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Feature
A Cancer on ASU
Could Bob Pettit have cured cancer in his lifetime? We might never know, thanks to nasty university politics
By Megan Irwin
Published: January 18, 2007
When Arizona State University students filed back into the classroom this week, Bob Pettit found himself someplace he hasn't been for a very long time: an introductory...
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Revolver
Sound Systym
Disc out of the box
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: January 18, 2007
It's difficult to describe — even after spending a third of my life employed doing exactly that — the music on the Lymbyc Systym's new LP, Love Your Abuser, to be...
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Cafe
Heaven Can Wait
Served by the bell
By Michele Laudig
Published: January 18, 2007
It's not a good thing when a restaurant makes you feel like you're in an airport. Or a cafeteria. Or even worse, an airport cafeteria. That's exactly how I felt when I...
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Film
Magic Touch
Fantastical meets political in this stunning for-adults-only fairy tale
By J. Hoberman
Published: January 18, 2007
Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth is something alchemical. To an astonishing degree, the 42-year-old Mexican filmmaker best known for his contribution...
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Stage
Hung Out to Dry
But soapy sells
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 18, 2007
Imagine being trapped in a tiny room full of people who cannot sing but insist on doing so anyway (at the top of their lungs!), and you'll understand my discomfort while...
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Game On
Paper Tigers
Viva Piñata is adorable -- and misleading
By Gary Hodges
Published: January 18, 2007
Viva Piñata begins with you acquiring the deed to a barren patch of land on "Piñata Island," a strange place where everyone wears masks and the main form of...
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Resolution Guide
How to . . . 2007
Meta self-help
Published: January 18, 2007
Hey, you — yes, you. You've been on the couch since New Year's, glued to James Bond marathons and all those ads for freaky pills that promise to trim 30 pounds overnight....
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Night & Day
Swine Tasting
Sexy nurses serve up king-size cow patties
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 18, 2007
It’s been decades since bad-ass broads like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem enlightened our primeval patriarchy. Now women watch football and mow lawns while men talk...
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The Bird
Sheriff Gangbanger
This sardonic sapsucker scratches out the truth on Sheriff Joe's gang-friendly gulags, an ICE spokesman's DUI stint, and the Arizona Repugnant's reportorial fumbles
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: January 18, 2007
This ornery oriole gags over the way most of the P-town press plays cocker spaniel to Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Take, for example, the myth that he's the roughest, toughest lawman...
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Music
Rock Docs Are Go!
As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again
By Johnny Angel
Published: January 18, 2007
The digital age has become a major curse to the major labels: Album sales fell 4 percent in 2005, 4.6 percent in 2006. But for rock 'n' rolling indie entrepreneurs with access...
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Backstage Pass
Laura Kerrigan
Marketing with the owls
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 18, 2007
She'll empty ashtrays and even clean the lobby toilet, but don't ask Laura Kerrigan to make your dog a star. By day, Kerrigan is Desert Stages Theatre's marketing director; by...
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DVDish
He's Really Doing That
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Published: January 18, 2007
The Protector (Genius Products) Thailand's Tony Jaa has made clear his plan to take Jackie Chan's crown as the king of Holy crap, did he just do that?! He's about halfway...
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Resolution Guide
How to Pole Dance
My alter ego is a geeky stripper
By Wynter Holden
Published: January 18, 2007
I can't keep up with modern exercise trends. First, I pretzeled my way through the Downward-facing Dog and the Feathered Peacock pose with at-home yoga videos. Then I...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 18, 2007
Published: January 18, 2007
Trans Action Off-color comments: I'm grateful that you wrote on this subject. Not many people write about this sort of topic ("Tranny-Gate," The Bird, Stephen Lemons,...
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Club Candids
In the Flesh
Pigments of the imagination
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 18, 2007
When we heard about the grand opening of Lady Luck Tattoo Gallery in Tempe, we packed our camera and hit the party for some freaky photo-ops. After all, tattoos and Tempe go...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of January 16
Published: January 18, 2007
Clerks II (Weinstein) Council of the Gods (First Run) Die You Zombie Bastards (Image) Dreamland (Image) Employee of the Month (Lions Gate) Gridiron Gang (Sony) Grim...
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Resolution Guide
How to Choose a Wine
Grape expectations
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: January 18, 2007
Right now, vino is pretty damn keen-o. Never before has wine enjoyed the prominence and popularity it does now, whether being imbibed by scenesters, serving as a social...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Brown Power
Say it loud! You're intact and you're proud!
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 18, 2007
I'm a 60-year-old Chicano and proud. Why do young Chicanos keep imitating blacks? They dress like blacks, talk like blacks, listen to black music, and hang with blacks. Aren't...
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Shrapnel
Gorillaz in the Animist
Shock and awwwww. . .
By Ed Masley
Published: January 18, 2007
What's cool about Gorillaz is you don't need Jamie Hewlett's animation to appreciate the genius of the music. But what's even cooler is the way that animation steals the show...
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Resolution Guide
How to Quit MySpace
Hell is a place for friends
By Steve Jansen
Published: January 18, 2007
MySpace. CrySpace. A place for friends. A place for nauseating self-indulgence. Whether you love or loathe the online meeting and sharing place, there are sure signs of...
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