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Kinch Clinches SxSW Birth, Tour With Dear and the Headlights

By Martin CizmarJanuary 20, 2009
We've got a couple big pieces of news involving Kinch, who recorded what we said was the best album in Arizona last year. First comes news that they've been selected for SxSW, joining several other Phoenix bands at indie rock's biggest showcase. They've also got new tracks from their The...
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Hot-Weather Mix

By Cole HaddonJune 14, 2007
There's a certain, what I call, celebration of summer in our culture. I don't care who you are. If you live in New York City in a tenement or in Arizona on a ranch, there's something about the freedom of summertime [that harks back to our childhoods]. You wake up...
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Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 22, 2007

March 22, 2007
A Child Shall Fool Them Editors note:We're straying from our usual Letters format to publish an assortment of responses (edited from our Web site) to our satirical story on Anna Nicole Smith's secret love child with a Tohono O'odham tribesman (see The Bird for complete details). Some readers caught on...
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Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 29, 2006

June 29, 2006
The Mexican Knowledge Honky please!: I love your new "Ask a Mexican!" column. I've noticed that there are New Times readers who completely miss the point about the column. These well-meaning, liberal Anglo idiots seem to think the column's demeaning to Mexicans (for example, "Distant Relations," Stephen D. Saulka, Letters,...
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Haute Houses

By Robrt L. PelaJune 15, 2006
Leesa Stuck's house is where birds go to kill themselves. "They fly directly into the glass walls," Stuck says, pointing a bare foot at one of the several floor-to-ceiling windows in her Paradise Valley home. "Mostly sparrows. You know, the little brown kind. They don't know about glass. They're just...
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Go Punk Yourself!

By Serene DominicDecember 5, 2002
This is perhaps a first in hard-rock journalism -- interviewer asks interviewee if he could please turn down Mario Lanza's recording of "Finiculi Finicula" because he can't hear himself think. Interviewee agrees. "Yeah, that's a hard song to talk over . . ." says Danny Marianino, a New Jersey transplant...
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Calendar for the week

By Clay McNearAugust 7, 1997
thursday august 7 "Crossing the Frontier" and "Canyonland Visions": The former exhibit, sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is subtitled "Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present," though "Photographs of the Despoiling West" might be more accurate. The show comprises more than 200 shots, vintage...
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Calendar for the week

By Clay McNearMarch 27, 1997
thursday march 27 "It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art": David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum's curator of 20th-century art, organized this exhibit, billed as an exploration of "rock as a social force in [contemporary] art" and including pieces by Annie Leibovitz, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe,...
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Not Mining His Own Business

By Marc RamirezJune 13, 1996
Bill Mahoney is a real estate agent by trade, and, being a real estate agent, he talks to a good amount of people and can hold forth on many subjects. Tell you what, he says, and, next thing you know, you're wrapped in gab and squirming for freedom. Before long,...
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Spring Fever

By Andy Van De VoordeMarch 8, 1989
In 1923, circus czar and Florida land owner Charles Ringling decided a major league baseball team should do its spring training in Sarasota. With the help of Al Lang, the entrepreneurial mayor of St. Petersburg, he lured the New York Giants to the Grapefruit League from San Antonio. When the...
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Spring Fever

By Andy Van De VoordeMarch 8, 1989
In 1923, circus czar and Florida land owner Charles Ringling decided a major league baseball team should do its spring training in Sarasota. With the help of Al Lang, the entrepreneurial mayor of St. Petersburg, he lured the New York Giants to the Grapefruit League from San Antonio. When the...
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It’s Official: Arizona Is Hell

By Ray RingApril 4, 1990
I live in a state where the official bird, the cactus wren, refuses to live in half the landscape. The official tree, the paloverde, appears leafless. The official necktie, the string bola, is so goofy most wives won't let their husbands appear in one. Of the 400 richest people in...
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STADIUM

By Anna DoolingOctober 17, 1990
The nadir came in 1966, when the first baseball game was played on an artificial surface, in a dome, in Houston. Gone were rainouts, outfielders' claims to have lost the ball in the sun and the bad hops that separate the great infielders from the merely good ones. Gone, too,...
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LE MONDE ACCORDING TO BLACK FRANCIS

By Ted SimonsOctober 30, 1991
Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV is bored. Mr. Thompson, better known by his stage name "Black Francis," is submitting to an interview about his band, the Pixies. But the singer-guitarist sounds like he'd much rather be doing something else. "I'm not comfortable making a big deal out of things," he...