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TWO STORIES OF JUSTICE: CABLE AND CHICKENS
By J. W. Casserly
Published: July 18, 1990
Cable television is coming to the Westward Ho. A tentative deal has been reached with Dimension Cable that's leaving smiles on the faces of the 300-odd residents who live in the ...
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Suntracks
POP SMEAR
By Jerome Du Bois
Published: July 18, 1990
Bruce Kurtz was dressed in screaming yellow bell bottoms and a vest covered with pennies at the Phoenix Art Museum's opening July 6. Beatles music was blaring through loudsp...
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JERRY FOSTER: STILL LETTING IT FLY
By Darrin Hostetler
Published: July 18, 1990
Jerry Foster, the former Channel 12 helicopter pilot and weather forecaster, is famous statewide for his flamboyant flying, daring live-at-five rescues, numerous appearances with...
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HOMES OF ILL REPUTE
IF YOU'RE MENTALLY RETARDED AND LIVING IN ARIZONA, BEWARE. THIS STATE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.
By Paul Rubin
Published: July 18, 1990
The contents of the letter left George Coppock trembling with fear and anger. "We have received a report that Michael has possibly been abused," the curt note from the Arizo...
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Columns
THE SUPREME COURT COPS OUT
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: July 18, 1990
The Arizona Supreme Court now tells us that Evan Mecham is once again free to become our governor. How ridiculous can you get? I always presumed that judges were a...
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Cafe
THE HIGH-PRICED SPREAD
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: July 11, 1990
You would think he'd be impervious by now. Christopher Gross, owner and chef of Christopher's and the Bistro, is a smash hit. Local restaurant critics rave. National re...
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TEST THE DAMN WATER!
By Jana Bommersbach
Published: July 11, 1990
If you've never boiled over at the incompetence of state and county environmental offices, now's the time. If you've never been frightened that their lazy attitude could end...
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JAMAICAN WHOOPEE
"IF YOU WANNA BE WITH ME, YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE YOUR RENTAL FEE."
By J. W. Casserly
Published: July 11, 1990
It seemed odd to be talking about paid sex on our honeymoon. But the conversation in this water-drenched Jamaican bar had decidedly taken a turn. Sometime during the co...
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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
THIS SUNNYSLOPE HIGH STUDENT WAS HEADED TOWARD THE GRAND OLE OPRY. THEN HE STEPPED INTO PHOENIX'S MOST DANGEROUS CROSSWALK.
By Paul Rubin
Published: July 11, 1990
Coby Perkins is talking about the days when he could play his bluegrass banjo like a champ. "I loved to play," the nineteen-year-old says in a sluggish monotone. "I wa...
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Columns
Send in the Clowns
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: July 11, 1990
The best thing about Prescott's 102nd annual Frontier Days parade last Saturday was the cowboy groups like the Bill Williams Mountainmen and the Wild Bunch from Prescott. In ...
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Columns
THE MECHAM MENACE
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: July 11, 1990
Now it comes down to courage. This is no time for the summer soldier or the sunshine patriot, as Thomas Paine once wrote. It's all on the line, now that a suit has bee...
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Suntracks
HEROINE JUNKIECOWBOY CROONER MARGO TIMMONS TAKES HER BAND ON A HIP TRIP
By Larry Crowley
Published: July 4, 1990
... Whatever "it" is, works: Tours now include larger, less boozy venues, and the band's success has garnered it trips to Europe and Japan and guest shots on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show. And, denials of stardom notwithstanding, Timmons is quite aware of her contribution to the Cowboy Junkies' accomplishments. "O...
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Cafe
ASIAN GRACEFULLY
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: July 4, 1990
It is 9:30 on a Wednesday evening in North Scottsdale. The parking lot is dotted with Range Rovers. Inside, our fellow diners seem unaware of the time. Fashionably dressed i...
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Suntracks
KITSCHY, KITSCHY COOL
FOR CHER, SUCCESS MEANS REACHING OVER THE TOP
By Jimmy Magahern
Published: July 4, 1990
Ten years ago, Cher was a superstar on the run from her past. Sporting pink leopard-skin skirts and shaggy bangs, the then-34-year-old singer was fronting a new-wave group called B...
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News
HE STOOPS TO CONQUER
TOSSING TENNIS BALLS AND CATCHING BUZZES--IT'S ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR AN ITINERANT STREET JUGGLER
By Anna Dooling
Published: July 4, 1990
Porkey has a pretty good explanation for why he drops the tennis balls so much while he is juggling. It does not take very many minutes of watching Porkey to establish the f...
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Columns
HIS HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SPORTSWRITERS
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: July 4, 1990
Jerome Holtzman of the Chicago Tribune covered his first Arizona spring training season 35 years ago. He has been covering baseball ever since. He has been voted into ...
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Suntracks
THINKING GLOBALLY, ROCKING LOCALLYPHOENIX'S DEAD HOT WORKSHOP LEADS AN ACTIVIST'S LIFESTYLE
By John Blanco
Published: June 27, 1990
It's almost one in the morning at Asylum's Greenpeace benefit concert, and there's not an eco-freak in sight. There's no sign of the speakers, petition circulators or environmental...
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Cafe
GRUB BAG
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: June 27, 1990
Most people think my ever-faithful dining accomplice Goat earned his nickname because he will eat anything. This is not true. For instance, on a recent pre-Fourth of July ex...
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News
OFF THE AIR
YOU'RE ELDERLY, POOR AND LIVING DOWNTOWN. AND YOU WANT CABLE TV? GOOD LUCK.
By J. W. Casserly
Published: June 27, 1990
Mabel Wambach is not exactly screaming for her MTV. At 83 years of age, Wambach really doesn't scream anymore, and her closest experience to music videos is watching the bub...
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Suntracks
FUNKY BUSINESSLOCK UP CATCHES PRANCE FEVER
By David Koen
Published: June 13, 1990
If Brian Grillo had opted to concentrate on a career in dancing, he might've spent the summer wearing a double-barreled torpedo bra as one of Madonna's boy toys. According t...
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