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1. Letters

   Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 3, 2008

   Published: January 3, 2008

   EVERYBODY HATES JOE Morally Reprehensible is his middle name: I'd heard many negative things about Sheriff Joe Arpaio for years, and what you've exposed, in detail, is truly...

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   Paragraph 175

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 3, 2008

   The documentary, screened in conjunction with the library's "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" exhibit, features commentary by the five surviving...

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   Jen Urso and Bill Berry

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 3, 2008

   Phoenix artist Urso will take rock-carving tools in hand to dismantle a heavily adorned 350-pound boulder and create instant "chip art" that viewers can take home. She'll also...

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   The Air I Breathe

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 3, 2008

   The Valley gets a rare leg up on New York City and the rest of the planet with this screening of Jieho Lee's new film, based on a Chinese proverb that says life is composed of...

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   Soylent Red

   Here’s your pain at the pump

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 3, 2008

   You’re paying $3 per gallon and think you’ve got it bad. The daft and inventive indie flick Blood Car – made by Atlanta native Alex Orr for $25,000 -- imagines a...

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   Boss Hogs

   Check out some cool bikes from across the Pond

   By Leslie Barton

   Published: January 3, 2008

   Never mind the bollocks, Jeeves. Snatch up your y-fronts and bend a leg over to the Steel Horse Saloon for a proper invasion of vintage British and European motorcycles. The...

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   Paradise Found

   Sports and gambling junkies unite at the Turf

   By Leslie Barton

   Published: January 3, 2008

   Ever since our daddy made sure we included Roger Staubach in our nightly childhood prayers, we’ve been a sports junkie. Then, as a teenager growing up on the northside,...

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   Uncle Sku's Clubhouse at The Firehouse

   By Jose Gonzalez

   Published: January 3, 2008

   “T-Bone” Hadley will drop the final curtain on his kids’ extravaganza for adults. After two years of monthly shows and a stunning array of guests that includes...

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   1,561st Friday

   That’s three decades and counting for local lit nerds

   By Peter Breslin

   Published: January 3, 2008

   Two manuscripts and a microphone. That’s how First Fridays go down at Changing Hands Bookstore. At 7 p.m. Friday, January 4, our favorite lit nerds celebrate three decades...

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    Drag Show

    Take it to the limit at FIR

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 3, 2008

    The word “paradise” means different things to different people, but here’s our definition: a world without speed limits, stop signs, cops, speeding tickets, or...

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    Awwwww

    By Niamh Wallace

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Even on First Fridays, the streets of Phoenix are cold, cruel, callous boulevards where materialism and art clash, hipsters congregate in slow-moving packs, and drunken ASU...

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    Wham, Bam, Thank You, Glam

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 3, 2008

    How could Pump Up the Jams: Randemonium Thursdays at Glam not be the shit? Not only do DJs Adventure Face, Adriane, and Meow Meow rock the place with anything-goes tuneage, but...

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    Sara Paretsky

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 3, 2008

    This crime-fiction author has earned her nut -- many times over -- with her V.I. Warshawski series (which, as few of you will recall, was turned into a stink bomb of a movie...

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    Ladies Man

    You can’t live with ’em, you can’t paint without ’em

    By Nina Carapetyan

    Published: January 3, 2008

    Fernande. Eva. Olga. Marie-Thérèse. Picasso certainly had a high turnover rate, because, to him, there were “only two types of women – goddesses and...

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    Pajama Party

    You get to wear your bunny feet for this one

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 3, 2008

    It’s likely none of us will be invited to come to the theater in our pajamas again anytime soon, so for that reason -- and several others -- it might not be unwise to...

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    Forever and After

    Junjie ponders eternity

    By Jose Gonzalez

    Published: January 3, 2008

    From Kant to Descartes, countless philosophers have grappled with immortality and impermanence. Phoenix-based artist Junjie is fighting the future that drove the old-timers mad...

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    Heathens, Repent

    Lisa Sette offers shelter for lost souls

    By Nina Carapetyan

    Published: January 3, 2008

    It’s been two days since the New Year busted in on you making urgent and reckless love to your doorknob. Remember? You deposited saliva into four different strangers’...

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    Natural Born Killahs

    These guys might’ve been Donald Trump in another life

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: January 3, 2008

    It’s a well-known fact that Wu-Tang Clan “ain’t nuthin’ to fuck with,” which may be why the nine original emcees (and savvy businessmen) landed such a...

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    All That Jazz-Rock

    Local mainstays strike up the band at Modified

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 3, 2008

    We’ve lost count of the number of projects that pianist Jacob Koller, percussionist Corey Fogel, and bassist Andrew Jones are involved in around town, and we’re...

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    Blue Steel

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: January 3, 2008

    You ain’t a real bluesman until you get a clever alias like Leadbelly or Howlin’ Wolf. Since 1958, fellow hip-moniker-bearer Sonny Rhodes (born Clarence Edward Smith)...