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Feature
Bad Medicine
Locking up cold medicine makes the politicians feel good -- but it won't put a dent in Arizona's meth habit
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 8, 2005
If you're super bored, or really desperate, you can make crystal meth from Tylenol Cold/Severe Congestion cool-burst caplets. You need denatured ethanol, or acetone, or...
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Revolver
Under Raps
Rocking around the Block
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: December 8, 2005
I've been thinking about the word "nigga" a lot lately. Seems it's popping out of everybody's mouth these days, whether it's high school wiggers or commercial rappers. The...
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Cafe
Lady of Spain
Tapas-notch
By Stephen Lemons
Published: December 8, 2005
When it comes to dining, or any other aspect of existence worth writing about, I consider myself simpatico with Ray Milland's quip in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, where he...
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Film
Blood for Oil
Digging for a necessary truth
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 8, 2005
Warner Bros. put $50 million into Syriana and allowed writer-director Stephen Gaghan as much time and travel as necessary to research and write his story. They'd be well...
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Art
Happy Trees
Art imitating art
By Leanne Potts
Published: December 8, 2005
If you want to see how a painter's brain is different from the gray matter of people who don't know which end of a paintbrush to hold, go look at Jennifer Bartlett's...
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Game On
Near Perfect
Not a bull's-eye, but it hits the target
By Gary Hodges
Published: December 8, 2005
In less than a decade, first-person shooters like Doom and Halo have grown from a niche genre to a cottage industry. Whether it's our love for their immersiveness, competition,...
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Night & Day
Wicked Wisdom This Way Comes
This is the nü stuff
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 8, 2005
Jada Pinkett Smith is quite the hyphenate. In addition to being the wife of rapper/movie star extraordinaire Will Smith, the mother of their three children, an investor in a...
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Feature
Meth Treatment
Meth addiction isn't impossible to beat -- but the treatment's not cheap. And good luck finding it
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 8, 2005
Pretty, blond, and poised, Jamie doesn't look like a meth addict. But she's been using for four years, since she was 19. She smoked some this morning. She smokes some every...
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Music
If the Xiu Fits
Xiu Xiu confronts the unbearable darkness of being
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: December 8, 2005
For a leading indie-rock miserablist, Jamie Stewart possesses one of the heartiest, most boisterous laughs you're ever likely to hear. The 33-year-old Xiu Xiu (pronounced...
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Film
Lion in Winter
C.S. Lewis' world comes to life
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 8, 2005
If you're a fan of C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, all you need to know is this: Disney has done right by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's...
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Art
Made in China
One in five
By Leanne Potts
Published: December 8, 2005
Most Americans don't think much about China. The nation that's home to 20 percent of the people on the planet is a murky place that hovers behind low price tags and bird flu....
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DVDish
Sweat Along With Russell
By Jordan Harper, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 8, 2005
Cinderella Man (Universal) Back in the Great Depression, boxing matches only cost a nickel, and the ring was uphill both ways. That's the central message of this well-made if...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Clay McNear
Published: December 8, 2005
THU 8Imagine your bath mat on acid -- or you on your bath mat on acid. No, you're not all wet; you've stepped into the Alice in Wonderland world of Brian Knep. The multimedia...
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News
Crash Course
Fundamentalist Mormons lose control of Colorado City's school district, as a criminal investigation continues
By John Dougherty
Published: December 8, 2005
As the December 3 Colorado City Unified School District board of governors meeting draws to a close, Alvin Barlow, Arizona's longest tenured public school superintendent,...
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Stiletto
Fine China's Big Break?
O.C. how they run
By Michele Laudig
Published: December 8, 2005
Back in the spring, when I first heard Fine China's new album, The Jaws of Life, I fixated on the idea of hidden Phoenix treasures. The album's great from the first listen --...
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Film
Fluxuation
Moments of brilliance, but plenty of mediocrity
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 8, 2005
Close to a decade ago, at a comic book convention in Los Angeles, animator Peter Chung was asked by a fan if he'd ever consider allowing a live-action movie to be made based on...
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Art
Art Scene
Current shows, exhibitions, and installations
By Leanne Potts
Published: December 8, 2005
"Big City" at Phoenix Art Museum: There isn't a single image of the PHX among the cityscapes and urban life scenes drawn from PAM's permanent collection. That's odd, seeing as...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of December 6
Published: December 8, 2005
Dirty Love (First Look) Dragonball Movie Boxed Set (Funimation) Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Fifth Season (Warner Bros.) Fun With Dick and Jane (1977)...
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Night & Day
Beyond Biff
Back to the present
By Jimmy Magahern
Published: December 8, 2005
When you're an actor best known for playing one of the biggest buffoon bullies in screen history -- a dimwitted tyrant with a penchant for messing up popular sayings and...
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The Bird
Boobs in Scottsdale
A cover-up in Scottsdale? Plus: What's on Michael Crow's mind, and a Phoenix city councilman's sudden interest in art
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 8, 2005
Attention, fight fans: The Bird would like to direct your attention to Scottsdale, where anxious strippers are gearing up for a battle that may prove epic. In this corner, the...
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