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21. Music

    Prodigal Son

    Jonny Lang dumps drugs and finds Jesus

    By Robert Hicks

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Six years ago, Jonny Lang faced a crossroads in his music career and personal life. Too much underage drinking, cigarette smoking and drugs, plus an obsession with witchcraft,...

22. Art

    Sandow Birk: To Hell and Back

    Divinely inspired

    By Wynter Holden

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Sandow Birk, 44, is an avid surfer with a laid-back California attitude. But he's far from a slacker. Birk is in the studio six days a week creating fanciful drawings and...

23. Garden Dwellers

    Ever Green

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Ten years ago, architect Neil Kilby fell in love with Ro Ho En, the Japanese Friendship Garden in downtown Phoenix. He began volunteering as a gardener, and when Ro Ho En...

24. Home Grown

    Stoked

    Breakin' the Rules
    (Lock & Key Records)

    By Ed Masley

    Published: September 28, 2006

    There's a goofy little beach scene on the album cover that could fool you into thinking these guys made a surf-rock record. But it's nothing like that, really. Sure, they do a...

25. Art

    Art Scene

    Current exhibitions, shows, and installations

    By Wynter Holden

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Steve Davis and Chris Caufield at Modified Arts: "Found object" art has come a long way since Duchamp's urinal fountain. Steve Davis and Chris Caufield incorporate found...

26. Garden Dwellers

    Flavor Maven

    By Megan Irwin

    Published: September 28, 2006

    First sin of the day: scarfing down a buttery, sugary brownie, laced with cherries and topped with thick, homemade pistachio ice cream. Before 9 a.m. The early morning binge is...

27. Home Grown

    Paris James

    Death Letter
    (Dreamvox)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: September 28, 2006

    The first CD from local bluesician Paris James harks back to the back-porch country blues of the 1920s, when players like Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson were...

28. Garden Dwellers

    Fully Loaded

    By Stephen Lemons

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Wanna make starving artists weep? Tell 'em about Thomas Pomeroy: The Republican millionaire gun collector co-owns the snazzy Biltmore club io; his Phoenix health-insurance...

29. Listen Up

    Jucifer

    If Thine Enemy Hunger
    (Relapse)

    By D.X. Ferris

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Surrounded by mountains of amps stacked and cranked to unhealthy heights, Jucifer can shatter half of generic modern metal's fibulas with just its feedback. The coed Atlanta...

30. Garden Dwellers

    Funeral Fashionistas

    By Megan Irwin

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Victorian England was into death. People spent their lives in poverty saving up to have a grandiose funeral, detailed jewelry was made to commemorate lost loved ones, and grave...

31. Listen Up

    J Dilla

    The Shining
    (Bbe)

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Rap producer James "J Dilla" Yancey, who died of lupus at age 32 in February, didn't yet have the industry clout of peers like the Neptunes or Kanye West, but he sure had their...

32. Garden Dwellers

    Goodwill Hunter

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Everyone needs a pal like Corey Busboom. Besides helping keep countless local thrift stores afloat by dropping more than $100 weekly on vintage electronics and other junk to...

33. Listen Up

    The Kingdom

    K1
    (Arena Rock)

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: September 28, 2006

    As a bed of acoustic guitar is lazily strummed below Charles Westmoreland's vocal gymnastics on "Driver," the opening track off Portland-based band The Kingdom's new LP, one...

34. Garden Dwellers

    Green Grocer

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Remember the "good old days" when glass bottles of milk and fresh-baked loaves of bread were delivered to your doorstep? Well, Boxed Greens does that and more by providing...

35. Listen Up

    Viva Voce

    Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
    (Barsuk Records)

    By Nate Seltenrich

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Marriage is all about communication, compromise, and . . . psychedelic indie rock. At least it is for Kevin and Anita Robinson, otherwise known as Viva Voce, who have popped...

36. Garden Dwellers

    Hardcore Comic

    By Wynter Holden

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Tattoo artist and comedian Matthew "Pork Chop" Ward isn't exactly the kind of guy you'd want to bring home to Mom. Besides sporting the expected plethora of tats and piercings,...

37. Live Wire

    Art Brut

    One-disc wonders

    By Mosi Reeves

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Last fall, Art Brut was the hotness du jour, the toast of all things hipster and good. A year later, the South London band is still touring behind its now-old album, Bang Bang...

38. Garden Dwellers

    Hot Topics

    By Amy Silverman

    Published: September 28, 2006

    They say politics makes strange bedfellows, but public relations can result in a truly odd coupling — if Jason Rose has anything to do with it. The big-haired...

39. Live Wire

    Queensrÿche

    Ax on a plane

    By Chris Glenn

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Queensrÿche has prompted many deep questions in the course of its 20 years as a band: What does it mean to be silently lucid? Has anyone ever been noisily lucid? Is Dr. X...

40. Garden Dwellers

    Monsters Ink

    By Megan Irwin

    Published: September 28, 2006

    Baron Gordon is a monster, but not the creepy-crawly kind. As the founder of the Alpha Monster artist collective, which comprises major players in the Valley's growing live...