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Feature
Hell's Belle
Satan's Angel has taken her flaming tassels out of retirement, to the delight of a new generation of burlesque fans
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 28, 2006
Cecelia Walker has a hot pair of breasts, literally. As the thumping congas of Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" pump from the Paper Heart's loudspeakers, the scantily clad...
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Revolver
Back Country
Original spin
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: September 28, 2006
Spend one of your Sunday nights, as I did recently, at the Yucca Tap Room in Tempe, and you're likely to see what will at first seem like an anomaly — a pretty,...
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Cafe
Resto the Story
Latin mess
By Michele Laudig
Published: September 28, 2006
"Urban. Latin. Sexy. Chill." That caught my eye when I checked out the online menu for Ticoz, a self-described "resto-bar" that opened last month on Seventh Street, just...
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Film
That Sinking Feeling
Coast Guard epic succumbs to watery clichés
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 28, 2006
Watching The Guardian, you will learn that the U.S. Coast Guard's rescue swimmers rank among the bravest and least heralded of military personnel, selflessly hurling themselves...
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Don't Ask
Mother of Pearls
Life in the peanut-free zone
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 28, 2006
Actor/producer/writer Debra Gettleman does everything from arranging chairs to selling tickets for Pearls: Motherhood Unstrung, which she's co-produced with Mothers Who Write...
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Game On
Fourth and Inches
Madden NFL 07: New and slightly improved!
By Luke O'Brien
Published: September 28, 2006
Football is a game of inches. The same goes for the Madden series. Each fall, a new Madden game arrives, with a roster update and an incremental change in the game-play...
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Garden Dwellers
Candy Man
By Megan Irwin
Published: September 28, 2006
The past year has been good to Hector Ruiz, artist and owner of the downtown art gallery the Chocolate Factory. After a successful show at the Heard Museum — he sold every...
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News
Career Death
The consequences for a DPS officer who bucked his bosses' dismissal of a righteous speeding ticket, got fired, and won a $190,000 jury award for wrongful termination
By Ray Stern
Published: September 28, 2006
Keep your mouth shut, keep your job, keep your career. That's the lesson officers of the Arizona Department of Public Safety can take from the case of a rookie who was fired...
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Shrapnel
The O Show
Look out above
By Ed Masley
Published: September 28, 2006
Karen O, the focal point of any Yeah Yeah Yeahs show, works the stage like Iggy Pop in fishnets, a force of unnatural nature overdoing every gesture, every post-"Rock Lobster"...
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Film
Playtime
Throwaway gags and mad obsessions in Gondry’s wondrous fantasy
By J. Hoberman
Published: September 28, 2006
Sweet, crazy, and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry's new feature, The Science of Sleep, is a wondrous concoction. The tricksy romantic narrative — in which Gael...
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Studio Visit
Panda Express
Endangered speakings
By Lilia Menconi
Published: September 28, 2006
The Disposable Hero considers himself not an artist but a visual vigilante who prefers to conceal his identity. With a day job in marketing and sales, he offers commentary on...
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DVDish
Camel Light
By Jordan Harper
Published: September 28, 2006
The Big Animal (Milestone) It's a simple yet lesser known law of comedy: Camels are always funny. There are the jaws that drool and chew side to side, the front legs that...
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Garden Dwellers
Caribbean Queen
By Stephen Lemons
Published: September 28, 2006
Chef Eulet King's smile is as warm and inviting as a Bob Marley tune — think "Three Little Birds," with the line, "Don't worry 'bout a thing/'Cause every little thing...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Making Babies
Children are everybody's future
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: September 28, 2006
I have a stupid, unemployed, 16-year-old gang-bangin' cousin who already dropped out of school, and I'm pretty sure most Mexicans are related to somebody who fits that...
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Shrapnel
Hard Luck of the Irish
Low-down, dirty Shane
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: September 28, 2006
Shane MacGowan's continued existence on the planet is nothing short of a miracle that would test the resolve of even the most determined atheist. I've personally witnessed the...
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Film
Men Behaving Badly
Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 28, 2006
One would never confuse the work of writer-director Todd Phillips with that of the late Robert Hamer, whose filmography includes the essential Kind Hearts and Coronets. Hamer's...
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Art
Heaven Can Wait
And Hell looks mighty familiar
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 28, 2006
In the early 14th century, Italian poet Dante Alighieri penned The Divine Comedy, an epic poem that chronicles his fictional journey through Hell, purgatory, and Heaven. Often...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of September 28
Published: September 28, 2006
Beowulf & Grendel (Anchor Bay) The Book of Daniel: The Complete Series (Universal) Bratz: Passion Fashion Diamondz (Fox) Con Man (Docurama) Curious George (Universal)...
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Garden Dwellers
Chop Jock
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: September 28, 2006
Jake Shelton has done everything from designing and running a retro diner on the East Coast to co-owning the now-defunct Ziggy's rock club in Tempe, but he's probably best...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, September 28, 2006
Published: September 28, 2006
Borne Again In the other guy's shoes: I enjoyed the cartoon story by Jim Mahfood and Stephen Lemons ("The Passion of El Cristo," September 14), maybe because I spent 20...
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