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John McCain Tongues Obama In Goofy Post-Debate Picture

McCain's "how-do-I-get-off this stage" faux pas at the end of last night's debate resulted in what may be the silliest picture ever of a U.S. Senator or presidential candidate. The perspective almost makes it look like McCain wants to literally chew Obama's ass, doesn't it? The picture -- this one...
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A Light Railer’s Lament

I'm in a sour mood today even though I shouldn't be. Christmas, and all its attendant annoyances, is gone for another six months. I just spent some QT visiting with the family. It's warming up. I still have a job and one or two bucks left in the bank account.The...
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sBACH

Words are so over. Well, at least plenty of post-rockers think so, increasingly ditching the language in their spaced-out experimental music. But while bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai at least named their songs, Spencer Seim, the man behind sBACH, has no use for such extravagance; the track...
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Arty Girl: Nadia Hironaka at ASU Art Museum

By Lilia Menconi You'll most likely come across a movie buff long before you run into an art freak. In our day and age, museums don't have the pull that movie theaters (or home theaters and Netflix) do. Many would look at this as horribly tragic. I say it's just...
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Irwin Benefit Boasts Two Brash Female Voices

By Martin Cizmar st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } It was a bold move, putting Dry River Yacht Club on right before Black Carl. Here you have two of the biggest female voices in the Valley's indie rock scene -- Emma Pew of BC and DRYC's Garnet -- back to back. But, hey, when you're talking...
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Blue Sky Black Death

Nearly every music genre has an avant-garde wing, an "underground" scene escaping the notice of mainstream press. Hip-hop is no exception. San Francisco duo Blue Sky Black Death — Young God and Kingston — got together with vocalist Yes Alexander and the result, Slow Burning Lights, redefines what a hip-hop...
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Phoenix Officials: Screw Those Other Cities, Buy Stuff in Ours

When your city government is preparing to shed 1,000 jobs and facing seven-digit budget shortfalls, "you gotta give the other fellow hell," as the song says. Of course, the news release put out by the city of Phoenix today about "Buy Local Week" (reprinted below) doesn't openly insult the Valley's...
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Brad Pitt Ages in Reverse in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of life and gradually regressing toward dawn, that has been adapted into a two-ton, Oscar-season white elephant. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Eric Roth,...
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 12, 2009

Steeler Nation is one huge dysfunctional family: As a lifelong Steelers fan, a lifelong Pittsburgh resident, a blue-collar, 15-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire, a 25-year veteran of the United States Army Reserve (Retired), I found your comments to be right on and hilarious. You probably have received...
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Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while...
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Top Ten Indie Rock Albums of 2008

By Michael Roberts In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycling...
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Mickey Avalon

Mickey Avalon's been through some shit, man. His mom had him selling weed for her when he was just a teenager. She fired him a little while later, though, when she discovered he was shooting up smack at the age of 16. And things got only stickier and trickier from...
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Top Ten Post-Election Stories for Arizonans

By Ray Stern Many of us can’t get our heads around what happened last Tuesday, though for differing reasons. The same things that caused some to cheer made others feel like jumping off the San Juan Lookout, and vice-versa. But no matter how your candidate or pet proposition fared, you’ll...
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Dems Push Into Corporation Commission; Congressional Incumbents to Retain Seats

By Ray Stern Two Democrats will add to the mix on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, which previously had been an all-Republican affair. Tuesday's election filled three empty seats on the commission. Sandra Kennedy, a small business owner and former state lawmaker, and Paul Newman (pictured at left), a lawyer...
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Hot Links: Obama Gets to Work and Receives Challenge From Russia, Local Election Officials Still Counting Votes, Massachusetts Voters Decriminalize Pot

By Ray Stern It’s a work day for Barack Obama. The president-elect gets busy building his transition team today. And he faces his first international problem: Russia announces it’s putting a new missile system near Poland. The economy will also be on Obama’s mind, with news that worker productivity fell...
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Mean Streets

Mickey Avalon's been through some shit, man. His mom had him selling weed for her when he was just a teenager. She fired him a little while later, though, when she discovered he was shooting up smack at the age of 16. And things got only stickier and trickier from...