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Feature
Illusions of Grandeur
He's done with art. Now Bill Tonnesen wants to build a Holocaust memorial in Phoenix
By Sarah Fenske
Published: March 17, 2005
Three years ago, Bill Tonnesen self-published a book announcing his plans to become one of the top modern artists in the world. The undisputed giants of the field were Richard...
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Music
Too Live Crüe
Hair metal hits the road
By Jason Bracelin
Published: March 17, 2005
Tommy Lee's first tattoo was of Mighty Mouse, a small, gaudy rendering of the pocket-size superhero bursting through a bass drum with sticks in his hands. Back in his early...
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Cafe
Bulgarian Rhapsody
By Stephen Lemons
Published: March 17, 2005
A lot of what's appealing about greater Phoenix falls into the classic can't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover category. I don't mean the lusher parts of Scottsdale or the desert...
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Film
The Virtues of Chastity
Cher was a whole other thing
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 17, 2005
Perhaps in honor of the fourth anniversary of Cher's farewell tour, MGM recently released a DVD edition of Chastity, the 1969 stink bomb featuring the singer's first dramatic...
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Furious George
Sick As a Dog
Tabb tries to get back on track
By George Tabb
Published: March 17, 2005
About one week out of major abdomen surgery, it starts. Not the pain, or my clock-watching hours of when I could take my next pain pill. No, that would have been easy. A...
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Night & Day
The Bad Seed
Sibling rivalry is the pits when your name's Gallagher
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 17, 2005
You'd think your own brother wouldn't bust your watermelon. Produce-pulverizing comedian Gallagher didn't have a problem with his younger brother, Ron, touring as a Gallagher...
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Dougherty
Religious Wrong
A state lawmaker's assault on the campus press is trickle-down from Dubya's White House
By John Dougherty
Published: March 17, 2005
Mesa Republican Representative Russell Pearce, co-chairman of the powerful Arizona House Appropriations Committee, is launching a pitched assault on the First Amendment to the...
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Music
Two Much
Tegan and Sara's twin-powered pop is no ordinary sister act
By Michele Laudig
Published: March 17, 2005
Tegan Quin is happy to set the record straight about some things that have been written about her and her sister Sara. Their band, Tegan and Sara, is really a five-piece, not...
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Film
Deep Impact
Revisiting the moment porn went mainstream
By Michael Fox
Published: March 17, 2005
A cynic might describe movies as the most depraved and fantastic system of exploitation ever devised. After all, they trade on the greed and hubris of financiers, the beauty...
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Furious Web Extra
Press Play
Tabb takes a bunch of new CDs for a spin
By George Tabb
Published: March 17, 2005
Punk rock, baby. It's been one of those weeks where nothing seems to be getting my joystick hard. It's probably because I'm still down from this surgery I had, but, well, I...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Joe Watson
Published: March 17, 2005
THU 17 Believe it or not, we capitalist pigs get it right once in a while. For example: a little thing called electricity, the assembly line, and, uh, belly-dancing. True,...
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Inferno
Almost-Almost Famous
P-town's Meg White and Jack Black hang with Xiu Xiu and the art stars of tomorrow at Modified
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: March 17, 2005
"Jeez, Jett, try not to pull a Dale Earnhardt on our ass!" I croak as the PHX's sultry, bi-lovin' speed-demoness skids around a corner toward the alt-music nightspot Modified...
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Listen Up
Thievery Corporation
The Cosmic Game
(ESL Music)By Tim Grierson
Published: March 17, 2005
With its previous albums, Thievery Corporation's adoration for the cocktail lounge could wear thin. But The Cosmic Game embraces a broader song-based collection, buoyed by...
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Film
Out Like a Lamb
Hitler's last days, with an awkward note of sympathy
By Bill Gallo
Published: March 17, 2005
The chilling oddity of Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall is not limited to the fact that it's the first mainstream German film to grapple with Adolf Hitler -- six decades after...
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Speakeasy
Jew Talk Too Much
New Jew Revue
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 17, 2005
You shouldn't know from Sunday morning AM radio -- with maybe one exception. Too Jewish With Rabbi Sam Cohon and Friends, which debuted here last month, is fast becoming a...
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Night & Day
ReQuiem for a (Midsummer Night's) Dream
Being Goth gives you wings
By Lynh Bui
Published: March 17, 2005
By day, Paula Shimel is an unassuming real estate marketer who loves to eat chocolate, update her blog and gush over her three cats, Nermal, Nala and Bastet. But on Friday...
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Letters
Letters
Letters from the week of March 17, 2005
Published: March 17, 2005
What Would Jesus Write? Bunch of martyrs: I just wanted to say that Charles Pyeatte's rant in last week's Letters column ("The Passion of the Priest," March 10) was more of...
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Listen Up
Comeback Kid
Wake the Dead
(Victory Records)By Chelsea Ide
Published: March 17, 2005
Wow. A year ago, if you had told me that I would regard Canada's Comeback Kid highly, and utter "best album I've heard in at least a year" about its disc, I would have laughed...
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Film
Losing Steam
Mostly hot air, despite its creator's pedigree
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: March 17, 2005
Katsuhiro Ôtomo's Steamboy will be released nationwide in both subtitled and dubbed versions. At the press screening, both were shown simultaneously in neighboring...
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Studio Visit
Shabby Chic
Giving Phoenix the full Nelson
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 17, 2005
John Nelson, 48, renowned outsider artist, creates primitive acrylic and collage-on-wood-panel works inspired by puns and word play that strike his fancy. Nelson’s new...
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