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The Masterful Mr. Tea
By Wynter Holden
Published: September 25, 2008
Jeffrey Hattrick is a real-life Mad Hatter, minus the shaggy gray sideburns and cartoonish purple getup. Most days, you can find this self-proclaimed "tea guy" in a top hat and...
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The Hero of Honda Repair
By Jonathan McNamara
Published: September 25, 2008
By day, he is mild-mannered Tait Johnson. But when evil strikes your carburetor, he finds the nearest open phone booth and becomes . . . Honda Man! Okay, not really. He...
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The Outrageously Odd Couple
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
If ever there was an embodiment of Phoenix's weirder side, then Stephen Strange and Sahar Mitchell are it, and proud to be. He's a 32-year-old occultist and magician with a...
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The Beautiful Brown Diva
By Marcos Najera
Published: September 25, 2008
Forget any notions you've ever had of a fat lady singing opera onstage. Mezzo-soprano Olga Perez looks more like she belongs in the cast of American Idol. But this fall,...
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The High-Voltage Madman
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
Barry Schwartz is a wired guy. Jittery and manic, the overly hyper artist sounds as though he's practically plugged into the wall as he explains the large-scale electrified...
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The She-Jay of 1,000 Tracks
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
Andrea Silkey is obsessed with the quality of her music mixes. Every week, the 31-year-old DJ (who's also know as Sonique des Fleurs) spends several hours in front of her...
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Doug Lingner Was Just Hired to Run the County’s Public Housing Program Though He’s Totally Unqualified
By Sarah Fenske
Published: September 25, 2008
When the Housing Authority of Maricopa County began the hunt for a new executive director, it had some specifics in mind. Its hire would be running the county's public housing...
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The Whiz Kids of Robotics
By Marcos Najera
Published: September 25, 2008
You might remember the story of four young Latino men from Carl Hayden High School who built an underwater robot named "Stinky" in 2004. They stunned the nation when Stinky...
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The God-Loving Glam Goofball
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: September 25, 2008
There's a sly smile that highlights Paisley Yankolovich's face. It's the kind of bemused calm of knowing that the Christian performance artist's journey with Jesus is less a...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 25, 2008
Published: September 25, 2008
JOE'S SONG Crackers, gimme a break: The Juan Mendoza Farias case is so typical of what has gone on repeatedly in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jails. Somebody gets put inside for a...
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The Soaring Soviet Sweetie
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: September 25, 2008
Oksana Kroshkina's background is as intriguing as her alluring Russian accent. The 31-year-old Soviet-born beauty spent almost a decade traveling the world, masterfully...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Anchor Babies and Mexican Penis Sizes
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: September 25, 2008
What is an anchor baby? I am a 45-year-old male born in the U.S.A. My mother was born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and my father was also born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Croatia)....
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Music
When Gogol Bordello Takes the Stage, Expect a Cultural Rebellion and One Hell of a Party
By Toph One
Published: September 25, 2008
As a Croatian-American electro-funk DJ with a powerful thirst for liquor and trouble, I knew I'd like Gogol Bordello from the moment I heard about the group. The act's pulsing...
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Music
Edgefest Lowdown: Micky Avalon, Authority Zero, Flogging Molly and More
By Martin Cizmar
Published: September 25, 2008
Mickey Avalon (11:30 a.m. on the main stage): It's not unfair to call Mickey Avalon the male Peaches. They both started their adult life innocently before turning to the...
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Shrapnel
Byrne After Reading: Advice from a Talking Head
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: September 25, 2008
This week, we present "Byrne After Reading," our new advice column by musician/artist (and former Talking Heads frontman) David Byrne. Dear David: I am a singer who used to...
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Listen Up
Ben Folds
Way to Normal
(Sony BMG)By Sam Femino
Published: September 25, 2008
Ben Folds has never strayed far from his trademark geek-pop sensibilities. He's honed the sound even further over the past few years, playing for crowds of adoring college...
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Tricky
Knowle West Boy
(Domino)By Phil Freeman
Published: September 25, 2008
After the seething, explosive brilliance of Tricky's first two albums, 1995's Maxinquaye and 1996's Pre-Millennium Tension, inspiration is spreading thin. Later releases Angels...
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Slipknot
All Hope Is Gone
(Roadrunner)
By Phil Freeman
Published: September 25, 2008
Four albums in (five, if you're an eBay-stalking obsessive), Slipknot is having an identity crisis. Frontman Corey Taylor's side project, Stone Sour, has allowed him to unmask...
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Nelly
Brass Knuckles
(Derrty Ent, Universal)By Ben Westhoff
Published: September 25, 2008
Brass Knuckles is Nelly's Thriller. I'm not kidding. Brass Knuckles is not a perfect album, but neither was Thriller. It jumped styles and was not particularly cohesive;...
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Young Jeezy
The Recession
(Def Jam)By Ben Detrick
Published: September 25, 2008
Fuck Huey Long: Young Jeezy is the master of populism. Here's a self-made millionaire who empathizes with the day-to-day troubles of the working class, preaches distrust of the...
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