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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)...
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