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Feature
Inhumanity Has a Price
Corpses, a flesh-eating virus, the most-sued sheriff in America. Lawsuits against Joe Arpaio have cost us $41 million, so far
By John Dickerson
Published: December 20, 2007
Maricopa County law enforcement violated the constitutional rights of this newspaper's readers in October. Using secret grand jury subpoenas, County Attorney Andrew Thomas...
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Night & Day
Here Comes Anti-Claus
Santa-hatin’ scenesters unite
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 20, 2007
Andrew Jackson Jihad has received a grip of ink in our esteemed publication. From glowing praise (“Their music could almost be the perfect soundtrack to the black humor of...
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Night & Day
Bling It On
Note to hipsters: emo hoodies are not wearable art
By Sloane Burwell
Published: December 20, 2007
Peeping and appreciating art at the gaggle of Roosevelt Row galleries doesn't mean sporting beatnik berets or bongos, emo hoodies, ironic t-shirts, or the ever-present...
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Night & Day
Class City Rockers
Get your swank on in downtown Phoenix. Yes, really.
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 20, 2007
You may be a pock on the rash of post-post-adolescent artist folks squatting in the downtown area, but that doesn’t mean you gotta spend your Saturday nights as the...
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Night & Day
Enamel Magnetism
Sex, gender, and corroded sardines
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: December 20, 2007
Good old Michel Foucault would likely regard Jessica Calderwood’s enamel art as mere fodder for the repressive hypothesis, which attempts to give revolutionary importance...
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Night & Day
Harmonic Convergence
Desegregating the dance floor at Martini Ranch
By Adriane Goetz
Published: December 20, 2007
Don’t you just love watching children cry when they didn’t get absolutely everything they wanted for Christmas? If there’s one kernel of knowledge worth taking...
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Night & Day
Silent Night?
Not in IMAX 3D
By Clay McNear
Published: December 20, 2007
Unless you count "Fairytale of New York" by Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O'Connor -- which we don't, necessarily -- what's the last popular song that entered the collective...
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Night & Day
The Glass-Bulb Menagerie
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 20, 2007
Things that are typical Phoenix in the wintertime: Holiday lights. Strip malls. Strip malls with holiday lights on them. And, of course, ZooLights: Nature All A-Glow, which has...
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Night & Day
Ho Sweet Ho
Peep the past and present of a venerable Scottsdale landmark
By Sloane Burwell
Published: December 20, 2007
These days, it seems like half of Arizona is on its way to pseudo-Tuscan McMansionville. It's too bad, really, since mid-century modern architecture is found in exactly two...
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Night & Day
Spice Boys
By Clay McNear
Published: December 20, 2007
Eat a deep-fried chimi, then work it off. Hell, eat a dozen, 'cause love handles are an endangered species at the muy picante Latin dance night called Caliente Friday featuring...
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Night & Day
Whoa, Susana
Lassos and lamé at Karamba
By Leslie Barton
Published: December 20, 2007
While our lame ass sits at home reading crime novels and waiting for the phone to ring, somewhere in this city of immolation Susana is carefully choosing a skin-tight outfit to...
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Sidebar
Dead End
Beaten, hanged, strangled, and ignored, these men and a woman lost their lives in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's custody
By John Dickerson
Published: December 20, 2007
• On March 26, 1996, Jose Rodriquez, 39, died in a pool of his own vomit on a jail floor. His cries for help went ignored by Arpaio's jail employees. Rodriquez's...
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Sidebar
Inmates' Rights Lawsuit Languishes
The unresolved Hart vs. Hill suit was filed 30 years ago in federal court. It brings up the same jailhouse abuses that occur today
By John Dickerson
Published: December 20, 2007
The lawyer behind the arrests of New Times executives Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin is central in a seminal lawsuit alleging that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office...
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Lemons
Self-Mutilation
AZ's new employer-sanctions law will hurt workers, employers, and the economy, in what can only be seen as a massive self-inflicted wound
By Stephen Lemons
Published: December 20, 2007
Jornaleros rise early. At the crack of dawn on a cold Sunday morning, there are about 30 or so day laborers milling about at the Macehualli Work Center near 25th Street and...
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Jensen
Cyberspace Invaders
County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens
By Bill Jensen
Published: December 20, 2007
Maricopa County law enforcement officials are increasingly turning to the Internet to target private individuals they consider a "threat." Who qualifies as a threat in their...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 20, 2007
Published: December 20, 2007
GOOBERVILLE Get off your butts: Sanctuary city? Yeah, Phoenix is a sanctuary city — for bigots and carpetbaggers ("Hen Party," The Bird, Stephen Lemons, December 13;...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Caste of Whiners
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: December 20, 2007
U.S.A. citizens are sick and tired that for more than 40 years, Latin American elites have lived like monarchs because they pimp their poor to American businesses for cheap...
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Music
Your Brain on Music
Science starts to unravel our natural affinity
By Chris Parker
Published: December 20, 2007
How does music engage and touch us so deeply? Why is its presence so intrinsic to what we do? It's everywhere, from stereos and headphones to movie soundtracks and...
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Club Candids
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Arcadia after dark
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 20, 2007
The Arcadia neighborhood is known for stellar real estate and early mornings at La Grande Orange. So the nightlife is most likely to take place safely at home with a nice...
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Shrapnel
Naughty and Nice
What do musicians want in their stockings?
By Cole Haddon
Published: December 20, 2007
Every year around the office, it's the same old pickle: What do you buy for the Secret Santa gift exchange? You don't want to go super-cheap, because somehow everyone...
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