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Issue: December 11, 2008
Page: 3
62 stories found - 41 through 60
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  1. 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...

  2. 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,...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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,...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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,...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

Issue: December 11, 2008
Page: 3
62 stories found - 41 through 60
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