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Urban Experience
Refuge Found
AZ Lost Boys Center opens doors
By Jill Koch, Brendan Joel Kelley and Michele Laudig
Published: April 10, 2003
Sat 4/12 In 1987, escalating war forced an estimated 17,000 Sudanese boys to flee their villages, many after seeing their parents killed. Only one-third survived a 1,000-mile, thre...
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Music
Nouveau Swing
Hot Club of Cowtown and others revive the rebel spirit of Django Reinhardt
By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: March 27, 2003
They're the Hot Club of Cowtown, and they stand front and center in a new generation of young pickers and grinners who carry on their shoulders musical traditions that stretch back...
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Molten Wax
Loose Fur
Loose Fur (Drag City)
By Philip Sherburne
Published: February 20, 2003
Loose Fur is not a Jim O'Rourke album – but that's only true in the sense that Magritte's famous painting The Treason of Images (which features the line "This is not a pipe" writte...
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Music
Deep Black
Listeners had to travel far beyond mainstream to find sublime black music in 2002
By Craig D. Lindsey
Published: January 2, 2003
2002 was a good year for R&B and hip-hop – but only if you shunned commercial radio, corporate music magazines, MTV, BET and all other mainstream media hype-dolloping outlets. If y...
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Rollin'
Glenn Tilbrook
Squeeze front man revels in the Incomplete
By Chris Parker
Published: December 5, 2002
The dissolution of Squeeze opened a new musical world for Glenn Tilbrook. Suddenly a solo artist, without a label, touring alone with nothing more than an acoustic guitar, Tilbrook...
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Feature
Appetite For Destruction
Things that go bang in the night and the men who love them
By Susy Buchanan
Published: November 28, 2002
It's Saturday night. The air reeks of transmission fluid, scorched steel and horse manure. A man jumps up and down on the roof of his car like a chimpanzee on a Samsonite. John Den...
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Molten Wax
Darius Rucker
Back to Then (Hidden Beach)
By Craig D. Lindsey
Published: September 12, 2002
There's something admirable in Darius Rucker's mission to prove he's more than the Dylan of the frat-boy generation. After years as the darker-skinned front man of the otherwise va...
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Music
Highway to Hell
Speed-metal demons Slayer on songwriting-by-thesaurus, boy bands and favorable exchange rates
By Eric Waggoner
Published: August 1, 2002
I have this great idea for a reality television show. Here's what we do: We round up every single exec, producer, consultant, show doctor, set designer, snotty host, vampiric talen...
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Music
Big Bang
Iroc Beats' new track blew up the Billboard chart — and got the Valley Finally on tha Map
By Darren Keast
Published: June 20, 2002
Phoenix's hip-hop scene is running out of excuses. For years, local rappers and producers could blame their abject failure to crack national markets on the city's B-market status. ...
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Molten Wax
Damien Jurado and Gathered in Song
I Break Chairs (Sub Pop)
By Mikael Wood
Published: May 16, 2002
With Neil Young taking a shot at soul-man sophistication on his new one, someone has to make use of his godfather-of-grunge claim until he gets back to rocking. On his fourth albu...
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Molten Wax
Lisa Loeb
Cake and Pie (A&M)
By Fred Mills
Published: May 2, 2002
Top 10 Things to Like About the New Lisa Loeb Album: (10) It's 100 times better than the new Alanis. And dig: The best track (the dreamy/anthemic "The Way It Really Is") was co-pe...
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Stage
Without Reservation
There are few qualms to be had with ATC's new one-man show, Fully Committed
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 4, 2002
Fully Committed is a play about conversations: Truncated, maddening, sometimes amusing conversations -- the kind we all have every day with total strangers we'd probably rather not...
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Trashman
Bottoming Out
Trailer-park Scrooge finds 10 reasons to say humbug about the music of 2001
By Bill Blake
Published: December 27, 2001
There's no need for the exchange of overpriced trinkets to distract me from the agony of having to play the same old tired roles -- rankled adult child, tormented kid, alcoholic un...
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Feature
Lab Rats
The University of Arizona's push to become one of the nation's great research institutions has paid off -- but at what cost to the state, faculty and students?
By Robert Nelson
Published: December 20, 2001
TUCSON -- First there was a Harvard, then came a "Harvard of the South," a "Harvard of the Midwest" and a "Harvard of the Plains."Indeed, great statesmanship in expansionist Americ...
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Music
Haul the Dreck
It seems every fa-la-la-la-lousy Christmas recording is in light rotation, but not these holiday turkeys
By Serene Dominic
Published: December 20, 2001
In this threatened Yuletide of 2001, it's comfort items that are shaping up to be the season's big sellers. Fluffy slippers. Bubble bath lotion. Comforters. Cozy sweaters. The same...
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Night & Day
Merry-achi
Music fest is a fine way to say Feliz Navidad
By Sage Dillon
Published: December 6, 2001
Polish up your "La Bamba." For the 10th year in a row, some of the top mariachi groups in the country are coming to Phoenix to help ring in the holiday season.The Christmas Mariach...
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Feature
Crying Whale
Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.
By Michael Lacey and Jill Stewart
Published: November 22, 2001
Big-name sophisticates like Jean-Michel Cousteau and Robert Kennedy Jr. rejoiced when it was announced last year that a controversial salt plant proposed in Mexico had been stopped...
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Feature
The New Economy
The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions
By Susan Goldsmith
Published: November 22, 2001
Without the fishermen of Punta Abreojos, they had nothing. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) wanted to wage a worldw...
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Rollin'
Peter Tork
Performing at the Rhythm Room November 28
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: November 22, 2001
On his recently released debut solo album, former Squeeze front man Glenn Tilbrook sings, "The Monkees weren't a real band, but I still love them."It's a sentiment that probably sp...
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Rollin'
Wayne Hancock
The Train is coming to town
By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: November 15, 2001
There was a time, early in Hank Williams' recording career, in 1947, when Williams was swinging pretty hard, when lead guitarist Zeke Turner was permitted to show a degree of uptow...
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