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If anyone should have an easy time opening a business in a cool old building downtown, it's Matt Pool.
After all, Pool got his start managing Bar Bianco for his sister,...
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"We're planning to do a children's show in a couple of days, and I was asked which song I would like to play for this kids' show. I started going through the songs on the...
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"Geez, Michele, are we driving to New Mexico?"
The two guys I was dragging to dinner weren't particularly hungry when we hopped on the I-10 in central Phoenix, but by the...
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No, the Virgin Mary doesn't get high on aerosol fumes, and Joseph doesn't ride in on a skateboard, but in most other respects, The Nativity Story is less of a departure for...
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Toward the end of Act One of Arizona Theatre Company's Jitney, Chuck Patterson positions himself near the lip of center stage and recites a monologue about a dream that...
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By now, you've probably heard about Bully. It's the game that was supposed to finally ruin America's youth.
Crusading lawyer Jack Thompson, the self-appointed schoolmarm of...
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In a city like Phoenix, it's almost too easy to be cynical about the future. If you listen to the talk out there, downtown Phoenix is on the verge of a comeback — though...
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Desiree and Mindy Duponte are teenaged sisters, attractive blond girls who each stand around five feet tall and have unusually tiny hands. When they tell people they're...
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A dozen years ago, Kelly Reichardt made her feature debut with a wonderfully desultory, nearly avant-garde riff on the last romantic couple. Reichardt's River of Grass was a...
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Tuna Christmas: It's back: that better-than-most holiday sequel to Greater Tuna, this one about Christmas in Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas. The good news is that the...
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (Warner Bros.)
At long last, Richard Donner's much-whispered-about "original version" of Superman II sees the light of day, and it quickly...
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This pigskin-lovin' pelican knows it's all about winnin' on the gridiron. But even this point-spread-obsessed avian draws the line at — gulp — murder.
Not so...
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There's nothing like a good ol' drag show to scum up a wholesome holiday with the family. That was the idea at Amsterdam's 4th Annual Thanksgiving Night Show last Thursday,...
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The Ant Bully (Warner Bros.)
Criminal Minds: The First Season (Paramount)
Dane Cook: Vicious Circle (HBO)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show: DVD-licious (Warner Bros.)
Foo...
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Dear Readers:
Many kind, drunken words from ustedes regarding my November 16 column proclaiming Mexicans and Irish "brothers in depravity." Let's start with a wab:
Man,...
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Five of the 11 tracks on Robert Plant's first DVD, Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation (Rounder/Zoe), are new performances of old Led Zeppelin songs. But this set isn't...
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Stinks on ICE
Frankenstein's agency: Thank you for your very accurate article regarding the disaster known as ICE ("Meltdown," Ray Stern, November 16).
I recently left ICE...
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"I worry that I'm going to forget, like with 'Gouge Away,' I'm gonna think it's in G," Kim Deal says in Loud QUIET Loud: A Film About the Pixies (MVD Visual), providing just...
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Bad Brains: Live at CBGB 1982 (MVD Visual) captures two historic and defunct components of punk rock's '70s heyday — the classic lineup of the seminal Washington, D.C.,...
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Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Lionsgate) is not a documentary. Leonard Cohen obsessives learned this the hard way, flocking to jam-packed theaters only to encounter Bono's banal...
