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A little more than a year ago, the Arizona Department of Transportation paid Paul Braunstein almost a million dollars to go away.
Braunstein is the owner of BasePlans, a...
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"Hype" is probably the nastiest of all four-letter words these days, and no band on Earth right now has more of it than the Arctic Monkeys. Over the past seven months, the...
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There are a barrel of jackasses out there in foodie land who insist I'm never supposed to visit a fresh grubbateria until it's survived six months or so, and to these...
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You know how in most romantic comedies, the best friends are nearly always more interesting than the actual leads we're supposed to care about? The Break-Up doesn't play that...
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First, the accolades: Arizona Theatre Company's production of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie is nearly perfect. Its actors turn in superb performances; its stage design is...
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Whether your summer vacation starts in May and ends in September, or just consists of weekends and the Fourth of July, we want to help you make your vay-cay more than okay. So...
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If the creepy, self-flagellating albino monk in The Da Vinci Code really wanted to suffer, he'd drop his flesh-shredding cat-o'-nine-tails, pick up a controller, and play The...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela Published:
June 1, 2006
Keystone Klowns
Who needs Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey when Maricopa County's got its own version of the Insane Clown Posse on call, 24/7? Yep, these clowns wear brown...
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Merging heavy metal's satanic symbol with love's shorthand icon, the heartagram ranks among modern music's most popular designs. "The symbol is better known than the actual...
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There was a time when people moaned whenever Hollywood would remake -- and thus suck the life out of -- a classic movie. These days, Hollywood just sucks the life out of movies...
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We've seen them listed in playbills, and maybe we've even been seated near one in a restaurant or on a bus. But who knows what stage managers actually do, anyway? Glenn Bruner...
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Barbecue envy. You know you've had it. You feel it every time you arrange that finger-blackening pile of Kingsford charcoal on your half-baked hibachi. If your heart races when...
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By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky Published:
June 1, 2006
Will & Grace: Series Finale (Lions Gate)
The way this got hustled to shelves, mere days after Will Truman and Grace Adler said their mushy farewells, you'd think this were...
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Whenever I bad-mouth illegal immigration at work, many of my Latina co-workers automatically assume I'm bad-mouthing Mexicans. Why do Mexicans always think that when a gabacho...
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The Hush Sound's guitarist and co-lead vocalist Bob Morris has his hands full. His band is set to open tonight for Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects, his mother won't...
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The Old West has vanished, John Wayne is dead, and -- this just in -- the two most famous ranch hands in America are gay.
But there would be no point in telling any of that...
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Trainspotting: The heck with rehab. Anyone wanting to kick narcotics addiction should just go see this gloriously ugly production of Harry Gibson's meditation on addiction's...
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Just after I turned 39, I started making mosaics.
Suddenly I began buying tile trivets, ceramic figurines and odd pieces of old china at thrift stores, smashing the objects...
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The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
A Fine Romance (Tango)
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Dark Sky)
Freedomland (Sony)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
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Before the P-town Rihanna and I get blunted at the four-year anniversary of the Dolemite of hip-hop clubs in the PHX, there's a little information we must convey to the masses....
