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221. Feature

     Mental Health MASQUERADE

     Litigation over care fo rArizona's mentally ill ended four years ago. Sowhy have private attorneys racked up more than $1 million in fees since then?

     By Paul Rubin

     Published: November 23, 1995

     State Senator Mark Spitzer strode to the podium at a Prescott hotel and got to the point. The subject of the State Bar seminar in late September was mental health care, a hot topic...

222. Feature

     Dubious Practices

     By Paul Rubin

     Published: November 23, 1995

     An investigative audit of the Office of the Court Monitor--an agency created in 1991 to assure that court orders handed down in the Arnold v. Sarn lawsuit are implemented--has been...

223. Music

     Punk Drunk

     North Carolina's Archers of Loaf is on a roll, even if the group is off the wagon

     By Leigh Silverman

     Published: November 9, 1995

     Eric Bachmann has had a whiff of success, and he says the smell is not so sweet, after all. "All of a sudden you can't get a free moment at a show 'cause you have to talk to th...

224. Film

     THE AMAZING PANDER ADVENTURE

     By M.V. Moorhead

     Published: September 28, 1995

     The word "tantalize" comes from the Greek myth of Tantalus, who tried to trick the gods into committing cannibalism. The gods apparently regarded this a fairly serious sin on his p...

225. Stage

     BIBLE BELTER

     By Marshall W. Mason

     Published: June 29, 1995

     Forget Las Vegas! Fly over to Gammage Auditorium instead. You'll lose your frequent-flier miles, but you'll catch the most scintillating flash of flesh the law will allow. I'm spea...

226. Suntracks

     BOB'S BOX OF EINSTEINS

     HIS BANDS MAY CHANGE, BUT GLENN DEJONGH STILL WANTS TO REACH FOR THE STARS. AND CATCH 'EM

     By Ted Simons

     Published: June 22, 1995

     It's a breezy night at Club Rio in Tempe. The courtyard in the back is framed with lazy, swaying palms. A stage is set up at the east side of the patio. In front of the stage, ther...

227. Feature

     MENTAL HEALTH MASQUERADE

     THE OFFICE OF THE COURT MONITOR IS SUPPOSED TO HOLD THE MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM ACCOUNTABLE TO ITS CLIENTS. BUT NOBODY'S BEEN HOLDING THE OFFICE ITSELF ACCOUNTABLE.

     By Paul Rubin

     Published: June 8, 1995

     For thousands of Arizonans, the court case known as Arnold v. Sarn was a godsend. The landmark lawsuit grew from a sensitive subject that few people voluntarily broach: how s...

228. Stage

     BROADWAY PLAYS DEAD'95 TONY AWARDS EULOGIZE WORST SEASON IN NEW YORK THEATRE HISTORY

     By Marshall W. Mason

     Published: June 8, 1995

     "Can Broadway be saved?" was the question on the cover of New York magazine last week. Inside, Michael Goldstein prescribed a 12-step program to restore the flagship of the America...

229. Feature

     MENTAL HEALTH MASQUERADE

     ARIZONA SET OUT TO CREATE THE BEST MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM MONEY COULD BUY. IT ENDED UP WITH A PROGRAM AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.

     By Paul Rubin and Israel Ramirez

     Published: June 1, 1995

     Jerry Millison was overcome with anguish on the afternoon of May 12. "He wondered for a second just how screwed up he had to be before someone would help him," a friend of Mil...

230. Suntracks

     RECORDINGS, 4-27

     By Serene Dominic and Shawn Swagerty

     Published: April 27, 1995

     Glenn Frey Solo Collection (MCA) How much water can one ex-Eagle tread? Prior to all of last year's Eagles reunion by-products, Frey released a Greatest Hits--Live album. Now...

231. Suntracks

     THESE BOOTS ARE STILL MADE FOR WALKIN'NANCY SINATRA'S BACK IN SHOW BIZ WITH ALL NUDE--AH, NEW, MATERIAL

     By Peter Gilstrap

     Published: April 20, 1995

     Though it was more than 20 years ago, I'll never forget my first glimpse of Playboy Mansion West. The lush, green lawns, the exotic birds and animals wandering around, the waterfal...

232. Stage

     MYTHING THE MARK

     By M.V. Moorhead

     Published: April 6, 1995

     Liam Neeson is a fine big slab of testosterone, a competent actor and a reasonably likable screen presence. He's not, however, a movie star. He may be paid like a movie star, he ma...

233. Stage

     IS THIS STRIP NECESSARY?

     By M.V. Moorhead

     Published: March 30, 1995

     Style matches content in Exotica. The film is set in a strip club, and writer-director Atom Egoyan, a Canadian of Armenian descent, doles out his story as slowly and st...

234. Suntracks

     DO LOOK BACK

     THE YEAR IN MUSIC: IT JUST DIDN'T GET MUCH BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THIS

     Published: December 29, 1994

     Yet another 12 months of popular song have come and gone--for many, a year of soul-touching hits, for others, an unfulfilling mess of redundant backwash. But one thing's for sure: ...

235. Columns

     MIRACLE ON 24TH STREET

     FOR DECADES, BELIEVERS HAVE FLOCKED TO A SOUTH PHOENIX CHAPEL DEDICATED TO A HYBRID SAINT CANONIZED BY THE MASSES

     By Anna Dooling

     Published: December 29, 1994

     The memory of the uniquely Mexican way of practicing his religion. After a short time in Tombstone, Francisco settled in the area around 24th Street and Baseline Road, a part ...

236. Film

     FEMALE TROUBLE

     By M.V. Moorhead

     Published: December 15, 1994

     "Sexual harassment isn't about sex, it's about power." So says a lawyer who specializes in harassment cases, in the film version of Michael Crichton's best seller Disclosure. Later...

237. Suntracks

     RECORDINGS

     By Danielle Hollomon, Peter Gilstrap and Serene Dominic

     Published: December 8, 1994

     Various Artists The World of the Zombies (PopLlama) To your average human being, the Zombies were a footnote to the British Invasion, a band whose career oldies stations have...

238. Cafe

     STUPOR BOWL

     By Howard Seftel

     Published: October 20, 1994

     Buddy Ryan's Bar & Grill, 122 East Washington, Phoenix, 258-4646. Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. Ea...

239. Stage

     MASQUER PIECE THEATRE

     By Marshall W. Mason

     Published: September 15, 1994

     The Phantom of the Opera is not just a musical. It is an industry. Written by the richest man in the theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and produced by the second-richest man in ...

240. Film

     SPAIN RELIEVER

     By M.V. Moorhead

     Published: August 18, 1994

     Several people walked out of the Barcelona screening I attended. I could only assume they disliked the talkiness and slow pace of this mild comedy of manners, which recounts the ro...