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Rollin'
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To Be Somebody (Golden Seal)
By Brian Smith
Published: October 18, 2001
Hailed six years ago in Rolling Stone as rock's Great White Hope, DGeneration and its singer Jesse Malin summoned with aplomb the ghosts of Max's Kansas City. The unruly quintet bo...
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Film
Badge As He Wants to Be
Finally, Denzel Washington trades in his good-cop image in Training Day
By Andy Klein
Published: October 4, 2001
This may be a strange time to release a thriller about the dangers of corrupt law enforcement, but Training Day -- with no explosions, no cheap thrills, no international conspiraci...
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Stage
The Hole Shebang
Naughty but nice, The Vagina Monologues pays more than lip service to female power
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 5, 2001
The will-call line for The Vagina Monologues snaked all the way across the lobby of the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, and I was the only man in it. That is, until another fellow ...
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Stage
Going Coastal
Valley stage stalwart Michelle Gardner is getting her act together and taking it to L.A.
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: May 3, 2001
Michelle Gardner arrives bearing Danish. She shows up for what she calls her "farewell interview" clutching a four-foot-long cheese-and-blueberry concoction from Karsh's, the koshe...
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Film
Shoot the Moon
Aussie-made The Dish illuminates eccentric scientists who helped televise 1969 lunar walk
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: April 26, 2001
Somewhere, in deepest New South Wales, Australia, there exists a humble sheep paddock. (In this particular case, the paddock is nearly devoid of sheep -- barring the odd sound effe...
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Bash & Pop
Group Efforts
Make-ups, breakups and other local band gossip abound
By Bob Mehr
Published: April 19, 2001
After an eight-year run, local pop-punks Pollen are calling it quits. The group announced its imminent demise from the stage this past weekend, confirming rumors that had been circ...
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Film
Gross Encounters
Tom Green's directorial debut is occasionally hilarious but sloppily executed
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 19, 2001
If you don't like Tom Green, there's no point in going anywhere near Freddy Got Fingered, as it won't win you over. If you don't know much about Tom Green but are curious, you migh...
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Feature
Joe Arpaio's Balloon Payments
It hasn't been cheap keeping the Joe Show aloft. Now, his employees, his inmates and the citizens of Maricopa County are paying the price.
By Robert Nelson
Published: April 5, 2001
Hitmen hurriedly stabbed Jaime Sanchez four times, then dashed for anonymity among the other inmates on the sixth floor of Madison Street Jail.Then Sanchez waited, and waited, and ...
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Voas
High-Speed Chaste
Will county auditors be Arpaio's Waterloo?
By Jeremy Voas
Published: January 25, 2001
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's neuroses are the stuff of legend, the wellspring of his unquenchable thirst for attention. If ego were anorexia, Arpaio would look like Manute Bol.As a lawman,...
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News
Paper Machete
After a drug bust at his home, Yuma publisher creates a newspaper to investigate cops
By Amy Silverman
Published: January 18, 2001
Most people who feel they've been wronged by the cops file a lawsuit or a complaint, or ignore the incident. Joe Soldwedel created a newspaper.The Tiempo-Times won't roll off the p...
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Film
K2 Why?
Vertical Limit fails to conquer mountain of clichés
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 7, 2000
About halfway through the megabudget mountain-climbing adventure Vertical Limit, even the most rugged, thrill-hungry disaster-movie fans may find themselves going numb. Not from th...
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Film
Triumph of De Vil
Young pups learn new tricks as sequel 102 Dalmatians hits the spots
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: November 30, 2000
In 102 Dalmatians, a new brood of puppies is born, one of which, Oddball, doesn't develop spots. The resulting feelings of inadequacy are such that the poor thing runs away from ho...
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Music
Write or Wrong
Our quarterly roundup of music books lets us get lost with Chet Baker, nasty with Bill Monroe and saved by Al Green, while Ted Nugent teaches us that happiness really is a warm gun
By Dave McElfresh
Published: November 23, 2000
Listed below are 17 pounds of new and worthwhile music books all you fact-obsessed tune junkies will need to buy and haul around every time you move for the rest of your lives. The...
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Music
Rock and a Hard Place
Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 2, 2000
John Wesley Hall believes justice is a myth taught in classrooms, a fable found in law books, as imaginary as the unicorn and the mermaid. The Arkansas attorney mentions case after...
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Letters
Letters
From the Week of October 26, 2000
Published: October 26, 2000
Deliver UsBrain drain: Bravo. It's disheartening, although not surprising, that this stuff still works on people ("Drive-thru Deliverance," Amanda Scioscia, October 19). Yes, I agr...
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Stuff
Rock and a Hard Place
Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 5, 2000
John Wesley Hall believes justice is a myth taught in classrooms, a fable found in law books, as imaginary as the unicorn and the mermaid. The Arkansas attorney mentions case after...
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Bash & Pop
Fair to Middlin'
State fair means music -- and the most toothless people you'll ever see
By Bob Mehr
Published: October 5, 2000
It's fall once again, and that means the Arizona State Fair will get into full swing shortly. This year's lineup of musical performers is enough to make us think your time at the f...
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Art
No Big Bang, A Big Gong
Only the disorganized, cluttered opening of 'Chaos Theory' bears any relation to this forgettable exhibit's title
By Kathleen Vanesian
Published: September 21, 2000
In astrophysics parlance, the term "chaos theory" refers to the hypothesis that even a simple system can manifest unpredictable and highly complicated behavior. In other words, eve...
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Film
AARP Speed
Aging astronaut Clint Eastwood launches Space Cowboys with high-grade fossil fuel
By Andy Klein
Published: August 3, 2000
It's a pleasure to say that Clint Eastwood reverses his recent downward slide -- A Perfect World (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Absolute Power (1997), and True Crime...
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Feature
Club Meds
The mental-health-care system says Lynda Sue Dale, a young mentally ill mother, is ineligible for treatment -- until she informs the bureaucrats she's talking to New Times
By Paul Rubin
Published: July 13, 2000
"I'm old," says 20-year-old Lynda Sue Dale, nervously running her long, painted nails through her dark hair. "I been old for a long time. I don't really have a life, a social life...
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