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1. Feature

   Green Fatigue: Is anyone else sick and tired of eco-chic?

   By New Times staff

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Welcome to Phoenix New Times' first Green Issue! Not. This week's paper won't feature a photo spread of all-organic fashions worn by sinewy models who subsist on raw-food...

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   Hepcat Heaven

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Once again, the hippest place to be this weekend is gonna be the Theonix Arts Showcase on Friday, April 18, at Hollywood Alley in Mesa. For its third edition, the monthly music...

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   Noir Lord

   Hardboiled Hammett meets Gibsonian cyberpunk

   By Peter Breslin

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Heard of the drug Lingo? Oh, boy, are you missing out. It’ll get you higher than Amy Winehouse while simultaneously ramping up your verbal IQ. As with any designer drug,...

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   Dope Springs Eternal

   Why can’t every day be the Holiday of Cannabis Appreciation?

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: April 17, 2008

   March showcases the get-shitfaced Irish festival. In May, we have the white-boy/dude/bro-friendly Drinko de Mayo. So what so-called holiday can we waste our pathetic lives...

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   Modern Love

   Stylin’ at the Icehouse

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: April 17, 2008

   You could, we suppose, wander around some of the Valley’s more upscale neighborhoods looking for contemporary homes and hoping to bump into the folks who designed and live...

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   Stick it to the Man

   Shop indie

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Most of us know that the music industry is a corrupt machine that could give two poops about the little dudes and dudettes trying to expose their sonic art to larger audiences....

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   Stick it to the Man

   Shop indie

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Most of us know that the music industry is a corrupt machine that could give two poops about the little dudes and dudettes trying to expose their sonic art to larger audiences....

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   Stick it to the Man

   Shop indie

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: April 17, 2008

   Most of us know that the music industry is a corrupt machine that could give two poops about the little dudes and dudettes trying to expose their sonic art to larger audiences....

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   Pat's Run in Tempe

   Published: April 17, 2008

   The annual springtime 4.2-mile run honors the late Sun Devil and Cardinal Pat Tillman. Sat., April 19, 7 a.m., 2008

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    The Off-Season of Our Discontent

    We want football. Give us football now.

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: April 17, 2008

    It’s no secret that we’re college-football freaks. That’s why this time of year is especially trying for us pigskin pigs. For example, we recently, during a fit...

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    Garden Party

    Celebrating 70 years of green in a dirt-brown town

    By Clay McNear

    Published: April 17, 2008

    It’s hard to think of a local business circa 1938 that wasn’t the Arizona Biltmore or Goldwater’s Department Store, but a few must’ve existed to service the...

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    Hope Precariously Floats

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: April 17, 2008

    The outside world must think of Arizonans as big, fat poseurs who are always looking to copy character instead of creating their own. And they may have a point. Ten years ago,...

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    Let’s Do Lynch

    The worm turns in Chandler

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Any David Lynch film can be difficult to wrap your head around, but to cram the documentary Lynch (one) (2007), Inland Empire (2006), The Short Films of David Lynch (2002), and...

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    The Naked and the Undead

    Ionesco. Nietzsche. Sartre. Jenna Jameson. This oughtta be good.

    By M.V. Moorhead

    Published: April 17, 2008

    It’s a shame to give away the one thoroughly bone-chilling scare in Zombie Strippers, but it’s right at the beginning, anyway: The movie is set in the near future,...

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    Master of Puppets

    Being John Malkovich star has the world on a string

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Personally, we find puppets off-putting and a little creepy, and that’s why the Phillip Huber Marionettes were the perfect fit for Spike Jonze’s fantastical film...

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    American Dream

    Play humanizes the plight of undocumented residents

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: April 17, 2008

    James Garcia’s new one-act couldn’t be more timely. Dream Act, a co-production of Colores Actors-Writers Workshop and ASU Gammage, tells the story of grad student...

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    Gays and Dolls

    Stray Cat struts in musical tribute to lesbian pulp fiction

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Stray Cat Theatre presenting a musical is, in terms of local show biz, rather like New Times publishing a word jumble. “We just don’t do them,” says Stray Cat...

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    Giant Killers

    We left our hearts in San Francisco. Somebody cut ’em out.

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: April 17, 2008

    What’s going on with San Francisco Giants fans? They’re behaving even more poorly than Raider Nation, the seriously scary Oakland Raiders die-hards. In 2004, a man...

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    A One-Two Punch of Rock

    By Chris Parker

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Both these bands are stretching the boundaries of their sound and others’ expectations. Pelican’s third album, City of Echoes, soft pedals their usual throb, taking...

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    Seoul Sister

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Being the introverted, hide-behind-our-byline type, we especially love this quotable quote from Korean-American actress and comedian Margaret Cho: “People drain me, even...