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Film
Traitor’s Don Cheadle and co-stars can’t elevate the film past ho-hum
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 28, 2008
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads (prepare yourself) thrillers and spy novel...
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Surreal Estate
Phoenix native Neal Green remembers the golden days of his grandmother's adobe home
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: August 7, 2008
Neal Green remembers when downtown Phoenix spilled into neighborhoods filled with hundred-year-old adobe houses surrounded by acres of land. He remembers groves of towering trees a...
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Feature
Scott Coles: The story behind the life — and death — of the flamboyant owner of Mortgages Ltd.
By John Dickerson
Published: July 31, 2008
It was February 2, 2008, and the sun had barely set on the usually quiet streets that snake up Camelback Mountain. The bump of rapper Ludacris' music was in the air, and a line of ...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 8, 2008
Published: May 8, 2008
DYING SUNS It wasn't Kerr's fault: Okay, it's over for the Phoenix Suns, but I still think your story on Steve Kerr was an important one to tell ("Running Down a Dream," Paul Rubi...
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Feature
Steve Kerr's been beating the odds his whole life
By Paul Rubin
Published: April 24, 2008
The preppy blond guy whose career highlights in the NBA and for the Arizona Wildcats equal basketball legend is relaxing at a Phoenix sports bar. A deadly sharpshooter in such bas...
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Sidebar
Kerr's legendary moments
By Paul Rubin
Published: April 24, 2008
• Six straight first-half three-pointers as UA routed ASU in 1988. • A series-winning shot with Michael Jordan's Bulls in game 6 of the '97 NBA Finals. • Four thre...
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Film
Poor Al: Pacino plays another caricature of himself in 88 Minutes
By Ella Taylor
Published: April 17, 2008
Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long. Going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it's worse than th...
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Surreal Estate
Tracing the roots of the Yum Yum Tree
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: March 20, 2008
I learned to ride a bicycle when I was 34 years old. I don't recall now why I refused to learn as a child, although my father remembers that I thought bike-riding was "childish," w...
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The Bird
The Bird praises L. Ron Hubbard, skewers a bladder-challenged bigot and offers a warning to the Big Cactus
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: March 13, 2008
WHITE-TRASH WEENIE Like you needed more proof that immigrant-bashing nativists are low-life garbage. Noted Yosemite Sam impersonator "Buffalo" Rick Galeener was allegedly caught e...
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Night & Day
Who's Your Shaq Daddy Now?
Can aging behemoth bring the bling?
By Chris Bowman
Published: February 21, 2008
Throughout their 40 years of balling, the Phoenix Suns have consistently made the playoffs. But once the team lost that star-crossed coin flip for the right to draft Lew Alcindor, ...
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Fenske
Globe High School censors its student newspaper
By Sarah Fenske
Published: February 7, 2008
Every morning, students at Globe High School are forced to watch TV. Sounds weird, I know, but it's not unusual. An estimated 6 million kids — one-third of all American teen...
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Feature
Snoop and Diddy headline a cast of stars destined to steal the spotlight from Super Bowl XLII
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: January 31, 2008
Hip-hop star Ludacris is a football fan with a lot to say about the Super Bowl. He really wanted to see the Dallas Cowboys make the championship game, but since they didn't and it'...
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Film Feature
Here Baby Here
Playing down-on-her-luck, Amy Ryan's star rises
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 1, 2007
"I hope people ask me, 'Where did you find that local actress?'" Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his directing debut, Gone Baby Gone. Wh...
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Surreal Estate
Phoenix, the Final Frontier
Brazilians and Brazilians of stars
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: September 20, 2007
People refer to Phoenix as an up-and-coming city; they call it a late-night ghost town, a sweatbox, a suburban desert. But what it looks more and more like all the time is a desert...
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Locals Only
Nick Nicholson
Country for country
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 5, 2007
There's nothing "alt" about the country music played by Phoenix resident Nick Nicholson. The Tennessee transplant plays straight up, rockin' country, a combination of twang and ban...
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Feature
The Faithless
Heaven help the Valley Cathedral
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 21, 2006
Carol Davidson is an Arcadia housewife, a grandmother, a missionary's mom, and until recently, someone who spent every Wednesday night practicing with the church choir. But she i...
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Music
Go Ask Alice
Phoenix’s resident shock rocker gets the old band back together
By Ed Masley
Published: December 14, 2006
Alice Cooper was looking to shake things up a bit at this year's Christmas Pudding concert. So he put in a call to the three surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band, th...
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Film
Royale Flush
The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy, and comes up aces
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 16, 2006
By all rights, 2002's Die Another Day should have been and could have been the final James Bond film. It was packaged like a cynical, weary best-of concert coughed up by an aging d...
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Feature
Goldwater Uncut
You've seen the G-rated HBO documentary on the Arizona legend, but there was so much more to Goldy than that
By Stephen Lemons
Published: October 19, 2006
It's one of those yarns that reeks of cigarette butts, aftershave and spilt whiskey. The sort of titillating anecdote graying, well-connected boozehounds might swap while swilling ...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, September 7, 2006
Published: September 7, 2006
Grime Is the Word Times, they are a-changin': New Times, you really know how to ruin my day! First I read longtime investigative reporter John Dougherty's piece about how he wil...
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