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1. Feature

   Arizona Medical Board's hands-off approach to relapsed addict physicians is endangering patients

   By John Dickerson

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Laura Migliano was looking for some relief when she showed up for a doctor's appointment in April 2004. Ten years earlier, she'd herniated a disc while doing sit-ups. She spent...

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   "Marilyn Szabo: Selections From Travels"

   Published: March 6, 2008

   The fab Phoenix photographer shows off some fab new works for Art Detour. (A detail of Grant Woods, Fife Symington, Phoenix, AZ is pictured.) Photos by Luis Salazar and...

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   Black Irish

   Crime writer’s fiction is as pitch as his pen name

   By Nina Carapetyan

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Names are given, not earned. Some names are never grown into, and some barely foretell a person’s talent. John Banville, acclaimed Irish novelist and author of Silver...

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   Joystick it to ’Em

   Prizefighters scrap for a spot in the brawl of fame

   By Benjamin Leatherman

   Published: March 6, 2008

   In the real world, dropkicking your buds off a sky-high platform in the middle of a fistfight would probably get you 25-to-life in the hoosegow. But inside the world of Super...

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   The Girl of Summer

   More proof that “fan” is short for “fanatic”

   By Clay McNear

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Being a baseball geek used to be so simple. You’d open the newspaper and flip to the box scores. If you wanted to get really in-depth about it, you’d go to the store...

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   Track Star

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: March 6, 2008

   We were watching drag racing on the tube the other night when a family member said that our favorite redneck facility, Manzanita Speedway, had been upgraded. “Perish the...

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   A Currency Affair

   Silly us. We thought the best coin joke was the Susan B Anthony dollar.

   By Jay Bennett

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Say, what do ya get if you cross a pig with a coin dealer? Nothing. There are some things even a pig won’t do! Hey, how do you know a coin dealer has gone on vacation? He...

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   It Takes a Gypsy Village . . .

   . . . to brighten up Art Detour

   By Benjamin Leatherman

   Published: March 6, 2008

   As you read this, C.R. Vavrek could be rifling through your garbage. Don’t fret. The 27-year-old shaggy-chic painter ain’t trying to score some dirt on you. More...

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   Clothes to the Edge

   By Clay McNear

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Benoît Maubrey of Germany’s Die Audio Gruppe gets all conceptual and stuff when he calls his Audio Ballerinas — chicks wearing sound equipment on their tutus...

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    Agent Orange County

    Ho Chi Minh meets Mickey Mouse in critically lauded doc

    By Peter Breslin

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Think “immigrant” and what comes to mind? If it’s “Mexican” or Mayflower, check your head and check out Saigon, USA, an award-winning 2004 documentary...

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    Wham-O Time

    Frolfers air out hyzers and helixes in Scottsdale

    By Chris Bowman

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Ever since desert dwellers figured out how to grow rye grass on top of dust, golf has been the most popular sport in town. And because so many folks wearing Polo shirts and...

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    Cactus League, Week Three

    Sweet home away from home

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted...

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    Cactus League, Week Three

    Sweet home away from home

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted...

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    Cactus League, Week Three

    Sweet home away from home

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted...

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    Cactus League, Week Three

    Sweet home away from home

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted...

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    Cactus League, Week Three

    Sweet home away from home

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted...

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    Cactus League, Week Three

    Sweet home away from home

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted...

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    Random Acts of Violins

    Music to swat insects by

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 6, 2008

    It’s hours after Art Detour. There can’t be a thing going on downtown because all the art crazies are passed out on their studio floors after the three-day binge of...

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    Photography: Images and Intent at SMoCA

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Don't miss this three-part class led by artist and professor of art and art history at Paradise Valley Community College, Adria Pecora. The lecture series "gives an historical...

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    Designated Drinking

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Now that we’re on the mend from that blasted flu virus, we can indulge in some normalcy. Instead of hitting the gym again or filing income taxes, we’re going to do...