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Night & Day
Time Piece
British comic busts down the walls
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: July 17, 2008
Other comedians may react to the times by humorously observing the ways in which men and women differ. Eddie Izzard, however, creates time itself. Witness firsthand when the...
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Night & Day
Wrigley South
Batten down the cheap beer. Here come the Cubs fans.
By Steve Jansen
Published: July 17, 2008
The scents of stale Old Style and white guy hang in the air. You just heard someone, for the third time today, singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in a Harry...
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Night & Day
Mad Iced Tea Party
Published: July 17, 2008
The Paper Heart is gone, but the art of the defunct venue lives on at this event, a reception for the "Heartfelt: The Paper Heart Alumni Show" exhibit. Displaying artists...
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Night & Day
Ash Reiter @ Trunk Space
Published: July 17, 2008
The Bay Area-based singer-songwriter is on tour and swings through Trunk Space to perform. (Read a recent New Times concert review here.) Tue., July 28, 8 p.m., 2009
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Fenske
Arizona pols play politics with the state’s disabled students
By Sarah Fenske
Published: July 17, 2008
Rebecca Fay wasn't supposed to talk or walk. Or learn. As an infant, a series of seizures left her with serious mental and physical disabilities. Doctors told her parents to...
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Feedback
Feedback from the issue of Thursday, July 17, 2008
Published: July 17, 2008
COURTHOUSE SHENANIGANS State Bar already seems to be caving: Sarah Fenske's article on the Maricopa County Attorney's legal shenanigans to cover his own ass was excellent...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on la migra, Germany, and cousin Jeff
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 17, 2008
Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol? What a hypocritical thing to do to our people. Carne Asada Carlos Not only are Mexicans in the Border Patrol, but la migra's own...
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Music
Americans recording Mexican songs: the bueno, the bad and the muy ugly
By Gustavo Arellano and John Nova Lomax
Published: July 17, 2008
Mexican artists have recorded English-language songs for decades, but the opposite is rare. American musicians have historically treated Mexican music like they treat Mexicans,...
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Shrapnel
For ska-punk survivor Less Than Jake, self-sufficiency and longevity go hand in hand
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 17, 2008
"The music industry," declares Less than Jake drummer and lyricist Vinnie Fiorello, "is pointing toward bands becoming their own cottage industry. Which means bands being in...
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Home Grown
Treasure Mammal/Whitman
Split 7-inch
(Tiny Panda Records)By Steve Jansen
Published: July 17, 2008
If you have wanted to check out Phoenix-based Treasure Mammal, but aren't ready for one of his longer efforts, listening to this 7-inch is the perfect way to ease yourself into...
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Home Grown
Fracture Point
Inherit the Downfall
(self-released)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 17, 2008
Phoenix metal band Fracture Point sounds like a mastodon stampede, but instead of directionless destruction, this beast intelligently winds its way through a well-constructed...
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Listen Up
Three 6 Mafia
Last 2 Walk
(Sony)By Michael Roberts
Published: July 17, 2008
When the members of Three 6 Mafia won a 2006 Best Song Oscar for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," from Hustle & Flow, they reacted with so much exuberance that they made Cuba...
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Live Wire
Steely Dan
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 17, 2008
While parents have predictably freaked out over the social menace imposed by the blues, jazz, secular R&B, rock 'n' roll, heavy metal, rap, and techno, they never seemed to bat...
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Live Wire
Cute Is What We Aim For
By Nicholas Hall
Published: July 17, 2008
Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st-century pop band. Almost purpose-built for short-attention-span marketing campaigns, the four gents in CIWWAF focus so...
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Live Wire
James McMurtry
By Michael Gallucci
Published: July 17, 2008
Like his dad Larry, singer-songwriter James McMurtry knows characters. But unlike his novelist father — who penned The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove, and wrote...
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Live Wire
Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 17, 2008
Even with Ozzfest gearing up for another go, metalheads would be hard pressed to find a better festival bill this summer than the Rockstar Energy Mayhem tour. Slipknot —...
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Booze Pig
Westwood Tap & Grill is a one jigger per drink kind of place
By C.M. Redding
Published: July 17, 2008
It's a sweaty Wednesday and I'm running some errands after work when I find myself on the west side of Phoenix. I'm on autopilot, stuck in traffic, when I spot an oasis —...
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Needle Exchange
The Dark Knight
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: July 17, 2008
Summertime ain't a dead time as far as the local rave scene is concerned. The particular all-hours party that we're going to be swooping into will definitely be The Dark...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: July 17, 2008
THURSDAY 17 Axis/Radius: Divine Ladies Night with MCB & DJ Devine (various) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cash Inn: DJ Sting...
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Cafe
Like La Bocca Urban Pizzeria's crust, the pizza competition in Phoenix is stiff
By Michele Laudig
Published: July 17, 2008
New York. Chicago. Phoenix. All great pizza cities. Don't laugh — you know it's true. Here in the Valley of the Sun, we may not specialize in a certain style of pie,...
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