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As You Like it or Not
Southwest Shakespeare – gasp! – tinkers with the Bard
By Clay McNear
Published: September 25, 2008
Those who think Rush wrote the line “All the world’s a stage” won’t know, or care, that Southwest Shakespeare Company has taken certain liberties with the...
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Silent Sunday
By Clay McNear
Published: September 25, 2008
There's nothing like being in a public place without the public. We've achieved this higher state of being twice, and we're not about to tell you where or how. Find your own...
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Instant Death
SMoCA fetes the Polaroid prior to its decommissioning
By Steve Jansen
Published: September 25, 2008
One of the art world’s greatest tragedies is scheduled to take place at 12 a.m. January 1, 2010. That’s when the Polaroid goes kaput. In case you haven’t...
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The Beach is Back
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
If victory is a drug, then Kerri Walsh must be a hardcore addict. After all, the 6-foot-3 professional beach-volleyball player has amassed more than 100 wins on both the AVP...
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Oral Turpitude
Candyfreak author returns with a delectable new screed
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 25, 2008
Author Steve Almond has made a mint satisfying his oral fixations, and he didn’t even need kneepads to do it. A self-proclaimed chocoholic, Almond dove into the luscious,...
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Phoenix has Culture
It's Official
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 25, 2008
It’s getting harder to pull off that old argument about Phoenix not having any culture, especially when the arts season here is so significant that it rates its own...
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Almost Infamous
For a guy you’ve never heard of, this comic’s pretty booked
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: September 25, 2008
Despite being the writer/director of the cult blaxploitation spoof Pootie Tang and the long-time, Emmy-winning collaborator of Chris Rock, Louis C.K. has never been widely...
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Tongue in Chic
Hip Icelandic crew makes it up as it goes along
By Frances Michelle Lopez
Published: September 25, 2008
It doesn’t take an archaeological genius like Indiana Jones to decipher the messages embedded in the lyrics of Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. Even the band has...
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The Father of Re-invention
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: September 25, 2008
Few artists have gone through more reinventions than this Mexican-born guitarist has, going from his Latin-jam days fueled by his unforgettable appearance in the Woodstock...
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When Fossils Attack
And we’re not talking about Ron Paul
By Peter Breslin
Published: September 25, 2008
Gigantic, pissed-off chickens with teeth. That’s the impression created by the imposing models on display in the “Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origins of Flight”...
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Best of Phoenix A'Fare
Published: September 25, 2008
The culinary blowout, held in conjunction with the release of New Times' annual Best of Phoenix issue, showcases 25 past Best of Phoenix restaurant winners. There'll also be a...
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Night & Day
ASU Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: Jane Smiley
Published: September 25, 2008
The Pulitzer Prize winner (A Thousand Acres) reads from and signs her books. Sat., Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., 2008
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Sidebar
New Times Staffers Weigh In on Why They’re Not Leaving Phoenix Anytime Soon
Published: September 25, 2008
It happens all the time: I'm someplace outside of Arizona, I mention that I live here most of the year, and the Phoenix-bashing commences. "Oh, no! Phoenix!" moaned Dennis,...
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Sideshow
The Juggling Foodie Fanatic
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 25, 2008
There are only two things restaurateur Peter "Kaz" Kasperski can't live without: work and good food. For him, the two are so deeply intertwined that the thought of losing...
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The Death-Defying Strongman
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
Don "Hollywood" Yates isn't someone you wanna mess with. Boasting a fearsome countenance and muscle-bound physique, the 6-foot-4, 235-pound badass has made a career out of...
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Sideshow
The Superstar Czar of Style
By Sloane Burwell
Published: September 25, 2008
Gregory Gordon has style. And it's pretty obvious, considering he and partners Brad Plumley and Lew Gallo are the triumvirate of taste behind Haus Modern Living, one of the...
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The Wine-Slingin' Risk Taker
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 25, 2008
Oscar Mastrantuono, owner of Bomberos in Sunnyslope, has an unshakable confidence that would make his hot-blooded South American ancestors proud. Though he was raised in New...
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The Kitschy King of Camp
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
Paul Wilson's had more than a few obsessions in his day. In fact, the über-eccentric artist's spent a lifetime indulging his endless manias for the past (particularly...
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The Messiah of Metal
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: September 25, 2008
Heavy metal singer Patrick Flannery has lived in the Valley since 1983, and he knows a thing or two about the mingling of faith and freakiness in Phoenix. As a teenager, the...
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The Bird
The Not-So-Pious Partridge Calls Phoenix’s Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted a Wimp on Immigration
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: September 25, 2008
BAAAAD SHEPHERD Allow this avian to wow Christian and heathen alike with a little preachifyin', thus demonstrating that The Bird's days of forced Sunday school as a wee peeper...
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