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Feature
T.G.I.F.
Is the party over?
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 1, 2005
It's a sticky Saturday morning in mid-August, and Tara Logsdon is fried. The sun beats down on Logsdon, 31, as she arranges her bizarre-looking paintings next to some artful...
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Revolver
Cowboys From Hell
Shooting the bull with the AK Corral
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: September 1, 2005
I know a thing or two about riding mechanical bulls. Exactly two, in fact: the brutal dual blasts of pain in my testicles after I rode one a few years back at the state fair. I...
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Cafe
Tables Turned
Disarming hospitality
By Stephen Lemons
Published: September 1, 2005
My nostrils are so filled with the stink of keister-kissing by the other restaurant critics in this city that I long for nothing more than the hide of an overrated grub...
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Film
Low Yield
Thriller ripens into something distasteful
By Melissa Levine
Published: September 1, 2005
At the opening of The Constant Gardener, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of the novel by John le Carr, we hear a conversation before we see it. The screen...
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Speakeasy
Breast of Intentions
Mrs. Milliron has a pair of complaints
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 1, 2005
There are two things Amy Milliron wants you to know: First of all, she did not expose herself while breast-feeding her baby in public recently. And secondly, the media have...
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Night & Day
Raise the Nylon Curtain
The Billy Joel musical comes to Gammage
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 1, 2005
Somehow, there's nothing offensive about, say, Barry Manilow's oeuvre being transformed into a big, shiny musical. In fact, it just plain made sense when one of Manilow's nelly...
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Sidebar
Let's Get the Party Started
First Friday's "after" hours
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 1, 2005
The party's just getting started inside The Fort, even though it's well past 2 a.m. on the first Friday in August. Haunts like the Emerald Lounge have long since discharged...
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Shrapnel
Legend City
Tucson's Club Congress throws a mammoth 20th-anniversary party
By Jimmy Magahern
Published: September 1, 2005
If you've ever wondered why there are so many cryptic jabs at Arizona on The Simpsons -- from Homer's nixing of a Grand Canyon State vacation ("Arizona smells funny!") to Ned...
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Film
Spelunkheads
Leading a team of idiots
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: September 1, 2005
Viewers of those VH1 nostalgia countdown shows are familiar with the term "awesomely bad," denoting a song that one hates to love because it's unintentionally tacky and awful,...
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Studio Visit
Paper Pusher
The message is the medium
By Leanne Potts
Published: September 1, 2005
Cindy Iverson, 43, makes mixed-media collages and artist books, exquisitely crafted ruminations about anxiety, historical injustices and the secrets people keep. But first,...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-day Picks
By Clay McNear
Published: September 1, 2005
THU 1Phoenix's flirtation with the Surreal World continues with the opening of the Paper Heart's "Surreal September" exhibit on Friday, September 2, and Phoenix Art Museum's...
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News
Farewell, My Lovelies
The Miss Arizona pageant's chief sponsor says sayonara
By Sarah Fenske
Published: September 1, 2005
For all but the most breathless pageant addicts, the Miss Arizona competition this past June was low on drama. Miss Arizona 2004, a busty blonde, handed off her crown to the...
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Shrapnel
Critical Fatwa
Been there, heard that
By The Ayatollah of Rock
Published: September 1, 2005
All hail that doe-eyed siren known as Fiona Apple. Though she can be pretentious and sometimes seem unstable, these are faults we can forgive. No, we do not fatwa Apple, even...
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Film
Assault 'N' Prepper
Cannon goes undercover, fails to ignite
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: September 1, 2005
Remember Nick Cannon? For a while there, he seemed to be the next big young heartthrob, right after starring in the marching-band movie Drumline and the remake of the '80s...
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Art
Prints of Pop
Feelin' groovy
By Leanne Potts
Published: September 1, 2005
Walking through "Emilio Pucci," the fashion exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum, is like going back in time. The bikinis, gowns and mini-dresses covered in the Italian...
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Night & Day
Hoop Dreams
Ref and ready for amateur tourney
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: September 1, 2005
Tommy Nuñez knows that if you put 600 players in an amateur basketball tournament, there's going to be some major machismo in the air -- especially if all of the players...
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Letters
Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, September 1, 2005
Published: September 1, 2005
ClothesHorses Homegrown talent: With regard to the story about Arizona's fashion scene ("Angela's Ashes," Joe Watson, August 18), I strongly disagree with several points....
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Shrapnel
The Thrifty Ear
Spend no more than $10 on music this week
By Serene Dominic
Published: September 1, 2005
The Thrifty Ear shamelessly confesses he waited until every Who and Kinks B-side was exhausted before inspecting the impeccable Hollies' album discography. Since he's never met...
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Film
Uneven Steven
When Ashlee Simpson carries a movie. . .
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: September 1, 2005
Many of those who saw the Disney superhero spoof Sky High were impressed by the debut of Steven Strait. Playing the brooding school bully Warren Peace, who hurls fireballs at...
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Art
Art Scene
Current exhibits, installations, and shows
By Cristen Crujido and Leanne Potts
Published: September 1, 2005
"Hector Ruiz: La Realidad (Reality)" at the Heard Museum: Phoenix artist Hector Ruiz fires a shot between the eyes of American values with wood carvings, block prints, and...
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