 25, 2002
The Spike has tried for years to get Phoenix Coyotes owner Steve Ellman to return phone calls about his wily financial maneuvers that led to the needless destruction of the Los...
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Music
Unlikely Hero
Seattle indie trio makes glorious guitar rock, but it can't escape comparisons to another stellar northwestern band
By Fred Mills
Published: April 25, 2002
During its seven-year tenure as one of indiedom's leading lights, Seattle's 764-Hero has reaped a massive harvest of glowing reviews -- fascinatingly, all written by the same...
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Spice
Wine, Oh
Irreverent vintner bottles laughter
By Carey Sweet
Published: April 25, 2002
After several years of attending The Best of the Fest event, I can pretty much guarantee that by the end of the evening, I'll be nodding off, stuffed to the gills with hors...
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Film
Cat Fight
Bogdanovich works out his demons on Citizen Hearst
By Bill Gallo
Published: April 25, 2002
Poor William Randolph Hearst. The snapping dogs of Hollywood just won't leave the guy alone. It's been barely 60 years since a little epic called Citizen Kane portrayed the...
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Stage
Bust in the Dust
ASU's adaptation of a historical romance novel leaves much to be desired
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 25, 2002
Although I spent two and a half hours looking at it the other night, I'm not entirely sure what Ramona is meant to be. I can tell you what it isn't: It's not at all...
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Night & Day
Sexual Personae
Amorous actor waxes autobiographical
By Michele Laudig
Published: April 25, 2002
An evil clown. An eccentric French painter. A philandering husband. A fledgling drag queen. Man of a thousand faces, John Leguizamo has played an impressive variety of...
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Nelson
Silent Witness
Bishop Thomas O'Brien has a history of covering for pedophile priests and obstructing justice. Has he really repented?
By Robert Nelson
Published: April 25, 2002
From guest editorials in the Sunday paper to letters read to congregations across the Valley, Bishop Thomas O'Brien has been on an aggressive campaign to sell himself as a...
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Music
Plan 9 for Inner Space
Sound Tribe Sector 9 finds new ways to improvise
By Eric Waggoner
Published: April 25, 2002
When Hunter Brown was a kid back in Georgia, he used to listen to records in his room and try to play along on the guitar. It's a necessary rite of passage for all players --...
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News
Second Best
Phoenix Heat fights to the finish at national tournament
By Susy Buchanan
Published: April 25, 2002
Though it's proven in the past that adversity tends to strengthen its resolve, the Phoenix Heat Quadriplegic Rugby team ("Murderball," Susy Buchanan, February 28) found no...
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Soundcheck
Club Feat
Boston's celebrates the end of an 11-year run
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: April 25, 2002
Years ago, when I lived in Dallas, one of the local bands threw a huge party for itself to celebrate its two-year anniversary. Keeping a band together for two years is a rare,...
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Letters
Portrait of a Young Man
Letters from the week of April 25, 2002
Published: April 25, 2002
Kids on the SkidsTeen angel, can you hear me?: Please, take the time to read this. I read your article about Christopher Camacho's death at the Adobe Mountain facility ("Dying...
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Molten Wax
Paul Westerberg
Stereo/Mono (Vagrant)
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 25, 2002
The "official" record -- Stereo, credited to Paul Westerberg, remember him? -- is sloppy in an "artful" way, meaning songs abruptly end when the tape runs out while others...
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Molten Wax
Cornershop
Handcream for a Generation (Beggar's Banquet)
By Steven Mirkin
Published: April 25, 2002
Joy is woefully underrepresented in today's popular music. Your average rock musician would rather admit to an unironic appreciation of Britney Spears than express something so...
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Molten Wax
Yuka Honda
Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)
By Cory Vielma
Published: April 25, 2002
Cibo Matto's 1996 debut, Viva La Woman, was a refreshing blast of ass-shaking grooves and nonsensical lyrics, made distinctive by its evocative samples and spare...
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