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Grind and Bare It
At the Hi-Liter, there's a lot more to show business than meets the eye
By Dave Walker
Published: March 15, 1989
n 1962, Jack and Leah Eurich came out from Michigan looking for a saloon of their own. They found a little place they liked, a piano bar in a two-story office complex on North 1...
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Suntracks
Those R.E.M. Blinkety-blinks
You won't hear another Murmur out of this band
By David Koen
Published: March 15, 1989
Let's face it. If James Dean were alive today, he'd be about as svelte as Marlon Brando and nearly as sexy as Gavin MacLeod. If Jimi Hendrix were still around, ten to one he...
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Just Make the Pain Go Away
People went to Dr. Bisla seeking relief. And then he brought out his scalpel.
By Terry Greene
Published: March 15, 1989
The nagging aches and pains from a minor traffic accident sent Eileen and Paul Moore to the doctor in 1982. They just wanted him to make their pain go away. But over th...
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Creatures from the Encanto Lagoon
By Dave Walker
Published: March 15, 1989
File it under trickle-down benefit: Among the many aftereffects of the Encanto Park renovation is a cleaner lagoon. Observers say the fish who live there like it better. ...
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Suntracks
Ignoring the Gospel
By David Koen
Published: March 8, 1989
Take 6 yawns and stretches. It is Friday, February 24, and the a cappella gospel-jazz-blues-soul-pop-doo-wop group is paying the price after winning two Grammys only 48 hour...
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Cafe
The Territory's Treasure
By Steven Weiss
Published: March 8, 1989
I have no political authority to do this, but I am hereby nominating the Wigwam Resort's Arizona Kitchen to be our official state restaurant. Here is an ultimate dining expe...
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Ticker Toy for Fans
By Dave Walker
Published: March 8, 1989
For all the Normal Guys of the world who are forced by the circumstance of their employment to have a paging device clipped to their belt--and who hate every minute of being...
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Suntracks
Failing the Acid Test
There's a dance craze sweeping the world--but not in this big valley
By John Blanco
Published: March 8, 1989
In Britain it's shaken up music, fashion and virtually the whole of U.K. youth culture. In Italy, its synthesis of classic funk samples and trippy techno-beats has been mesm...
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Platt's Last Stand
One Stubborn White Man's Brawl with the Zunis
By Paul Rubin
Published: March 8, 1989
Earl Platt leans his old body on his battered pickup and points to the mountains beyond his sprawling ranch in eastern Arizona. It's way out there, he says, where the ...
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Suntracks
Proving Their Metal
Ground-pounding rock 'n' roll in Living Colour
By Judge I-Rankin'
Published: March 8, 1989
Who says blacks can't play rock 'n' roll? After a couple of listens to Living Colour, nobody in his right mind would say that. Living Colour, an all-black rock foursom...
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Columns
Vow Wows
By Michael Burkett
Published: March 8, 1989
I started out as a model parent. And I'd still be a model parent if my wife had had a hysterical pregnancy instead of a kid. Before my son was born, the rules by which...
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Columns
Tower Tale
By Michael Lacey
Published: March 8, 1989
I have never seen John Tower drunk. Am I the only American who can say that? Hell, even Earl de Berge saw Tower bombed on three occasions. De Berge wrote to A...
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Feature
Springtime for Hitters
If you're a Steve Garvey fan, stop reading now
By Cap'n Dave
Published: March 1, 1989
When you get right down to it, there are just two kinds of people in this world: There are people who like Steve Garvey, and there are people who don't. Every single person...
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Suntracks
Now Reappearing: Cheap Trick
Rock's Houdini-come-lately band turns Wonder Bread-metal into platinum after a ten-year vanishing act
By David Koen
Published: March 1, 1989
You watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High these days and it's sharply evident the movie wasn't particularly ahead of its time. For one thing, Sean Penn's totally mellow Jeff Sp...
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Feature
The Unwanted Ones
Arizona's Medical Insurance Industry has virtually abandoned children with Down's Syndrome--no matter how healthy they happen to be
By Kathleen Stanton
Published: March 1, 1989
Twenty years ago, the parents of a child like Jenna barely flinched when they encountered discrimination. From the moment a sympathetic obstetrician offered to whisk their l...
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News
Scottsdale Stadium
By Cap'n Dave
Published: March 1, 1989
Home base for the San Francisco Giants, this charming park is a big favorite with fans of the truly hep persuasion. Many absolutists hold that Scottsdale is the absolute best place...
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Diablo Stadium
By Cap'n Dave
Published: March 1, 1989
This is where the Seattle Mariners "play" their spring games, where every new line-up card brims with the promise of the franchise's first halfway successful season, and where I so...
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Hohokam Park
By Cap'n Dave
Published: March 1, 1989
When the wickedly popular Chicago Cubs come to the Valley every spring, this ballpark becomes the epicenter of more activity than it can really stand. After all, the address says M...
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Angel Stadium
By Cap'n Dave
Published: March 1, 1989
The Angels have their cleats in two worlds. For the first two weeks of spring training, the club practices and plays exclusively in the Valley, based at the Gene Autry complex on E...
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Phoenix Municipal Stadium
By Cap'n Dave
Published: March 1, 1989
In spring, Muni is home field for the Oakland Athletics, an American League team that I may never forgive for losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in last year's World Series. ...
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