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1. Feature

   Blind trust: Don’t assume you’re seeing a doctor — even at the Mayo Clinic

   By John Dickerson

   Published: May 22, 2008

   At 65, Paul Phillips was ready to retire. He'd raised his four kids, sold his Phoenix produce company, and even bought a 40-foot RV to drive across the country with his wife...

2. Night & Day

   Tales from the Cryptic

   Curator likes to leave 'em guessing

   By Nina Carapetyan

   Published: May 22, 2008

   Lance Fung, ace curator and mastermind of international exhibitions, has once again snapped his fingers and set in motion another undertaking of grand (though somewhat elusive)...

3. Night & Day

   Storm Warning

   Lauren Jackson? Sheryl Swoopes? Uh and oh.

   By Jose Gonzalez

   Published: May 22, 2008

   Things are heating up early in the WNBA season for the Phoenix Mercury as the Seattle Storm – the team the Mercury swept in the first round of last year’s playoffs...

4. Night & Day

   Pop-Culture Club

   Rose & Crown series is some kind of wonderful

   By Lilia Menconi

   Published: May 22, 2008

   “If I'm gonna get busted, it is not gonna be by a guy like that.” Know what movie that was from? How about this one? “When you get old, your heart dies.”...

5. Night & Day

   Neva Again

   By Chris Parker

   Published: May 22, 2008

   The jaunty, strummed rhythm of “Squirrels” counters the sentiment at its center; frontman Jake Bellows notices a squirrel doing “backflips for change, for a lady...

6. Night & Day

   Camera Obscura

   Performance photographer is the bomb

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: May 22, 2008

   A single, quick glance at Billie #14 is all it takes to burn the name Lyle Ashton Harris into one’s brain forever. Ashton’s transfer print from an old Polaroid is so...

7. Night & Day

   The Secret Gardener

   Meet’s Phoenix’s botanical CSI

   By Leslie Barton

   Published: May 22, 2008

   Phoenix artist Mayme Kratz once told New Times that she spent her childhood “burying things and digging them back up and dissecting them.” Kratz’s predilection...

8. Fenske

   Light rail may not start on time — and Arpaio’s investigation of AG Goddard may never finish

   By Sarah Fenske

   Published: May 22, 2008

   Construction has nearly finished on most of the Valley's inaugural 20-mile light-rail track. Thank God. But that doesn't necessarily mean the trains will be ready to run on...

9. News

   Can former Phoenix Sun Kevin Johnson overcome his past to become Sacramento’s mayor?

   By Paul Rubin

   Published: May 22, 2008

   One of the NBA's most amazing plays happened 14 years ago this month, when the Phoenix Suns' big-time point guard Kevin Johnson executed a startling one-handed dunk over future...

10. Letters

    Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 22, 2008

    Published: May 22, 2008

    EMPTY BUBBLE What goes up: What a great story on a true real estate scoundrel ("Dirty Deeds," Ray Stern, May 15)! And you can see how this kind of guy could make out like a...

11. Film Feature

    Cannes Class of 2008: A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 22, 2008

    CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be interpreted according to its...

12. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    The Mexican on benign ball team names and why Cantinflas never took off in the U.S.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 22, 2008

     Why did the Mexican comedian Cantinflas never catch on in Hollywood? I thought he was supposed to usher in the Mexican wave of actors and movies that would help transform...

13. Music

    Sting vs. Elvis Costello in a race to betray their punk roots

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: May 22, 2008

    There is a portion of Police and Elvis Costello devotees who have single-mindedly followed both artists' careers through three decades, tenaciously collecting each cherished...

14. Niki at Nite

    MiniKiss is better than no KISS at all

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Never in my life have I wanted to throw Gene Simmons over my shoulder so badly. Or change his nappy wig. It's not the real Gene Simmons in question here — this is...

15. Shrapnel

    Megadeth ends this year’s Gigantour in Mesa

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: May 22, 2008

    With Ozzfest now firmly entrenched as a cultural institution (read: over-bloated corporate circus), Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine must have suspected that he could fill a...

16. Booze Pig

    Booze Pig swaggers out of the Swizzle Inn

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: May 22, 2008

    It's a Tuesday, and I'm on my way home. "Frustrated" is an understatement. Sometimes you leave work happy and content, and other times you want to set the world on fire. The...

17. Home Grown

    Tomcat Courtney

    Downsville Blues
    (Blue Witch)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Not to get all "purist," but it's no secret that blues — along with its bastard child, rock 'n' roll — has been "gentrified" to within an inch of its life. (Cripes,...

18. Listen Up

    M83

    Saturdays = Youth
    (Mute)

    By Dominic Umile

    Published: May 22, 2008

    The sun-bleached cover photo for Saturdays = Youth shows how much this band is consumed by nostalgia. M83's Anthony Gonzalez combines synths, treated guitar washes, and '80s...

19. Listen Up

    She & Him

    Volume One
    (Merge Records)

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 22, 2008

    With the possible exception of the three people who look back fondly on Bruce Willis' recording career, we're well acquainted with the eardrum damage that can occur when actors...

20. Niki's Pick

    KISS

    Destroyer
    (Island/Mercury)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Right around the time Kim Fowley was assembling The Runaways, Lita Ford and Joan Jett's pre-solo-success girl group, he was also co-writing songs for this album ("King of the...