Vote for Pedro Tour

Gosh, Pedro Sanchez must have some mad skills besides owning sweet bikes or hooking up with chicks, since the newly elected class president of Preston High School has been visiting dance clubs and discotheques across North America lately. Then again, indie film actor Efren Ramirez just might be trying to...

By Benjamin Leatherman

December 15, 2005

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Gosh, Pedro Sanchez must have some mad skills besides owning sweet bikes or hooking up with chicks, since the newly elected class president of Preston High School has been visiting dance clubs and discotheques across North America lately. Then again, indie film actor Efren Ramirez just might be trying to milk his newfound pop cultural popularity status from his turn as Idaho's favorite mumble-mouthed Mexican exchange student in Napoleon Dynamite to further his side career as a DJ. But dang, don't expect him to be wearing his FFA medal or that certain chic-looking ringed tee shirt you saw on sale at the mall for $20. He'll probably only be spinning hard house and techno, along with some old-school hip-hop and '80s retro, just like he's been doing since he co-founded Nocturnal Rampage, a SoCal party crew, in 2001. And who knows -- if you stick around after the gig, maybe Efren will give you an autograph or quote you a line and help your wildest dreams come true. This 18-and-over dance party hits the Arizona Beach Club on Friday, December 16.

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music, and nightlife. He began writing for New Times in 2003 and joined the staff full-time in 2005. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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