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Three years since Phoenix New Times ran our "Exploding Downtown" series, the wrecking ball is still taking aim all over downtown, threatening what little history the city has...
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Walk into Trax on a Monday night, as I did recently to grab a beer, and you'll run into a strange amalgamation of sonic styles emanating from the outdoor stage in the back,...
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My Japanese friends must get a kick out of me.
I hang out with Yuko and Chinatsu every year when I visit Japan, a place I've been obsessed with since childhood. (Blame it on...
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For Your Consideration pulls off the neat trick of skewering the movie industry while remaking it in its own image. The latest ensemble comedy by Christopher Guest and company...
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If you've lived in the Southwest for any amount of time, chances are you've already seen your fair share of howling coyotes, dream catchers and geometric pottery patterns. I...
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Guitar Hero gave party games a much-needed kick in the ass.
No one expected this rhythm game -- sold with a miniature plastic guitar -- to play to sellout crowds. But it...
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Three years since Phoenix New Times ran our "Exploding Downtown" series, the wrecking ball is still taking aim all over downtown, threatening what little history the city has...
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Face it, you haven't lived until you've seen your friends make asses of themselves at karaoke.
On a Saturday night in mid-November, I'm about to launch an alcohol-fueled...
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For progressives lifted, however temporarily, by the swell of a turning tide, Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is — an Airport movie with the assassination of Robert...
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"Big Works" at Herberger Theater Center: Critics of Chicago's newly installed Agora, a public art sculpture featuring 106 headless bronze figures, can attest to the fact that...
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An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount)
This isn't exactly the kind of DVD you buy to watch again and again; the ending doesn't get happier, and there are no twists to decipher...
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Can you tell me the meaning of the word "aguacate"? All I know about this delicious fruit is that it originated on this continent.
Guacamole Man
Dear Gabacho:
"Aguacate"...
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Joe Pernice has published a book of poetry, a popular novella based on The Smiths' Meat Is Murder for the 33 1/3 series, and "B.S. Johnson" — the most anthemic offering...
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Solemn, flashy, and flabbergasting, The Fountain — adapted by Darren Aronofsky from his own graphic novel — should really be called "The Shpritz." The premise is...
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American Slapstick (Image)
Alias: The Complete Fifth Season (Buena Vista)
Boston Legal: Season Two (Fox)
The Cry Baby Killer (Buena Vista)
Devil Times Five (Code Red)...
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Display Cases
Taste test: "Stunning"??? I'm sorry, did Wynter Holden really describe the effect of Jen Urso's In Place installation at the show "Phoenix: Land of Somewhere"...
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The Phoenix indie crowd has a new pit stop on their Friday-night boozing agenda. Glam (formerly Ky's Place), at 32nd Street and Indian School Road, is a perfectly petite dance...
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Okay, so Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott were asking for it by naming their latest mega-production Déjà Vu. These dudes aren't exactly paragons of innovation,...
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. . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead may be a victim of its own success.
The Austin-based post-rock group's ragged and glorious indie-punk albums, like 1999's...
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The first few minutes of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny are something to behold: a four-minute rock opera cranked to 11. A doughy young boy with dirty-mop locks (Nacho...
