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Issue: December 14, 2006
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35 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. Feature

    Jump Street

    Once ruled a suicide, Phoenix finance chief Kevin Keogh's leap to his death on a busy thoroughfare is a true medical mystery

    By Paul Rubin
    Published: December 14, 2006

    It's been two years since the city of Phoenix's chief financial officer jumped to his death from atop his moving Mercedes on East Camelback Road. To this day, mention of...

  2. Revolver

    Sue Me, Sue You

    The game of the name

    By Brendan Joel Kelley
    Published: December 14, 2006

    I've never been the litigating type. Every time I've needed to hire an attorney, it's been of the criminal defense sort. I'm not in a band, though, and it's not uncommon for...

  3. Cafe

    Memoirs of an Eggplant

    A tastefully spicy sequel

    By Michele Laudig
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Sometimes all it takes is a taste of something — or even just the scent — to transport me to another place. I think of sangria-fueled New York dinner parties when...

  4. Film

    Rich Man, Poor Man

    Rags-to-riches flick declares: Money does indeed buy happi(y)ness

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: December 14, 2006

    About Will Smith's estimable talents, there is no doubt. Six Degrees of Separation, Ali . . . um . . . the "Parents Just Don't Understand" video — the man's got skills...

  5. Stage

    Night of the Near-Miss

    Veranda warning

    By Robrt L. Pela
    Published: December 14, 2006

    It's finally happened. Joseph Kremer has at last appeared in a role that he's not able to make his own. Kremer, who arrived seemingly out of nowhere a couple of seasons ago,...

  6. Game On

    Wii Love It

    Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition

    By Chris Ward
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Nintendo has achieved the impossible: My 50-year-old, non-gaming father wants a Wii for Christmas. Either I've been whisked to Bizarro World, or The House That Mario Built is...

  7. Night & Day

    Raising the Bar

    Hipster foolios need not apply

    By Steve Jansen
    Published: December 14, 2006

    You love music, you enjoy a drink while listening to music, but you aren’t all into acting like a hipster foolio in public while marinating on music. Well, Shane...

  8. Night & Day

    High Fidel-Ity

    By Steve Jansen
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Spanish-language students and foreign-film connoisseurs can kick it together during the weekly English-subtitled Spanish Place Movie Mondays series. In honor of December’s...

  9. Night & Day

    Punk Junkies

    We wanna be sedated

    By Benjamin Leatherman
    Published: December 14, 2006

    You won’t be singing The Ramones' “Blitzkrieg Bop” during Punk Rock Karaoke. Nor will you belt out Black Flag’s “TV Party” or the Dead Kennedys'...

  10. The Bird

    Murder City

    P-town's scratch-master sharpens his talons over Mayor Goober's crime stats, markers for dead cops and Jarrett Maupin's anti-N-word campaign

    From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Has it occurred to anyone besides this tweeter that Phoenix may now be better known for serial killers than saguaros? Leaping lapwings, last week P-town news was all about...

  11. Niki at Nite

    Pussy Galore

    Redefining both hacky and sack

    By Niki D'Andrea
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Just when I think I've seen everything, I find myself watching three hot chicks trying to play hacky sack with a big pink dildo. The women — known as Producer, Python, and...

  12. Film

    Devils in Disguise

    A documentary portrait of a pedophile priest and his pious protectors

    By Ella Taylor
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Of all the hundreds of pedophile priests to be flushed out of the woodwork in recent Catholic Church history, Father Oliver O'Grady has to be one of the most harmless looking,...

  13. Stage

    Nun Done

    Third time's lukewarm

    By Robrt L. Pela
    Published: December 14, 2006

    I couldn't tell if the holiday choir that kicked off the surprisingly dreary Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold was for real or not. Are they...

  14. DVDish

    Farce of a Champion

    By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Talladega Nights (Columbia) This cut of Will Ferrell's NASCAR comedy runs 13 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and that doesn't take into account the deleted and...

  15. News

    Hey Diddle Diddle

    Abortion doctor Brian Finkel will remain in prison for at least 20 more years, after a recent appellate court loss

    By Paul Rubin
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Some time ago, New Times got a letter from an inmate in Florence named James Stites, who is serving a six-year prison sentence for attempting to molest a child. Stites was...

  16. Music

    Go Ask Alice

    Phoenix’s resident shock rocker gets the old band back together

    By Ed Masley
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Alice Cooper was looking to shake things up a bit at this year's Christmas Pudding concert. So he put in a call to the three surviving members of the original Alice Cooper...

  17. Film

    Don't Know Smack

    Down from the mountain, a softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick

    By Rob Nelson
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play unbelievably gorgeous heroin junkies in Candy, a don't-try-this-at-home melodrama adapted from Australian author Luke Davies' aptly billed...

  18. Stage

    Theater Scene

    What's running now

    By Robrt L. Pela
    Published: December 14, 2006

    Wishes, Wassail, and Wonder: Don't let its super-cheesy title fool you: iTheatre Collaborative's fourth annual Christmas cabaret is in on its own joke, and may well be your...

  19. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks for the week of December 12

    Published: December 14, 2006

    AFI: I Heard a Voice (Interscope) Air Buddies (Disney) Ali Rap (ESPN) The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Series (Paramount) Barnyard (Paramount) The Chronicles of...

  20. News

    Death Watch

    The latest report on child fatalities is in — and it's even worse than you thought

    By Sarah Fenske
    Published: December 14, 2006

    The number of Arizona children who died last year in unexpected and tragic ways rose sharply, according to a new report from the state department of health. Many significant...

Issue: December 14, 2006
Page: 1
35 stories found - 1 through 20
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