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Feature
Sophie Fisher is autistic. Her mother isn't so sure she wants you to know
By Amy Silverman
The little boy was perched atop a plastic mountain, the highest point at the Princess Playground, the name my girls and I have for the indoor play area at Scottsdale Fashion...
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Revolver
Good listeners make bad neighbors
By Brendan Joel Kelley
My neighborhood in Tempe is a pretty noisy place. The guys next door have a band practicing inside their house with the windows open every few days, and my neighbors across the...
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Cafe
Birth of the brews
By Michele Laudig
When Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point a few years ago, he pointed to fashion trends like Hush Puppies as evidence of how trends reach critical mass in the same way...
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Film
Nasty and brutish, but not short
By J. Hoberman
Apocalypto has a faux Greek title and an opening quote from historian Will Durant that ruminates on the decline of imperial Rome. It may seem an odd way to comment on the...
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Studio Visit
Emission possible
By Lilia Menconi
James White, 57, longtime Arizona State University sculpture professor, creates humorous and whimsical works that incorporate his custom bent tubes of neon light. White's...
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Game On
PlayStation 3 has potential -- but for the moment, little else
By Gary Hodges
I did not have to fend off a horde of bloodthirsty geeks for my PS3. And nobody shot me either, as one hapless Connecticut gamer was.
Actually, I just preordered my console...
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Night & Day
The buff that dreams are made of
By Lilia Menconi
Naked people totally kick butt, especially when one needs to brush up on his or her life-drawing skills. But when the semester is over and your boyfriend wont hold still...
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News Sidebar
By Cheryl Fisher
"Dark, but happy, little sprites dance around the forest under the trees," I tell my daughter. The story goes on, and I try to keep the tale steps ahead of my inquisitive...
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Music
Wolfmother brings the buzz
By Ed Masley
"Just standing in front of an amp as though you're being bathed in fuzzy volume is quite a nice feeling," says bassist/organist Chris Ross of Australia's latest gift to...
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Film
The awful truth about Nancy Meyers
By Scott Foundas
From its wink-wink, nudge-nudge, movie-within-a-movie opening through to its boldfaced quoting of such classic Hollywood farces as The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday, Nancy...
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Art
Covering the spectrum
By Lilia Menconi
Remember when your first-grade teacher said that without the abundant rays of the sun, the Earth would die? Humans can't get enough of the stuff, and nothing proves our...
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DVDish
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Rocky: 2-Disc Collector's Edition (MGM)
An old TV commercial for Rocky included here compares Sylvester Stallone to Pacino, De Niro, and Brando -- and though we now know this...
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The Bird
The blarney-lovin' buzzard's craw is full o' scuttlebutt from Covance's monkeyshines, trigger-happy Tasers, and Jello Biafra's Stinkweeds wig-out
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Ever since drug-testing colossus Covance announced its Chandler invasion, this selfish sandpiper's generally sided with the biotech behemoth, which does federal-mandated animal...
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Club Candids
Single belles
By Lilia Menconi
Sometimes a night out in Scottsdale with all things shiny and plastic is just what we need. The hordes of twentysomething bronzed babes and stylish studs remind us that the...
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Film
Circling the industry, Zwick flick tackles nada
By Nathan Lee
"T.I.A.," mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton's blowjob, the West African nation is...
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Art
Current installations, exhibitions and shows
By Wynter Holden
"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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What Else Is New?
The Architect (Magnolia)
Beerfest: Unrated (Warner Bros.)
Charlie Chan Collection, Volume 2 (Fox)
Coma Girl (Cinequest)
The Conformist: Special Collector's Edition...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Mexican TV humor and surname sticklers
By Gustavo Arellano
I was flipping through my television when I noticed the Spanish-language channel showed a man in a red suit with yellow pants, antennae on his head, and a heart with the...
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Shrapnel
They won't Cher
By Serene Dominic
In Backbeat Books' newly published Skydog: The Duane Allman Story, author Randy Poe gives a thorough account of Duane's recorded legacy up through his output with the Allman...
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Letters
Core Values
The "lack of vision" thing: Megan Irwin and Robrt L. Pela wrote very insightful articles ("Wrecking Phoenix," November 23). It is a great relief to hear...
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