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The Medic Droid’s Electro Power-Pop and Ambisextrous Antics are Driving Kids Wild Nationwide
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: December 11, 2008
Zach Daniell is wiped out. It's the night before Thanksgiving and the 18-year-old New Yorker has just flat-out sprinted through lower Manhattan with his 16-year-old girlfriend...
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National Junior College All American Game
Published: December 11, 2008
The top 85 JUCO football players from around nation are scheduled to compete in this inaugural all-star game. Celebrity guests scheduled to attend include former Arizona...
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Planet Poe's "Bleak December"
Published: December 11, 2008
Robert X. Planet and Roxanne DeWinter adapt their annual Edgar Allan Poe Halloween shudderfest for the holidays. The spoken-word program includes readings of Poe tales such as...
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Christmas and Kwanzaa Holiday Bazaar
Published: December 11, 2008
The event includes live music, a fashion show, and crafts. Proceeds benefit the African American Hispanic Health Educational Resource Center and Harmony House. Sat.,...
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APS Fantasy of Lights Boat Parade
Published: December 11, 2008
The local glitterati cast off from the shores of Tempe Town Lake at this sparkling annual affair, which features approximately 50 dolled-up watercraft trolling around the big...
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Christmas Evil
Old Scratch is up to no good in Latino Nativity tale
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: December 11, 2008
Many a high jinks-filled road trip has been prefaced with the old axiom that getting there is half the fun. That certainly rings true for the shepherds trekking to catch a...
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O Holy Knights
Chainmailed rockers put the Christ back in Christmas
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: December 11, 2008
Since the annual tradition of getting sloshed with people you can barely tolerate has been neutered by PC, lawsuit-fearing wimps, the Eastside Records Christmas Party goes...
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Queen of the Hill
She-man playwright Charles Busch spoofs Wonderful Life
By Wynter Holden
Published: December 11, 2008
Ever notice how all of the holiday classics are dominated by males? Scrooge. Charlie Brown. George Bailey. The Grinch. So we were thrilled when we heard that Nearly Naked...
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Unhappy Holidays?
Don’t go postal. Go to Kiwanis.
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 11, 2008
It’s December, y’all. Time for holiday cheer, right? Yeah, sure. It’s really time to crank up the aggression to match the surly tone down at the mall checkout...
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Hard Corps
Herberger artists choose the school of rock
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: December 11, 2008
Think of Phoenix as a spreading pool of concrete founded upon a desert. The cement on which we build our lives has come to seem as natural to us as the environment that...
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Present Tense
Don’t say “retail.” Heaven forbid, don’t pay it.
By Clay McNear
Published: December 11, 2008
“Retail” is a six-letter word. Don’t spell it. Don’t speak it. Heaven forbid, don’t pay it. That’s our motto, and the sentiment may be growing on...
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Take a Hike
You could do worse
By Clay McNear
Published: December 11, 2008
So here are some of your options for Friday, December 12: a political twist on the Nativity (American Pastorela). Spins by a world-class deejay (Mark de Clive-Lowe). A...
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Groover & Shaker
New Zealand spin doctor brings broken jazz/nu soul to Scottsdale
By Adriane Goetz
Published: December 11, 2008
There’s a heap of pressure in being likened to this generation’s Herbie Hancock, but New Zealand musician/producer Mark de Clive-Lowe seems up to the challenge....
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Suburban Renewal
Taggers and scratchers invade C-Town
By Wynter Holden
Published: December 11, 2008
The holiday season is here, and with it comes the one thing we dread most. No, not packed shopping malls, annoyingly chipper holiday songs, or umpteen-gazillion reruns of A...
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Christmas Evil
Old Scratch is up to no good in Latino Nativity tale
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: December 11, 2008
Many a high jinks-filled road trip has been prefaced with the old axiom that getting there is half the fun. That certainly rings true for the shepherds trekking to catch a...
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Party Animals
County cranks examine their alcohol-stained agenda
By Clay McNear
Published: December 11, 2008
Democrats drink pinot. Republicans drink whiskey. Libertarians drink at bars. Even better, the grumblety-peg curmudgeons host their political conventions at watering holes...
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Food for Thought
Meet the tamale, the essence of universal good
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 11, 2008
Attention all philosophers: Universal good does, indeed, exist in this world. We can now move on as a society, anchored by this one purity. What could the universal good be?...
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Jack Dykinga
Published: December 11, 2008
The famed photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner signs his new monograph, Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon. Sat., Dec. 13, 12-3 p.m., 2008
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Ugly Holiday Sweater Party
Published: December 11, 2008
Slip on your worst and check out live sounds by What Laura Says, Colorstore, Matthew Reveles and Fancy Cloud, and Wizards of Time. Sun., Dec. 14, 7 p.m., 2008
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Giving the Devils Their Due
Are we really mentioning ASU and UofA in the same breath? At last?
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 11, 2008
For the first time ever, the best team in a local men’s college basketball doubleheader that’s not named the Cactus Classic/Sleep America Tourney might be the Arizona...
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