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Feature
Dude Where's My Car?
Tales from the nation's auto theft capital
By Bruce Rushton
Published: August 19, 2004
It sounds too good to be true. Just stick the key in, jiggle it around a little, and presto: Any Chrysler product manufactured between 1992 and 1999 will open and start. At...
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Music
Finding The Cure
Confessions of a doom doll
By Michele Laudig
Published: August 19, 2004
If you love music, you can probably name a band that changed your life, that was a catalyst for your attitudes and tastes and ideas. That's not to say you got stuck on it...
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Cafe
Bravo, Blac-a-Zoli
New eatery good to go
By Stephen Lemons
Published: August 19, 2004
One dilemma I face as a restaurant reviewer is how long of a grace period I should allow an infant establishment before writing about its fare. Some of my pals in the eatin'...
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Film
Future Shock
Sci-fi fans "clamoring for gunplay, rooftop chases or killer robots will be sorely missing the point"
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: August 19, 2004
The future is almost here. At least, it is according to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pandaemonium) and director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People), two cinematic...
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Art
Studio Visit: Disturbed Beauty
A Phoenix artist who dreams up dark works like The Nightmare
By Ashlea Deahl
Published: August 19, 2004
It's too easy to label Rachel Bess dark. After all, the 24-year-old artist harbors an obvious obsession with mortality. Her artwork is more still-dead than still-life, often...
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Night & Day
Kilt Lifter
Book signing and movie screening
By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: August 19, 2004
Randall Wallace is a curious guy. Raised in Tennessee and schooled at Duke, he put himself through a year of divinity school by teaching karate, wrote songs for a while in...
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Sidebar
Car Theft by the Numbers
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Published: August 19, 2004
How often a car is stolen in Arizona: Every nine minutes, 16 seconds Value of cars stolen in 2002: $377.3 million Number stolen in 2002: 57,668 Number of vehicles stolen...
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Revolver
The Ultimate Rock Fantasy
Rob Harvilla
Published: August 19, 2004
Behold, underachieving, Internet-surfing cubicle-dweller of corporate America: Your next great workplace distraction awaits. For we have invented it: Fantasy Rock Stars. ...
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Film
Paddled Senseless
A farcical take on Deliverance
By Bill Gallo
Published: August 19, 2004
Summer movies don't get much sillier or more empty-headed than Without a Paddle, and that includes Catwoman and King Arthur. What we have here is a low-wattage buddy flick...
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Art Scene
Art Scene
Reviews by Gina Cavallo Collins and Kathleen Vanesian
Published: August 19, 2004
Xicanindio at Tempe Public Library: Tucked away upstairs in the Tempe Public Library are prints from local and regional Latino/Chicano and Native American artists produced at...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Jill Koch and Joe Watson
Published: August 19, 2004
THU 19 Going back to school sounds like a perfect reason to panic; if we remember the nightmare correctly, we show up late, ill-prepared and naked. This calls for a field...
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Dougherty
Special Treatment
Is justice for sale? Ask privileged characters like Jerry Colangelo
John Dougherty
Published: August 19, 2004
We all know how Joe Arpaio serves up justice to average schmucks. He proudly shows no mercy. He subjects them to the vilest of conditions. Death and injuries often result....
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Home Grown
. . . And Guppies Eat Their Young
Once (Audio Empire/Scapular Winging Records)
Serene Dominic
Published: August 19, 2004
Sure, any group can record 10 unhappy tracks in a row and call it an album, but it takes truly accomplished visionaries to make 10 miserable songs into a riveting audiomovie...
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Film
Monster Mash
Evil space critters get ready to rumble in AVP
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: August 19, 2004
Although most people in the moviegoing universe by now know the differences between an "Alien" and a "Predator," putting the two critters together in one movie really ought to...
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Night & Day
Screwing the Pooch
A very adult fairy tale
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: August 19, 2004
Those zany kids at Stray Cat Theatre have strapped a leash onto their new season, which they're opening with something called Poona, the Fuckdog -- a title as compelling as it...
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News
Bush League
ASU's museum cut anti-Bush art from its upcoming political exhibition -- for purely political reasons.
By Joe Watson
Published: August 19, 2004
After vowing publicly that no piece of art would be cut, Arizona State University Art Museum director Marilyn Zeitlin chose to "eliminate" several pieces originally slated for...
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Listen Up
Mouse on Mars
Radical Connector (Touch & Go)
J. Edward Keyes
Published: August 19, 2004
Luddites, fear not -- Mouse on Mars has not come to alienate you. On this, their eighth full-length, the Mice instead demonstrate a keen interest in nesting within more...
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Urban Experience
Caught on Film
Pollack Cinemas snags indie flicks
Niki D'Andrea, Benjamin Leatherman, Joe Watson and Jonathan Winters
Published: August 19, 2004
Fri 8/20 What if Spider-Man 2 or The Bourne Supremacy had skipped out on Phoenix movie theaters? Madness would take to the streets. Yet fans cope as independent films regularly...
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Letters
Letters
Letters from the week of August 19, 2004
Published: August 19, 2004
Editor's note: John Dougherty's August 5 column "Dog Day Afternoon" generated more than 1,000 letters and telephone calls from outraged readers. They were mostly from Maricopa...
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Listen Up
Guided by Voices
Half Smiles of the Decomposed (Matador)
J. Edward Keyes
Published: August 19, 2004
And so we come to last call at the House of GBV, and it's hard not to get a bit misty. For whatever indifference or disappointment greeted anything he'd made since Under the...
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