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1. Night & Day

   The Willow House Grand Re-Opening Party

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: November 29, 2007

   The early morning hours of October 29, 2007 was a dark time in downtown Phoenix. The Willow House, the iconic, seemingly unmovable coffee shop/art-centric hang/performance...

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   Upsetting Spandex Blacklight Party at Ruby Room

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Eat your heart out, Richard Simmons. That's right. The king of sequined tops and spandex shorts would be soooo jealous if he was hip to the Upsetting Spandex Blacklight Party....

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   No Festival Required Part 50: The Final Part

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Steve Weiss has labored in near-anonymity for five-plus years to bring us the best microcinema works by filmdom's unwashed underdogs. He's moving on up to the (extremely...

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   The Big Chilly

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Hobgoblins. Enchantresses. Greedy hags. It sounds like an episode of Desperate Housewives, but it's really Center Dance Ensemble's annual take on Hans Christian Andersen's...

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   Grizzly Man

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Timothy Treadwell, an outdoorsman and author (Among Grizzlies), loved grizzly bears so much that he decided to live among them in their Alaskan stomping grounds. His passion...

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   200K Is Company, 300K's a Crowd

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Valley folks usually don't flock together in large numbers -- except to watch the Cardinals lose -- so it'll be nice to see a few hundred thousand Phoenicians rubbing shoulders...

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   Warren Miller's Playground

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Eat my powder. That's the mantra of filmmaker Miller, whose extreme-sports flicks capture extreme-sports fanatics in various states of extremity. This time around, Miller hops...

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   Warren Miller's Playground

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Eat my powder. That's the mantra of filmmaker Miller, whose extreme-sports flicks capture extreme-sports fanatics in various states of extremity. This time around, Miller hops...

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   Warren Miller's Playground

   By Clay McNear

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Eat my powder. That's the mantra of filmmaker Miller, whose extreme-sports flicks capture extreme-sports fanatics in various states of extremity. This time around, Miller hops...

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    Oddball Home for the Holidays

    Rockin' around the Christmas trees -- all 40 of 'em

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: November 29, 2007

    You’re driving around neighborhoods searching out Christmas lights with your screaming kids hopped up on hot chocolate and peppermints. “Stop here! No, there!”...

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    Norman Dubie at Changing Hands

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: November 29, 2007

    We always hear that there's strength in silence and solitude, but that just ain't gonna happen with writers like ourselves with a weekly deadline. So maybe we can take a page...

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    Kitsch and Tell

    Found-art master recycles happy memories

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Known far and wide for his coffee-table travel books (and privately for being something of a pack rat; his Silver Lake, California, home is reportedly overflowing with pole...

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    Kitsch and Tell

    Found-art master recycles happy memories

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Known far and wide for his coffee-table travel books (and privately for being something of a pack rat; his Silver Lake, California, home is reportedly overflowing with pole...

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    Ollie Jolly Christmas

    To air is divine at WindUp Gallery

    By Julie Peterson

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Mmm, December in the Valley: The distinctive aroma of brown cloud. Holiday shoppers bundled up in T-shirts and flip-flops. The rumble, rumble, clack of festive skateboards at...

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    Masquerade Brawl

    Hooded grapplers invade the 'burbs

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: November 29, 2007

    If you're grappling with what to do on Saturday night, if you can’t quite pin down your plans, if indecision has you in a full nelson . . . well, here’s a suggestion: Go to...

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    Shoppers a.ware

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Despise the holidays and all of its mainstream consumerism? No worries, because you can indie-shop 'til you drop during the a.ware Sale, where you can pick up one-of-a-kind...

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    Shop Fooey!

    Putting an end to crass consumerism

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Only in the good ol' U.S. of A can a holiday about family, food, and sharing be followed up with an insane, credit-card-fueled, post-turkey day consume-a-thon like "Black...

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    X Kitten

    All we got for our birthday was a friggin' gift card

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Gentlemen, start your vas deferens, because honeyed porn starlet Nikki Benz is hosting a Dirty Thirty party for some lucky schmuck named Lee. We'd love to talk about Benz's...

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    Tha Roots

    By Niamh Wallace

    Published: November 29, 2007

    In Bakari Kitwana's 2003 book The Hip Hop Generation, he argued that "although hip hop has secured its place as a cultural movement, its biggest challenge lies ahead,"...

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    Raging Fizzgig

    The Emperor strikes back with 25th-anniversary screening

    By Nina Carapetyan

    Published: November 29, 2007

    No one wants a mediocre death. Choking on Granny's homemade cookies or expiring of heart failure while effing the local manatee exemplifies such a pitiable ending. We want...