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Feature
Stop Your Railing!
Sure, light-rail construction is painful, but it will be worth it in the long haul
By Ray Stern
Published: December 28, 2006
It's six o'clock on a Friday evening, and Dennis Chiesa hasn't seen a customer in his record shop for more than three hours. The cozy little store, Tracks in Wax, is nestled...
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Music
Smooth Criminal Fingers
Step away from those chords
By David Downs
Published: December 28, 2006
Parents, be warned! Children, watch out! A new scourge sweeping through the country threatens to seduce innocent music fans into a life of crime! It starts with something as...
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Cafe
Old-School Eats
A good place to stick your buns
By Michele Laudig
Published: December 28, 2006
I have to start wondering about the food when all people have to say about a restaurant is how neat it is. "Oh, it's so Arizona!" "That place is really cool in an...
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Film
Love Letter
Eve of destruction
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 28, 2006
Every New Year's Eve, I watch my favorite movie. I used to think that everyone had a favorite film until a few years ago, when I hosted a party to which I asked each guest to...
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New Year's Eve Guide
Your License to Chill
We spy the rockin' spots for '007
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 28, 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
Resistance Isn't Futile
It's just the only standout in an otherwise shameful launch
By Gary Hodges
Published: December 28, 2006
Imagine two game producers rushing down the hall. One wants to pitch a WW2 game, the other a sci-fi shooter. They round a corner, crash into each other, and their papers go...
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Night & Day
Mental Floss
Dentally challenged wankers duke it out
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 28, 2006
What is it with those bloody Brits? Of course the arrogant blokes would come up with a tradition like the weekly Quiz Night at George & Dragon, where they can massage their...
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Night & Day
No Smoking
Scottsdale bistro wants to stick it up your tailpipe
By MICHELLE BEAVER
Published: December 28, 2006
Al Gore would be proud -- and maybe a little buzzed -- if he went to the Orange Table's Bike Night. Each Tuesday, the Orange turns green, offering booze discounts to anyone who...
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Night & Day
A Night at the Co-Opera
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your shirt
By Leslie Barton
Published: December 28, 2006
Bring a copy of The Enemy at Home and your pro-abortion sketchbook, wire up on the skunk, and let the semantics fly during Café Alumut. The collective-community...
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Night & Day
Pac Men
Here comes the real test for Herb and company
By Clay McNear
Published: December 28, 2006
ASU Men’s Basketball head coach Herb Sendek talks like a pipsqueak girl. It’s unsettling, really. But the former North Carolina State head man definitely has...
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Night & Day
Pac Men
Here comes the real test for Herb and company
By Clay McNear
Published: December 28, 2006
ASU Men’s Basketball head coach Herb Sendek talks like a pipsqueak girl. It’s unsettling, really. But the former North Carolina State head man definitely has cojones....
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The Bird
Tranny-Gate
This bawdy bluebird ponders a tranny's package, plays politics with firefighters, and poops a load all over PHX scenester Brodie Hubbard
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: December 28, 2006
Talk about The Crying Game! For the past month, Scottsdale club owner Tom Anderson of Anderson's Fifth Estate and local "diversity activist" Michele De Lafreniere have been...
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Music
Gray Matters
Less Pain Forever has its brains and eats them, too
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 28, 2006
The babies were wearing scuba gear, and levitating above all the houses in the neighborhood. And when Christopher Pomerenke woke up, he wrote a song about the surreal scene...
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Film
Failure to Launch
Indie red
By Angela Ashman
Published: December 28, 2006
On a recent Friday morning, 44-year-old movie director Eric Schaeffer woke up at his usual hour of 10:30 in his one-bedroom Upper West Side apartment that he calls "Studio...
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Art
Overexposed
More of the same
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 28, 2006
During a recent visit to the newly expanded Phoenix Art Museum, I overheard a fellow patron say, "The art at this museum never ceases to disappoint me on a regular basis." ...
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DVDish
Juices Flowing
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 28, 2006
Jackass Number Two: Unrated (Paramount) The sequel to the dumb-ass jamboree makes its predecessor look plain and inoffensive. In short: more puke, more blood, more semen...
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News
Loan Sharks
The governor's chosen loan authority is determined to keep its monopoly
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 28, 2006
Oops. The company selected by Governor Janet Napolitano to handle $236 million in tax-free bonds has admitted, after questioning from New Times, that it failed to properly...
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Club Candids
Puttin' On the Urban Ritz
Santa's little hotties
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 28, 2006
After a few weeks of hanging with crowds of casual kids, Club Candids needed to spice it up with something slightly more sophisticated, like Club io's Million Dollar Mingle on...
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Art Scene
Reviews of current exhibits, shows and installations
By Wynter Holden
Published: December 28, 2006
"LARGE" at Larsen Gallery: Maybe size really does matter, at least where fine art is concerned. Larsen has gathered an eclectic selection of wall-size paintings, many created...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of December 26
Published: December 28, 2006
Airwolf: Season Two (Universal) Be With Me (Film Movement) Dane Cook's Tourgasm (HBO) Danica (First Look) Factotum (IFC) The Family Values Tour 2006 (Firm Music)...
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