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Feature
Balls in the Air
Steely County Attorney Rick Romley's going, but he's not gone. He'd like to take the governor's office from Janet Napolitano
By Paul Rubin
Published: December 16, 2004
Rick Romley remembers precisely what he said to his rescuers after a land mine in Vietnam blew his body apart on April 7, 1969. "I asked them if my balls were still there,"...
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Music
Must Sea
A band of local indie rockers quietly builds a name for itself
By Michele Laudig
Published: December 16, 2004
Sitting outside one of his favorite haunts, Tempe's Stinkweeds Records, on a bright December afternoon, Eli Kuner is clearly on edge. He seems relaxed at first as he chats...
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Cafe
Bada Bomb
An offer you can refuse
By Stephen Lemons
Published: December 16, 2004
Everyone knows about Pavlov's dogs: those canines that helped Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov demonstrate that the natural flow of saliva in Sparky's mouth could be induced by...
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Film
Sour Lemony
Dark fun with orphans
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 16, 2004
This much can be said for the movie version of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Its villain, Count Olaf, just might be Jim Carrey's finest screen role. A...
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Speakeasy
Don't Park It
Homeless for the holidays
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 16, 2004
Last Wednesday, while Phoenix City Council members considered an ordinance that would allow police to evict transients from city parks, Kurt Brewer was relaxing at home. While...
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Night & Day
Band Together
Local musicians jam to support venue
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 16, 2004
Quick, who's got the best selection of local music in the Valley? Zia? Hardly. Eastside Records? Possibly. Leslie Barton? Definitely. With hundreds of CDs bursting from two...
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News
Gone But Not Forgotten
Years after a hideous double murder, life goes on for surviving family members
By Paul Rubin
Published: December 16, 2004
Phoenix residents awoke on the morning of March 9, 1991, to terrible news. Someone had bludgeoned an elderly father and his daughter to death inside their small east Phoenix...
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Music
Burrito Brothers
Bluewall Audience fuels up for a successful career
By Chelsea Ide
Published: December 16, 2004
Bluewall Audience has been so busy reviewing and signing contracts, conducting meetings, and approving shirt designs that at least every other week, its members have to convene...
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Film
All You Can Eat
Spanglish piles it on
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 16, 2004
In Spanglish, which is less a story than a snapshot of a crumbling marriage populated by sitcom characters, Adam Sandler plays John Clasky, an average man with an above-average...
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Stage
Scrooged Again
Pick of the Dickens
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 16, 2004
It's been a very long time since I've reviewed Actors Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol. I see it every year, but I haven't troubled anyone outside of my home...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Joe Watson
Published: December 16, 2004
THU 16 Seems everyone from Dumperfoo's Blunt Club in Tempe to Mickey's Hangover in Scottsdale finally might have some central Phoenix competition in appealing to the...
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Inferno
Monday Night Meatmarket
From the window to the wall, ACME's tight, and the Kreme clique's aiight.
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: December 16, 2004
Let's see if I can do justice to this mutha: Monday nights at ACME Roadhouse in Tempe are off the hook, the chain, the rope, the string, and just about anything else you can...
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Revolver
Titty Ditties
The secret life of the gentlemen's DJ
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: December 16, 2004
My guts are churning with anticipation and trepidation as I step into the dimmed alcove that is Cheerleaders, the topless gentlemen's club on University Drive in east Phoenix....
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Film
Disengaged
A French auteur makes a Hollywood-style epic about love and war
By Melissa Levine
Published: December 16, 2004
A Very Long Engagement, the new film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (most famously of Amélie), will have its fans. For one thing, there's no denying its beauty,...
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Stage Frights
Satan Place
How not to party like it's some guy's birthday
Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 16, 2004
Okay. Let's say that Jesus Christ is real, and that he was born to a virgin mother and is the son of an all-powerful but invisible being who offered up his only offspring in...
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Night & Day
Doo-Wop Dues
Pioneer gets his propers
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 16, 2004
Gaynel Hodge didn't pick a fight with Dick Dale. He just showed up at Dale's December 8 performance at the Rhythm Room, got a picture with the man who'd recorded his song...
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Letters
Letters
Letters from the week of December 16, 2004
Published: December 16, 2004
Old Guard A dilemma of epidemic proportions: I was moved by your story on nursing homes. It is about time someone wrote an article about this despicable problem ("Hope I Die...
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Live Wire
Jingle Bowls featuring the Phunk Junkeez
Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 16, 2004
When talking to people from the other side of the country, there are usually three local bands you can name that they've heard of: the Gin Blossoms, Jimmy Eat World, and the...
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Urban Experience
OK, Go Go
Paper Heart makes a Modest Proposal
Niki D'Andrea, C. Murphy Hebert, Douglas Towne and Joe Watson
Published: December 16, 2004
SAT 12/18 Jonathan Swift's satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" discussed how to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from becoming a burden to their parents. One...
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Live Wire
Dollyrots
Serene Dominic
Published: December 16, 2004
Before landing a record deal in 1978, the Police dyed their collective locks blond and posed as a punk band for a bubblegum advert. That wasn't the only time a pop trio got its...
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