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Relentless stickering and guerrilla marketing have made Digital Summer one of the Valley’s hottest bands
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 8, 2008
It's a warm night in March, and the city of Scottsdale is under siege. Under cover of darkness, a fanatical force more than a dozen strong moves through the suburb, with the...
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Radiation Vibe
Dallas minx pushes the UV index off the charts at Myst
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 8, 2008
Attention, fellas. If you want to know your lady ain’t a ho, get her naked and check for tan lines. If she’s got ’em, that’s a good sign. It means...
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Shakin’, Not Stirred
Pacific NW band plays everything but the South Pole
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 8, 2008
The press release for Pink Martini’s upcoming performance in Scottsdale has this to say about the 12-piece ensemble from (where else?) Portland, Oregon: “a cross...
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Classical Gas
Bartók? de Falla? Led Zeppelin? Sweet.
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 8, 2008
If you didn’t attend March’s Downtown Chamber Series concert . . . oh, man. That Crumb piece with the pitched wine glasses, intense violin and cello sections, and...
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Eclipse of the Suns
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 8, 2008
The Phoenix Mercury were 2007 WNBA champions. Remember? Of course you don’t, dammit, because they don’t get much love in our Suns-obsessed city. Well, we’re not...
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Everybody Loves Raiment
Living clothes to the edge with Angela Johnson
By Leslie Barton
Published: May 8, 2008
What we know about fashion could fit inside one of our C cups, but we do know what we like, and Angela Johnson's Vaudeville Style Mystery Menagerie Fall 2008 Collection Fashion...
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I Survived Concerts Under the Stars
If you can’t stand the heat, get into the slightly cooler heat
By Clay McNear
Published: May 8, 2008
Anyone who’s survived a few Phoenix summers recognizes that there’s a subtle linguistic thing going on with the phrase “under the stars.” Many arts groups...
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Off-Off-Off Broadway
Film star draws on vaudeville to sell his odd little movie
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: May 8, 2008
Crispin Glover doesn’t want to be misquoted. He’s worried that journalists don’t understand his peculiar new film, What Is It?, so he asks that interviews about...
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Mexican-America's Sweetheart
By Philip Haldiman
Published: May 8, 2008
When you have a successful book and a syndicated column featured in 35 newspapers, what’s a Mexican to do next? Well, we asked the Mexican, and here’s what he told...
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Trigger Happy
By Clay McNear
Published: May 8, 2008
One review of the flick She’s Got It – which opens the Celebrating Israel at 60 Film Festival – used the descriptors “goofy,” “adorable,” and...
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Standards of Excellence
Jazz luminary sings the classics – better than we thought
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 8, 2008
We recently discovered that we’ve been taking Dennis Rowland for granted, especially after the most prominent straight-ahead jazz vocalist in town schooled us last month...
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Got MILF?
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 8, 2008
You knew this day was coming. Ever since America’s favorite acronym hit the mainstream in America’s quintessential get drunk/get laid flick American Pie, you knew...
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DIY'd in the Wool
Asian Man founder pushes punk philosophy from the ground up
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: May 8, 2008
Mike Park boasts quite the résumé. He fronted the legendary ska-punk band Skankin' Pickle, founded the Plea for Peace Foundation – which is Park's effort "to...
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Summer Slam
Published: May 8, 2008
Digital Summer is one of the most popular bands in the Valley. Their shows attract hundreds of screaming fans who crowd the stage and sing along with such hard-rockin melodic...
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Neverland on Grand
By Clay McNear
Published: May 8, 2008
If Peter Pan owned a gallery, it would be Trunk Space, that Neverland on Grand. Our dauntless Lost Kids strike again on with their SuperFun Activity Challenge!, featuring the...
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Lucky 13
Chester Bennington and crew celebrate indie success
By Adriane Goetz
Published: May 8, 2008
Thirteen, an unlucky number to many, is actually an impressive figure if you’re talking about the life span of a typical indie business in Phoenix. Maybe that’s why...
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Wings of Desire
Flapping beauties wrap up their stay at DBG
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 8, 2008
Oh, the lovely, majestic butterfly. There isn’t a person in the world who could hate these gorgeous critters. They give unattractive people hope that morphing from a fat...
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Lions for Lambs
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 8, 2008
In this hell-ride of a season, the ASU Baseball team is looking to play somebody (anybody!) that isn’t a powerhouse program. You’d think that Loyola Marymount would...
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By Odin’s Beard!
Viking metal fest sounds like a kick in the Asgard
By Clay McNear
Published: May 8, 2008
Heed our command, insignificant humans: Attend Pagan Fest USA or we lords of Asgard shall smite thee with our mighty gavel, Mjolnir! The thundering Norse beasts we have...
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A Marriage Made in Hell
Rivetheads, goths snuggle up at Homme
By Leslie Barton
Published: May 8, 2008
We were leaning against the DJ booth at Homme for the Thursday-night weekly FALLOUT when someone's shadow sidled up and queried, "So, you a rivethead or a cybergoth?" Granted,...
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