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Feature
Burn, Baby, Burn!
Butch-lesbian nativist Laine Lawless loves incinerating Mexico's flag. Is she a dangerous wacko or a proud patriot?
By Stephen Lemons
Published: February 15, 2007
With her silver power-mullet, support hose, and ankle-length leopard-print skirt, Laine Roberta Lawless is a cross between Ma Barker, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and South Park...
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Music
What About Bob?
Making music on location
By Nate Cavalieri
Published: February 15, 2007
A man — let's call him White Rock Man — slouches in the back of a bus, idling at the side of a steep stretch of road. As the engine cools, the bus sits between two...
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Cafe
Leggo My Fuego
Breaking the Curse of the Doomed Location
By Michele Laudig
Published: February 15, 2007
I could probably dig up a really good statistic to illustrate the fleeting nature of the restaurant industry, but why bother? We've all stumbled upon great dining discoveries...
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Film
Edie Made Easy
Queen of the Factory gets the superficial biopic treatment
By Nathan Lee
Published: February 15, 2007
Ticket buyers to Factory Girl are in for a drag; not even the drag queens will like it. Cookie-cut from the biopic assembly line, this life and times of Edie Sedgwick (Sienna...
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Stage
Sad Sedaris
Was it naive to hope for more from a play about a big ball of cheese?
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: February 15, 2007
David and Amy Sedaris' The Book of Liz is a smart, funny, shrewdly crafted piece of writing, full of sly social commentary and jam-packed with goofy double entendres. None of...
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Game On
Do Not Disturb
Hotel Dusk is a great game for people who haven't heard of "books"
By Gary Hodges
Published: February 15, 2007
Lately, the Nintendo DS has become a virtual Monster.com. You can play a defense attorney (Phoenix Wright), surgeon (Trauma Center), and even a cook (Cooking Mama). Now,...
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News
Rock the Vote
A Phoenix man may serve five years in prison for — get this — voting
By Paul Rubin
Published: February 15, 2007
Shortly before the 2004 presidential election, Dale Schwartz decided to register to vote. "It was a big election, and everyone was stressing how important it was," says...
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Niki at Nite
French Kiss
Naughty girl finds heaven on earth — at the Mondrian
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: February 15, 2007
As my girlfriend CooKie and I approach the entrance of the new Mondrian (pronounced mon-dree-on, best with a pretentious French accent) on a recent Tuesday night, I get an urge...
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Film
Yuppie Meets Refugee
Jude Law gets his urban renewal on in Minghella's dramatic dud
By Nathan Lee
Published: February 15, 2007
Let us applaud, on principle, Anthony Minghella's return to small-scale storytelling. Breaking and Entering marks his first original screenplay since the oddball romcom Truly,...
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Backstage Pass
Judy Kaye
You have to be good to sing that badly
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: February 15, 2007
Who says Phoenix doesn't turn out winners? Not former Phoenician Judy Kaye, on whose mantel rests a Tony Award for her portrayal of Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera. Along...
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DVDish
Royal Flush
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 15, 2007
Marie Antoinette (Sony) Sofia Coppola's third feature grabs you by your frilly lapels from the jump, with Gang of Four's "Natural's Not in It" showering guitar chords all...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 15, 2007
Published: February 15, 2007
Undue Process That's the ticket!: I was ticked off when I read your photo-radar story ("Gotcha!," Ray Stern, February 8). That corporations can get out of the tickets is...
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Club Candids
She's a Brick House
Stacked and packed on Saturday night
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 15, 2007
Club Candids had so much fun gallivanting among the potholes and dirt mounds of downtown Phoenix last week that we decided to hit up the 'hood again for the Brickhouse Theatre...
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Film
Low Note
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore do not make sweet, sweet music
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 15, 2007
You remember Andrew Ridgeley, don't you? He was the other guy in Wham!, the one who found himself stranded in 1986, after George Michael had faith enough in his own talents to...
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Stage
Theater Scene
What's running now
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: February 15, 2007
Munched: This workshop reading of local actor/author Kim Porter's new play features Ken Love in a story about Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a psychiatric disorder in which...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of February 13
Published: February 15, 2007
Bicycle Thieves: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) The Boy From Lebanon (Picture This) The Butcher Boy (Warner Bros.) The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Tartan) The...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Pass the Arroz, Chely
Rice paddy is just short for Rice Patrick
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: February 15, 2007
Dear readers: Mucho comments about my February 1 column regarding the metamorphosis of Mexican names into seemingly wacky nicknames — Nini from Alejandrina, for...
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Shrapnel
Kubrick's Missing Movie
2007: A Space Melody
By Cole Haddon
Published: February 15, 2007
Matt Hales (better known as Aqualung) made a bit of a ruckus when his debut, Strange and Beautiful, dropped in the U.S. in 2005. A selection of lush, dreamy pop from his first...
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Film
Spy Vs. Spy
Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 15, 2007
In December 2002, ABC's 20/20 ran a story on Eric O'Neill, an undercover surveillance specialist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The piece was titled "Spycatcher,"...
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Shrapnel
Anti-War Monger
It's a riot
By Ed Masley
Published: February 15, 2007
The first glimpse we get of John Lennon in action on The U.S. vs. John Lennon DVD (Lions Gate) is a rare live performance of "Attica State" at a rally held to protest the...
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