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Deloy Bateman begins each school day long before dawn.
He rousts five of his teenage children from bed at 2 a.m. An hour later, the clan arrives at the Colorado City public...
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Gas may be over $2 a gallon, and movies will soon blow through the $10 barrier, but hey, at least you still have the New Times Music Showcase.
For a $7 wristband, we present...
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I'm feeling like that guy in Mystic Pizza, the cozy Julia Roberts movie from 1988. Remember him? He played "The Everyday Gourmet," a TV restaurant critic who traveled to...
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Among Anger Management's copious flaws is the fact that its premise doesn't wash. Adam Sandler's Dave Buznik, a designer of catalogues for overweight-cat clothing, isn't really...
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Maybe all you want out of your pop music is a few minutes of escape, a radio-friendly respite from the heavy humdrum of your workaday existence. Maybe you likes to hang with 50...
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Peppermint Patty would be horrified. Lucy would scream bloody murder. But Charlie Brown is here to save the day from evil dentists who are filling our faces with evil...
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If you still think of improv comedy as amateur night, let the Phoenix Improv Festival change your mind. This second annual two-day event brings the best of Valley improv...
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The Spike is a big believer in the scientific theorem known as What Goes Around Comes Around. Thus The Spike was happy to see that a Phoenix police officer recently won a...
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The music industry may want to eulogize Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and Nine Inch Nails, but the alchemy of industrial, metal and theatrics still strikes a chord with teens who...
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"Eloooootes, eloooootes," chanted Jaime, an awkward and petite man. As though in a trance he stood there, all five feet of him, dressed in his white cotton manta pants wrapped...
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Director David Cronenberg has led his loyal fans down some pretty spooky corridors, including the telepathic netherworld of Scanners, the violent sibling rivalry of twin...
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Amadeus is a smartly written, clever character piece that spins the life of Mozart into a demented bedtime story as told by the great composer's rival, Antonio Salieri. And, as...
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Thursday, 10
Her debut CD may be called The Queen of Pain, but Colleen Duffy, the glamorous chanteuse known as Devil Doll, is nothing but pleasure for the eyes and the ears....
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Only one thing has become absolutely clear as the pedo-priest scandal reaches its first anniversary in Phoenix:
Bishop Thomas O'Brien cares about nothing other than keeping...
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Like a five-headed Joe Millionaire, Ticker Tape Parade, an average-guy amalgam of pizza deliverer, construction worker, data entry clerk, tee shirt printer and "between...
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Bite Me was longing for the hot, sexy strip club vibe of Sunset Boulevard, so she started asking around about strip clubs in Phoenix. She was concerned that they may not exist...
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In 1997's The Apostle, Robert Duvall took on a subject near and dear to his heart: Southern Pentecostal preachers. No one would make the film for him, so he went ahead and...
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A trip to the movies can be both an escape and an arrival, transporting us to different worlds and aligning us with the kinds of experiences that can enlighten and illuminate...
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Teenage Wasteland
Gone but not forgotten: Hooray for Amy Silverman! Hooray for New Times!! Someone has finally noticed that another youth has died in the hands of ADJC...
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"If you get any four guys into a room, it doesn't matter if they do market research or accounting or whatever -- they fuck around all the time," contends Sum 41 drummer Steve...
