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21. Night & Day

    Valley of the Suns

    Nash and Co. pump up the drama heading into the '07-'08 season

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Some people say that the NBA is scripted. Well, we don't know about that, but the saga that is the Phoenix Suns sure is a page-turner. Just weeks ago, Shawn Marion expressed...

22. Night & Day

    Undergarment District

    Get hosed at Hance

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 11, 2007

    The word "lederhosen" is soooooo overused this time of year, so we won't mention that a lot of dudes will be wearing ladies' unmentionables at the "Old World" Oktoberfest. Nor...

23. Night & Day

    Planet Peelander

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Besides three insane "Japanese action comic punk" rockers riffing in a straight-ahead, garage band style, what else can one expect from NYC-based Peelander-Z? Well, during last...

24. Night & Day

    Breast Friends

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 11, 2007

    We're all in favor of saving breasts here at Night & Day, so get your socially conscious self down to Wesley Bolin Plaza for the Susan G. Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure. The...

25. Night & Day

    Tagging Up

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 11, 2007

    As with most outlaw art, graffiti was only outlaw ´cause it was ahead of its time. Now way "law," the former scourge of urban-beautification Nazis has made the quantum...

26. Night & Day

    Prints Charming

    Master printmaker extols the virtues of collaboration

    By Peter Breslin

    Published: October 11, 2007

    On the surface, printmaking is one of the less glamorous stepchildren of the visual arts. Sure, it’s a discipline combining technical craft and detailed vision, but the finer...

27. Night & Day

    The Fair Necessities

    Art snobs need not apply

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 11, 2007

    The Arizona Exposition & State Fair is 123 years old. That's older than all the standing structures in Phoenix combined -- plus all living Arizona natives. But you've gotta...

28. Night & Day

    Indian Reservations

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 11, 2007

    You've gotta love the Heard Museum, which simultaneously celebrates Native American traditions and smashes them to bits, as with its gutsy new "Remix" exhibit and the equally...

29. Night & Day

    Changing of the Cards

    Redbirds look to make their entire existence ancient history

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: October 11, 2007

    There’s beauty and goodness in the world when the Arizona Cardinals can find a franchise that’s in roughly the same leaky boat. Though the Carolina Panthers (three playoff...

30. The Bird

    Pitiless P-Town

    The cranky cockatoo slams callous P-towners, pecks away at (sigh . . .) another bogus "plot" to off Sheriff Joe, and profiles the "Mexican Mutant"

    From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Someone cue Gene Pitney: It ain't pretty, a town without pity. And Phoenix has been that town for the family of Carol Gotbaum, the 45-year-old mother of three who recently...

31. Niki's Pick

    Via Vengeance

    Dieography
    (www.myspace.com/shadesofbloood)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Via Vengeance's songs sound gritty, dense, and calculated. The rhythms are snappy and solid, with seamless, simple timing changes that often lead into even simpler guitar...

32. Booze Pig

    Playa's Paradise

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: October 11, 2007

    We're just finishing up a nice dinner at Dick's Hideaway on a random Wednesday night when I hint at the urge to slum it for a few. Carla picks up on my slobbering (and the fact...

33. Film

    The Fix Is In

    Watch your back, Grisham

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 11, 2007

    It will, no doubt, be said time and again of Michael Clayton: best John Grisham adaptation ever. Except, of course, it did not spring from the billion-dollar mind of the...

34. Backstage Pass

    Shane Dean

    The private passions of Little Almost Annie

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: October 11, 2007

    He's one of three Draculas currently flapping their capes on local stages, but future Oscar contender Shane Dean is not willing to take third place — or any crap about his...

35. DVDish

    You'll Laugh Dying

    By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 11, 2007

    You Kill Me (Genius) Funny thing seeing Philip Baker Hall in You Kill Me, as he's already played the role of a drunken hit man's boss in The Matador, to which this feels like...

36. News

    Bombs Away

    A supervisory cop's bust for driving a giant police truck to golf games sparks claims of unequal discipline in the Phoenix PD

    By Ray Stern

    Published: October 11, 2007

    The police lieutenant played golf every Tuesday afternoon, and his buddies were always welcome to join him. Sergeant Chuck Mount, a decorated veteran who helped supervise the...

37. Shrapnel

    Remembering Joe Zawinul

    Down them stairs, lose them cares

    By Paul Rubin

    Published: October 11, 2007

    It was the eve of the new millennium at Joe and Maxine Zawinul's beautiful place in lower Manhattan. The music of Marvin Gaye filled the home — "What's Going On," as I...

38. Film

    Anatomy of a Murder

    As stylized as it is insane

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Calling all pundits. It's a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the same season, 30-odd years after the genre basically gave up the ghost....

39. Stage

    Theater Scene

    What's running now

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Forever Plaid: They’re dead and they like to sing close harmonies, so what’s not to love about The Plaids, a fictional guy group that’s become a fixture of sorts in local...

40. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Three (Universal) Black Sheep Unrated (Genius) Bob Mould: Circle of Friends (Granary) Bruce Springsteen: Under Review-1978-82: Tales of...