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Feature
Tough Coach
Another winning season ends for Pat Murphy and his baseball team. Now, it's ASU management's turn at bat
By Paul Rubin
Published: June 8, 2006
During the Arizona State-Arizona series in Tucson a few weeks ago, Arizona Daily Star sports columnist Greg Hansen wrote of ASU's head baseball coach: "Pat Murphy will win no...
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Revolver
Mock Rock
Grownups don't really get it
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: June 8, 2006
Recently I was at a show at the Real Bar early in the evening, when the young'uns are out to rock. A two-person band had just finished its set when a crowd of tween and early...
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Cafe
Fisherman's Boos
Throw this one back
By Stephen Lemons
Published: June 8, 2006
A humongous Pop-Tart. That's what this marionberry cobbler -- named for a type of blackberry, not the erstwhile mayor of D.C. -- reminds me of, from its gooey, purplish guts,...
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Film
Kickin' the Tires
No lemon, but it does have that used smell
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 8, 2006
Cars, the latest vehicle to roll off a Pixar assembly line that has thus far yielded nothing but spit-shined classics, answers that age-old question: What would Doc Hollywood...
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Art
Reality Bites
Summer in the city
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 8, 2006
Urban art is defined by the city that it represents. In a glorified cow town like Kansas City, the boring neon art installation at the top of the Sulgrave Building hints at the...
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Game On
Golazo!
This World Cup game will make you shout like Andrés Cantor
By Luke O'Brien
Published: June 8, 2006
Face paint? Check. NoDoz? Check. Deep wellsprings of violent nationalistic pride? No doubt, mate. Yes, it's time for the World Cup, that quadrennial spectacle that consumes...
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The Bird
Triple-Time Loser
The Bird rips the Republic and throws the book at West Phoenix
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 8, 2006
The hell with whistle-blowing! The Bird is squawking loud and clear on behalf of workers who toil on the printing presses at Phoenix Newspapers (the company responsible for...
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Music
Far From Phoenix
With thrashed vocal cords and van wrecks galore, Greeley Estates pays its dues on the road
By Serene Dominic
Published: June 8, 2006
How did you spend your day of reckoning? Expectant mothers, fearful of a 06/06/06 due date, were asking doctors to induce labor a day or two early to spare their babies from...
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Film
The Long Goodbye
A fine pasture for Altman
By Rob Nelson
Published: June 8, 2006
Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion befits its roots in frosty Minnesota soil through its...
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Art
Seeing Red
You had to be there
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 8, 2006
In 1994, during a routine excavation at the site of Temple XIII in Palenque, Mexico, workers unearthed a pre-Columbian burial chamber containing the remains of a woman, cloaked...
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DVDish
Ford Tough
By Jordan Harper, Robert Wilonsky and Jim Ridley
Published: June 8, 2006
The John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection (Warner Bros.) Featuring the most epic pairing of director and actor in Hollywood history, this 10-disc box spews machismo all over....
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Dougherty
Bleak House
How two insiders made a tidy profit on the sale of Arizona State University's president's house
By John Dougherty
Published: June 8, 2006
Arizona State University officials cut an outrageous deal with insiders on the sale of the ASU president's house that appears to have shortchanged taxpayers more than a...
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Shrapnel
Rejuvenated Men
Smells like profiling
By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: June 8, 2006
They ain't weary and they ain't boys, but they are the Weary Boys, a handful of Humboldt County, California, escapees who got up one day, stretched, and decided to pack up the...
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Film
The Bad Seeds
A new breed of revisionist Western
By Rob Nelson
Published: June 8, 2006
Trotted out like ol' Trigger whenever there's a movie with saddles and six-shooters, the term "revisionist Western" would surely be a cliché if there were enough...
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Art
Art Scene
Current exhibitions, shows and installations
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 8, 2006
"Annual Summer Juried Exhibition" at ASU Harry Wood Gallery: This year's crop of MFA hopefuls shows a surprising awareness of domestic issues including water conservation,...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of June 6
Published: June 8, 2006
Black Hawk Down: Extended Cut (Sony) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector's Edition (Fox) Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount) Dumbo: Big...
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Inferno
Lucifer's Lookyloos
Our booze-addled Beelzebubbas travel to Hades and back for some wikkid fetish-industrial action at Club Hell
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: June 8, 2006
Aside from the fetish festivities this evening, which I'll describe in a sec, Chasers in Scottsdale looks like everyone's friendly neighborhood dive, with pool tables for the...
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Shrapnel
Firm Believers
It's all Jake
By Lewis Goldberg
Published: June 8, 2006
By all rights, Stiff Little Fingers should suck. What was once perhaps the best band of punk's second wave is down to a sole original member (although a second, bassist Ali...
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Film
Fahrenheit 2050
Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America
By Rob Nelson
Published: June 8, 2006
With ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie -- particularly a real one -- to take our interest for...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Losers Keepers
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 8, 2006
What is it with you Mexicans who want to take back California? Is it that conquistador blood that's driving you? Go Back to Granada Dear Gabacho, Besides beards, light...
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