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Cafe
Summer Guide: Cheap eats
By Michele Laudig
Published: June 5, 2008
My natural instinct is to haul ass on the highway, but lately I've been hyper-miling in my econo-car. Around my neighborhood, I've been riding my beach cruiser. Several of my...
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Film
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan marks the Middle East as fair game for comedy
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 5, 2008
Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad super-heavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv beach,...
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Film
Errol Morris cuts Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 5, 2008
It's been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line — a found "noir" that served to free an innocent man convicted of murder. Gathering evidence and dramatizing...
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Film Feature
Etgar Keret on his low-budget movie Fatso and high-budget life
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 5, 2008
In "Fatso," a short story by Israeli writer Etgar Keret, monogamy takes a bizarre vacation when the narrator's pretty girlfriend morphs, every night, into a hairy,...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide 2008
Published: June 5, 2008
Piggy bank empty? Yeah, ours, too. Gas is so expensive that it costs too much to cross this town, let alone leave it. There's even a term for this summer's phenomenon:...
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Stage
Smokey Joe’s Café at the Herberger Theater is a rollicking musical revue
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 5, 2008
I've seen Smokey Joe's Café too many times over the past decade to have been very excited about attending Black Theatre Troupe's current production last weekend. And as...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Sell your clothes for cash — but first, read this
By Megan Irwin
Published: June 5, 2008
There's a good chance that if you shop in Tempe, you hate me. And it has nothing to do with the stories I've written for this newspaper. From August 2002 until the middle of...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Quick change from selling things other than your clothes
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 5, 2008
Hipster fashion isn't the only thing you can hawk in exchange for some serious scrilla in these cash-strapped times. Everything from the books and CDs on your shelves to the...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Retail therapy doesn’t have to cost a fortune
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 5, 2008
Getting through the summer is no mean feat, and I find myself buying a lot more crap in July and August than I do any other time of the year, if only for the distraction....
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Stay at one of the Valley’s luxest resorts for a fraction of the scratch
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 5, 2008
As unconscionably evil as the summertime sun gets in our desert domain — reigning over our asses from May to September like a Third World despot — there are plenty...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Eat, drink and be happy
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: June 5, 2008
It's said that vice is virtually recession-proof. Meaning no matter how poor one gets (believe us, we're getting there), there's always enough scratch for a smoke or a drink....
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: The season of big-budget movies uses its brain
By Chuck Wilson
Published: June 5, 2008
Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes — it must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it's striking to note just how many...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: The Geography of Bliss is the one book about happiness you should read this summer
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: June 5, 2008
Once upon a time, people were allowed to be unhappy. Today, we have Deepak Chopra and Prozac and seminars that turn ordinary people into psychobabble-spouting Dr. Phil clones...
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Summer Guide
Summer Guide: Transplant rejection: Wynter Holden gives up her fling with Portland to return to Phoenix’s waiting arms
By Wynter Holden
Published: June 5, 2008
She was everything I wanted, from the cool bohemian attitude with a sprinkling of urban hipster to the sparkling green that sheathed her ample curves. We seemed the perfect...
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Game On
Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty
By Gary Hodges
Published: June 5, 2008
John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America's two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought...
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