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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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