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Night & Day
Night & Day
October 8 -14, 1998
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: October 8, 1998
thursday october 8 Wild 'n' crazy guy turned sophisticated humorist Steve Martin's dramatization of an apocryphal 1904 meeting between Einstein and Picasso, Picasso at the La...
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Beetlemania
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 10, 1998
John O'Neal knows that the road from political activism to the stage of the Kennedy Center is a long one. O'Neal is artistic director of Junebug Productions, a troupe he rescued fr...
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News
All Abort!
Pro-life group battles city on bus ads
By Chris Farnsworth
Published: April 16, 1998
The legal skirmish between a local pro-life group and the City of Phoenix is now in the hands of a federal appeals court. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White heard ar...
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Film
Down in Smoke
Half-Baked requires a bit more cooking time
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: January 22, 1998
Would that Half-Baked were even as well-done as its title implies. This attempt at a contemporary pothead comedy makes you long for the lightness and subtle urbanity of Up in Smoke...
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Calendar for the week
By Clay McNear
Published: November 6, 1997
thursday november 6 The Food Chain: Though Nicky Silver (Pterodactyls; Free Will and Wanton Lust) is one of America's more promising comic playwrights, his writing sometimes ...
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Music
Unsung Guitar Hero
Glen Buxton played a crucial role in rock history, but how many people know about it?
By Gilbert Garcia
Published: October 30, 1997
It was a Friday night, and Glen Buxton was jumping up and down with excitement as he watched boxing on TV. The only indication that anything was wrong was a pain in his side, which...
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Calendar for the week
By Clay McNear
Published: July 24, 1997
thursday july 24 "Canyonland Visions" and "Crossing the Frontier": The former installation, organized by Fort Worth, Texas' Amon Carter Museum, features 117 paintings and pho...
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Film
Rosewood Burns Brightly
John Singleton outdoes himself with the true story of a pogrom against a black village
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: February 20, 1997
John Singleton's new film, Rosewood, chronicles a shocking and little-known incident in the history of American racism--the destruction of the title village and massacre of many of...
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Music
Recordings
By David Kronke and Serene Dominic
Published: January 23, 1997
Shaquille O'Neal You Can't Stop the Reign (T.W.IsM.) It took $120 million to persuade Shaquille O'Neal to apply himself on a basketball court (free-throw percentage as of ...
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Music
96.Rant
By David Holthouse
Published: January 2, 1997
Dr. Dre's decision to bounce from Suge Knight's enclave and renounce gangsta rap gets my nod for story of the year. Whether he was motivated by moral revelation, simple business ac...
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Feature
Sins of Commission
The story of a psychotic Vietnam veteran who died on the streets rattles the mental-health-care and judicial communities, triggering investigations and calls for reform
By Paul Rubin
Published: November 21, 1996
A few Sunday mornings ago, Mary and Ernie Howard found a sitter for their three children and drove to American Legion Post 75 in north Phoenix. The Glendale couple didn't know ...
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News
Poison Penance
Man whose tainted hot dogs sickened cat loses bid to be tried by jury for "moral turpitude"
By Paul Rubin
Published: October 10, 1996
Phoenix resident Donald Campbell was fed up with neighborhood dogs using his front lawn as their personal rest room. First, he posted a sign asking passers-by to pick up after ...
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Film
Rough Sketch
Basquiat misses its scrawling
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: September 5, 1996
Part of Andy Warhol's genius was his witty skill at daring us not to think he was a genius. Plenty of people took this dare, and it was no skin off his pasty nose--he may well have...
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Columns
Hail, Caesar
By Peter Gilstrap
Published: September 5, 1996
AND NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HERE HE IS--THE FABULOUS VIC CAESAR!!!!!! What's that? What's that I hear you saying? Who's Vic Caesar? How about a singer, songwriter, actor, prod...
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Music
1996 New Times Music Awards Showcase
By David Holthouse, Marsha Mardock, Ted Simons, Serene Dominic, Matt Golosinski, Leigh Silverman, Laurie Notaro and K. Denino
Published: April 18, 1996
Best Alternative Rock Beat Angels They may look and play like it, but the Beat Angels aren't really under the illusion that it's still 1979. They just don't think rock 'n' ro...
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Film
Killing Time
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 4, 1996
Ira Levin succinctly defined the stage thriller as "the one-set, five-character moneymaker." That's the basic design of Faithful, Paul Mazursky's film of Chazz Palminteri's play, a...
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Pic Hits for the week
By Clay McNear
Published: March 21, 1996
thursday march 21 Cactus League Baseball: They struck out in 1995, but the real boys of spring are back for this year's slate of preseason games, which continues daily, throu...
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Kid Pics for the week
By Clay McNear
Published: October 19, 1995
at the fair Thunder Lagoon Kids ActiviTIKI HUT: KPNX-TV, Channel 12, hosts this exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Arizona State Fair. A variety of activities is planned,...
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Suntracks
NO MORE SATURDAY NIGHTS? WILL WE SURVIVE?WHAT JERRY GARCIA'S PASSING MEANS TO NON-DEADHEADS, AND A LOOK AT WHO MIGHT REPLACE HIM
By Serene Dominic
Published: August 23, 1995
If I hear one more newscaster say, "What a long, strange trip it's been," I'm going to heave up lunch from a week ago. Don't get me wrong. I'm sorry Jerry's gone. I'm sorry his ol...
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News
A KILLER CONVENTION
THE IMAGE-CONSCIOUS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION ALLOWED NO NOISY FIREFIGHTS DURING ITS ANNUAL MEETING. EVERYONE WAS USING SILENCERS.
By Amy Silverman
Published: May 25, 1995
The middle-aged clerk at the sundry shop touches her brown, feathered hair, gazing appreciatively at the bodies pushing into the main exhibit hall at Phoenix Civic Plaza for the Na...
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