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Feature
Arrested Development
Heard about the 29-year-old sex offender who posed as a seventh-grader? Here's how the sordid case was broken
By Robert Nelson
Published: February 22, 2007
On Tuesday afternoon, January 16, an old man walked into the administrative office of a small charter school on the high desert plains north of Prescott. He was skinny, with...
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Revolver
Hip-Hop Co-Op
Dipping a toe in the urban mainstream
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Published: February 22, 2007
Upstairs at the recent One Stop Shop hip-hop producers' conference (sponsored by G-Unit), I'm at the booth of Money Management, the company that manages 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks,...
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Cafe
Wright On
Lodge in your mouth
By Michele Laudig
Published: February 22, 2007
Say the name Frank Lloyd Wright, and suddenly I'm 18 again, new to New York City and stressing out about one of my very first college assignments. I have no idea how I'm going...
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Film
Fly Me to the Moon
Daring to dream
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 22, 2007
In 2003, Mark and Michael Polish made Northfork, though just barely; the brothers, also responsible for the art-house fave Twin Falls Idaho, about conjoined twins who fall for...
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Art
Crafty Folk
Straddling the border of kitsch
By Wynter Holden
Published: February 22, 2007
In serious art circles, "craft" is a dirty word. It means crocheted doilies and wooden birdhouses, the handmade kitsch you would find at church rummage sales. Form is secondary...
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Game On
Channel Surfing
There's more than one way to play with your Wii
By Chris Ward
Published: February 22, 2007
So you've beaten Zelda and can hurl a 90 mph fastball in Wii Sports without shattering your 50-inch plasma. Now what? It's time to explore the rest of the "channels" -- some...
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Feature
Space Rock Time Bomb
Crash Street Kids head back to the '70s, with just the beer lights to guide them
By Ed Masley
Published: February 22, 2007
When Ryan McKay was in his early teens, he took his girlfriend to check out some regional band that had achieved a certain local-hero status back in his home state of Illinois,...
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Music
Covert Concepts
Inside the intellectual mystery metal of Isis
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: February 22, 2007
In the theoretical "school of rock," Isis front man Aaron Turner would be the kid at the head of the class who has an eloquent answer for every question and writes the essays...
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Film
Behind the Music
Not even Michael Gambon’s 18th-century hat head can save a wretch like this
By Ella Taylor
Published: February 22, 2007
Morally irreproachable and flat as a pancake, Michael Apted's Amazing Grace is set among bickering House of Commoners in late-18th-century London, but the movie belongs...
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Art
Do Me
Making a Collective Gesture
Published: February 22, 2007
Any scene worth its salt comes with cliques, and the coolest club in the Phoenix art world is Collective Gesture, a group of artists, curators, and writers who communicate...
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DVDish
Chick Flick
By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 22, 2007
Shut Up & Sing (Genius) It's a shame that one of 2006's best documentaries is being released without extras; it would have been nice, for instance, to hear feisty Natalie...
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The Bird
Kook Congress
The brazen buzzard outs anti-Semites at the Chandler 9/11 conference, and sheds a tear for the Tribune's Slim Shady and a few more for the near-deceased Chez Nous
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: February 22, 2007
This ornery oriole's been crowin' loud and proud ("Denier's Conference," February 1) over the fallout from its revelation that Eric D. Williams, former director of this...
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Club Candids
Booze Makes It Better
Getting tanked on a Tuesday
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 22, 2007
If getting obliterated only two nights a week just isn't enough to fill whatever emotional void you've got going on, Club Candids has found the perfect place to make an...
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Film
Accidental Tourists
Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history
By Rob Nelson
Published: February 22, 2007
Having endured civil war, separation from their families, hunger and dehydration during a 1000-mile trek through sub-Saharan Africa, and 10 years in a U.N. refugee camp while...
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Art Scene
Reviews of current exhibits, shows and installations
By Wynter Holden
Published: February 22, 2007
"Tenacious" at Tempe Public Library's Connections Café: At first glance, artist Barbara Burton's quirky monoprints of bunnies and teacups seem well-suited to a coffee shop...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks for the week of February 20
Published: February 22, 2007
Apartment Zero (Anchor Bay) Babel (Paramount) The Bros. (Lions Gate) Crooked (Lions Gate) Crossover (Sony) Curious George: Zoo Night and Other Animal Stories...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Three-Question Especiál
If there were a wall, we'd just get it dirty
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: February 22, 2007
Why does Arnold Schwarzenegger keep putting his foot in his mouth and talking smack about Mexicans? To my understanding, his wife Maria is of Mexican descent. He's not only...
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Shrapnel
A Bone Chip Off the Ol' Carcass
The pathological song
By Aaron Burgess
Published: February 22, 2007
The pioneering British gore-metal band Carcass may've disbanded in 1995, but its legacy has never been stronger. In fact, not content merely to borrow from the masters, an...
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Film
17 + 6 - 5 + 1 - 3 + 7 = 23!
Shocking numerical revelations await in Jim Carrey's totally freaking random thriller
By Nathan Lee
Published: February 22, 2007
The Number 23 grips hold of one stupid idea and runs so far with it, in so many directions, to such little purpose, that it nearly won me over from sheer berserkoid effort. In...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 22, 2007
Published: February 22, 2007
Burning Issue Should be kerosene and not heard: New Times should be ashamed of itself for giving so much space to a big old dyke nut like Laine Lawless ("Burn, Baby, Burn!",...
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