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Night & Day
Mannheim Steamroller
Published: December 13, 2007
Mannheim Steamroller Sat., Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m., 2007
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Night & Day
Was There a Bright Side?
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 13, 2007
Need some coaxing to go out on a Tuesday night? What if we told you that Stinkweeds and Retail Laboratory have put their stamp of approval on a hot weekly event? Would that...
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Night & Day
ASU Women's Basketball vs. Fresno State at Wells Fargo Arena
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 13, 2007
Women’s sports rule in the Valley. You hear us, Arizona Pigeons, uh, Cardinals? If you don’t believe us, let’s jostle those brain cells and remind you of the...
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Night & Day
Male Call
Love Sponge is lookin' for some redneck rubes
By Leslie Barton
Published: December 13, 2007
Howard Stern can make or break you. If you’re the band Gloritone, you lose credibility, but if you’re Florida shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge, the Stern connection...
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Night & Day
Hail César
Flying high with the Royal Chicano Air Force
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: December 13, 2007
Admit it: You hear the name “César Chávez” and your mind goes straight to farm-worker strikes and cheesy one-liners about boycotting grapes. Who knew...
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Night & Day
Hole Lotta Love
Golf nuts salivate over the hot new hardware at Ping
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 13, 2007
You're a golfer. You just drove the piss out of the ball straight down that there fairway, Happy Gilmore-style. Then you sink a beast of a putt that’s more ridiculous than...
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Night & Day
Jocks Rock
By Steve Jansen
Published: December 13, 2007
Chicks dig the long ball. They also be loving some rock 'n' rollers. So release that inner Barry Bonds/Rob Halford-wanna-be hybrid during Rock and Jock Night. The weekly event...
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Night & Day
Meet Puppets
Saluting the the king of foam rubber and felt
By Julie Peterson
Published: December 13, 2007
Everybody has a soft spot (pun intended) for the floppy, colorful characters in the "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" exhibit, a traveling show that begins its Southwestern...
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Night & Day
Phoenix Suns All-Star Balloting Party
By Clay McNear
Published: December 13, 2007
The Suns Gorilla will take one for the team at this shindig, at which the Great Ape will be situated on the Marketplace's District Tower for 24 hours or until the 100,000th...
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The Bird
Hen Party
The hellacious hooter watches Mayor Goober lay a colossal huevo, and wishes a heavenly millstone on the neck of a nativist numskull
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: December 13, 2007
Anyone surprised Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon's turned clucker on Phoenix Police Department Operations Order 1.4.3, folding like a cardboard box to the nativists? After all, this...
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Fenske
Profile in Courage
An immigrant’s tale from halfway around the world should make us think about what’s going on closer to home
By Sarah Fenske
Published: December 13, 2007
In Republican social circles, it's an unavoidable, if slightly weird, fact: Invite Joe Arpaio just about anywhere, and Joe Arpaio shows up. Whether it's a roast in Sun City,...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 13, 2007
Published: December 13, 2007
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE Gestapo in our own backyard: It's sad to see what powerful egotistical people do to cover their true ignorance and stupidity ("Power Play," Paul...
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¡Ask a Mexican!™
Motor City, Mab Men
Yes, Virginia, there are Mexicans in Michigan and fairies in Mexico
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: December 13, 2007
I'm sad that there aren't more Mexicans here in the Detroit area. We're one of the few areas in the country that is predominately Catholic. We've welcomed wave after wave of...
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Music
Hughes Your Daddy?
The Breakup Society recalls teen movie angst
By Serene Dominic
Published: December 13, 2007
Because kids in 2007 aren't buying CDs like kids of yesteryear did, retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Target are threatening to scale back their shelf space to stock only...
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Club Candids
Holiday Smear
Santa and sangria at Retro Redux
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 13, 2007
Christmas cheer can be found in the oddest of places. We stumbled upon it in the midst of clothing and knick-knacks (most likely acquired from the dead) at Retro Redux's...
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Niki at Nite
Beyond Blonde
Talking about the weather with Johnette Napolitano
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 13, 2007
It's an excessively rainy Friday night in late November, and Johnette Napolitano has just finished playing a solo acoustic set at Martini Ranch in Scottsdale. We are alone...
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Niki's Pick
Johnette Napolitano
Scarred
(Hybrid Recordings)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 13, 2007
After more than 25 years in the music business, Johnette Napolitano has made her masterpiece. From the haunting synth programming on "Amazing" to the poignant ballad "The...
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Shrapnel
Reviewing the Reviews
Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler answers the critics
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: December 13, 2007
After more than a year of nonstop touring behind their latest album, Sacrament, Virginia thrashers Lamb of God are out on the road for one last leg before taking a much-needed...
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Home Grown
Body of Scars
Body of Scars
(www.bodyofscars.com)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: December 13, 2007
There's nothing new going on here, just straight-up, raging metal. We didn't bother to read Body of Scars' list of influences (if they have one), because we can clearly hear...
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Listen Up
Stanley Clarke
The Toys of Men
(Heads Up)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: December 13, 2007
There can be little question that Stanley Clarke is one of the greatest jazz-fusion bassists alive today. He continues to make inspirational work both live and in the studio,...
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