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He's not your stereotypical firefighter: beefy, deliciously cocky, over-the-top charismatic.
Instead, Pat Cantelme is a small man with a soft voice and a certain reserve. In...
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In late spring of this year, I was kicking myself for having missed the 10-year anniversary show for local label Truxton Records. A few weeks later, the label's proprietor,...
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Regarding the fleeting nature of human achievement, I'm reminded of the words of that controversial icon of early cinema, director D.W. Griffith, who once stated, "Movies are...
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The Weather Man, starring Nicolas Cage as a disappointment of a son and a failure of a father, was screened for critics in the spring, before its April release was pushed to...
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I was walking out of Trader Joe's last week when an extra-smiley man in a tie-dyed dashiki stepped in front of me. "Would you like to invite Jesus into your life to be your...
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We've all been kicked in the junk by Marvel superheroes before. Watching Elektra was like two hours of nut-pummeling by a relentless, sack-hating donkey. But superhero films --...
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The inspiration for Alwun House's hedonistic horror-pop party Monster's Ball was Hieronymus Bosch's 16th-century painting Garden of Earthly Delights, or, as Alwun House...
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New York and Phoenix -- New Times Media and Village Voice Media, the nation's leading alternative media companies, today announced a definitive agreement to merge. The new...
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The increasingly combative File-Sharing Wars have come to this: Record companies now assume you may have criminal intent whether you buy CDs honestly or not. Recent releases...
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Does Steve Martin have multiple personality disorder -- or is he just brilliantly in tune with some things and wildly out of touch with others? Shopgirl, the movie based on...
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Colin Chillag's paintings at Modified Arts make you feel like you've seen them before, in an earlier life.
The one of a grandmotherly woman holding a baby is eerily familiar,...
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THU 27Mary Shelley's piecemeal monster with the weird neck corks and clunky Doc Martens gets a much-needed makeover in The Flying Machine's Frankenstein, a fairy tale for...
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State Republican Senator Jack Harper's enraging a powerful legislator with his determined effort to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive vote-counting scandal at the...
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How do you like to apply your makeup?
• Eyeliner, eyeliner, eyeliner! (2 points)
• I'm a dude, dude. Makeup's for queers. (0 points)
• White foundation...
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This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographies continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, David...
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Some superstars of photography come together in a fascinating exhibition of photographs at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Private Pictures: Photography From...
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Titanic: Special Collector's Edition (Paramount Home Video)
Loved and loathed in equal measure, Titanic nonetheless is among the few modern-day movies deserving of lavish...
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A trio of female authors reading their novels at an event called the First Fiction "Diva" Tour must be a chick-lit thing, right? Wrong.
Not one of the debut novelists...
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Molden Days
Lies and more lies: I have children at Mesquite Junior High School, and I didn't want to believe what I read in New Times about the black mold problem ("Mold...
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While the record industry keeps wailing the lost-revenue blues, Tracks in Wax, Central Avenue's used and collectible records mainstay since 1982, which mostly moves vinyl, has...
