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Feature
School of Hard Knocks: Three-Sport Gamer Mike Nixon’s Tried It All, But Can the Whip-Smart ASU Defensive Star Make It to the NFL?
By Steve Jansen
Published: November 19, 2009
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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2.4 + 112 + 26.2 = Badass
These grinders aren’t full of hot air like someone we know
By Steve Jansen
Published: November 19, 2009
Since money is tight, it’s 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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The Trouble With Paranormal
Arizona Ghostbusters salute a cinema great with squishy snacks
By Heather Hoch
Published: November 19, 2009
Now that the ghoulies are back in their graves after All Hallow’s, everyone can feel a little safer singing their favorite ghost-taunting movie theme loud and proud when the G...
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Like 1000 Virgins
Madonna Louise Cuccione wanna-bes crawl out of the woodwork
By Lilia Menconi
Published: November 19, 2009
Just when you thought the Halloween dress-up nonsense was over, it’s time again to spend a hundred bucks on a wig, shoes, and cheap props that you’ll only wear once. Reas...
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Death and Texas
Backward Theatre presents a strange salute to a dark day
By Leslie Barton
Published: November 19, 2009
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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Silent Saturday: Blood and Sand
Published: November 19, 2009
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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Fall-Star Game
MLB developmental league wraps season with title tilt
By Ed Kummerer
Published: November 19, 2009
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
A Former Arizona Gubernational Candidate Flirts With Facism; Plus, a Grade School in Pine Paints Over an African-American Face on Its Mural
By Stephen Lemons
Published: November 19, 2009
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
No Probable Cause? No Problem!: A U.S. Citizen Says He Was Detained Without Probable Cause by the MCSO, and Then Jailed for Traffic Violations
By Valeria Fernández
Published: November 19, 2009
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
Meet the Chandails: Young, Unpretentious, Scuzzy, and Great
By Jason P. Woodbury
Published: November 19, 2009
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
MC Hammer Is Working All the Angles
By Brian Bardwell
Published: November 19, 2009
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
Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing
Published: November 19, 2009
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
Party Favors: At Rasputin's Equestrian Manor, the Debauchery Continues Well Past Closing Time
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: November 12, 2009
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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Dark Sky Telescope Hike
By Leslie Barton
Published: November 12, 2009
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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Phoenix Faerie Festival
By Leslie Barton
Published: November 12, 2009
If you check out the Phoenix Faerie Festival Web site, you’ll see that the fest’s fan base falls into four basic groups: little children chasing bubbles, supple guys in s...
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Booze Cruise
Trolley tour hits up downtown staples and newbies
By Nicki Escudero
Published: November 12, 2009
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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Indie Shop 'Til You Drop
Bunky Boutique, PHX DIY hook up for artisan-goods event
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: November 12, 2009
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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Come to PAPA
Go eco (or maybe just lime) at this year’s offbeat processional
By Gren Radcliff
Published: November 12, 2009
The green theme at this year’s 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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Saints and Speed Demons
Welcome to the church of velocity
By Ed Kummerer
Published: November 12, 2009
We’ve 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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Playthings That Go Bump In The Night
Artist Josh Pearce brings his creepy vision(s) to Red Hot Robot
By Wynter Holden
Published: November 12, 2009
We’re in the midst of a toy revolution. Bratz dolls are kicking Barbie’s ass, and today’s G.I. Joes are deployed with enough plastic weaponry to blow Strawberry Shor...
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