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Night & Day
The Free Way
Kinch Makes Advances by Giving Their First Album Away
By Serene Dominic
Published: December 11, 2008
Perhaps the sagest songwriting advice ever bestowed to a newbie came not from a how-to book or a multi-platinum recording artist but from some anonymous grizzly guy I saw at an...
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The Bird
The Bird Praises CameraFraud.com and Aerosol Art While Urging State Democrats to Grow a Pair
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: December 11, 2008
FIRING WEEG Whenever this canary contemplates the difference between state Republicans and Democrats, he harks back to a famous episode from the original Star Trek series,...
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Fenske
Don Stapley’s Biggest Crime Was Failing to Hide His Real Estate Dealings as Well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio Did
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 11, 2008
The world's pettiest law enforcement duo is at it again. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas have socked Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley with 118 felony...
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News
Staff Writer Wanted
Published: December 11, 2008
New Times has an immediate opening for a full-time staff writer. We’re looking for a journalist with sharp investigative skills who understands the difference between...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 11, 2008
Published: December 11, 2008
EIGHT BALL Eight is still better than most TV: You've got to be kidding ("Behind the Eight Ball," Sarah Fenske, November 27): "With myriad options — the Food Channel and...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Being Hispanic, and Scarface
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: December 11, 2008
>Many times, as I cross the border into the U.S., I see bald cholos buying images (posters, blankets, baby bibs) of Al Pacino in Scarface. Where does such an obsession for this...
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Music
Kirkwood Dellinger Has a New Sound That’s “Not Dug From the Same Graveyard As Everything Else You Hear”
By Serene Dominic
Published: December 11, 2008
If anyone's compiling a reel of defining Arizona 21st-century rock moments, don't forget Kirkwood Dellinger's January 2008 appearance on Good Morning Arizona. Falling squarely,...
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Shrapnel
The Old School Jingle Jam Reminds Us of the Ghosts of Hip-Hop’s Past
By Chris Parker
Published: December 11, 2008
Where's the love for rap's elders? Almost 30 years after Sugar Hill Gang released hip-hop's first hit single, "Rapper's Delight," the genre evinces less nostalgia than reel...
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Live Wire
Fear Before
By Chris Parker
Published: December 11, 2008
Like an ambitious chef, Fear Before has attempted a new recipe with each of its four releases. The Colorado quintet's 2003 debut, Odd How People Shake, raged with clamorous...
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Live Wire
Junior Brown
By Jonny Whiteside
Published: December 11, 2008
Honky-tonk renegade Junior Brown is the consummate misfit. Beating the hell out of his one-of-a-kind guit-steel ax (custom-built after it appeared to him in a dream), roaring...
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Live Wire
The Aquabats
By John Linn
Published: December 11, 2008
With their golden-age comic book costumes, silly supervillains, and absurd song titles, The Aquabats are punk rawk's answer to GWAR. Only instead of promising the destruction...
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Live Wire
Bloc Party
By Michael Roberts
Published: December 11, 2008
Transitioning from over-hyped buzz generator to perpetual powerhouse ain't easy, even for figures as charismatic as the men of Bloc Party, and the strain shows on Intimacy, the...
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Live Wire
Wayne "The Train" Hancock
By Chris Hansen Orf
Published: December 11, 2008
Neo-honky-tonker Wayne Hancock's nickname is "The Train," and though it may appear convenient to give the native Texan the moniker simply because of the Dr. Seuss-style...
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Needle Exchange
You Can't See Me
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 11, 2008
One of the grooviest things about the Valley's EDM scene is that DJ/dance events seemingly spring up in the unlikeliest of places. An all-night rave can take place in the...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing
Published: December 11, 2008
THURSDAY 11 Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: DJ M2 (hip-hop, Top 40) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Evidence, The Smob, Kahlee,...
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Cafe
District American Kitchen & Wine Bar at the Sheraton is Hit or Miss, Despite Using Locally-Produced Ingredients
By Michele Laudig
Published: December 11, 2008
From indie restaurants to indie rock, my tastes are all about the little guy. I come from an entrepreneurial family, and I know a lot of small-business owners. And if given a...
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Film
Langella and Sheen in Frost/Nixon Capture a Summit of Egos
By J. Hoberman
Published: December 11, 2008
I hear America singing and I see . . . Richard Nixon. Not the man but the muse: Has any president since Lincoln inspired more movies, TV mini-series, and operas? As Nixon's...
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Film
Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism
By Ella Taylor
Published: December 11, 2008
Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague. This man was a compulsive...
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Film
The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake Misses the Point, and That’s a Klaatu Barada No-No
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 11, 2008
Flying saucers just aren't that scary anymore. Especially after Ed Wood and Mars Attacks, it's hard to take a threat from a giant Frisbee all that seriously. So what's an...
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Art
“Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting” at SMoCA Manifests in the Form of Lead Teddy Bears and Car Wreckage
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 11, 2008
When it comes to constructing things, I'm not the most capable person. I rely heavily on safety pins rather than sewing machines. I seem to believe that a nail into drywall can...
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