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41. Live Wire

    The Lisps

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: March 13, 2008

    When we hear The Lisps — the sassy sound of wind blowing through a melodica, the jangly gypsy guitars, the coed vocal harmonies sung with the speed of auctioneers —...

42. Needle Exchange

    Thrust Thursdays

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Last time we checked, the Scandinavian cognoscenti don't dole out Nobel Prizes for genius DJs. But if they did (and Lord knows they should), we're sure DJ Nos would get such an...

43. Turntable

    Seven nights of DJs and dancing

    Published: March 13, 2008

    THURSDAY 13 Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C's: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom...

44. Cafe

    Scratch Pastries offers French bliss in the form of luscious desserts and savory sandwiches

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: March 13, 2008

    I'd be perfectly content if you plunked me down on a wicker chair at a tiny round table, put some Édith Piaf on the stereo, and called me Amélie. The...

45. Booze Pig

    Nine tips to take your strip club experience to the next level

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: March 13, 2008

    "We can talk about anything you want, long as you're naked." — Congressman David Dilbeck (Burt Reynolds) in the 1996 movie Striptease Striptease is a terrible movie....

46. Film

    The latest and greatest Dr. Seuss adaptation

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Was Dr. Seuss oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid today and, like its crafty rhymes, ebbs and flows with the times. The...

47. Film

    Michael Haneke's Funny Games is heavy on the rough stuff

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: March 13, 2008

    For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that...

48. Film Feature

    Michael Haneke: Funny Games, globalized entertainment holding a mirror to the human condition

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: March 13, 2008

    To the uninitiated viewer, Austrian director Michael Haneke may best be described as the modern cinema's master of the unkind rewind. In the opening scene of his second...

49. St. Patrick's Day Guide

    St. Patrick's Day Guide

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: March 13, 2008

    The word on the street is that Phoenix is gonna be going green, but it's got nothing to do with Al Gore. It's because the groovy Gaelic get-down known as St. Patrick's Day is...

50. Stage

    9 Parts of Desire: a story of Iraqi women searching for freedom

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: March 13, 2008

    It's impossible, watching Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, not to be overcome by our powerlessness over the war in Iraq. I felt lazy, disconnected, oafish as Raffo's...

51. Backstage Pass

    Joanna Settle on directing 9 Parts of Desire and what she refuses to ask an actor to do

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Director Joanna Settle is the other woman behind playwright/actor Heather Raffo's acclaimed 9 Parts of Desire as well as a slew of other award-winning productions. She has...

52. Theater Scene

    Reviews and previews of what's on Valley stages now

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: March 13, 2008

    The Sweetest Swing in Baseball: Rebecca Gilman's comedy/drama is turning up just in time for spring training with a study of the cult of celebrity and how it can screw up both...

53. Game On

    Patapon for the PSP marches to the beat of a different drummer; a tedious, repetitive one

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Patapon marches to the same damned drummer, over and over again. You'll know in the first few minutes exactly what Patapon has going for it. There's the goofy premise, which...

54. DVDish

    Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men makes the jump to DVD

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: March 13, 2008

    No Country for Old Men (Paramount) "A horror comedy chase" is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow...

55. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: March 13, 2008

    . . . And Justice for All: Special Edition (Sony) Appleseed Ex Machina (Warner Bros.) August Rush (Warner Bros.) Bee Movie (DreamWorks) Black Widow (Fox) Dan in Real Life...