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Night & Day
Urban Legend
Artist hunts the cultural zeitgeist
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: March 6, 2008
Cities are shape-shifting entities. They never rest. Neighborhoods swell and contract, buildings are torn down, and new forms, with new ghosts, are erected in their places....
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Night & Day
Independents’ Day
Lo-fi songwriter and indie charmer Juno make for winning combo
By Niamh Wallace
Published: March 6, 2008
Behind every droll, talky movie, there’s an equally droll, talky soundtrack, lovingly handpicked by some studied music geek — or a committee of ’em. This is...
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Night & Day
On the Beach (House)
By Chris Nixon
Published: March 6, 2008
When political times get tough, artists get dreamy. Stuck in the Vietnam War and immersed in the civil rights movement, musicians in the ’60s engaged in psychedelic...
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Night & Day
Folk Hero
Say “a-yuh” to Vermonter’s sweet-natured art
By Clay McNear
Published: March 6, 2008
Whimsy. Most artistic types run from the word like they’re being tailed by a zombie with a nail gun, but folk-art master Warren Kimble is more likely to chase you with a...
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Night & Day
Smog Alert
By Clay McNear
Published: March 6, 2008
It’s hard to overlook the power of shyness and the greatness it sometimes engenders. Eminent fraidy cats: Albert Einstein. Abraham Lincoln. Lucille Ball! Bill...
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The Bird
The Bird catches Darrell Ankarlo butt-smoochin' Sheriff Joe again, relates the latest on the MCSO's Honduran scandal and introduces candidates vying for Candy Thomas' job
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: March 6, 2008
EVIL WEED How does an administration as unhinged as Sheriff Joe Arpaio's flourish? One reason is the acquiescence of other elected officials. Their unwillingness to question...
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Web Story
Smash Bros. Brawl and the biggest game tournament ever
Fans of Nintendo's popular fighting series waited for hours to get this game
By V'Ming Chew
Published: March 6, 2008
If the round, pink fluff of softness that is Kirby gives you nightmare visions of cuddly ponies and cute little bears, you'll be pleased to hear that the freshly released Super...
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Over the Weekend
Over the weekend
All the gigs, parties and events you may have missed
By Jonathan McNamara
Published: March 6, 2008
Weekend adventures got underway on Friday, March 7, with a simultaneous Art Detour 2008 and First Friday explosion on the streets of Phoenix. If you missed the detour, check...
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Fenske
Embattled Congressman Rick Renzi's biggest victims may be the right-to-life groups he claimed to represent in Washington
By Sarah Fenske
Published: March 6, 2008
When Congressman Rick Renzi was indicted recently on 35 felonies, the surprise wasn't that the Arizona Republican was going down. Everybody who pays any attention to politics...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 6, 2008
Published: March 6, 2008
ONLINE ANDY Mr. Pitiful: This is an incredible story of arrogance by a public official ("The (Auto)biography of Andrew P. Thomas," Sarah Fenske, February 28). Imagine this...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Ask a Mexican on "playing the padrino card" and accepting lower salaries
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 6, 2008
Why do Mexicans have padrinos for everything? I never understood why, can you help me out? The Godfather Fan Many gabachos have long wondered about the galaxy of godparents...
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Music
Cary Brothers and Ingrid Michaelson hit Phoenix on the Hotel Cafe Tour
By Cole Haddon
Published: March 6, 2008
Los Angeles is, at best, a transient city filled with transitory dreamers. They come in all varieties these days: actors from Sioux Falls, rockers from Detroit, photographers...
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Noise Boy
Noise Boy: Jazzed about pianist/vocalist Rachel Eckroth
By Steve Jansen
Published: March 6, 2008
I've just arrived at the Nello's pizza joint in Old Town Scottsdale, where I'm meeting friends to check out the Rachel Eckroth Trio. I'm cold, wet, and freaking late, because...
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Club Candids
At the very East
Not-so-dirty Scottsdale
By Lilia Menconi
Published: March 6, 2008
The East Valley beckoned once again for a Saturday-night gallivant. This time, we poked around in Old Town and slid into Pattie's 1st Avenue Lounge to drink a few rounds with...
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Shrapnel
Michael Jackson resurrects 'The World's Biggest Selling Album of All Time' with Thriller 25
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: March 6, 2008
Pepsi fires, plastic surgery disasters, and child molestation accusations aside, Michael Jackson is a genius. Some people may laugh at that statement, but those folks probably...
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Shrapnel
Kiss frontman Paul Stanley duets with Sarah Brightman on Symphony
By Ryan Foley
Published: March 6, 2008
Operatic crossover Sarah Brightman, speaking on The Early Show about her new album, Symphony, said: "It's got a little bit of dark and light in it. It's quite gothy and rocky....
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Listen Up
Ida
Lovers Prayers
(Polyvinyl)By Mark Keresman
Published: March 6, 2008
In the past five or 10 years, indie rock's subgenres have been multiplying like bacteria. Dream pop, shoegaze, sadcore, slowcore . . . one has to be a scholar to keep them...
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Listen Up
Lenny Kravitz
It Is Time for a Love Revolution
(Virgin)By Ben Westhoff
Published: March 6, 2008
Lenny Kravitz hates it when critics call him retro, contending that love, revolution, and smooching should belong to every generation. But the problem with Kravitz's new album,...
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Listen Up
k.d. lang
Watershed
(Nonesuch)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: March 6, 2008
Talented songwriter k.d. lang clearly has learned a few things from spending so much time around Tony Bennett. The two have been recording together since they released 2002's A...
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Listen Up
The Mars Volta
The Bedlam in Goliath
(Umvd Labels)By Michael Gallucci
Published: March 6, 2008
The Mars Volta switches gears on its fourth album, giving beat-propelled dance pop a spin. We kid! The Bedlam in Goliath is stuffed with nine-minute alt-prog epics — the...
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