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Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism, and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we can believe in. And yet this very...
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Ever since Willow House closed in August, many downtowners have been at a loss for a late-night place to hang. And because downtowners can be a tough crowd (us included),...
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If Jodi Picoult’s characters were real, The Oprah Winfrey Show would have no shortage of guests. The acclaimed author of the bestseller
My Sister’s Keeper...
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If Jodi Picoult’s characters were real, The Oprah Winfrey Show would have no shortage of guests. The acclaimed author of the bestseller
My Sister’s Keeper...
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On its Web site, the Mukilteo, Washington-based band The Fall of Troy prides itself on being “impossible to classify.” However, at first listen, it wouldn’t be...
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Between blogs, talk radio, and television talking heads, there are countless sources of blather and idol chatter. That's why it's good that Sound Effects Poetry keeps it real...
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What are your top five albums of all time? Betcha they’re not as cool as ours. Says who? Says us. Okay, then, let us see your list. Uh-huh. No Mississippi Delta blues in...
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"Oh, the humanity!" cried WKRP in Cincinnati reporter Les Nessman as 25 turkeys plummeted to their splatty deaths after being tossed from a helicopter. Unfortunately, our...
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Normally, we’d never urge anyone to mimic George W. Bush (except in jest, of course), but we’re making a one-time exception: Ape the soon-to-be-ex-President’s...
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Okay, Thanksgiving's come and gone, so even the Grinchiest humbuggers should be ready to feel Christmasy. It helps to wait for evening, when there's that nip in the air. Get...
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We dig events that feel like some nice person's living room: free admission, mingling, new stimuli, maybe some snacks. Our perfect storm: the screening of Inside Creative Minds...
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The annual holiday lights displays kicks off with a grip of arts and crafts booths and vroom-tastic Harleys.
Sat., Nov. 29, 6 p.m., 2008
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Generally speaking, we frown on guided hikes. The Sonoran Desert is not the Louvre, and true hikers hardly need to have someone spell out its (fairly obvious) magnificence. The...
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Five years ago, Abelardo Gil decided to change lives for the better one show at a time with music that’s part electronic, part soul, part motivational speaking, and mostly...
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God, are we lucky. While the poor schleps in most parts of the country suck down the tryptophan, play emotional footsie with their families, and suffer through a couple of...
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One of photography’s powers is the ability to mythologize and exoticize space, inviting viewers to journey afar by psychic means. The images in “Odyssey: The...
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The turbo-charged V-6 on your ultra-cherry ’83 Buick Grand National is purring like a 180-horsepower kitten. Now you need somewhere to show how it can fly down the road....
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Poetry sucks. Poetry was written by dead white dudes. Listening to poetry is like being forced to watch Lost in Translation ad nauseam.
Modern-day poetess Leah Marché...
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Among comedy geeks, Frank Caliendo is a divider like no other. First off, he’s an impressionist, and not since the halcyon days of Rich Little-as-George Burns has the...
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Before loading up on fatty turkey, get your 10k or 1-mile fun run/walk on during this longstanding holiday running event in Mesa.
Thu., Nov. 27, 7 a.m., 2008
