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Urban Experience
"Tranz" It
Dark nights await goth chicks at new club Palazzo
By Niki D'Andrea and Ashlea Deahl
Published: March 3, 2005
FRI 3/4 Phoenix hasn't exactly been a hotbed of the gothic club scene. For one thing, it's too sunny here (honest, it is!) for any "vampire" to survive; and for another, it's...
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Inferno
Low-Rent Libertines
P-town's party monsters descend on Jugheads for Sadisco's perved-out Prom Night Massacre
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: March 3, 2005
It's midnight at Sadisco's monthly ball of glorious, gutter depravity, and the debauch is in full swing. Some industrial joint is screeching from the speakers, and the TVs are...
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Listen Up
Tom Russell
Hot Walker
(Hightone)By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: March 3, 2005
Tom Russell is best known as a hip cowboy/country singer-songwriter, and he's always interesting in that capacity. But this new disc is something else entirely -- it's...
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Art Scene
Art Scene
Current shows, exhibits and installations
Reviews by Cristen Crujido, Benjamin Leatherman, and Amy Young
Published: March 3, 2005
Tato Caraveo at The Lost Leaf: Some guys have all the luck. Besides serving as the bassist for the jazz trio Sonorous, turns out Adaupto "Tato" Caraveo is a talented surrealist...
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Sports/Outdoors
Happy Trails
Hike! For the love of dogs
By Niki D'Andrea, Ashlea Deahl and Joe Watson
Published: March 3, 2005
SAT 3/5 If your pooch's flabby paunch is starting to rival your beer gut, it's time to get that mutt some exercise. Take a hike with your canine companion on Saturday, March...
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Listen Up
Yuppie Pricks; The Doers
Brokers Banquet
(Alternative Tentacles)Ready Set . . . Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything
(Red Cat Records)By Andrew Marcus
Published: March 3, 2005
A band had better have a double keg of chutzpah on hand when its idol and main influence is in the room. Luckily for the Yuppie Pricks, Jello Biafra has a sense of humor -- one...
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Studio Visit
Studio Visit
Painter's not afraid to let us watch
By Stephen Lemons
Published: March 3, 2005
Jason Rudolph Peña, 26, is the PHX's kick-back Gustav Klimt. The soft-spoken iconoclast is known for his live paintings of ethereal women with large, dreamy eyes....
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See/Be Seen
Riot Squad
Anarchist Library screens defiant double feature
By Ashlea Deahl and Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 3, 2005
SUN 3/6 The revolution will be televised -- if, that is, you happen to be at Thought Crime, 1019 North Central, on Sunday, March 6, for the Anarchist Library's screening of the...
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Letters
Letters
Letters from the week of March 3, 2005
Published: March 3, 2005
Let Us Prey Two lives devastated: I just finished reading Robert Nelson's article regarding Dale Fushek ("Cross to Bare," February 24). Nelson did a wonderful job. I have to...
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Listen Up
Los Super Seven
Heard It on the X
(Telarc)By j. poet
Published: March 3, 2005
If you were driving cross-country in the '50s and '60s, you prayed for sundown, because after dark, you picked up the signals of outlaw Mexican radio giants XERB, XEG and XERF....
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Performance
Toe the LINES
SF ballet troupe's got rhythm and Blues
By Niki D'Andrea, C. Murphy Hebert and Merilyn Jackson
Published: March 3, 2005
FRI 3/4 Last fall, renowned African-American choreographer Alonzo King took up residence at the White Oak Plantation in Yulee, Florida, where Mikhail Baryshnikov's Dance...
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Listen Up
Mando Diao
Hurricane Bar
(Mute)By j. poet
Published: March 3, 2005
The Swedish cats in Mando Diao have spent a long time with their British Invasion albums. On Bring 'Em In, their debut salvo, their Beatles-meets-Yardbirds take on Brit pop...
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Live Wire
Sage Francis
Ideas with the force of bullets
By D.X. Ferris
Published: March 3, 2005
On A Healthy Distrust, rapper Sage Francis' solo debut for Epitaph, a predominantly punk label, the New England native teams up with producer Dangermouse (of Grey Album fame)...
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Live Wire
Bullet Train to Moscow CD Release Party
Something for everyone
By Chelsea Ide
Published: March 3, 2005
Bullet Train to Moscow is back with a spankin' new self-titled disc, and fans will surely be pleased to have it in their hands. Bullet Train blasts through 14 songs that are...
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Live Wire
Ska is Dead Tour
But come on out anyway. . .
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 3, 2005
The rumors about ska's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Rude Boys have kept reinventing it again and again, and ska's last incarnation, "the third wave," saw its horns and...
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Live Wire
Eroticide
Raw but legal
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 3, 2005
Eroticide learned not to wave dildos in front of children the hard way. After one of the band's sexually explicit shows, which include all manner of lewd, homemade props, sex...
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Live Wire
Koko Taylor
Raise your glass to the next seven decades
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 3, 2005
The back of Koko Taylor's 1978 record The Earthshaker shows a black-and-white photo of the blues belter and her band in a smoke-filled bar, seated around a table that's packed...
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Live Wire
Los Lobos
Heavy on the roots this time out
By j. poet
Published: March 3, 2005
Los Lobos exploded out of the barrios of Los Angeles in 1983 with and a time to dance, a seven-song mini-album that meshed Mexican folk music, blues, rock and R&B into a unique...
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Live Wire
Xiu Xiu
Moody in a good way
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 3, 2005
Long before they entrenched themselves in a spat rivaling the East Coast/West Coast rivalry of Biggie and Tupac, former Smiths front man Morrissey and fellow sad sot Robert...
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What's Selling
Top 10 selling CDs at Stinkweeds Record Exchange (1250 East Apache Boulevard in Tempe)
Chart-toppers for February 20 through 26
Published: March 3, 2005
1. Iron & Wine, Woman King (Sub Pop) 2. Low, The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop) 3. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy, Superwolf (Drag City/Caroline) 4. Death Cab for Cutie,...
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