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1. Feature

   Steve Kerr's been beating the odds his whole life

   By Paul Rubin

   Published: April 24, 2008

   The preppy blond guy whose career highlights in the NBA and for the Arizona Wildcats equal basketball legend is relaxing at a Phoenix sports bar. A deadly sharpshooter in such...

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   Arizona Cardinals 2008 Draft Day Party

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Get up close and personal with NFL Draft Day action at this affair, which features player/cheerleader autograph opportunities and a Kids Zone. Admission is free, but a...

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   Shakespeare Marathon: A Complete Reading of the Complete Works

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Southwest Shakespeare Company goes for a Guinness world record by reading straight through for 24 hours a day for five days. Numerous local thespians and nationally known...

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   Marketplace of Ideas

   Author creates a secret society from shopping lists

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: April 24, 2008

   In her 2005 Queen of the Oddballs, author Hillary Carlip announced that a lifetime of trying on different personas (juggling instructor, actor, singing telegram) had convinced...

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   Friends Don't Let Friends Blow Dough

   By Clay McNear

   Published: April 24, 2008

   If you’re an eBay Power Seller, you hit the Friends of the Phoenix Public Library Book Sale on opening day at stupid o’clock. If you’re just some...

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   PAM Shoots, It Scores

   Why an afternoon at the museum is better than a Netflix night

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: April 24, 2008

   When we told someone we were gonna see Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Art Museum, the response was, “Why not just watch it at home with Netflix?” Good point,...

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   Happily Never After

   Smiling through the Apocalypse at Perihelion

   By Niamh Wallace

   Published: April 24, 2008

   The smiley face – refreshingly devoid of any Wal-Mart or emoticon association – figures prominently in "Where the Good Thoughts Grow," an exhibition of new work by...

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   The Cult of Baz

   Local troupe brings the third dimension to Luhrmann masterwork

   By Clay McNear

   Published: April 24, 2008

   Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! has more cinematic moments than any 50 comparable films – and none is more magnificent than Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman’s...

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   Hit the Sauce

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: April 24, 2008

   There are all sorts of fun facts in the press material for the 24th annual My Nana’s Salsa Challenge. Like, the Inca created salsa, it sells better than ketchup does in...

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    Wie Luvs Truxs

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Check out this questionable sentence structure from the Tire Pros Monster Truck Nationals online event description: “Get ready for two days of nothing but Trucks, Trucks...

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    Lust in Translation

    Vampires. Mermaids. Loverboy. We’re not dumb. We get it. We think.

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: April 24, 2008

    To quote F.T. Marinetti’s Futurists Manifesto of 1909, “Standing on the world's summit, we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!” Enter Theatre...

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    Cold Play

    Great white northern game heats up the desert Southwest

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Because we’re born-and-bred Phoenicians, we reacted to the Desert Ice Bonspiel similarly to how we did when the Phoenix Coyotes first set up shop here in ’96. It went...

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    American Refugees

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Most of us are familiar with the refugee-to-the-U.S. story, but how many have heard of American “refugees” high-tailing it to a Third World country? We hadn’t...

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    Sol Food

    Vinyl chefs cook up a sonic stew to keep the Valley funky

    By Jose Gonzalez

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Johnny D, a.k.a. John Dixon, has been archiving Arizona music for nearly 50 years and may well harbor the largest record collection in the Southwest, maybe even in the States....

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    Murder, My Swede

    Blood, gore, and meatballs at IKEA

    By Peter Breslin

    Published: April 24, 2008

    If you’ve ever headed down to IKEA for lunch, you’ve probably scarfed down some knackerbrod and a steaming plate of meatballs, but we doubt you’ve encountered...

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    Hooray for Bollywood

    Is “The Enchantress” bigger than The Beatles?

    By Jay Bennett

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Pity us Westerners. For all the culture and entertainment we export (and expect world markets to gobble up), we’re remarkably reluctant to recognize the appeal of artists...

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    Girl Uninterrupted

    Cutie-pie epicurean can’t turn off the charm

    By Clay McNear

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Arizona foodie Robin Miller is a chatty Kathy. It’s irksome. The cutie-pie host of the Food Network’s Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller can talk your friggin’...

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    Out With the Old New

    In with the new new

    By Niamh Wallace

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Shemer Art Center and Museum, the art oasis located smack-dab in the middle of lovely Arcadia, opened in 1984, back when "new media" referred to anything not made exclusively...

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    Marching On...

    By Jay Bennett

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Three years after dissolving Rocket from the Crypt and Hot Snakes nearly simultaneously, John “Speedo” Reis is back in the fold with a formidable new San Diego-based...

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    Summoning Shannon Hoon

    Blind Melon’s Reunites, And We Talk To Dead People

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: April 24, 2008

    On a recent evening, as the clock approached midnight, I created a makeshift altar with a photo of late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon, then lit a mixture of wormwood,...