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Night & Day
Miller Time
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: August 7, 2008
After a fruitful 40-year career, the legendary Steve Miller finally comes out with his first live DVD, Live from Chicago (Coming Home Media/Koch Records), a three-disc package...
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Night & Day
Attention Choppers
Your beloved Braves ain’t what they used to be
By Clay McNear
Published: August 7, 2008
It’s been one freaky-ass year in Major League Baseball’s Deep South. At press time, the Tampa Bay Rays were leading the Red Sox and Yankees in the AL East, and the...
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The Bird
This pious partridge asks for blessings for Darrell Ankarlo, Candy Thomas, and all the other corrupt politicos in Sand Land
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: August 7, 2008
PENGUIN PRAYER This week, Bird lovers, the Taloned Tallywacker begins his column with prayer. Please bow your heads. Great Falcon God on High, this otherwise truculent...
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Feedback
Feedback from the issue of Thursday, August 7, 2008
Published: August 7, 2008
TEXTING HELL Enough with the text-messaging: I always appreciate Robrt L. Pela's honest reviews. I've been a theater director and teacher since 1962 in the Valley and I become...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Spanish speak-ins and Dulze Pinzon superheroes
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 7, 2008
Dear Mexican: Where I recently started working at, Latinos make up about 95 percent of the work force. We are, however, prohibited from speaking Spanish. We are constantly...
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Music
Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution helps Chris Cornell find nostalgia and camaraderie
By Cole Haddon
Published: August 7, 2008
When discussing the Projekt Revolution tour, now in its fifth year, with this summer's participating artists — like Linkin Park, The Bravery, and, most especially, Chris...
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Noise Boy
Bikini Lounge DJ Shane Kennedy offers no apologies for your lack of musical taste
By Steve Jansen
Published: August 7, 2008
DJ Shane Kennedy stares intently at his laptop screen at Bikini Lounge, plotting his next play. It's Friday night, and the dimly lit, tiki-style dive on Grand Avenue is packed...
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Shrapnel
Dave Pajo returns to metal with Dead Child
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: August 7, 2008
"I don't know why I didn't think it was wrong," says Dead Child guitarist Dave Pajo with a laugh, recalling how he used to steal metal albums from his local record store as a...
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Shrapnel
Steve Miller's Live from Chicago DVD takes fans back to his formative Windy City years
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: August 7, 2008
After a fruitful 40-year career, the legendary Steve Miller finally comes out with his first live DVD, Live from Chicago (Coming Home Media/Koch Records), a three-disc package...
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Home Grown
The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society
Electric Fan Sounds Works
(SonicAnta)By Steve Jansen
Published: August 7, 2008
We did it. We listened attentively — and when our habitually short attention span kicked in, inattentively — to Electric Fan Sounds Works presented by The Tucson...
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Home Grown
Foot Ox
It's Like Our Little Machine
(Distant Colony Records)By Steve Jansen
Published: August 7, 2008
Attend a number of Foot Ox concerts, and you'll normally see project founder Teague Cullen, by himself, frantically running through a repertoire of singer-songwriter tunes...
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Listen Up
Silver Jews
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
(Drag City)By Michael Roberts
Published: August 7, 2008
Singer/songwriter David Berman is as much of an ironist in life as he is in art. Note that after landing in rehab following a Xanax overdose (an act with sardonic aspects of...
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Listen Up
Tech N9ne
Killer
(Strange Music)By Dan Leroy
Published: August 7, 2008
It's hard not to admire the audacity of an artist who, after clawing his way up from the underground to the brink of the big time, not only makes his would-be breakthrough a...
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Live Wire
Agent Orange
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: August 7, 2008
"California's original punk/surf power trio" released a greatest hits album in May, the appropriately titled Surfing to Some F#*ked Up S@!t. Of course the compilation includes...
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Live Wire
Shai Halud
By Andrew Miller
Published: August 7, 2008
Shai Hulud debuted with 1997's Profound Hatred of Man, and judging by this year's Misanthropy Pure, they haven't exactly altered their lyrical approach. The group hasn't really...
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Needle Exchange
The Crystal Method
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: August 7, 2008
It's been more than a decade since the blockbuster electronica duo of Ken Johnson and Scott Kirkland (a.k.a. The Crystal Method) broke out big-time in 1997, helping to...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: August 7, 2008
THURSDAY 7 Axis/Radius: Mansion at Radius with DJ Roctakon (Top 40, hip-hop, dance) Bikini Lounge: DJ HFE (rockabilly, surf, jazz, classic country, indie, obscuro) Blooze...
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Cafe
Newcomer Latitude Eight Thai Grill scores points with tom kha and garlic prawns
By Michele Laudig
Published: August 7, 2008
If you decided to quit your job and leap into a whole new career, what would it be? The question has always fascinated me. One of my friends is a fitness club manager who...
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Film
Pineapple Express gets Seth Rogen and James Franco out of the closet and dodging bullets
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 7, 2008
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd...
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Film
Man on Wire: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 7, 2008
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from the loins of Western commerce...
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