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Last fall, a sophomore at Arizona State University named Matthew Jezierski started a club in honor of a group he considers to be oppressed and undervalued: the white male. The...
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In e-mails and comments on my blog, Ear Infection, I've gotten into it with the metal kids in town. They've criticized me for my opinions about metal or for my not paying...
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On one of the recent nights I visited Skye, the flashy new fine-dining destination in Peoria, the place was abuzz with rumors of a celebrity in the house. One of my friends did...
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Disney's immense, booty-busting, pro-piracy epic has come to an End. I doubt very much that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is, in fact, the last we'll be seeing of...
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The play Bad Seed opened recently at the Herberger. (See capsule). Fans of Bad Seed know there's no "The" in the title of the play but that there is one in the title of the...
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There's a unique challenge in designing superhero games: How do you make it fun to play a character who, by definition, is vastly more powerful than his opposition? Hulk...
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Some perks of performing live when you're, say, Wayne Newton, include the ladies, lingerie, and a whole lotta panties tossed onstage. If you're a knob-twiddling techno Moog...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons Published:
May 24, 2007
This B-ball-lovin' loon's madder than Alec Baldwin on a cell phone call to his daughter!
Over the Suns' 114-106 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the Western...
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Even armed with an illustrated libretto, it's hard to divine most rock opera story lines. Before Ken Russell's film adaptation of Tommy revealed the importance of champagne,...
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The most volatile, least easily psychoanalyzed of '70s auteurs in Peter Biskind's classic New Hollywood tell-all Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, William Friedkin may have mellowed...
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The Life: Cy Coleman and Ira Gasman wrote the music and lyrics for this seldom-seen Tony Award winner, with a book by Coleman, Gasman, and playwright David Newman, and we have...
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By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky Published:
May 24, 2007
Porky's: The Ultimate Collection (Fox)
When writer-director Bob Clark was killed by a drunk driver in April, the obits trumpeted his holiday classic A Christmas Story . . . ...
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Robert "Gypsy" Comer, whose path to death by lethal injection was paved with bad intentions, sent a series of letters to New Times before his execution on the morning of...
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Duders. That's what the Coach House in Scottsdale had to offer on Saturday, May 19. (Click here for more photos.) The ratio of post-adolescent ex-football players to cutesy...
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Once, written and directed by John Carney, is a deceptively simple movie. It's a narrative strung together by pop songs, but without the sheen (or arrogance) of most cinematic...
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Afro Samurai (Funimation)
Airwolf: Season Three (Universal)
Alone With Her (IFC)
Breaking Point (Fox)
The Complete Matrix Trilogy (Warner Bros.)
Epic Movie (Fox)...
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SOLAR FLARE-UPS
HOAs just don’t "get" it: Sarah Fenske's column on homeowners associations raised some great points, and it doesn't hurt that she writes about such ...
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Jackson Ellis is freaking out.
In late April, the 26-year-old publisher of the independent music and fiction magazine Verbicide got word that starting on July 15, his...
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"I don't mind if you take a shot of me eating," says William Friedkin, between bites of an avocado sandwich, to the photographer busily taking his snapshot. "People know I do...
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I was going through a local state college’s academic program the other day and found that the school offers a bachelor’s degree in Chicano studies. My question is in what fie...
