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Night & Day
Boogey Nights
New entry from Brazilian bugbear Coffin Joe highlights fifth fest
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: October 15, 2009
Among the macabre must-sees at this weekend’s fifth annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are showings of Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
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Night & Day
The Native Son Also Rises
Overachieving author presents topical new tome
By Wynter Holden
Published: October 15, 2009
Just when you were feeling good about getting that 50-cent raise, some overachiever comes along and wins at Sundance, opens for the Indigo Girls, and scores a zillion literary awar...
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Night & Day
"Wonderland: Art from New Times Best of Phoenix 2009" Third Friday Reception
Published: October 15, 2009
Hey Phoenix – show us your Wonderland! That’s the call we put out to more than 50 creative types around town. And did they ever. Check out the results in this year’...
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Night & Day
Fair Warning
10 things to know before heading down to 19th and McDowell
By Clay McNear
Published: October 15, 2009
1: Officially – and a mite pompously for people who deal with swine – it’s the Arizona Exposition & State Fair. 2: The State F . . . er, Expo opens at noon Friday, ...
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Night & Day
What about Bob?
Folk rock legend finally gives Phoenix a show
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: October 15, 2009
If you were one of the jilted music fans who got burned when Bob Dylan wimped out of his scheduled outdoor performance back in August, the folk rock legend has a way to make it up ...
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Night & Day
Immigrant Song
Gogol Bordello brings its foreign-flavored punk to the Marquee
By Brian Bardwell
Published: October 15, 2009
Amidst the mind-numbing barrage of identical-sounding modern rock and pop starlets, it’s nice to come across something different every now and then. Enter Gogol Bordello. As i...
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Night & Day
Acronym Über Alles
Not too good for the majority
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: October 15, 2009
Let's get it out of the way up front: KMFDM stands for "Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit," a German phrase that translates literally to "no pity for the majority." But KMFDM f...
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Night & Day
U2
By Brian Bardwell
Published: October 15, 2009
Oh, the ’80s, where have you gone? Back when national Republicans meant well enough, U2 albums were badass, and every girl wore hoop earrings. Now it’s almost 2010, and a...
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Special Report
State of Fear: Permanent Legal Resident Stopped For Being Brown By MCSO Deputies
By Stephen Lemons
Published: October 15, 2009
Editor's note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forces. Rosa is a thin, elegant woman who works as a legal secretary to...
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Feature
Phoenix Interrupted: Downtown’s Full of Gleaming Progress Surrounded by Vacant Lots – Now What?
By Sarah Fenske
Published: October 15, 2009
There's a development on the edge of downtown Phoenix that captivated me even before I moved into the neighborhood: the Chateaux on Central. My interest wasn't a matter of good de...
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Feature
Concrete Bungle: Tempe’s Twin-Towers Condo Project Collapses Financially, Leaving Investors in the Rubble
By Ray Stern
Published: October 15, 2009
The lofty Centerpoint Condominium towers broke ground in 2005 and were supposed to give downtown Tempe its own slice of Manhattan. Four years later, they've delivered just that &m...
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Music
The Academy Is… Power Pop’s Leading Light
By Gibson, Dan
Published: October 15, 2009
There are few relationships in music quite as strong as the one between power pop and its fan base. Sure, every genre of music has devotees who absorb everything they can, but at ...
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Shrapnel
Are Monsters of Folk Really a Supergroup?
By Craig Outhier
Published: October 15, 2009
Leave it to a folk singer to conjure a folksy-funny name like Monsters of Folk. It's knowing, it's smart, it's self-deprecating — exactly what you'd expect from the four low-...
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Live Wire
U2
By Brian Bardwell
Published: October 15, 2009
Oh, the '80s, where have you gone? Back when Republicans meant well enough, U2 albums were badass, and every girl wore hoop earrings. Now it's almost 2010, and all we've got is tea...
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Live Wire
Gogol Bordello
By Brian Bardwell
Published: October 15, 2009
Amidst the mind-numbing barrage of identical-sounding modern rock and pop starlets, it's nice to come across something different every now and then. Enter Gogol Bordello. As immigr...
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Needle Exchange
DJ Epidemic's Mixtape Release
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: October 15, 2009
Joel Davis has had one helluva packed schedule. Up until recently, the 21-year-old Phoenician was holding down two Joe jobs (slaving away behind the scenes at Stinkweeds Records an...
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Turntable
Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing
Published: October 15, 2009
THURSDAY 15 Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.stricker, & more (lounge, house) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: UK Thursdays with Reid Spee...
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Cafe
James Porter’s Petite Maison Brings Beautiful Bowls of French Onion Soup to Old Town Scottsdale
By Michele Laudig
Published: October 15, 2009
Cozy wasn't what I was in the mood for until a couple of weeks ago. But then somebody flipped a switch — the nights dropped from balmy to crisp, my wardrobe shifted from tan...
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Forking
Birds of a Feather Fork Together – At Least for a While
By C.M. Redding
Published: October 15, 2009
Maybe it's because I'm turning 40 this year, but I've been spending a lot of time thinking about decisions I've made in the past. I mean, really, it takes only one or two bad decis...
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Film
Where the Wild Things Are: Spike Jonze Can’t Quite Get Into the Spirit of the Wild Rumpus
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 15, 2009
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation since Tim Burton fashioned Mars Attacks!...
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