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Feature
Snakes Rattle and Roll
They made it into October. Can José Valverde and the Baby Backs close the deal?
By Megan Irwin
Published: October 4, 2007
No one can quite figure out how the Arizona Diamondbacks made it to the playoffs. Some say it's the team's versatility, and resiliency. Some credit manager Bob Melvin's...
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Music
Turbo Charged
The denim demons ride
By Chris Parker
Published: October 4, 2007
Like commandos descending from helicopters in the night, Turbonegro's boisterous irreverence lands just in time to deliver a pinprick of humor to puncture rock's ballooning...
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Cafe
To Go . . . Or Not To Go
By Michele Laudig
Published: October 4, 2007
I have always found it strange that the Valley lacks the kind of grab-and-go spots that are so popular in other big cities. Places that take the humble deli to a higher level,...
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Film
Perfect Score
As it goes in Donkey Kong, it goes in life
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 4, 2007
"This is a mockumentary, right?" I've been asked that question at least a dozen times since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters made its bow at the Slamdance Film Festival...
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Surreal Estate
History Lessen
Cool old buildings face developmental challenges
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: October 4, 2007
Mr. Blackwell has his annual Best Dressed List. Condé Nast Traveler has its Best Destinations List. And Phoenix, Land of a Thousand Demolitions, apparently keeps a list, too...
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Game On
Party Pooper
The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud
By Chris Ward
Published: October 4, 2007
Billiards is one of the few sports that's as taxing on a computer screen as it is in real life. It's played in pubs, after all, and its legendary star was named "Fats."...
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Night & Day
A Street Fair Named Desire
You'll wanna check out these DIY goodies
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 4, 2007
The supersweet yet sometimes unpredictable textile-and-homemade-artist-goods scene is going through some changes one mo’ gin. The Collectively Operated Local Artists Boutique...
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Night & Day
Rio Grand
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 4, 2007
Thanks to the City of Phoenix peeps, the five-mile stretch of the Salt River southwest of downtown ain’t an effing dump no more. On Saturday, October 6, take a 3.5-mile cycling...
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Night & Day
Pots and Panzers
By Leslie Barton
Published: October 4, 2007
Our Nana Giles was somewhat prickly, but a few frothy beers and she'd be pulling polka moves with her little dog Liebchen over her head. That's the power of Oktoberfest: big...
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Night & Day
Nag, Nag, Nag
By Clay McNear
Published: October 4, 2007
It's time again for local PETA and Gamblers Anonymous hard-liners to start their sniping, 'cause the nags bust down the gates once more on Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6,...
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Night & Day
Russ to Judgment
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 4, 2007
Texas-based artist Russ Havard is a “landscape painter,” a tired label that normally induces pretentious sneers, but his style is truly the cat’s pajamas, because dude captures...
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Night & Day
Shoe and Tell
Learn how to do 26.2 without croaking
By Peter Breslin
Published: October 4, 2007
Free marathon training. A 3.5-mile run/walk. Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter on hand (foot?) modeling peak-performance strategies. It ain’t nothin’ but a pavement-pounding...
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Night & Day
There's No Place Like House
New weekly aims to rouse you from your trance
By Clay McNear
Published: October 4, 2007
DJs Sol Martinez and Sonique des Fleurs want you to choose sides. Will it be the funky, down-low rumble of house or the hypnotic drone of electro? Unless you're seriously...
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Night & Day
Dear Tabby
Cat lady preaches immortality -- or the nine-lives equivalent
By Clay McNear
Published: October 4, 2007
You're a cat person or you're not. Democrats/Republicans, pro-choicers/pro-lifers, there's some give and take. Not with cats. If you're anti-mouser, don't go near Changing...
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Night & Day
Playthings That Go Bump in the Night
It's Christmas in October for hard-cores
By Clay McNear
Published: October 4, 2007
To paraphrase Orwell, some toys are more equal than others. Sure, there'll be Beanies, Barbies, and Belles up for grabs at the Phoenix Toy Show & Collectors Swap Meet, but this...
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Night & Day
Gem Dandy
Get down tonight at the Ruby Room
By Adriane Goetz
Published: October 4, 2007
Longtime neighborhood-bar patrons can finally rejoice, because the new downtown gem known as the Ruby Room has expanded its calendar of pleasurable events to include local art,...
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Night & Day
Drunken Chaos
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 4, 2007
During last year's "Chaos Theory 7" exhibit, we observed two things: Man, that was some stinkin' good art, and, man, those were some stinkin' drunk fools. This year's "Chaos...
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Night & Day
Native Uprising
To hell with blowing hair and feathers
By Peter Breslin
Published: October 4, 2007
A friend calls the stereotypical Native American art peddled in the Southwest and around the world -- normally a large canvas with pastels, a noble Indian on horseback, vast...
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Night & Day
Grime and Punishment
Artist makes God's creatures pay for our filthy transgressions
By Niamh Wallace
Published: October 4, 2007
Famed tax resister and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once said, “Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and, through her, God.” Oops. Too late...
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Night & Day
He Will, He Will Rock You
Impersonator brings Freddie Mercury back to life
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: October 4, 2007
He's dead, so the closest you'll get to a Freddie Mercury concert these days is one of the several Freddie-tribute shows currently trekking the globe. The most popular of them,...
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