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Night & Day
The Asia Syndrome
Installation continues PAM’s love affair with the Far East
By Niamh Wallace
Published: July 3, 2008
Phoenix Art Museum has always had a thing for Asian art. Its permanent collection of Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian artworks is not only massive, but also...
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Mercury Falling
Playing the blame game at U.S. Air
By Clay McNear
Published: July 3, 2008
How in hell did our WNBA-champion Phoenix Mercury go 0-fer-May? And how ’bout that sparkling 3-6 record they carried into mid-June? Well, there’ve been three...
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Night & Day
Insaner Clown Posse
Horrorcore conglomerate jacks up the Marquee
By Nina Carapetyan
Published: July 3, 2008
Dark Lotus is coming to town, and we best not mock them for fear of dismemberment. Composed of members of Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, and Blaze, the band is a dark clown...
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Sons of Beaches
And that’s one of the nicer things to call these bums
By Steve Jansen
Published: July 3, 2008
The San Diego Padres. Ugh. What to say about these NL West cellar dwellers? [Insert enough white space here to fill up the article’s predetermined word count.] Aw, man....
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Night & Day
Little Photoshop of Horrors
The devolutionary art of Mark Mothersbaugh
By Clay McNear
Published: July 3, 2008
Mark Mothersbaugh lives a symmetrical life of wild extremes. Consider: • He’s was born and still lives in Akron, Ohio – all-American birthplace of the rubber...
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The Bird
The Bird revels in Sheriff Joe's decline, slams Mark Spencer's false hysteria, and explains why "illegals" ain't criminals
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
Published: July 3, 2008
MR. PITIFUL Why, The Bird's never seen Sheriff Joe Arpaio lookin' so used up and beat as he appeared at the Barnes & Noble in Surprise during a recent Saturday-afternoon...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, July 3, 2008
Published: July 3, 2008
RAY OF HOPE Who else can they victimize?: New Times' coverage of this latest public-records outrage by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his goons is full-of-irony great!...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
The Mexican on César Chávez and gabacho grammar rules
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 3, 2008
Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don't seem to understand the...
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Music
Let freedom rock: Ten musical moments that shaped who we are as a country
By Cole Haddon
Published: July 3, 2008
Rock 'n' roll has had a hefty impact on American pop culture and identity for the past 50 years or so, more often than not intersecting with our politics and whatever social...
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Shrapnel
Common raps about his film career and upcoming album Invincible Summer
By Cole Haddon
Published: July 3, 2008
Two-time Grammy winner Common, 36, is best known for his socially conscious rhymes on albums like Be and, more recently, Finding Forever, but that probably won't be the case...
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Live Wire
Flobots
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 3, 2008
This politically and socially conscious hip-hop collective from Denver hit big in April with its song "Handlebars," off its second album, Fight with Tools. The tune tackles...
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Live Wire
16volt
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 3, 2008
In 1991, 16volt founder Eric Powell had a vision: He wanted to merge the gritty, primal guitars of garage rock and punk with the relentless machinistic throttle and hum of...
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Home Grown
Underwater Getdown
Supersymmetry
(self-released)By Niki D'Andrea
Published: July 3, 2008
Underwater Getdown's not real big on linear arrangement, with its various instruments intruding on choruses and bridges and taking the songs for wild swings around the meter....
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Listen Up
Weezer
Weezer
(DGC/Interscope)By Michael Roberts
Published: July 3, 2008
Over the years, reviewers aplenty have wished for Weezer's Rivers Cuomo to grow up. But when he's occasionally tried to do so, the results have served as an argument for...
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Listen Up
The Beautiful Bodies
Touch Me
(self-released)By Jason Harper
Published: July 3, 2008
The Beautiful Bodies' debut, Touch Me, is an awkward and only occasionally rewarding combination of pale Yeah Yeah Yeahs mimickry and roaring classic rock. It's as if...
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Booze Pig
Booze Pig waxes nostalgic at Champions
By C.M. Redding
Published: July 3, 2008
I know what you're thinking: The Booze Pig has finally drunk himself stupid — is this guy really going to review a sports bar? Well, let me start by saying that the hole...
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Needle Exchange
Peter Hook
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: July 3, 2008
There's an infamous video on YouTube of iconic Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook "DJing" at Serbia's EXIT festival in 2006. And by "DJing" we mean twisting knobs on...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: July 3, 2008
THURSDAY 3 Axis/Radius: Divine Ladies Night with MCB & DJ Devine (various) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Greed...
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Cafe
Eliot Wexler is banking the success of Noca on his food knowledge and local connections
By Michele Laudig
Published: July 3, 2008
There's an urban myth that 90 percent of restaurants close within the first year. Turns out, it's more like 26 percent, but still, it's a daunting figure, especially in this...
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Film
Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 3, 2008
The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the...
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