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Feature
Here's how publicity hound Joe Arpaio used a TV station to try to destroy rival Dan Saban with a bogus rape claim
By Paul Rubin
On the early evening of April 7, 2004, an Apache Junction resident named Ruby Norman shot an e-mail over to Sheriff Joe Arpaio that must have seemed heaven-sent.
"I need to...
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Revolver
Producing the future
By Brendan Joel Kelley
When I was still in high school in Alaska, I had it in my head for a while that I wanted to be a producer or a sound engineer. I was already way into music. I'd self-published...
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Cafe
Breath of fresh air for a chain-choking 'hood
By Michele Laudig
I had no idea I wanted a D-Backs jersey, but when a friend gave me one for Christmas in the perfect size, with the new team colors of white, red and black I was...
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Film
Overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself
By J. Hoberman
New-school genre junk food: Take a Tarantino wanna-be with Sundance credentials, add a large, famous-enough cast and a show-biz backdrop, season the violence with references to...
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Art
Nudes meet superheroes
By Wynter Holden
His pseudonym reads like that of a second-rate sci-fi author. The name of his solo exhibition is derived from the language of the apes spoken in Tarzan novels. His work is a...
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Game On
You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV
By Chris Ward
For most of us, the closest we get to practicing medicine is telling a depressed co-worker, "Somebody's got a case of the Mondays."
But that doesn't stop us from living...
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Night & Day
Gravity, wheels, and cojones
By Lilia Menconi
Plein-air painting was supersexy 150 years ago, when Monet and his indie impressionist bros trekked outdoors in search of the perfect natural lighting. Though these bad-boy...
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Night & Day
Phyllis Diller meets Dr. Demento
By Leslie Barton
"Fuck You, Joe Arpaio" seems like a threat, but when rapper, one-man band, and comic devil Page the Village Idiot utters the insult, it reeks of promise. Page's meager...
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Night & Day
By Steve Jansen
Funny man galore performs a rare club date at the Tempe Improv.
Tue., Feb. 5, 8 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 6, 8 p.m., 2008
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News
County prosecutors charged a teenager with looking at kiddy porn. Turns out they hadn't done their homework
By Sarah Fenske
Matt Bandy was a 16-year-old kid who'd never committed a violent crime, had absolutely no prior record, and yet was looking at 90 years in prison.
Acting on a tip from...
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Club Candids
Friday-night freaking on the dance floor
By Lilia Menconi
The Valley's post-adolescent crusty punk rockers have been getting a lot of camera time lately, so Club Candids hit up one of Scottsdale's most popular clubs, Myst, on Friday,...
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Film
Peter OToole gets randy with this starring role, his first in years
By Jim Ridley
Maurice Russell, a septuagenarian actor facing the end of his career and life, gazes raptly at the present that fate has given him: the company of a sullen but strangely...
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Art
Group show is drawn-out affair
By Wynter Holden
Drawing is often considered a "practice" art. Granted, Michelangelo's sketch The Risen Christ sold at auction for a record $12.3 million a few years ago. Even Picasso's rough...
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DVDish
By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky
Cocaine Cowboys (Magnolia)
Slam! Bang! Pow! Snort! This tawdry and giddy documentary tells the story of Miami's transformation from a place where old people go to die to a...
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Letters
Chain Gangs
Smash-mouth journalism: I have read New Times religiously since moving to the Valley nearly 20 years ago. Stephen Lemons' recent article article on Sheriff Joke's...
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Music
A legendary drummer should go out with a bang
By Niki D'Andrea
Updated online January 29, 2007
"I'm the house rocker and the show stopper, the woman's pet and the man's threat. I'm Chico, the Boogie Man." Chico Chism
Legendary...
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Film
Halfway through Sundance and still whistling a happy tune
By Scott Foundas
Park City, Utah On the first Saturday of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, I rolled out of bed and hustled up Main Street for the 8:30 a.m. screening of Tamara Jenkins's...
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Art
Current shows, installations and exhibits
By Wynter Holden
After Dark: 100 Years of the Evening Dress at Phoenix Art Museum: Your old prom dress probably isn't a masterpiece, but formal wear by Oscar De La Renta and Gianni Versace can...
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What Else Is New?
Brokeback Mountain: 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Universal)
Cowboy del Amor (Genius)
Crooks (Lightyear)
Fiddler on the Roof (MGM)
The 2006 FIFA World Cup Film: The Grand...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Ruining stereotypes for the rest of us
By Gustavo Arellano
This November, a trusted employee of mine came out about his status as an illegal immigrant. Our big-box retail conglomerate's policy clearly spells out the termination of my...
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