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1. Feature

   In its war for new members, a labor union is using dirty tricks to turn Hispanics against Bashas'

   By Ray Stern

   Published: January 24, 2008

   The young labor union advocate is addressing the small crowd of immigrant neighbors in the carport like a fired-up schoolteacher. "How many people shop at Bashas'?" he asks in...

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   Tanks for the Memories

   Enthusiasts make half-tracks to Papago

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Our locks dip below our shoulders and our T-shirt features an image of Dubya and Cheney man-hugging beneath the catch phrase "Meet the Fuckers," so we're probably not the...

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   Beautician and the Beasts

   How a hairdresser battled the Taliban with nail files and curlers

   By Lilia Menconi

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Attention, ladies. Next time you’re getting guff from your man about an expensive salon visit, hand him a copy of Deborah Rodriguez’s Kabul Beauty School: An American...

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   Eh? Okay.

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Since this is a piece about O Canada, we’ll try not to say “eh?” Uh, too late. Okay, while we’re at it, all Canadians live in igloos and eat blubber. Now...

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   Wookiee of the Year

   Chewbacca and pals give Valley nerds a thrill

   By Benjamin Leatherman

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Interviewing Peter Mayhew can be a little intimidating. Putting aside the fact that the daunting, 7-foot-2 British-born actor has already been asked every question in the...

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   Mutha Nature

   Hardy souls hit the dusty trail at South Mountain

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Ask any Phoenix hiker where she/he’s off to on a Saturday morning, and the answer is inevitably Camelback Mountain or Piestewa Peak. Yaaaaawn. As romantic and adventurous...

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   Check It Out

   By Clay McNear

   Published: January 24, 2008

   The Heard Museum Guild Library Book & Treasure Market isn’t the biggest literature offload of the year, or the most publicized, but it’s one of the best, where you...

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   Roy Story

   Is late musician spinning in his grave?

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Roy Orbison rarely expressed anything celebratory in his work. In songs like “Blue Angel” and “Mean Woman Blues,” he -- and we -- found joy in heartache,...

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   Indie Rawks

   Support your local faves on Roosevelt

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Remember every supersweet local act you’ve seen at Modified Arts? Well, there’s a supergood-ass chance that they’ll be playing during Modifest, a sidewalk art...

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    Greasy Lightning

    Big boys burn rubber in Chandler

    By Chris Bowman

    Published: January 24, 2008

    You know that garage rat who spends every waking moment tweaking his ride with hopes that he can one day compete in a sanctioned drag race? Problem is, when an event like the...

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    Dumb and Dumbest

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The 2006 trapped-in-a-cave film The Descent is sorta dopey, but its albino, Nosferatu rat monsters are truly creepy. The pigment-challenged critters in the 1984...

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    Venice, Anyone?

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    With its soccer-mom Stepford wives and bland strip malls, Chandler ain’t no Milan. Truth hurts. But one of the suburb’s shining lights, Bistro@Kokopelli Winery, 35...

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    Radio-Control Freaks

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Folks who are older than dirt might remember those balsa-wood airplanes sold at the five-and-dime -- another fading memory. The balsas were pretty high-tech then – they...

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    All the Right Grooves

    Drum and Dance troupe whips up an audio stew

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 24, 2008

    We’ve noticed a pattern in world-music criticism these days, especially pieces penned by American audiophiles. Anytime an album from Africa is reviewed, the terms...

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    Kissassertainment Tonight

    Mary Hart? Raging Renaissance man’s more like a Pavlovian pit bull.

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Your jaw will hang open, barely attached by its thin wire of muscle and vein, when you listen to Eugene S. Robinson spitting out words like that Pavlovian pit bull Spalding...

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    Fatale Attraction

    Artist finds a place to park her bling

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: January 24, 2008

    All that glitters isn't gold, but it’s a sure sign that you've been visited by Sherry Goldberg, whose sparkly landscapes are an homage to all things girly and just a tad...

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    The Herd With Colin Cowherd Radio Broadcast

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The most opinionated -- but almost always correct -- voice in sports broadcasting may look like a pansy-ass frat boy, but don't be misled. Cowherd'll clean your clock if you...

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    Empathy for the Devil

    A compassionate film about neo-Nazis? Here it is.

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Jaded as we are, we thought we’d seen everything, but a sympathetic story about a skinhead? That’s the premise of David Gow’s 2006 film Steel Toes, which binds a...

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    Basic Traning

    Jazz quartet plays some of our favorite things

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 24, 2008

    We get that “the jazz” isn’t for everybody, but here’s something tight for even you holier-than-thou indie-rock kids: A Musical Tribute to John Coltrane. A...

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    The Gardener of Eden

    Painter’s works cultivate the Southwest’s hushed beauty

    By Nina Carapetyan

    Published: January 24, 2008

    In our salad days, many of us used the desert as a safe haven to carpet-bomb our brains into oblivion. We’d drive into the night like frontiersmen of coked-out glory,...