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Night & Day
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
Published: May 8, 2008
Get a sneak peek -- a free one at that -- at this Arizona-made film from UofA alum Georgina Garcia Riedel. The movie, which opens nationally May 16, centers on three...
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Night & Day
Dorrance Planetarium Grand Reopening
Published: May 8, 2008
The planetarium's sky has been dark for more than six months during renovation, but the facility's back -- and looking pretty slick -- after a big-time makeover. New features...
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Fenske
Sarah Fenske’s in dogged pursuit of maternal instinct
By Sarah Fenske
Published: May 8, 2008
By the time my mother was my age, she'd already had three children. Me, I've yet to figure out how to keep a plant alive. This has been freaking me out a bit lately, and not...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 8, 2008
Published: May 8, 2008
DYING SUNS It wasn't Kerr's fault: Okay, it's over for the Phoenix Suns, but I still think your story on Steve Kerr was an important one to tell ("Running Down a Dream," Paul...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on COPS, Latin romance, and defeating racism with wit
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 8, 2008
Whenever I see COPS, why is it that every time a cop tries to pull over a Mexican for a bad tail light or some other minor infraction, it turns into a high-speed chase, until...
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Music
In their appeal to red-staters, Southern hip-hop and Fox News walk together
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 8, 2008
If there's one thing the self-satisfied, liberal, tofu-munching, cappuccino-sipping, in vitro fertilization-utilizing coastal elite hate, it's Fox News. The Rupert...
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Booze Pig
Booze Pig roots around The Spurr Lounge
By C.M. Redding
Published: May 8, 2008
It's 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday and I'm sitting in rush hour traffic, trying to fight my way to happy hour at the Spurr Lounge. I'm doing a sort-of girls' night out with my two...
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Shrapnel
A few of the rock stars we wish we could call this Mother’s Day
By Cole Haddon
Published: May 8, 2008
With Mother's Day fast approaching, we here at New Times have spent a lot of time mulling over what makes a great mom. In the end, we each wrote down a trait, tossed these...
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Shrapnel
Tristan Prettyman on Hello . . . x
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: May 8, 2008
Tristan Prettyman — the San Diego folk-pop singer-songwriter, surfer, and former Roxy model — is back with her sophomore album, Hello . . . x. Over the phone from...
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Listen Up
Meshuggah
obZen
(Nuclear Blast)By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 8, 2008
Prong's Tommy Victor recently remarked that metal bands can't play in standard E tuning anymore because they'd "sound like the Eagles." Not that they ever had anything to worry...
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Listen Up
Stanley Jordan
State of Nature
(Mack Avenue)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: May 8, 2008
After a decade-long major-release hiatus during which he dedicated himself to music education and independent recordings, Stanley Jordan re-emerges with a CD that challenges...
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Home Grown
The Foxglove Hunt
Stop Heartbeat
(Common Wall Media)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: May 8, 2008
Some of the best '80s music was made by duos — Hall & Oates, Wham!, Roxette, Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears. If The Foxglove Hunt had been British and around...
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Live Wire
The Whigs, and What Made Milwaukee Famous
By Tim Grierson
Published: May 8, 2008
Just as it's rare to have the U.S. president and vice president at the same public event, lest a deranged lunatic take them both out in one fell swoop, it seems slightly...
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Live Wire
Armin van Buuren
By Chris Parker
Published: May 8, 2008
Like '90s country artists making their bid for pop play, post-millennial European trance DJs are increasingly pushing their artist albums (as opposed to the innumerable mixes...
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Live Wire
Hot Tuna
By Mark Keresman
Published: May 8, 2008
Nowadays, the concept of a "side project" — a long-term member of a band leading another combo part-time — is fairly common. Back in the '60s, it was practically...
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Needle Exchange
J.D. Samson
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 8, 2008
The over-the-top androgynous appearance of J.D. Samson often leads to confusion about what, exactly, is the gender of the cross-dressing performance artist and member of indie...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: May 8, 2008
THURSDAY 8 Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJs Brazilia, & Mara (various) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Forbidden: DJ Domenica,...
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Cafe
Geisha A Go Go has Scottsdale hipsters turning Japanese
By Michele Laudig
Published: May 8, 2008
On the streets of Tokyo, you can hear pachinko parlors before you even see them. Their sound is distinctive, a shimmering white noise created by thousands of little metal...
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Film
Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer is anime in overdrive without substance
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 8, 2008
Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV — into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry...
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Film
Fugitive Pieces sucks the poetry and life out of its source material
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 8, 2008
Canadian poet Anne Michaels' beautiful 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces — about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family's murder at the hands of the...
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