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Live Wire
Magic Bullets
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: January 31, 2008
Magic Bullets' bouncy New Wave pop (often sung with an affected British accent) sounds like a lot like Echo & the Bunnymen, but this San Francisco sextet puts its own spin on...
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Correatown
Echoes
(Another Room)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: January 31, 2008
After having participated in the soundtrack of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (she provided the singing voice of Jenna Fischer in "Let's Duet"), Los Angeles-based...
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Beanie Sigel
The Solution
(Roc-A-Fella/Island Def Jam)By Ben Westhoff
Published: January 31, 2008
Beanie Sigel's rough-and-ready new CD stands in direct contrast to his onetime mentor Jay-Z's latest. While Hov reminisces about his pre-posh days on American Gangster, Sigel...
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Black Milk
Caltroit
(Music House)By Steven Weiss
Published: January 31, 2008
His name may not be familiar, but Bishop Lamont is becoming one of the craftiest MCs on the West Coast. He's released a series of buzz-building mix tapes since signing with Dr....
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Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
(Geffen)By Michael Gallucci
Published: January 31, 2008
In 2006, gay singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright re-created gay icon Judy Garland's 1961 smash album, Judy at Carnegie Hall, note for note in concert at the venerable New York...
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Needle Exchange
Super Bowl weekend
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: January 31, 2008
"The Fresh Prince" himself, Will Smith, is rumored to be coming to P-town for the big game. Same with George Clooney, Vince Vaughn, and numerous other glitterati who'll jet...
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Turntable
Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Published: January 31, 2008
THURSDAY 31 27th Avenue Bar & Grill: DJ Tranzo (hip-hop, Top 40) 944 Super Village: DJ Vice, & DJ Reach (various) Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top
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Cafe
Michele Laudig calls Thai Elephant and Thai Hut welcome additions to the central Phoenix dining scene
By Michele Laudig
Published: January 31, 2008
Maybe I should've wished for a million dollars. Instead, I wished for more Asian food downtown. And while I'm still waiting for the pho and sushi gods to hear my pleas, I...
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Booze Pig
Booze Pig hails the Taxi Inn, home of the Mi/Chelada
By C.M. Redding
Published: January 31, 2008
Ahhh . . . Mexico! Nothing like starting out the New Year on a long stretch of beach with a trio of lovely, successful women. Trouble is, I was just one of the girls. We drank...
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Film
Someone, please throw Meet the Spartans into that bottomless pit
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: January 31, 2008
Perhaps the most oft-quoted line from Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 is, "Tonight we dine in hell!" Chowing down on a box of...
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Film
Twenty years later, Rambo is still America's finest, if dumbest, killing machine
By Jim Ridley
Published: January 31, 2008
A fourth Rambo? The question isn't why; it's what took him so long. Was America's avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and what we're cooking up for Iran...
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Film Feature
Sundance 2008 leaves just a handful of buzz-worthy movies in its wake
By Scott Foundas
Published: January 31, 2008
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar, which premièred in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was inexplicably shut out at the awards right...
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Brown Town
Our new columnist finds plenty to love about being brown. (Just don't call him Hispanic)
By Marcos Najera
Published: January 31, 2008
I hate it when people fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor for the first time. They always emerge from the plane to say, "Wow, the city is not exactly what I imagined, it's just so . ....
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Stage
Nearly Naked Theatre delivers sweet relief with As Bees in Honey Drown
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 31, 2008
Here's a one-word review of Nearly Naked Theatre's production of As Bees in Honey Drown: Phew! And here's a 601-word one: What a relief it was to attend a show at Nearly...
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Stage Frights
Robrt L. Pela pays, uh, respect to the great Cloris Leachman
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 31, 2008
I used to know a crazy lady who looked exactly like Cloris Leachman. Ella was the kind of crazy that can never be cured; the kind of crazy that struck fear in the hearts of...
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Theater Scene
Reviews and previews of what's on Valley stages now
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: January 31, 2008
Fiddler on the Roof: It is, of course, too much to ask that we should make it through a single theater season without this kosher chestnut getting dusted off for our perusal....
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Game On
No amount of sharpening can save Samurai Warriors: KATANA
By Gary Hodges
Published: January 31, 2008
The very first time I saw the Wii's motion-sensitive "Wiimote," a single thought bounced in my head like a toddler on corn syrup: Finally we're gonna get an f-ing brilliant...
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DVDish
A sports doc for geeks? The King of Kong brings it on, now on DVD
By Robert Wilonsky, Jordan Harper and Jim Ridley
Published: January 31, 2008
The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon's best-of-2007 documentary about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy remains a work in progress: Billy Mitchell, the longtime...
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What Else Is New?
New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week
Published: January 31, 2008
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: 5 (Warner Bros.) Barn of the Naked Dead (Legend House) Bordertown (THINKFilm) Canvas (Universal) Chancer: Series 2 (Acorn Media) The Comebacks...
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Night & Day
Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Bash at Jobing.com
By Clay McNear
Published: January 31, 2008
Showcasing the odd yet appealing pairing of Mary J. Blige and Maroon 5. Thu., Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m., 2008
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