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Warring US Airways and America West pilots have the merged company in a real tailspin
By Sarah Fenske
Published: September 4, 2008
David Braid doesn't look like a gangster. A pilot for US Airways, Braid has the friendly demeanor and wholesome blondness common to many Midwesterners — it's no surprise...
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Dino-myte!
Rave DJ makes his move to the club world
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 4, 2008
You might’ve seen DJ Dino (a.k.a. Denard Webb) rocking the decks with dirty electro tracks last weekend at the Lovestruck party in downtown Phoenix. Or perhaps when he was...
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FAO Schwarz Grand Opening
Published: September 4, 2008
After pulling out of Fashion Square back in 2001 following a lease dispute with the mall's landlord, Westcor, the world-class toy shop returns as a 1,000-square-foot...
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Matthew C. Whitaker @ Burton Barr Central Library
By Steve Jansen
Published: September 4, 2008
ASU prof and one of the smartest guys in town discusses his new book African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage and Excellence, which offers "an examination of African...
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Super Scorpion Search @ Usery Mountain Regional Park
Published: September 4, 2008
What did you say? You've been losing sleep because every time you turn back the bedsheets, there isn't a scorpion waiting there to say hi and you really want to get up close...
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Ring Leader
The original Governator talks politics in Tempe
By Lilia Menconi
Published: September 4, 2008
Think Jesse Ventura and your mental image may very well be the emotionally traumatic sight of his jiggling crotch bulge, clad in purple iridescent fabric. Still, though...
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See World
Bay Area intermedia ensemble is a sight to behold
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: September 4, 2008
Worthwhile road trips feature unique sights and sounds, from tourist-drawing dinosaurs to roadside diners stuck in the past. It’s rare that the road-trippers bring the...
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Voodoo Gurus
Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls alum heads awesome rock hyphenate
By Steve Jansen
Published: September 4, 2008
Mad Juana’s MySpace page boasts, “Imagine Django Reinhardt and Patti Smith fronting the Velvet Underground in a Bourbon Street dive, and the exotic soulfulness and...
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Party Central
By Lilia Menconi
Published: September 4, 2008
Ah, Carnaval, the debaucherous Brazilian street party riddled with sparkles, feathers, and grabby hands galore. It’s usually reserved for spring, right before all the...
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Hit Refresh
Former Tempe scenester hypes new book, disc
By Adriane Goetz
Published: September 4, 2008
Just because you wrote a few songs doesn’t mean you’re qualified to author an entire book. (How would you like to read Donny Osmond’s memoirs?) Fortunately,...
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The Symbol Life
Pondering eternity and duct tape in Tempe
By Clay McNear
Published: September 4, 2008
Many equate the ancient-Indian mandala with life itself, so it’s an interesting analogy that artist Jason Ripper’s working in his new “Mandala” exhibit at...
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I of the Storm
Filmmakers insinuate themselves into the Katrina diaspora
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: September 4, 2008
While Hurricane Katrina was wreaking havoc in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, President Bush was in Phoenix, posing for a photo-op, cake in hand, with birthday boy Senator John...
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Blackbeard the Musical
Published: September 4, 2008
Rob Gardner's musical profiles the infamous pirate Edward Teach. This production represents the world premiere following last year's successful workshop at the Herberger....
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Chang-rae Lee
Published: September 4, 2008
The first-gen Korean-American novelist pocketed the PEN/Hemingway Award for his topical thriller Native Speaker. Lee reads from and signs works at this event, part of the...
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Hoodfellas
Hydraulically challenged? Get juiced at the Con.
By Leslie Barton
Published: September 4, 2008
In 1963, SoCal native Johnny Lozoya was 10 and enthralled watching low-slung, growling machines called lowriders pace his neighborhood streets. As he tells New Times,...
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Mixed-Race Messages
Artist plays the racial-blending card
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 4, 2008
To some artists, drawing is an expression of beauty. To others, it’s a visual soapbox on which the artist can figuratively stand and whine about politics, injustice, or...
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Labor Pains
Timely play pits aliens versus alien busters
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 4, 2008
A local day-labor center is about to close, bowing to the pressures of anti-immigration advocates. The immigrants who rely on the center for their crummy incomes fight to keep...
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Prehysteria
Touring production showcases the rock stars of the dino world
By Clay McNear
Published: September 4, 2008
Sooner or later, with all of technology’s leaps and bounds, we’re bound to stare a dinosaur straight in the reptilian eye. Not in the Jurassic Park way, but in the...
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Wardrobe Malfunction
God help us, it’s back
By Clay McNear
Published: September 4, 2008
Oprah. Elvis. Charlie’s Angels. Prison inmates. Fashion victims all, thanks to the jumpsuit. We’d tease and taunt these dinos and ne’er-do-wells, but, God help...
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Talking Pictures
Artist’s images are worth a thousand — silent — words
By Clay McNear
Published: September 4, 2008
What is it about the desert that makes people wax poetic? And how can we make them stop? Holly Metz, a West Virginia native, takes smashing black-and-white photos of the...
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