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Spiked
Gun Nut
The Spike shoots it up with Second Amendment types.
As told to Quetta Carpenter
Published: October 3, 2002
Early in childhood, The Spike spoiled its frilly pink Easter dress by firing a double-barreled shotgun at a watermelon. The dress and The Spike landed in a large heap on the ground...
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Music
Americano Idol
Marc Anthony's rabid fans divulge the key to his Latin-pop crossover triumph, and the rules of salsa
By Jimmy Magahern
Published: August 8, 2002
Here's a dating tip for every guy surfing Amor@AOL for a hot Latina mujer. If, after "musica favorita," she lists, simply, "salsa," there are three hard and fast commandments you m...
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Stage
Crazy Quilt
The Valley's newest troupe tries mightily to make mediocrity entertaining
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: July 18, 2002
All signs were pointing to a lousy evening of theater, even before the curtain came up on White Byson Theater Company's production of Remember My Name. The show's publicist phoned ...
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Stuff
The Prince
At long last, the Godfather's son makes his first film, and it was not easy
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 23, 2002
Thirty-four years later, Carson has returned to the school to deliver a series of lectures on the power of fable and film as metaphor, and he asked Coppola, whose film was partiall...
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Feature
Capitol Cop-Out
The Capitol Police is one of the state's smallest law enforcement agencies, and some say one of its worst
By John W. Allman
Published: April 25, 2002
For years, Capitol Police officers have arrested people without cause and harassed the homeless. They target those who hang out along the sidewalks and parking lots near state gov...
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Night & Day
Rants Fever
Native Son Neal Pollack Lugs His Anthology to the Valley
By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: March 28, 2002
There's a note in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in which the character Vladimir "uses his intelligence." In spite of all his efforts to obey the author's parenthetical in...
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Music
Blowing Rufus' Mind
A roundup of the latest batch of eclectica that fell through the cracks
By Dave McElfresh
Published: February 21, 2002
In 1941, a 12-year-old Rufus Jones electrified his homemade guitar with a piece of fence wire and a truck battery, "to impress them local Mississippi girlies," he recalls. While s...
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Stuff
Dark Victory
15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 13, 2001
It is December 5, the day AOL Time Warner-owned DC Comics has been anxiously awaiting for almost 15 years--the day writer-illustrator Frank Miller once more dons cape and cowl to r...
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Film
Return to Focus
A little-known novel from 1945 finds surprising new relevance on the big screen
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: November 22, 2001
It is difficult to imagine a more timely film than Focus; certainly, its message about intolerance resonates in a post-September 11 world in ways the filmmakers never anticipated. ...
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Stuff
The Brave & the Bold
On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 4, 2001
Before he was editor in chief at Marvel Comics--which, by all rights, makes him the man who tells Spider-Man what he can do with himself and the X-Men where to go--Joe Quesada illu...
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Sidebar
Casal in the Air
Neal Casal Anytime Tomorrow (Morebarn Records)
By Fred Mills
Published: September 6, 2001
Neal Casal may be one of those scratch-your-head, yeah-I've-seen-his-name-somewhere artists. He turned up in the record bins briefly with 1995's Fade Away Diamond Time not long bef...
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Stuff
Back to School
Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 30, 2001
Judd Apatow tries not to think of what became of Sam and Lindsay Weir, Neal Schweiber, Bill Haverchuck, Daniel Desario, Nick Andopolis and the other freaks and geeks Apatow knew ba...
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Music
Roosting Blues
A revived label serves the blues well
By Ross Johnson
Published: August 23, 2001
The mock primitive factor (hereafter referred to as mock prim) in blues is very high. Mock prim is that racial/racist double bind that says the best black music is that which is ma...
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News
Unpackin' Mama's Pistol
Gun lockers are coming to a public building near you
By Edward Lebow
Published: June 7, 2001
The Arizona Museum for Youth has a reputation for innovative offerings. Yet in the coming months, it will be giving families access to something they won't find at many other major...
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Music
Eccentricities
While they may not top the Billboard charts, this month's batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases is definitely worth hearing
By Dave McElfresh
Published: May 3, 2001
How do jazz players come up with the bucks to pay the rent? Do they sell plasma? Stuff envelopes at home? And was that famed jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean Gumbo saw selling tokens...
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Feature
Kitch in Sync
The same competitive fire that took Kitch Kitchen from the war-zone streets of Newark to basketball stardom has now made her the Valley's hottest rapper.
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: April 19, 2001
By day, O'Mally's is a nondescript sports bar, nestled in a strip mall on the west side of Phoenix. By night, O'Mally's transforms itself into a dance club, changing musical iden...
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Music
Once More, Mr. Nice Guy
Reminted Billion Dollar Babies recalls a time when Alice Cooper ruled the world and didn't have to become the 34th president to do it
By Serene Dominic
Published: April 19, 2001
"I found a million dollar baby/In a five and ten cent store . . ." -- Billy Rose, 1931 In other nickel-and-dime news, this year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shortchanged Alice ...
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News
Arrested Safari
Utah Attorney General's office says it can name that fraud in 11 felony charges against former Valley music promoter
By James Hibberd
Published: April 19, 2001
A former vice president for Valley music promoter Safari Media has been arrested on fraud and racketeering charges.The Utah Attorney General's Office charged Thuc Tri Nguyen, 36, w...
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Bash & Pop
Show Business
TV-3's NewShow is overhauled, and local music gets the boot
By Bob Mehr
Published: April 12, 2001
It's 10 o'clock, the television is on Channel 3 and the NewShow is on, but something is wrong, very wrong. There's no dancing letters, no familiar theme song, and -- gasp! -- co-an...
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Reviews
Birth of the Cool: Beat, BeBop and the American Avant-Garde
By Lewis MacAdams (Simon & Schuster Free Press)
By Jeff Hinkle
Published: March 1, 2001
Cool is in the eye of the beholder, and poet/writer Lewis MacAdams has come up with a blueprint charting the development of the elusive, unspoken, Zenlike state of American "cool."...
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