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Urban Experience
Abject Art
Gidget Gein meets Mr. Spock
By Niki D'Andrea, Benjamin Leatherman and Julie Peterson
Published: September 1, 2005
9/2-9/30Looking at Gidget Gein's art is like recognizing an old friend in a crowd and joyfully running up to greet him, only to be appalled by the huge new tumor sticking out...
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Inferno
To-ga! To-ga!
Jett and Kreme slip between the sheets and go Roman at Dos Gringos
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: September 1, 2005
"There's more white cloth in here than a Klan meetin' in Georgia!" I spit as we cross the threshold of Old Town Scottsdale's Dos Gringos for the club's toga party last...
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Music
Joe Strummer Revisited
Two long-lost reissues shed new light on a punk icon
By Andrew Marcus
Published: September 1, 2005
Here's a cultural riddle: Take an icon of a major pop movement and pretend the movement never happened: Ice Cube without gangsta rap, Ken Kesey without LSD, John Lydon without...
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Film
Free At Last
A journey to America, and then to someplace better
By Bill Gallo
Published: September 1, 2005
The questing hero of Hans Petter Moland's The Beautiful Country is a slender, big-eyed young man named Binh (California-educated Damien Nguyen), who has little going for him...
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Sports/Outdoors
Hot Dogs
Dachshunds relish dash for charity cash
By Wynter Holden, Clay McNear and Douglas Towne
Published: September 1, 2005
SAT 9/3Wieners go great with mustard. Or ketchup. Or . . . racing stripes? Proud owners of pintsize pups pounded the pavement over the past few months, digging up donations...
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Live Wire
Less Pain Forever
Take as needed
By Serene Dominic
Published: September 1, 2005
One stands, one sits! Both sing, rock and overextend themselves! It's a simple winning concept that every minimalist duo without a bass player has employed to great personal...
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See/Be Seen
Cutting-Edge Cup o' Joe
Tea and mocha at SMoCA, anyone?
By Niki D'Andrea, Benjamin Leatherman, Julie Peterson and Douglas Towne
Published: September 1, 2005
9/3-12/31Designer Michael Graves (of Target teakettle fame) cemented his household-word status in 1979, when he participated in the "Tea and Coffee Piazza" project sponsored by...
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Live Wire
Sweater Club
Youth is rough, it really is
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 1, 2005
The lifeblood of ska has always been struggle and adversity of some sort. Songs like Desmond Dekker's "007 (Shanty Town)" and Dandy Livingstone's "A Message to You Rudy" embody...
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Performance
New Waves
Seismic surfs the '60s
By Niki D'Andrea, Wynter Holden and Clay McNear
Published: September 1, 2005
SAT 9/3In the '60s, if you caught people leaving a rock concert and asked how the show was, they might have answered with something like, "Man, that three-hour version of...
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Live Wire
John Mellencamp, and John Fogerty
Break out the blue collars
By Tim Grierson
Published: September 1, 2005
Beyond obvious nostalgia (and having the same first name), this pairing of classic rock veterans makes a certain amount of sense. Consider that both drink from the well of rich...
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Live Wire
Jucifer
The devil you don't know
By Michael Roberts
Published: September 1, 2005
Anyone silly enough to believe that music journalism is populated exclusively by deep thinkers will be quickly disabused of the notion after thumbing through the Jucifer clip...
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Live Wire
Veda
Living and learning
By Jason Harper
Published: September 1, 2005
Veda's hometown of Kansas City was immediately sold on its early sound -- a soaring, loose, emo-operatic, naked-soul-baring tidal wave fit for washing over today's tragic...
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Listen Up
Death Cab for Cutie
Plans
(Atlantic)By Annie Zaleski
Published: September 1, 2005
What Death Cab for Cutie does best on its major-label debut, Plans, is capture flashbulb moments of melancholy -- the dissolution of a summer romance, growing apart from a...
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Listen Up
ODB
A Son Unique
(Def Jam)By Rossiter Drake
Published: September 1, 2005
Pieced together by an all-star team of producers (RZA, Raekwon, Mark Ronson) and bolstered by guest vocalists like Missy Elliott, Macy Gray, and fellow Wu-Tang alumni Ghostface...
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Listen Up
Idlewild
Warnings/Promises
(EMI)By Tim Grierson
Published: September 1, 2005
These Scots seem destined to be the U.K.'s odd men out, a fate that's tragic but fitting. Unlike conquering heroes Coldplay, this quintet wears a disgruntled sense of defeat...
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Listen Up
Little Brother
The Chittlin Circuit 1.5
(Fastlife)By Eric K. Arnold
Published: September 1, 2005
If hip-hop is dead, somebody forgot to tell Little Brother. The North Carolina-based affiliates of the Justus League crew have gone from regional up-and-comers to nationally...
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Listen Up
The Volebeats
Like Her
(Turquoise Mountain)By Noah W. Bailey
Published: September 1, 2005
Besides the White Stripes, the Volebeats might be the best band the Motor City has to offer. Like the Jayhawks drenched in reverb, they make classic folk-rock that's part...
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Listen Up
Jamie Lidell
Multiply
(Warp)By Jonathan Zwickel
Published: September 1, 2005
It takes some patient, ear-to-the-speaker listening before Jamie Lidell's off-kilter, glitch-funk tendencies come to light on Multiply, but that sultry subtlety makes the album...
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Needle Exchange
Menu at AZ 88
Your taste in music's 15 minutes of fame
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: September 1, 2005
Who needs freakin' DJs anyway? Unless they're scratching, beat juggling, or throwing down mash-ups, they're just playing songs -- you know what you wanna listen to better than...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing
Who's spinning what, where and when
Published: September 1, 2005
Thursday 1 Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40) Ain't Nobody's Bizness: DJ Suzy (hip-hop, dance) Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with AKA (gothic,...
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