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Night & Day
Hitsville USA
By Clay McNear
Published: May 15, 2008
Every generation or so, the universe slips off its axis and Detroit catches a break. Right now, Motown’s livin’ large with the success of the Detroit Tigers, Pistons,...
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Night & Day
Interactive Imagination
San Francisco artist’s never met a stranger
By Peter Breslin
Published: May 15, 2008
If you usually go to a museum for quiet contemplation, ditch Josh Greene’s “Some Parts Might Be Greater Than the Whole” exhibit, which encourages elbow-rubbing...
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Night & Day
Deconstructing Destroyer
By Tim Grierson
Published: May 15, 2008
Like most of the output from Vancouver indie-rock band Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams is a beguiling album that’s hard to pin down. Full of surrealistic tales of lost love...
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Night & Day
Pat Murphy's Law
Everything that can go right will go right for high-riding Devils
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 15, 2008
Hey, Pat Murphy. It’s time to stop worrying. Really, man. Unless your ASU Baseball squad drops its remaining seven games (which ain’t gonna happen), your team is...
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Night & Day
Phoenix Surplus Public Auction
Published: May 15, 2008
How serendipitous! We've been looking high and low for a scissor lift, a portable light plant, and a used garbage truck. Also up for for grabs at this annual city-merch...
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Night & Day
Shadow Play
Published: May 15, 2008
The Backwards Theatre honchos behind this production describe it as "a bizarre evening of experimental theater . . . in exploration of the shadow realm." If that doesn't grab...
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Fenske
Sheriff Joe wants to read Phil Gordon’s e-mail
By Sarah Fenske
Published: May 15, 2008
When Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon spoke out against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he had to know that retaliation would be swift. After all, past critics of the sheriff's...
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News
New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list
By John Dickerson
Published: May 15, 2008
New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey has been honored with the Arizona Press Club's Distinguished Service Award. The lifetime accolade was given for...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 15, 2008
Published: May 15, 2008
HEAR IT FOR THE BAND They're Digital Summer!: Digital Summer is an amazing band that has so much talent and deserves this type of recognition and much more ("Sticker Shock,"...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on unjustly claiming cultural heritage and linguistic mix-ups
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 15, 2008
My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising amount of angry responses — by real Scotsmen furious that letter writer...
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Music
The Dirtbombs discover a darker sound in We Have You Surrounded
By Jay Bennett
Published: May 15, 2008
A hard-working rock 'n' roll band from Detroit, after nearly 15 years of recording and gigging all over the world, gets its best-known song placed in an Oscar-nominated movie...
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Music
Local MC Justus wants you to “get your A’z up”
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: May 15, 2008
By all appearances, Justus is livin' large. The half-Greek kid from north Phoenix who once jumped onstage with The Roots and commandeered a mic as a freestylin' fan is now...
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Shrapnel
Front man Dan Bejar deconstructs Destroyer
By Tim Grierson
Published: May 15, 2008
Like most of the output from Vancouver indie-rock band Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams is a beguiling album that's hard to pin down. Full of surrealistic tales of lost love and...
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Shrapnel
Singer Josh Grier puts his spin on Tapes 'N Tapes' recent reviews
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: May 15, 2008
Minneapolis quartet Tapes 'n Tapes was one of the first examples of both the "blog buzz" and "Pitchfork effect" phenomena — widespread online fawning made their 2005...
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Listen Up
Mariah Carey
E=MC2
(Island)By Dan Leroy
Published: May 15, 2008
It's a tad disconcerting to hear Mariah Carey's once-unrestrained voice squeezed through producer T-Pain's trademark auto-tune warble machine. "Migrate" kicks off E=MC²,...
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Listen Up
Colin Meloy
Colin Meloy Sings Live!
(Kill Rock Stars)By Mark Keresman
Published: May 15, 2008
Best known as the frontman for the Decemberists, Colin Meloy has occasionally gone the solo acoustic route. Sings Live!, compiled from assorted performances across the USA in...
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Live Wire
Harptallica
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 15, 2008
Unlike corn or that long-overdue Scott Baio retrospective on The Biography Channel, the world is not running low on Metallica cover bands. After performing a quick Internet...
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Live Wire
Tera Melos
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 15, 2008
To play math rock, especially the heavy, spazz-out variety, pretty much means to beat a dead horse. Audiences have become so accustomed to bands trying to freak them out that...
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Live Wire
Dios Malos
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 15, 2008
Dios Malos gets points right off the bat for arousing the ire of none other than Ronnie James Dio, who, in a particularly befuddled show of hubris, ordered the band to change...
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Needle Exchange
Blunt Club's Six-Year Anniversary Party
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 15, 2008
Your sixth birthday fiesta might have been the shiznit way back in the day — especially with pony rides, clowns, and a moon jump — but we guaran-damn-tee it...
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