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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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Cafe
CURRY UP
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: June 13, 1990
I've always liked East Indian food. The spiciest I've ever eaten was on a hiking trip through the British Isles. My boyfriend and I were in London and decided to forgo fish and c...
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News
ARIZONA'S NEW RANGE WAREARTH FIRST! DECLARES OPENSEASON ON COWS
By Kathleen Stanton
Published: June 13, 1990
The truth in their message stands out so starkly that, even though they sound like extremists, you know they're basically right: The Earth is being destroyed by abuse and co...
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News
IT'S RAINING HATS AND DOGS!COOLER HEADS PREVAIL IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
By Dewey Webb
Published: June 13, 1990
Want to win friends and influence people? A waggish mutt milliner with the unlikely name of April Ode has just the cure: "Walk your dog with a hat on, boy, and people come f...
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Columns
NEW LIGHT ON THE SHADOWS OF THE BOLLES MURDER
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: June 13, 1990
It's early morning. The bartender spots the tall man as he comes through the door. "I'll have a vodka on the rocks," Neal Roberts says in a soft, polite voice. Rob...
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News
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST: THE STORY OF WILL BRUDER
By Lawrence W. Cheek
Published: June 6, 1990
The tour of Will Bruder's buildings begins south of the tracks, amid the old warehouses and storage lots and junkyards around West Buchanan Street and Seventh Avenue. Thi...
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Cafe
TIKI OR LEAVE IT
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: June 6, 1990
It could be any Saturday night. The maitre d' at Trader Vic's leads us to a small table near the restaurant's fire doors. It is a miserable location, one I would like t...
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News
LIBRARY PLANNERS PLAY FOLLOW-THE-READER
By Dave Walker
Published: June 6, 1990
The new downtown library is still just a block of clear plastic. It sits on a scale model of central Phoenix, centered in an orange splotch that represents the proposed libr...
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Suntracks
FALLING SUPERSTARSON THEIR NEW LP, JAZZ'S LEADING LIGHTS CREATE A DIM DIN
By Dave McElfresh
Published: June 6, 1990
When Jack DeJohnette invited Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny into the studio recently, it seemed like the drummer was assembling jazz's Masters of the Universe. Name most any...
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Suntracks
THIS SALSA'S MADE IN NEW YORK CITYNEW-WAVE WONDER DAVID BYRNE PASSES LATIN
By John Blanco
Published: June 6, 1990
Who would've guessed that beneath the milquetoast exterior of David Byrne burned the heart of a hot-blooded, hip-swiveling, Jose Cuervo-swigging Latino? Certainly not the f...
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News
NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR
CAN MOBILE HOMES AND POSH HOUSES CO-EXIST? NOT IN THESE PARTS.
By J. W. Casserly
Published: May 30, 1990
Laura Slade still doesn't have an in-house bathroom, but she finally has electricity. And running water. The inconvenience of having to use her neighbor's "facilities" is a small n...
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Cafe
EATING MCDOWELLA COOK'S TOUR OF PHOENIX'S FUNKIEST RESTAURANT ROW
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: May 30, 1990
Admit it. Are you one of those people who equates dining on McDowell with free lunch at the Show Club? Is your McDowell eating experience confined to hot dogs at the coliseu...
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News
V.°I.°PIAONCE HOLLYWOOD'S BIGGEST JOKE, ZADORA GETS THE LAST LAUGH--SERIOUSLY
By Dewey Webb
Published: May 30, 1990
Although she's come a long way in the past few years, Pia Zadora is currently going nowhere fast. But this time, the singer is happy to report, that lack of momentum has absolute...
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Suntracks
THE WAY OF ALL FLASHCELEBRITY SKIN SHOWS A GLITZ PERSONALITY
By Louis Windbourne
Published: May 30, 1990
Celebrity Skin is sick of blue-jeans-and-tee-shirt guitar-pop bar-hero bands. The group wants to bring glitter and glamour back to rock 'n' roll. It wants to revive outrageo...
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Cafe
WHEN HARRY MET SALAD
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: May 30, 1990
It's prom night. We are witnessing a spontaneous fashion show as seventeen-year-old girls in strapless gowns glide through Remington's in the Sheraton Scottsdale Resort. We hear ...
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News
GASOLINE ALLEYDOWN BY THE OLD MILLSTREAM, IT STINKS
By Paul Rubin
Published: May 30, 1990
This is not how Art and Lynn Shupe envisioned their life in Arizona's White Mountains. "Since all this happened with the company, we haven't had any life," Art Shupe s...
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Columns
THE FAT CATS HAVE A FIELD DAY
By Tom Fitzpatrick
Published: May 30, 1990
An elderly Pinnacle West stockholder poked Keith Turley gingerly in the back. At this very moment, Turley was standing nervously at a urinal in a men's room on the main floo...
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Cafe
A PLATE IN THE SUN
By Penelope Corcoran
Published: May 23, 1990
I'm no stranger to Sun City. The two people responsible for bringing me into this world have lived there for most of the last decade. So when it came time to gather information f...
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Art
MID-AMERICAN GOTHICHANGING OUT AT THE SUN CITIES ART MUSEUM
By Anna Dooling
Published: May 23, 1990
Karen Reinhold is sitting in the office she occupies as director of the Sun Cities Art Museum when one of the women working in the gift shop comes in with a pair of earrings...
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