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Roadhouse Blues

By Bob MehrJanuary 11, 2001

It's nearly midnight on New Year's Eve, and the Arizona Roadhouse and Brewery is packed. The place is filled with revelers and roots music courtesy of the Rustic Record label and its cohorts: the Trophy Husbands, Heather Rae and the Moonshine Boys, Nitpickers, Grave Danger, Mark Insley, Chicken. As the...

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Scorcher Chamber

By Carey SweetNovember 23, 2000

We're picking things out of our tom yum soup at Jax Thai Bar, a Tempe restaurant that's the newest addition to Mill Avenue's increasingly cosmopolitan culinary scene. Barklike nubs of galangal, a southeast Asian vegetable that's a member of the ginger family. Whole kaffir lime leaves, dark green and similar...

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Great Scott

By Bob MehrJanuary 18, 2001

When the idea was first hatched, no one could've imagined that this week's Scotti-Stock concert -- a local music extravaganza to benefit Piersons/Beat Angels bassist Scott Moore, who was involved in a near-fatal traffic accident last October -- would have taken on such a profound meaning. Relying heavily on the...

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Evening at the Improv

By Bob MehrDecember 21, 2000

The living room of Jamal Ruhe's downtown Tempe home is a mess. The small quarters are cluttered with amplifiers, cables and instruments of every variety and size. Amid this labyrinth, it's nearly impossible to find a place to sit down. The only unoccupied seat, it turns out, is behind the...

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Best View of Mill Avenue From Cyberspace

September 21, 2000

Mill Avenue BenchCam
http://www.spotlife.com/users/ozinaz/webcam/Last year, the award in this category went to the city of Tempe’s official Web site, which offers wide views of Mill Avenue — about the only street in the Valley where one regularly witnesses both foot and vehicular traffic. This year, one Mill Avenue worker bee whose office affords an unobstructed view of the […]

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Best View of Mill Avenue From Cyberspace

September 21, 2000

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Burn, Baby, Burn

By James HibberdJanuary 11, 2001

"Happy hunting," says a communiqué claiming responsibility for the firebombings of nine luxury homes encroaching on the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. The mysterious hit-and-run arsonist has violently reduced each house to a scorched effigy of suburban sprawl. And with the latest damage estimates surpassing $5 million, the FBI's anti-arsonist task force...

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Screen Saver

By M.V. MoorheadNovember 9, 2000

"You'll be the first journalist in the Valley that I'll walk right up to the spot where I was conceived," Dan Harkins says over the phone. He's inviting New Times to tour the Valley Art Theatre, which is in the final stages of renovation before its grand reopening later this...

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Letters

November 16, 2000

Dinosaur-size ErrorCall me bonehead: My name is Kevin Curtice, brother of the paleontologist, Brian Curtice, you interviewed for the article "A Bone to Pick" (Lunch Meet, M.V. Moorhead, November 9). The picture referenced in the article was cropped from a larger picture of myself, Brian and my sister Gina. Apparently...

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Y2 Chaos

By Bob MehrDecember 14, 2000

As we approach the twilight of each calendar year, it seems music critics are overly eager to proclaim the preceding 12 months as the "Year of" something. You know, "The Year of Grunge," "The Year of Women in Rock," "The Year of Electronic Music" and on and on. But if...

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Graceland

By Brian SmithDecember 21, 2000

At a downtown car wash, the pastor's pimp-daddy Caddy is getting a final once-over by the Latino buff crew. The chestnut-colored 1977 El Dorado gleams with an optimistic glint that suggests its owner is up-to-the-moment, a person who views himself as better at setting fashion than following it. The pastor...

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Letters

January 25, 2001

Torcher ChamberMatch game: I am reading the article "Burn, Baby, Burn" (James Hibberd, January 11) and I am shaking my head in disbelief over the casual attitude that so many people have toward the arsonist, who feels he is justified in doing this crime to make a point.I do not...

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Train Keeps A-Rollin’

By Serene DominicNovember 16, 2000

Based on his reputation, you'd think you're at the wrong place. The old wood-frame house in the heart of the Tempe 'hood has the feminine air of a homemaker, not that of a rock 'n' roll hellion. But sure enough, sitting in the living room on a large white leather...

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Euphonium Euphoria

By M.V. MoorheadNovember 2, 2000

"Double-belled euphoniums and big bassoons . . ."It's a lyric from "76 Trombones" in The Music Man, and if you've heard of Leslie Van Zee's favorite musical instrument, there's a good chance that's where you've heard of it. Van Zee uses only a single bell, not a double, but she...

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Best Place to Wax Poetic About Eyeliner

September 21, 2000

philosophy
510 South Mill, Tempe
480-968-2424Reading the labels on philosophy cosmetic/skin care products is like browsing the self-help aisle at Barnes & Noble. Moisturizer is “hope in a jar,” eye cream is “eye believe,” exfoliator is “help me” or “the great awakening” — because “sometimes your skin needs a wake-up call.” Created by a Phoenix aesthetician, philosophy has been a […]

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Best Place to Wax Poetic About Eyeliner

September 21, 2000

philosophyReading the labels on philosophy cosmetic/skin care products is like browsing the self-help aisle at Barnes & Noble. Moisturizer is “hope in a jar,” eye cream is “eye believe,” exfoliator is “help me” or “the great awakening” — because “sometimes your skin needs a wake-up call.” Created by a Phoenix aesthetician, philosophy has been a […]

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Best Independent Bookstore

September 21, 2000

Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 South McClintock, Tempe
480-730-0205Squeezed out of its longtime Mill Avenue digs last spring by the prospect of competition from a yet-to-be-announced national chain, this beloved independent bookstore didn’t surrender. In fact, its second store is now thriving in its second location — in a Tempe strip center just two doors from another used-book shop. Like its defunct flagship […]

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Best Independent Bookstore

September 21, 2000

Changing Hands BookstoreSqueezed out of its longtime Mill Avenue digs last spring by the prospect of competition from a yet-to-be-announced national chain, this beloved independent bookstore didn’t surrender. In fact, its second store is now thriving in its second location — in a Tempe strip center just two doors from another used-book shop. Like its defunct flagship […]

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Hanging On to Something

By Brian SmithNovember 16, 2000

The template quality of the Pistoleros' story thus far resembles the first half of nearly any episode of the increasingly irritating Behind the Music specials seen on VH1. Band forms and pays dues playing myriad local gigs. A loyal following blossoms. A founding member quits and later commits suicide. Band...

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Hot and Bothered

By Bob MehrOctober 26, 2000

When you think of the cutting edge of hip-hop, a flurry of names immediately springs to mind: Killah Priest, Sauce Money, Major Figgas, C-Murder, Barry Goldwater. Barry Goldwater? It's true. Barry Goldwater III, the grandson of the late Arizona senator and presidential candidate, is poised to become a "playa" in...

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Seems Like Old Times

By Bob MehrNovember 2, 2000

Tonight is a homecoming. It's been three and a half years since Dead Hot Workshop's classic lineup has played together, more than that since it's taken the stage at Long Wong's, the last remaining vestige of a scene it helped create. For a decade it was the most respected group...

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I’m With Cupid

By M.V. MoorheadAugust 10, 2000

In the ancient Greek tradition, Eros, a.k.a. Cupid, was the son of Chaos. This ancestry might make more sense to Phoenix's own Jill Reger, creator of the online comic Dipuc.com, than the one which later Roman mythological tradition gave to the God of Love -- that the spiteful little bastard...