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Suntracks
By Peter Gilstrap
Week after week, I spout off about what I like and don't like here in this column, and, while it may be hard for the legions of Screed loyalists out there to comprehend, there are ...
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Feature
By Dewey Webb
Tossing restlessly on her pillow, Jean B. took some solace in knowing that at least she'd tried to make it work.
But after 28 years of connubial bliss, she could no longer tolerat...
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Suntracks
By Serene Dominic and Peter Gilstrap
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
Mason Jar
June 19, 1994
Maybe it was when the topless woman with the purple body paint, blacked-out teeth and twisted fright wig stood on her ...
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Film
By M.V. Moorhead
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende's epic The House of the Spirits is set in a fictitious South American country. About the most charitable term one can apply to the South American se...
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Film
By M.V. Moorhead
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende's epic The House of the Spirits is set in a fictitious South American country. About the most charitable term one can apply to the South American se...
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Film
By M.V. Moorhead
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende's epic The House of the Spirits is set in a fictitious South American country. About the most charitable term one can apply to the South American se...
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Stage
By Kathleen Ellison
Death and the Maiden turns out to be a lot like a political candidate: lots of promises, and always the hope of answers to it all. But South American playwright Ariel Dorfman sidet...
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Stage
By Kathleen Ellison
Death and the Maiden turns out to be a lot like a political candidate: lots of promises, and always the hope of answers to it all. But South American playwright Ariel Dorfman sidet...
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Suntracks
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Ben Vaughn
Mono U.S.A.
(Bar/None)
The man who gave the world "I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)" has done, if not the impossible, then the extremely challenging: Vaughn has taken 1...
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Suntracks
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Ben Vaughn
Mono U.S.A.
(Bar/None)
The man who gave the world "I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)" has done, if not the impossible, then the extremely challenging: Vaughn has taken 1...
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News
AN ESTIMATED $250 MILLION IN TAXES WILL HELP BUILD A DOMED STADIUM. HERE'S WHAT ELSE IT COULD PAY FOR.
By Amy Silverman and Jeremy Voas
With all the hubbub about the downtown baseball stadium--for which Maricopa County taxpayers are expected to pay up to $250 million--it's high time for some perspective. With apolo...
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Suntracks
LATE BANDLEADER KENTON PUSHED LIMITS; HIS ALUMNI ARE STILL AT IT
By Dave McElfresh
The rock n' roll lifestyle didn't drop from the sky with the appearance of the Rolling Stones, you know. Half a century of jazzmen and blues figures had already set the stage with ...
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Suntracks
By Ted Simons, Ted Fuss, Twyla Webster, Dave McElfresh and Serene Dominic
Once again, we take a look at what a few local humans liked and didn't like in the music world this year. From fabulous celebrities such as Charles Barkley and Barry Goldwater to e...
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Suntracks
MR. WARMTH HEATS UP ON ROCK, THE RAT PACK AND, YES FRANK
By Peter Gilstrap
The artistry of Don Rickles has spanned not only the decades, but virtually all mediums of entertainment. From the seminal years of the Hello Dummy album, to the film work (Kelly's...
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Feature
A PROMINENT MESA LAWYER AND HIS FLUNKY WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE ELDERLY IN THEIR CARE. INSTEAD, THEY PLUNDERED THE OLD PEOPLE'S ASSETS.
By Paul Rubin
The Kings of Probate
Dorothy Richards hadn't spoken to her Aunt Delores for years when she decided to look her relative up in early 1988. A few inquiries led the Newport Beach, Cal...
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Feature
What the senator knew and when he knew it
By John Dougherty
Senator Dennis DeConcini has contradicted his own sworn testimony in the Keating Five scandal.
On Monday, DeConcini admitted he was aware as early as 1984 that his chief fund rais...
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Suntracks
By Robert Baird
Just when you thought it was safe to go near the water . . . there's a slimy new connection between aquatic life and party rock. It began with Jimmy Buffett's "Parrotheads"--scramb...
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Feature
By Michael Kiefer
You can smell the pheromones, palpably sense the rut vibes, feel the radioactive burn of eye contact. One thousand single people, male and female, circle the fountains at Concord P...
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Feature
By Dave Newbart
When the Nevada Highway Patrol stopped Sheryl for driving 95 mph two years ago, in her bright red Mitsubishi Eclipse, they found gambling chips, several hundred dollars in cash, tw...
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Cafe
By Howard Seftel
Todd's, 8380 East Via de Ventura, Scottsdale, 443-9100. Hours: Lunch, Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Dinner, Tuesday through Sunday, 5 to 11 p.m.
Everyone starts the n...
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