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Feature
The Faithless
Heaven help the Valley Cathedral
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 21, 2006
Carol Davidson is an Arcadia housewife, a grandmother, a missionary's mom, and until recently, someone who spent every Wednesday night practicing with the church choir. But...
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Revolver
Ms. Manager
A Phoenix power player
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: December 21, 2006
"I'm one of the top five hated people in the music industry," says Nancy Stevens, the manager of local bands Violet Wild and Authority Zero and former program director of...
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Cafe
Expense Account
Truffles no trifle
By Michele Laudig
Published: December 21, 2006
I wanted to fall in love. For years, I've been curious about a certain elegant stranger with the whole package: good looks, exquisite taste, and an impressive pedigree. I...
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Film
Dream Works
Jennifer Hudson nails well-worn tale
By Scott Foundas
Published: December 21, 2006
It is said that a great actor or actress can "bring down the house," but before I saw (and heard) the 25-year-old American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson in the film version of...
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New Year's Eve Guide
Winter Night's Scene
Double-oh-seven has a license to chill
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 21, 2006
Aspirin? Check. Killer threads? Solid. Bail money? Sho'nuff. Sounds like you're fully locked and loaded to get your New Year's Eve freak on, except you need some off-the-chain...
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Game On
Posterizing EA
NBA 2K7 towers over the competition
By Luke O'Brien
Published: December 21, 2006
Aside from that new ball, NBA Live 07 may be the worst product to bear the league's name this year. The new basketball game from Electronic Arts is so glitchy that scores of...
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Night & Day
You Deserve a Brake Today
Would you like a master cylinder with that?
By Clay McNear
Published: December 21, 2006
For one night a week, the McDonald's at Scottsdale Pavilions is the coolest fast-food joint in the world. By our calculation, about half of the chain's trillions and trillions...
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The Bird
Joe Strikes Back
This vigilant vulture crafts a Christmas card to Sheriff Joe, as the Pinal County Attorney's Office threatens to seek a felony indictment against New Times
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: December 21, 2006
It's been obvious to The Bird for a long time that Sheriff Joe Arpaio despises New Times. Why else would he violate the Arizona public records law by keeping documents about...
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Niki at Nite
Hick Hop
White trash Christmas
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 21, 2006
"My meals are ravioli out of the can, and ramen. I came in here tonight with eight dollars in my pocket. I am so white trash." Keith Mallette's telling me all this to drive...
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Film
Don't Believe the Hype
Despite nonexistent marketing, Cuarón’s latest is not to be missed
By J. Hoberman
Published: December 21, 2006
History repeats itself: 11 Decembers ago, Universal had the season's strongest movie — a downbeat sci-fi flick freely adapted from a well-known source by a name director....
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Studio Visit
Kitsch Niche
Silent night, Shiny Brite
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 21, 2006
Travis Smith is serious about Christmas kitsch. Not only has he amassed thousands of vintage dime-store holiday ornaments, he's also spent decades rescuing the unwanted...
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DVDish
A True Horror Classic
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 21, 2006
When the Levees Broke (HBO) Spike Lee's four-part doc, easily the best non-fiction film of 2006, gets a fifth part on DVD: a 105-minute epilogue that reveals just how little...
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The Bird
Joe Strikes Back
This vigilant vulture crafts a Christmas card to Sheriff Joe, as the Pinal County Attorney's Office threatens to seek a felony indictment against New Times
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: December 21, 2006
It's been obvious to The Bird for a long time that Sheriff Joe Arpaio despises New Times. Why else would he violate the Arizona public records law by keeping documents about...
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Club Candids
Go Punk Yerself!
Sofa dance
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 21, 2006
When we coughed up the seven bucks to get in the door at PHiX for the "Gothabilly Nitemare Before X-Mas!" show on Saturday, December 16, Grand Avenue was pretty damn quiet....
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Film
Like Herding Sheep
De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 21, 2006
It took Norman Mailer seven years and 1,282 pages to write 1991's Harlot's Ghost: A Novel of the CIA, and, if memory serves, it took me 12 years to actually finish it. So...
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Art
Flight of Fantasy
Falling for the fresh and funky
By Wynter Holden
Published: December 21, 2006
Everybody has bad days. You know, the kind of day when you oversleep, realize you have no breakfast food in the house, painfully injure your foot on a broken office chair and...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of December 19
Published: December 21, 2006
Agnes & His Brothers (First Run) All the King's Men (Sony) American Pie: The Naked Mile (Universal) The Beauty Academy of Kabul (Docurama) The Celestine Prophecy (Sony)...
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News
Rage Against His Bowling Shirts
A former moveon.org vol shows up wearing slogans deemed anti-American and is forced to move on from his bowling team and alley
By Ray Stern
Published: December 21, 2006
The man in the black shirt with large white letters that read "IMPEACH AND IMPRISON" stands out in the blue-collar bowling alley like someone shouting "Fire!" in a crowded...
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Music
Big in Japan
Tempe rapper Intrinzik's journey from the Valley of the Sun to the Land of the Rising Sun
By Serene Dominic
Published: December 21, 2006
"People get caught up and lose everything they have trying to be famous. I like making safe, smart, calculated moves." So says Will Glass, a.k.a. Intrinzik, during our...
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Film
Rocky in the Free World
Another sequel, another chance for Rocky to persevere for America
By Rob Nelson
Published: December 21, 2006
Bankrupt and brain-damaged in Rocky V, a bout fought so long ago that the other Bush was still sucker-punching Saddam, Sylvester Stallone's titular pugilist returns to issue...
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