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Feature
The Crying Game
Despite a celebrated history, Native American transgenders struggle in the modern world
By Joe Watson
Published: December 22, 2005
Growing up on the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona, little boys play basketball, torture their younger sisters, and try to emulate their fathers. Everson played...
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Music
Holiday Dysfunction
Donning gay apparel, and other traumas
By Cole Haddon
Published: December 22, 2005
When asked about favorite Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa memories, most people remember the good times. You know, the stuff they write songs about to get you in the holiday...
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Cafe
Christmas Carumba
Owners can't spell, but man, can they cook
By Stephen Lemons
Published: December 22, 2005
It's as if jolly ol' Saint Nick himself laid a massive Yule log right in front of my Xmas fir with a missive ordering me to burn, baby, burn. Sure, this time of year, most good...
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Film
Asia Minor
Viewing Japan through Western eyes
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 22, 2005
"Agony and beauty for us live side by side," laments Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), the most successful geisha in Gion. You'll know how she feels: Memoirs of a Geisha, as directed by...
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New Year's Eve Guide
Remember Nothing
Your guide to turning '05 to '06 in style
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 22, 2005
It's time to welcome '06 here in the PHX, but you've got no idea where to go. New Year's Eve is (arguably) the biggest hootenanny of the whole Gregorian calendar, so you...
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Game On
Loaded GUN
Activision brings the neo-western to videogames, genocide included
By Gary Hodges
Published: December 22, 2005
The myth of the Wild West has mutated over the past half-century. Where once we thrilled to the wholesome exploits of the Lone Ranger, now we wallow in the mesmerizing...
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Night & Day
Shake! Your Mother-Friggin' Booty
Rogue in vogue
By Clay McNear
Published: December 22, 2005
Be he ever so humble -- and he really is, as you'll see -- there's no one quite like William Fucking Reed, host of the Shake! Motherfucking Dance Party. First off, what's up...
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The Bird
Up in Smoke
The plumed one decries discrimination against smokers and Jenna Jameson, and reports on plundering in Phoenix's, um, Chinatown
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 22, 2005
The Bird's been keeping a beady eye on the competition of late -- and not because it wants to learn how to bore its readers to death. No, this faux falcon has been flying over...
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Music
Kapusta Kristmas
Thanks to the Internet, you no longer have to be on Al Kooper's holiday list to hear some of the funniest tapes in history
By John Nova Lomax
Published: December 22, 2005
For several years back in the 1980s and '90s, rock 'n' roll keyboard legend Al Kooper had a very cool Yuletide custom. Kooper was (and is) an avid collector of prank calls,...
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Film
Tragedy Re-Revisited
Rehashing a tale we've heard before
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 22, 2005
Those who will sit around wondering whether Munich is the work of an anti-Israeli or just a self-hating Jew -- which is to say, Steven Spielberg, who has been branded both by...
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New Year's Eve Guide
Special Events
Published: December 22, 2005
Restaurants Bars and Clubs Canyon Raceway 9777 West Carefree Highway, Peoria Droppin' the Ball rave and massive DJ event with five stages hosting more than 25 different...
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DVDish
The Impossible Bomb
By Jordan Harper, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 22, 2005
Serenity (Universal) Joss Whedon's film version of his TV series Firefly came and went like a lightning bug in October; the predicted phenom stuck around the multiplex just...
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Inferno
Blue Grotto
Bottle-poppin' Jacuzzi duty at the PHX's freshest spot? That's what awaits the fly and the sly at Tempe's Phase 54
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: December 22, 2005
There's an open bottle of Veuve Clicquot next to us as we sip champs to the tune of the Shakira and Alejandro Sanz duet "La Tortura," deep in the bowels of Phase 54...
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Shrapnel
Critical Fatwa
Let our people thrash
By The Ayatollah of Rock
Published: December 22, 2005
All hail Slayer! The monstrous sound of Reign in Blood inspires to this day. Unfortunately, much of what it inspires is adolescent claptrap such as the majority of death metal....
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Film
Backhanded Slapstick
Warmed by Jim Carrey's brand of fun
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 22, 2005
The Jerry Lewis chromosome is running amok again inside Jim Carrey, and if you don't feel like getting clubbed half to death with a slapstick, stay away from Fun With Dick and...
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New Year's Eve Guide
Restaurants
Published: December 22, 2005
Special Events Bars and Clubs Bada Boom Pasta Room 4151 North Marshall Way, Scottsdale www.badaboomaz.com "A Dinner to Remember" featuring beef tenderloin, Chilean sea...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of December 20
Published: December 22, 2005
The Amazing Race: The Seventh Season (Paramount) Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0 (Universal) The Biggest Loser: The Workout (Lions Gate) Bob the Butler (First...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 22, 2005
Published: December 22, 2005
State of Emergency Better late than never: Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your recent "Ambulance Chasers" article (Sarah Fenske, October 27). Ms. Fenske's story...
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Shrapnel
New Duds
With CDs like these, who needs lumps of coal?
By Adam Bregman
Published: December 22, 2005
1. Hanna-McEuen, Hanna-McEuen (DreamWorks) As drab and unremarkable as mashed potatoes, Hanna-McEuen is a couple of lonesome, heartbroken cowboys who whip out every...
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Film
Fellowship of The Ringer
Knoxville's still an ass, but co-stars are something special
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 22, 2005
It's impossible to talk about The Ringer, a comedy about someone pretending to be retarded in order to rig the Special Olympics, without mentioning that episode of South Park...
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