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Feature
Detour for Dummies
A user's guide
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 3, 2005
It's probably been terribly tough getting ahold of your artist friends lately. Don't worry, that monolithic mixed-media piece of theirs hasn't toppled over and pinned them...
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Music
The Way of the Wu
Haven't got enough Wu-Tang merchandise? Now there's a book
By Sam Machkovech
Published: March 3, 2005
The Wu-Tang Clan shouldn't still exist. In an industry where today's rap superstar becomes tomorrow's MC Hammer, nine Staten Island MCs pulled off the impossible. They...
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Cafe
Operation Oggie
Feeling a little Cornish? Here's your spot
By Stephen Lemons
Published: March 3, 2005
God, I could go for a pint of Stella Artois, or "wife-beater," as it's sometimes referred to in merry ol' England. I'm in a black-and-white box of an eatery, surrounded by...
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Film
Get Lost
A bad case of sequel fever can never Be Cool
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 3, 2005
The novel Be Cool, written by Elmore Leonard in 1999 while the ink was still wet on the publisher's advance, existed only because the beloved writer of seedy thrillers and...
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Speakeasy
No Friend of Dorothy
The doc sez Beat It
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 3, 2005
The Michael Jackson jury has been selected, and, not unlike Jackson himself, it's two-thirds female and mostly white. And if this jury doesn't help convict Jackson of the...
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Night & Day
Teach-In Aids
Activists hang together
By Lynh Bui
Published: March 3, 2005
For a day and a half, hundreds of local activists will try to shape a small corner of Arizona State University into the world they wished existed. For many who attend Local...
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Feature
State of the Art
If you paint it, they will come. Then what?
By Michele Laudig
Published: March 3, 2005
What began as a quiet gallery stroll is approaching full-blown street fair now that thousands of regulars clog Roosevelt Street on the first Friday of even the hottest Phoenix...
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Revolver
This Secret's Out
Soulful rap artists make it hurt pretty
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: March 3, 2005
My friend Billy used to always wear a button that said "Who Cares" on the collar of his jacket, until "some bitch" stole it off of him at a dive bar near our neighborhood....
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Film
Shock Treatment
Going completely mental
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: March 3, 2005
Come this time next year, The Jacket may well occupy the slot in movie discourse that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind does now -- that of the film that...
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Furious George
Emerald City
Smoke gets in his eyes, but George couldn't be happier than rockin' out with Phoenix's young, loud, and snotty
By George Tabb
Published: March 3, 2005
"Bwian," I say to my pal Brian -- because of the Monty Python film Life of Brian, but who I really like to call Emerald Brian since I know so many damn Brians -- "who all is...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Joe Watson
Published: March 3, 2005
THU 3 Objects, the Biltmore's newest men's and women's clothing and home furnishings boutique, is already known for its global thinking, snatching up apparel and merchandise...
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Feature
Paint the Town
Detour-goers cannot live by art alone
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 3, 2005
You don't fool me for a minute. You're admiring that Jeff Falk painting, maybe even whispering to your companion about Jeff's confident use of tempura and his canny allusions...
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Listen Up
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem
(DFA/Capitol)By Kiran Aditham
Published: March 3, 2005
In recent years, James Murphy has undeniably helped direct the hipster strata of New York music. DFA, the label that he produces with partner Tim Goldsworthy, is the Neptunes...
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Film
Lt. Nanny
Diesel fumes can't start this vehicle
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 3, 2005
The Pacifier, starring the human battering ram Vin Diesel as a Navy SEAL ordered to protect five kids from baddies out to steal their dead dad's invention, was written by...
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Furious Web Extra
Brain Trust
Let video games rot your gray matter before the zombies get to you
By George Tabb
Published: March 3, 2005
Maybe I'm not laughing as much at zombie flicks these days because I got a huge hole in my gut that's leaking blood and stuff all over the house, but still . . . Last night...
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Night & Day
The Curse of the Cursed
The Cubs dream of ending their jinx -- again
By Joe Watson
Published: March 3, 2005
I'm pacing outside the Chicago Cubs clubhouse at their winter training facility, Fitch Park in Mesa, at about 8 a.m. Beyond the foyer is a gaggle of Chicago beat writers who...
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News
Uncle Gonzo
A remembrance of days in Phoenix with madman journalist Hunter S. Thompson
By Paul Rubin
Published: March 3, 2005
Trouble is, now I'll never be able to collect that $21,000 that Hunter S. Thompson's owed me for going on 20 years. Not that I ever had expected to see a bloody nickel of the...
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Listen Up
The Kills
No Wow
(RCA)By j. poet
Published: March 3, 2005
In the language of analog recording, "wow" and "flutter" were terms used to describe the distortion common to the recording process. The title of The Kills' second album is...
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Film
Jaa Rules
Martial arts sensation Tony Jaa makes the most of his screen debut
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: March 3, 2005
If you want to know what Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior is all about, it's pretty easy to sum up. It starts with a big fight, as a group of local villagers plays capture-the-flag in...
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Art
Design of the Times
Practical magic at SMoCA show
By Leanne Potts
Published: March 3, 2005
Designers are maligned as the pragmatists of the art world, the art majors who were employable instead of outrageous, responsible instead of romantic. Unlike artists,...
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