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Feature
Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
Joe Arpaio, Andy Thomas and Dennis Wilenchik hit New Times with grand jury subpoenas
By Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin
Published: October 18, 2007
This newspaper and its editorial staff — both current and former — are the targets of unprecedented grand jury subpoenas dated August 24. The authorities are also...
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Columns
Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address
Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times
By The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Published: October 18, 2007
Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on their websites that direct their readers to the many places on the Internet...
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Music
Maverick Mavis
This Staples Singer still wants to change the world
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 18, 2007
Mavis Staples may be 68 years old, but the righteous fire that distinguished so many of her rich, bottomless vocals during an extraordinary 50-plus-year career continues to...
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Cafe
Fish Tale
By Michele Laudig
Published: October 18, 2007
We've all heard the old saying about the importance of first impressions, but in the restaurant biz, it's no mere cliché. With so many dining options these days, people expect...
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Film
Beantown Boys Make Good
A complex, sophisticated Boston crime drama
By Jim Ridley
Published: October 18, 2007
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid," Raymond Chandler wrote in 1950's The Simple Art of Murder, smacking the...
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Halloween Guide
Fear and Fun in Phoenix
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: October 18, 2007
With Halloween just around the corner, time is running out for urbanites of the PHX to conjure up a killer costume for the annual celebration of everything thrilling and...
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Game On
Playing Dumb
Jackass presents the world's biggest waste of time
By Chris Ward
Published: October 18, 2007
Love him or despise him, head Jackass Johnny Knoxville has made millions from getting kicked in the yambag. Had YouTube arrived before Jackass, Knoxville, Steve-O, and the...
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Night & Day
State of Grace
We're not gonna party like it's 1899
By Lilia Menconi
Published: October 18, 2007
We should give credit to our cowboy spirit, because it’s taught us Zonies how to get down and party. We’ve all been boozing since we were 12, and we’ve gotten really good at...
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Night & Day
Let's Do Launch
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 18, 2007
Watch the Valley’s best oarsmen and women row row row their boats at a prime marina spot during the Hot Head Regatta. The men’s, women’s, and mixed rowing event of the year...
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Night & Day
Hmm, What Rhymes With Pervert?
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 18, 2007
Knowing the pervs who read Night & Day, we betcha you’ll keep reading when we tell you that we’ve found something that serves up “mental foreplay and verbal...
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Night & Day
Rock Rocks
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 18, 2007
In a culture where kiddy games like kickball and dodgeball have infiltrated the adult leisure sect -- what would Jung say about the parallel between low IQs and our collective...
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Night & Day
Southwestern Comfort
Cool sounds + cool temps = coolio
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 18, 2007
One thing that doesn’t make sense to us is why bands choose to perform in our nuclear town during the summer. So we bow before the folks running the SoCo (Southern Comfort)...
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Night & Day
Monster Mash-up
We can't rap, but they can
By Leslie Barton
Published: October 18, 2007
Next Lounge is hopping the fright game, so grab some Night Train, release your snake brain, and make for the dope lane around Professa Dank's fame. Well, it's clumsy, but since...
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Night & Day
ABBA's Greatest Hits
Book artists massage the medium
By Leslie Barton
Published: October 18, 2007
Some believe that creating books is a talent of the elite, others that the printed word is a manipulation of the masses. As fireman Montag asserts in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit...
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Night & Day
Mural Retro
Old-school taggers spray their way to success
By Jay Bennett
Published: October 18, 2007
Seems most folks around here still haven’t wrapped their heads around the notion of graffiti as art. In a land where the sand-colored wall is the signature contribution to...
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Night & Day
Chairmen of the Board
The Molten Brothers pull off another gnarly Nollie
By Adriane Goetz
Published: October 18, 2007
Okay, so Phoenix isn’t a cultural mecca. Big whoopin’ deal, ’cause we got pop culture, baby, and one of our societal claims to fame -- skateboarding -- permeates everything...
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Night & Day
Tee and Sympathy
Well . . . maybe not sympathy
By Leslie Barton
Published: October 18, 2007
Old golfing joke: Fred got home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and very tired. "Bad day at the course?" his wife asked. "Everything was going fine," he said....
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Night & Day
Aria Code
A night at the opera -- sorta
By Lilia Menconi
Published: October 18, 2007
If you have a pulse, you probably listen to music. Auditory inspiration is something human beings latch onto – especially when we’re feeling intense moments of emotion. Your...
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Night & Day
The Street Smell of Success
Roosevelt businesses reap what they've sown
By Lilia Menconi
Published: October 18, 2007
Walking down Roosevelt Row has become an art form in itself. Avoiding the pitfalls of light-rail construction and handling the transients asking for money -- all while trying...
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Night & Day
SMoCA and Mirrors
Beautiful-people schmoozefest focuses on fashion
By Adriane Goetz
Published: October 18, 2007
If First Friday is Phoenix’s art/fashion/music love child, then SMoCA Nights is the older brother who aced law school at Harvard and married a B-list celebrity. While...
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