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Feature
By Steve Jansen
Mike Nixon walks through the front door of his Tempe home and drops a maroon-and-gold Arizona State University gym bag to the tile floor. A piece of ill-torn plastic wrap holds an ...
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These grinders arent full of hot air like someone we know
By Steve Jansen
Since money is tight, its a good thing the entry fee to Ford Ironman Arizona costs $550-plus, or else we would win the thing. Swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112, and running 26....
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Night & Day
Arizona Ghostbusters salute a cinema great with squishy snacks
By Heather Hoch
Now that the ghoulies are back in their graves after All Hallows, everyone can feel a little safer singing their favorite ghost-taunting movie theme loud and proud when the G...
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Madonna Louise Cuccione wanna-bes crawl out of the woodwork
By Lilia Menconi
Just when you thought the Halloween dress-up nonsense was over, its time again to spend a hundred bucks on a wig, shoes, and cheap props that youll only wear once. Reas...
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Backward Theatre presents a strange salute to a dark day
By Leslie Barton
Depository. Single-bullet theory. Grassy knoll. Pink suit.
On Saturday, November 21, Backward Theatre iconicizes the events surrounding a certain sunny, autumn day in Texas over ...
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The ultimate doomed matinee idol, Rudolph Valentino, stars in the silent 1922 classic about a doomed matinee idol of a different time (a matador). Ron Rhode provides organ accompan...
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MLB developmental league wraps season with title tilt
By Ed Kummerer
A dedicated sports fan is not just invested by the present state of a sport but also its future. This is apparent with creepers, too: Any dodgy 35-year-old can show up uninvited at...
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The Bird
By Stephen Lemons
SS IGNORANT
Supposedly intelligent, respectable people do some really dumb stuff sometimes. Case in point: Former GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike Harris, who ran third behind Don G...
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Special Report
By Valeria Fernández
Editor's note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forces. The next personal story will appear on our Web site Wednesday night...
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Music
By Jason P. Woodbury
Listening to "Paper Bag," the scuzzy, shuffling opening track from Phoenix-based garage rockers The Chandails' forthcoming EP, it's easy to imagine a good-for-nothing street gang, ...
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Shrapnel
By Brian Bardwell
All right. Who the fuck let MC Hammer back on the stage?
That's right, he's back. He's breakdancing. He's writing albums. He's starting up Internet ventures. Hell, he's even tweet...
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Turntable
THURSDAY 19
AZ/88: Mark 5 (rare groove, trip-hop)
Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop)
Bomberos: Rani G., dk.stricker, & more (lounge, house)
Club Red: The Blunt Club with C...
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Feature
By Niki D'Andrea
It's Halloween night, and the biggest party in metro Phoenix resembles Dirty Dancing as if imagined by the Marquis de Sade.
A couple hundred people fill the dance floor, bathed in...
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Night & Day
By Leslie Barton
We have some pretty sick fantasies, but none ever centered on staring at the night sky through a telescope. Undaunted hat- and scarf-wearers and general-punishment gluttons can ren...
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By Leslie Barton
If you check out the Phoenix Faerie Festival Web site, youll see that the fests fan base falls into four basic groups: little children chasing bubbles, supple guys in s...
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Trolley tour hits up downtown staples and newbies
By Nicki Escudero
Sure, you could take a historic walking tour of downtown Phoenix to get to know the city, but we say sampling spirits is an even better way of getting acquainted.
Get your fill o...
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Bunky Boutique, PHX DIY hook up for artisan-goods event
By Jose Gonzalez
Christmas time is here, as the Peanuts gang might sing. More accurately, the holiday shopping season is just around the corner, which is the very thing that round-headed blockhead ...
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Go eco (or maybe just lime) at this years offbeat processional
By Gren Radcliff
The green theme at this years Phoenix Annual Parade of the Arts is open to interpretation. It could be a statement about ecology or simply an expression of a color. Perhaps o...
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Welcome to the church of velocity
By Ed Kummerer
Weve noticed that NASCAR and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have a lot in common. Both organizations are growing rapidly, each meets for a long time on Sunda...
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Artist Josh Pearce brings his creepy vision(s) to Red Hot Robot
By Wynter Holden
Were in the midst of a toy revolution. Bratz dolls are kicking Barbies ass, and todays G.I. Joes are deployed with enough plastic weaponry to blow Strawberry Shor...
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