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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...
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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....
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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"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...
