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41. Sidebar

    New Times Sues County and Special Prosecutor

    Published: October 11, 2007

    New Times and two of its writers have sued Maricopa County and a special deputy county attorney in U.S. District Court, asking the judge to enjoin the defendants from violating...

42. Shrapnel

    On Your Markers

    Glossy format

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: October 11, 2007

    So witty, so inquisitive, so downright loquacious is Elisa Ambrogio that a telephone interview with her threatens to unravel at any given moment, to turn obliviously tangential...

43. Film

    Golden Age, Porcelain Throne

    Cate camps it up

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 11, 2007

    "Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?" That was the question posed to a dying Queen Mary in 1998's Elizabeth, director Shekhar Kapur's grim and dingy film now viewed in...

44. Letters

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 11, 2007

    Published: October 11, 2007

    NIGHTMARE FOR WOMEN Nothing for women in Mormonism: Thanks for the report on the trial of Prophet Warren Jeffs ("Persecution Complex," October 4). John Dougherty's numerous...

45. Music

    Drastic Elastic

    Devendra Banhart's latest bends and stretches, but doesn't break his spell

    By Jewly Hight

    Published: October 11, 2007

    The best descriptors for Devendra Banhart's latest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, come in pairs; one at a time doesn't do justice to its heady tensions or its...

46. Film

    The Spy Who Shagged Yee

    Sexed-up thriller is neither sexy nor thrilling

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 11, 2007

    "Beautiful" and "cruel" — that's how director Ang Lee describes Eileen Chang's 1979 short story about obsessive love and effortless betrayal in Japanese-occupied Shanghai,...

47. ¡Ask a Mexican!™

    Lard of the Fries

    Defending beans and settling hash

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: October 11, 2007

    We were in a restaurant the other day eating some refried beans and green chili, when I overheard some gringos in the next booth making fun of Mexicans. One thing they said...

48. Music

    Dance Dance Evolution

    Phoenix's rave scene pioneers find their groove again

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: October 11, 2007

    One of the mantras that emerged from the hippie counterculture movement of the '60s was "never trust anyone over 30." When you're young, idealistic, and wearing rose-colored...

49. Listen Up

    will.i.am

    Songs About Girls
    (Interscope)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Derivative, repetitive, insipid, insincere, and pandering, Songs About Girls also has the worst insert booklet in recent memory — seven pages of will.i.am mugging in a...

50. Listen Up

    Hot Hot Heat

    Happiness Ltd.
    (Reprise)

    By Rick Skidmore

    Published: October 11, 2007

    The epic, soaring sonics on Happiness Ltd. , Hot Hot Heat's latest effort, owe a debt to some tricked-out production that results in a number of satisfying swells. The...

51. Live Wire

    Aesop Rock

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: October 11, 2007

    While putting together his latest verbose yet exhilarating album, None Shall Pass, Aesop Rock moved from New York to San Francisco, got married, quit smoking, and turned 30....

52. Live Wire

    Martin Sexton

    By Chris Parker

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Two things separate real musicians from wanna-bes — the willingness to tour without quarter, and the head-down attitude to plow forward, faithful in one's abilities....

53. Live Wire

    Los Straitjackets

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Before those hand-holding mop-tops from Liverpool hit these shores, instrumental rock was extremely popular. The charts belonged to The Ventures, Dick Dale, Link Wray (big...

54. Live Wire

    The Vibrators

    By Rick Skidmore

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Like their contemporaries in U.K. Subs, who lived in the same building, the seasoned pub musicians who formed the Vibrators in 1976 brought a blues tradition to the nascent...

55. Needle Exchange

    MODE Thursdays

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: October 11, 2007

    For most of the past decade, the record-rocking diva known as Sonique des Fleurs has been a mainstay of the Valley's EDM scene. Since debuting in 1999, the 30-year-old sultry...

56. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, where and when

    Published: October 11, 2007

    Thursday 11 Anderson’s: S.W.A.G. Thursdays with DJ Essence, DJ Astonish, & Bryce Breeze (hip-hop, reggae, R&B) Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (hip-hop, rock, dance) Baja...