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41. Night & Day

    Spell M for Murder

    “Alphabet” author plugs her latest Kinsey Millhone

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    G is for “guilty pleasure” where the works of Sue Grafton are concerned. We bet that even literary snobs whose bookcases are stuffed with Nietzsche and Nabokov occasionally...

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    Synch or Swim

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Phoenix’s “artlife” scene is not really a scene at all, because it lacks synchronicity. But there are hotbeds of hope, and one is the northwest corner of Central Avenue and...

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    String Cheese

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: November 29, 2007

    One of our favorite record stores just got even hipper. The folks at Revolver Records are hosting a First Friday shindig and they're doing it the signature...

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    The Reel West

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Remember securing your horse to the hitching post and stacking hay for eight hours a day, buckaroo? Of course you don’t, softie, but artist Gordon McConnell -- who...

45. Night & Day

    An Unreasonable Doubt

    Anti-Nader critics are full of hooey

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    The man who brought us the auto airbag also saddled us with the Texas windbag. So say the critics of Ralph Nader, the muckraking consumer activist whose indie run for the...

46. Night & Day

    Prodigal Sunburn

    Home is where the art is for native Arizonan

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Before there was a building boom downtown, back when First Fridays meant you and 11 other people kicking rocks down Roosevelt, Casey McKee was putting out work that made him an...

47. Night & Day

    Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas)

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    It sounds all bright and shiny -- like a good Christmas movie should -- but this 2005 anti-war film by director Christian Carion is as dark as the Grinch's heart, pre-Cindy...

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    In Living Colores

    Apocalypse now -- in Ahwatukee

    By Julie Peterson

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Had enough of Tiny Tim and that crazy Nutcracker? Get back to basics with American Pastorela: The Shepherds' Odyssey, presented by Colores Actors-Writers Workshop. "The...

49. Night & Day

    Expletive Delighted

    Social intercourse at Trunk Space

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Living the single life is brutal, and since no one wants to resort to total slutdom, many spend endless evenings alone with a few cans of PBR and some perverted lurking on...

50. Night & Day

    Pop Culture Club

    Chicken sangwiches and penile cashews in Glendale

    By Niamh Wallace

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Our introduction to Dane Cook came abruptly one night, when, out of boredom or curiosity, we turned to Saturday Night Live and watched in amazement as the host, a fairly...

51. Night & Day

    Stormin' Mormons

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    With the Spurs, Lakers, Mavericks, and Hornets lurking about, it’s easy to forget about other Western Conference threats like the Utah Jazz. Don’t. Led by Carlos...

52. Night & Day

    Pass the Blowtorch

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Shaq’s a has-been. Dwyane Wade’s a walking M.A.S.H. unit. That makes the Miami Heat easy pickin’s for Your Phoenix Suns, right? Well, that’s what we said...

53. Night & Day

    The Color of Money

    Tony Kushner protagonist keeps the change

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: November 29, 2007

    His name will be forever modified by the phrase “the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America,” which certainly is no hardship. But Tony Kushner’s...

54. Night & Day

    "Duck the Balls"

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    The five-member teams in this group/elimination tourney will try to crush -- or at least badly bruise -- each other in support of the Arizona National Guard Emergency Relief...

55. Night & Day

    Cheesecore

    The Devil's music with a laugh track

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Why is it that the heaviest bands often have the goofiest names? There’s a definite trend within the grindcore, hardcore, and death-metal scenes demanding cheesy names,...

56. Night & Day

    Atmosphere on the Side

    Chino Moreno revives Team Sleep

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Chief among the reasons Deftones is one of the most compelling hard-rock acts of the past 15 years is Chino Moreno’s gripping vocals, which often act as a moody,...

57. Night & Day

    Jason Hill

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    The fab Phoenix artist unveils 12 fab new works while fab Phoenix DJ William Reed spins fabulously in the background. Sounds fab. Wed., Dec. 12, 8-11 p.m., 2007

58. Night & Day

    Tammy Lechner

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Despite the bold assertion in the accompanying photo, author/photojournalist Tammy Lechner should've titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high...

59. Feature

    Enemies List

    Paranoia aside, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas just may be targeting you

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Unless you live under a rock, you know Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He's the aging lawman with a doughy face you see on TV, delivering sound bites about being "America's toughest...

60. Lacey

    Extraordinary Contempt

    A judge describes former Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik’s actions against New Times as threatening to the average citizen

    By Michael Lacey

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Judge Anna Baca delivered her stern rebuke in genteel tones. She described the abuses of the grand jury process committed by since-"fired" Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik...