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Steve Bison of Alabama's Cherokee River Indian Community says the war over 4-year-old Raven Laws may be traced back to the legendary Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
"It's a long...
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A few weeks ago, I helped judge the Ultra DJ Spinoff at Myst in Scottsdale. Six finalists had 25 minutes each to impress the judges (who also included DJs Pete "Supermix"...
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Living in Arizona, it's easy to become familiar with the nuances of Mexican cooking. From corner taquerias and casual family-style places to higher-end restaurants, there's...
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As Charlie Fineman, a New York dentist who lost his wife and three young daughters in one of the September 11 plane crashes, Adam Sandler sports a mass of bedraggled locks and...
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On paper, Richard Dresser's Augusta sounds a whole lot more dreary than it turns out to be. Thanks to some fine acting and smooth direction, this comedy about the travails of...
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There's one similarity between Ghost Rider and most videogame movie tie-ins: Get too close to either, and your ass will probably get burnt.
Though it stars goofy Nic Cage...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons Published:
March 22, 2007
Hmmm, this Phoenix firebird speaks with forked tongue — at least when it comes to the New Times story on white-trash diva Anna Nicole Smith's Native American love child,...
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"Ten bucks says I can get one of these guys to show me their wiener," my friend Toxic JuJu tells me, as we grab some seats at the bar inside Pumphouse II to take in a gay male...
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Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair's The Namesake left no doubt about the film's target audience. If anyone's going to flock to this warm and...
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I suppose it could happen to anyone: You spend a good chunk of your professional life getting paid to pretend you're Christ, and after awhile you start believing you can part...
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Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Ed Zwick's Blood Diamond, about the civil war over diamonds that devastated Sierra Leone in the late 1990s, plays like a guilt-ridden Jerry...
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Robin Scoins is the perfect face for the argument against Arizona Child Protective Services. And she believes that's exactly why she's drawn the ire of state representative...
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Not that we needed an excuse to go out and get drunk, but at least this time, we had a good reason to buy a new green shirt, because it was a St. Patrick's Day celebration,...
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By Monday afternoon, they had all left Austin — the A-minus-listers who flew into Texas to promote their studio releases with encroaching release dates. Among them were...
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Previews and reviews by Robrt L. Pela
Frozen: Bryony Lavery’s dark, thoughtful drama about a pedophile serial killer won London’s prestigious Barclay Award for Best N...
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Batman Beyond: Season Three (Warner Bros.)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sony)
Burning Annie (Warner Bros.)
The Caine Mutiny (Sony)
The Care Bears Movie: 25th...
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A Child Shall Fool Them
Editor’s note:We're straying from our usual Letters format to publish an assortment of responses (edited from our Web site) to our satirical story o...
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J.J. Grey, front man for country-fried funk 'n' soul band Mofro, comes from the Florida swamplands and a rich storytelling tradition. Hints of both seep into the songs on...
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Hardcore fantasy geeks will relish role-playing every enemy of The Last Mimzy, a family-style sci-fi adventure whose director Bob Shaye is better known to them as the evil...
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Dear Readers:
Muchas, muchas responses to my March 8 column asking whether I should keep this column's gold-toothed, mustachioed, sombrero-wearing fat Mexican logo and what...
