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Green Fatigue: Is anyone else sick and tired of eco-chic?
By New Times staff
Published: April 17, 2008
Welcome to Phoenix New Times' first Green Issue! Not. This week's paper won't feature a photo spread of all-organic fashions worn by sinewy models who subsist on raw-food...
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Hepcat Heaven
Published: April 17, 2008
Once again, the hippest place to be this weekend is gonna be the Theonix Arts Showcase on Friday, April 18, at Hollywood Alley in Mesa. For its third edition, the monthly music...
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Noir Lord
Hardboiled Hammett meets Gibsonian cyberpunk
By Peter Breslin
Published: April 17, 2008
Heard of the drug Lingo? Oh, boy, are you missing out. It’ll get you higher than Amy Winehouse while simultaneously ramping up your verbal IQ. As with any designer drug,...
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Dope Springs Eternal
Why can’t every day be the Holiday of Cannabis Appreciation?
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
March showcases the get-shitfaced Irish festival. In May, we have the white-boy/dude/bro-friendly Drinko de Mayo. So what so-called holiday can we waste our pathetic lives...
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Modern Love
Stylin’ at the Icehouse
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 17, 2008
You could, we suppose, wander around some of the Valley’s more upscale neighborhoods looking for contemporary homes and hoping to bump into the folks who designed and live...
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Stick it to the Man
Shop indie
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
Most of us know that the music industry is a corrupt machine that could give two poops about the little dudes and dudettes trying to expose their sonic art to larger audiences....
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Stick it to the Man
Shop indie
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
Most of us know that the music industry is a corrupt machine that could give two poops about the little dudes and dudettes trying to expose their sonic art to larger audiences....
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Stick it to the Man
Shop indie
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
Most of us know that the music industry is a corrupt machine that could give two poops about the little dudes and dudettes trying to expose their sonic art to larger audiences....
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Pat's Run in Tempe
Published: April 17, 2008
The annual springtime 4.2-mile run honors the late Sun Devil and Cardinal Pat Tillman. Sat., April 19, 7 a.m., 2008
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The Off-Season of Our Discontent
We want football. Give us football now.
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
It’s no secret that we’re college-football freaks. That’s why this time of year is especially trying for us pigskin pigs. For example, we recently, during a fit...
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Garden Party
Celebrating 70 years of green in a dirt-brown town
By Clay McNear
Published: April 17, 2008
It’s hard to think of a local business circa 1938 that wasn’t the Arizona Biltmore or Goldwater’s Department Store, but a few must’ve existed to service the...
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Hope Precariously Floats
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 17, 2008
The outside world must think of Arizonans as big, fat poseurs who are always looking to copy character instead of creating their own. And they may have a point. Ten years ago,...
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Let’s Do Lynch
The worm turns in Chandler
By Leslie Barton
Published: April 17, 2008
Any David Lynch film can be difficult to wrap your head around, but to cram the documentary Lynch (one) (2007), Inland Empire (2006), The Short Films of David Lynch (2002), and...
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The Naked and the Undead
Ionesco. Nietzsche. Sartre. Jenna Jameson. This oughtta be good.
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: April 17, 2008
It’s a shame to give away the one thoroughly bone-chilling scare in Zombie Strippers, but it’s right at the beginning, anyway: The movie is set in the near future,...
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Master of Puppets
Being John Malkovich star has the world on a string
By Leslie Barton
Published: April 17, 2008
Personally, we find puppets off-putting and a little creepy, and that’s why the Phillip Huber Marionettes were the perfect fit for Spike Jonze’s fantastical film...
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American Dream
Play humanizes the plight of undocumented residents
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 17, 2008
James Garcia’s new one-act couldn’t be more timely. Dream Act, a co-production of Colores Actors-Writers Workshop and ASU Gammage, tells the story of grad student...
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Gays and Dolls
Stray Cat struts in musical tribute to lesbian pulp fiction
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: April 17, 2008
Stray Cat Theatre presenting a musical is, in terms of local show biz, rather like New Times publishing a word jumble. “We just don’t do them,” says Stray Cat...
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Giant Killers
We left our hearts in San Francisco. Somebody cut ’em out.
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
What’s going on with San Francisco Giants fans? They’re behaving even more poorly than Raider Nation, the seriously scary Oakland Raiders die-hards. In 2004, a man...
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A One-Two Punch of Rock
By Chris Parker
Published: April 17, 2008
Both these bands are stretching the boundaries of their sound and others’ expectations. Pelican’s third album, City of Echoes, soft pedals their usual throb, taking...
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Seoul Sister
By Steve Jansen
Published: April 17, 2008
Being the introverted, hide-behind-our-byline type, we especially love this quotable quote from Korean-American actress and comedian Margaret Cho: “People drain me, even...
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