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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...