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Night & Day
Fair Ball
D-Backs stand up for the poor little guy
By Clay McNear
Published: May 29, 2008
If you’re like us, you loathe and despise the captive-audience price-gouging that goes on at sports arenas. Five or six bucks for a dog? Eight or nine for a brew? Hell,...
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Night & Day
Toy Polloi
Meet the Mr. Potato Head of the new millennium
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: May 29, 2008
Who knew that Mr. Potato Head, the spud born of George Lerner's childhood imagination that Hasbro marketed to the masses in the ’50s, was the forerunner of a bright DIY...
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Night & Day
Real Men Eat Quiche
By Clay McNear
Published: May 29, 2008
Through the summer, the museum is offering rotating Yin Fridays and Yang Fridays. The mama’s-boy Yins feature organic-tea sipping, yogi/yogini visits, and similar wimpy...
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Night & Day
Unforgettable Ire
Published: May 29, 2008
If creating earworms was a crime (and God knows it should be), then both Chicago and their 70s hitmaker counterparts the Doobie Brothers would be multiple-time offenders. Admit...
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Fenske
Heather Squires was arrested for DUI without drinking a drop of alcohol
By Sarah Fenske
Published: May 29, 2008
Heather Squires was the designated driver. Never exactly a fun thing, but a college buddy of her husband's was driving up from Tucson to celebrate his acceptance into law...
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News
Downtown Tempe Community association to spend $75,000 annually to clean up bird poop
By Ray Stern
Published: May 29, 2008
Downtown Tempe's under aerial assault. The evidence can be found all over Mill Avenue's sidewalks, trademark red-brick buildings, and on automobiles parked up and down the...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 29, 2008
Published: May 29, 2008
BLIZZARD OF "BOZ" Editor's note: Letters and comments poured into New Times after publication of Ray Stern's "Dirty Deeds" article (May 15). Many readers requested anonymity...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on rural similarities and lies born of vanity
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 29, 2008
I'm a Mexican American, but I always lie and tell people my ancestors were from Spain and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My whole family says this. We feel...
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Music
Robert Smith seeks a cure for what ails him
By Robert Bishop and James Hunter
Published: May 29, 2008
Young bands — New York's Rapture, most notably and successfully — cite Robert Smith's London outfit The Cure as a holy source, a development nobody apart from the...
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Noise Boy
Noise Boy journeys across the desert to hear Hanne Hukkelberg
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 29, 2008
It's 4:30 on a windy Friday afternoon, and I've driven nearly 400 miles across the desert to see a musician no one I know has ever heard of. Norwegian artist Hanne Hukkelberg...
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Shrapnel
Sammy Hagar's gone country with Kenny Chesney and LeAnn Rimes
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 29, 2008
If you haven't kept up with Sammy Hagar since his rockin' "I Can't Drive 55" days, you might find yourself alternately shocked, horrified, and amused by Hagar's recent plunge...
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Shrapnel
Tour de farce: the corporate-sponsored tours we don’t want to buy tickets to
By Cole Haddon
Published: May 29, 2008
Few American cities have suffered a corporate dicking as thoroughly as Phoenix, what with every one of its stadiums bearing names like U.S. Airways Center, Chase Field, Wells...
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Shrapnel
Can the perfect pop song be calculated?
By Jason Ferguson
Published: May 29, 2008
A few years ago, a psychology lecturer at a British college came up with the formula for the "perfect" mood-lifting pop song. Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic posited a certain...
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Live Wire
Cowboy Junkies
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 29, 2008
On the one hand, you can look at the nagging tendency of veteran Canadian acts to hover at cult-level popularity in the U.S. as a bad thing. On the other hand, a group like...
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Needle Exchange
Discotropolis
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 29, 2008
The beatmeisters of United Groove might be dusting off plenty of '70s kitsch for their retro dance party Discotropolis, but chances are, you won't hear any KC and the Sunshine...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: May 29, 2008
THURSDAY 29 Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJs Brazilia, & Mara (various) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C's: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse:...
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Cafe
Culver’s ButterBurger and Jersey Mike’s Subs make their Valley debut
By Michele Laudig
Published: May 29, 2008
Feed me now. I'm hungry. I'm grumpy. I'm in a hurry. I have plenty of easy excuses to fill up on fast food. But most of the time, novelty isn't one of them. Just think of the...
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Film
A bigger screen does nothing to flatter Sex and the City: The Movie
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 29, 2008
Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won't tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you've already seen that gown winging its way around...
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Film Feature
Steven Soderbergh’s Che wins the only Cannes award that matters: ours
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 29, 2008
CANNES, France — The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, yet the red carpet has been rolled up as you read. You will know, as I can't, whether my...
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Surreal Estate
Verrado raises the question: Would you trade an urban community for a suburban farce?
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: May 29, 2008
I made some new friends the other day, and they live in Verrado. I'd always wanted to know someone who owned a home in this peculiar development — way the hell out in...
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