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Fate of the Galaxies Bring Gloomy Local Synth-Pop to Club 910

www.facebook.com/pages/Fate-of-the-GalaxiesFate of the Galaxies​The dreamy, danceable, synth-heavy music of Fate of the Galaxies sounds more like something that would come out of early-to-mid '80s England (The Cure, Joy Division) than downtown Phoenix. But that's where the trio that makes up Fate ... More >>

The Toasters

Ska revivalists hit P-town

BEST ARCADE

Golfland-Sunsplash

Letters

Letters from the week of May 6, 2004

Power Vacuum

Arizona's letting the Big Three utilities steal countless millions from us by standing in the way of solar energy

Safety Meltdown

Critics say Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is headed for trouble

I Pod, You Pod

Welcome to the days of wearing your pretensions -- all of them -- on your hip

Playing Ruff

Pup and coming at Barktoberfest

BEST PLACE TO SEE STARS

Starlab Indoor Planetarium

Against All Odds

Two local promoters come together; Kazaa cooks up response to the majors

Flame-out

Challenger – now that was a real national tragedy

Letters

Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

Best Camera Store

Lewis Camera Exchange

Romancing the Genome

The love story that may spark Arizona's New Economy.

Arizonan Siesta

While the public sleeps, the fix is in to turn our state into a power farm for Mexico

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Russian Roulette

The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is providing cover for massive oil drilling that threatens to wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

Power Trip

Plant near Kingman may be a foreboding sign for the rest of the state

Shock Treatment

California eats lots of power, but it doesn't like growing its own power plants. Instead, Arizona is becoming the new power farm for the Coast.

A Bone to Pick

Lunch with a paleontologist

Big Audio Dynamite

Alma Gates' car stereo can kill you, set world records and possibly save mankind

Working From Scratch

DJ Radar offers a different read of turntable music with the score to 'Antimatter'

'saur Spot

Disney deserves extinction for Dinosaur dialogue

You've Got Toast!

At a Las Vegas electronics show, "networked homes" have everybody talking, but not asking the right questions

Lights, Camera, Anthro

A Grave Error

The Bureau of Indian Affairs stonewalls its desecration of a prehistoric Native American burial site

Eclipsed

Arizona asteroid hunters were poised to save the Earth from Armageddon. Then a secret Air Force project took over.

Indian Stew

Not every anthropologist can digest Christy Turner's theory that the Anasazi were cannibals

Karnak Knowledge

Mission Impeccable

Z-Trip, Emile, and Radar remake Thursdays at Nita's

The Man Who Loved Lucy

ASU's Donald Johanson redefined our understanding of man's origins. But when he told the world about it in books and on TV, some scientists thought he talked too much.

A People Betrayed

Recently discovered documents indicate that the lawyer who represented the Hopi Tribe in crucial negotiations with Peabody Western Coal Company was working for the mining company at the same time

Joe Parham Stands Up

Is the African-American psychologist and former Ev Mecham staffer incompetent--or just streetwise?

Carlota Complaints

Tribes allege that archaeological and burial sites on mine grounds are being violated

A Cosmic Blunder

When Jim Stevens' chance for astronomic fame came along, he spaced out. Instead, Tom Bopp looked through Stevens' homemade telescope and discovered the comet of the century.

A Reputation in Ruins

No Sunset for Solar - Yet

Solar advisory council members get hot over Department of Commerce's effort to snuff their group

The Center of the Warm

Nationally renowned ASU scientist Robert Balling thinks environmentalists have exaggerated the threat of global warming. He knows politicians and the press have distorted the climate debate.

FREON EASY

ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS.

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF GLOWING IN THE DARK

SECRETS OF THE PALO VERDE INN

WHEN IT SOLD A WORKERS' DORMITORY LAST YEAR, APS LEFT THOUSANDS OF ITS OWN DOCUMENTS BEHIND. THOSE FILES SHOW DANGEROUS MISMANAGEMENT OF THE NATION'S LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT.

NADA THIS EARTHGRINGO ART HITS THE CANVAS IN NEW "SOUTH OF THE BORDER" EXHIBITION

MORE FALLOUT AT PALO VERDENRC TO PROBE POSSIBLE COVER-UP IN WHISTLE-BLOWER CASE

NUKE PLANT CREASED IN WASHINGTON OPPOSITION HAS LITTLE TIME TO ACT

SUNDOWN FOR SOLARARIZONA'S ONCE-PROMISING INDUSTRY HAS WITHERED FROM NEGLECT

STAR GATE

CRITICAL

AT PALO VERDE, IT'S OPEN SEASON ON WHISTLE-BLOWERS

NUKE PLANTS LOBBY TO LET DOWN THEIR GUARDS

SHRINKS GRANTED IMMUNITY

KING OF THE MUCK RAKERS

GO AHEAD. THROW AWAY YOUR FUTURE. GARBOLOGIST BILL RATHJE WILL BE HAPPY.