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Night & Day
Balls and Whistles
Snakes show off their clangin’ cojones
By Clay McNear
Published: June 12, 2008
On the one hand, the Arizona Rattlers had nothing to lose. On the other, everything was at stake when they made that preseason promissory note of a 2008 postseason appearance....
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Night & Day
Sky High
Downtown club bumps to the max
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 12, 2008
There are certain things that make for a good night. Finding the hottest party in town, maintaining a lack of mascara globs throughout the evening, and successfully averting...
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Night & Day
Tempe Tennis: Play the All America Way
Published: June 12, 2008
Knock balls around the Center's 15 Rebound Ace-surfaced courts for free all day long. Participants are encouraged to bring used pairs of tennis shoes for donation to the Nike...
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Night & Day
Sun Block
Will the Mercury finally rise?
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 12, 2008
Who doesn't love watching two dozen tall, lanky women panting, sweating, and bumping up against each other? If you do (and we definitely do), then watch the Phoenix Mercury get...
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The Bird
The Bird needles Crispin Glover over his alleged meltdown at Chandler Cinemas
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: June 12, 2008
XTRA CRISPY So the Bird was out for First Friday recently when it ran into Andrea Beesley-Brown, a.k.a. the Midnite Movie Mamacita, known for hosting splatter and grindhouse...
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News
Judge Neil Wake takes action in the jail conditions lawsuit against Arpaio
By John Dickerson
Published: June 12, 2008
After a decades-long court battle with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his predecessors, a lawsuit alleging poor conditions in the Maricopa County jails is finally moving...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, June 12, 2008
Published: June 12, 2008
NAME-CALLING COWARDS What do you have against Kentucky?: This is to the reader who withheld his name. That is, the name-calling coward. The redneck bigot who's afraid to...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on swimming fully clothed and why Mexicans seem to like ice cream more than white women do
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 12, 2008
Why do Mexicans swim in the ocean with their clothes on? I mean, denim?! Vicente Fox's Mustache I know this might be a seasonal question, but why do Mexicans like...
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Music
Will the Roots’ new album Rising Down help the masses rise up?
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 12, 2008
At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer, blogger, and hip-hop tastemaker...
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Niki at Nite
Earth Kitt’s sensual crooning and revealing dance moves show she’s still got a little cat-woman in her
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 12, 2008
She's 81 years old, dressed in a curve-hugging black velvet dress with a slit all the way from waist to foot, exposing the dress' red satin interior and the entire length of...
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Shrapnel
Jimmy Eat World’s got more to do with The Boss than Panic at the Disco
By Serene Dominic
Published: June 12, 2008
2008 is proving to be a quizzical summit for Jimmy Eat World. The global masticators from Mesa are touring in support of the still-new Chase This Light (released last October),...
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Shrapnel
The Futureheads strike back against critiques of This Is Not the World
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: June 12, 2008
It's been a tough couple of years for The Futureheads. Following the mixed reception to 2006's ambitious News and Tributes, the British post-punk quartet was dropped by its...
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Home Grown
Zachary James Dodds
One More Life
(Self-released)By Kevin Murphy
Published: June 12, 2008
Zachary James Dodds sounds too world-weary to be just 22 years old. On his debut five-song EP, Dodds, who also plays guitar for local folkies the Via Maris, spins vivid tales...
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Niki's Pick
Eartha Kitt
The Very Best of Eartha Kitt
(Mastersong)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 12, 2008
After seeing Eartha Kitt perform with the Phoenix Symphony, I had to find an album that contained most of what I'd heard during her performance, and then some. The Very Best of...
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Listen Up
Portishead
Third
(Mercury)By Michael Roberts
Published: June 12, 2008
In 1997, when Portishead's self-titled second album arrived, the group's sound was routinely described as trip-hop. Eleven years later, that term is as dead as Fatty Arbuckle,...
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Listen Up
Digital Leather
Sorcerer
(Goner Records)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 12, 2008
The dark electro-musings of Tucson artist Shawn Foree (a.k.a. Digital Leather) have never sounded more spastic, insidious, and danceable than on Sorcerer. This 12-track album...
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Live Wire
RZA (as Bobby Digital)
By Ray Cummings
Published: June 12, 2008
Poor RZA. When the studio overlord produces a Wu-Tang Clan masterwork, it lands on RCA or Universal. Yet this chessboard fiend, martial-arts aficionado, and Quentin Tarantino...
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Live Wire
Daughters, and Russian Circles
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: June 12, 2008
Any band that puts out an 11-minute recording and presents it as a full-length album obviously has a sense of humor. Like Slayer's shorty classic Reign in Blood (which is twice...
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Live Wire
Faun Fables
By Sam Femino
Published: June 12, 2008
The only way to experience a group this vast, colorful, and earthbound is to simply just listen. An excessive use of adjectives seems unjust. Faun Fables and its creator, Dawn...
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Live Wire
Tom Waits
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: June 12, 2008
The gravel-voiced, avant-garde king of indescribable booze-jazz/art rock/blues-folk/dissident cabaret is making his first appearance in the Valley in 30 years. Waits' song...
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