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In his cruel and unusual 1994 book Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos, Maricopa County Attorney hopeful Andrew Peyton Thomas wrote this:
"By publicly...
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"I wouldn't consider us a throwback, but I also wouldn't say we're reinventing the wheel of rock 'n' roll," says Ronnie Vannucci, drummer for the Killers. "We're taking the...
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Nineteenth-century journalist, poet and author Charles Pierre Monselet once stated that "a true gastronome should always be ready to eat, just as a soldier should always be...
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Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Maria Full of Grace is an uncomfortably realistic look at a 17-year-old Colombian woman who, desperate...
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Plenty of Olympic athletes trained in Phoenix for the summer games, and we even managed to send some locals to compete in Athens this month. But the Valley's truest distinction...
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A displaced mother and daughter beg for food in India, where women and children make up 75 percent of refugees. A homeless Ethiopian woman clutches her baby, fighting the chill...
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Public support for Outlaw Joe is eroding at an astonishing rate as the September 7 Republican primary nears, with more evidence surfacing that Arpaio profited by offering cushy...
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My friend John has recently been tinkering with activism: When he's bored at work, he's been duplicating Kyle Goen's infamous poster with a picture of President Bush that says...
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Those of us who have grown up in the United States may be weary of our country's claims of freedom and opportunity. Faced with a wobbly quote from our leader attributing...
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Picture me, just this once, wearing a shiny turban anchored with a big paste jewel. I'm sitting before a tiny, round, velvet-covered table, gazing into a crystal ball. The ball...
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THU 26
For more than a year, Emerg McVay of local band Bionic Jive has hosted the collective elements of spoken word, hip-hop and graffiti art at the Priceless Inn, 5014 South...
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From the street, Tempe's Palo Verde Lounge looks like the sort of janky, pale brick building that might house a meth lab, a massage parlor, or a drop spot where the mob boys...
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"I use speech to bust rhymes through a concrete wall," raps Boston MC/producer Insight on "Evolve," the first single from The Blast Radius. Insight's music is meant to hit like...
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There's a new movie called Hero. Don't confuse it with that dusty Dustin Hoffman vehicle, nor with the epic Bollywood musical espionage extravaganza Hero: Love Story of a Spy...
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Hell hath no fury like a wanna-be filmmaker scorned.
After being left in financial ruin by a Nashville investment banker nearly 18 years ago, Dan Wilkins dreamed up a...
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Political Leanings
Far from ideal: I have no doubt that Rick Murphy is a man of personal integrity. However, he is still far from ideal for representing Arizona ("Jesus...
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PolyGram, now a part of Universal Music, established a market presence in Brazil more than 50 years ago, and its back catalogue includes bossa nova, tropicalia, MPB, samba,...
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It should go without saying that when one goes to see a movie about giant killer snakes, the main point of the whole endeavor is to watch people get eaten by giant killer...
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C. Murphy Hebert, Benjamin Leatherman and Joe Watson Published:
August 26, 2004
Fri 8/27
Adult puppetry is all the rage these days, but the folks at Skeleton Puppetry Theatre don't think the genre's sexual innuendo or macabre humor would have any appeal...
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"We were a fine drinking band, and most of our best work was done in the pub," says Rod Stewart in the liner notes to the phenomenal new Faces four-CD boxed set, Five Guys Walk...
