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Home invasion: The Arizona Training Program at Coolidge is the only home some developmentally disabled people have known
By Megan Irwin
Published: May 1, 2008
Faye Arrington looked down at her 3-year-old twin sons, their tiny bodies curled toward each other like a pair of parentheses. She thought they looked lonely in their cribs,...
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May Magnet Month Launch Party
Published: May 1, 2008
Magnet lovers can bring their attractive implements down and stick 'em on the metallic outer walls at SMoCA to create a community mural. Special guests at this year's event...
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The Hole Shebang
Everybody gets their 15 dollars of fame at this tourney
By Clay McNear
Published: May 1, 2008
As you know, because you lived it, the goings-on surrounding Super Bowl XLII were monstrously off the grid. There were at least 30 bashes with price tags of $500-plus, and the...
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Exiles on Main Street
Huddled masses find a home in author’s extraordinary America
By Peter Breslin
Published: May 1, 2008
Cristina Garcia -- whose acclaimed new novel, A Handbook to Luck, tells the tale of three political exiles from the ravaged countries of Iran, El Salvador, and Cuba -- probes...
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Accidents Will Happen
By Clay McNear
Published: May 1, 2008
No demolition-derby promoter ever went broke underestimating the desire of the American public to witness vehicular carnage. It’s innate. We’re a country on the move,...
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After Image
Comic-book rebels revisit the past in Mesa
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: May 1, 2008
In the soundtrack of our lives, there's no ignoring Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It," a tune that seemed to be going through the heads of some of Marvel...
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Grassroots Operation
Potheads unite for Million Joint March
By Jay Bennett
Published: May 1, 2008
You say you’ve never been much of a joiner. Perhaps you’re waiting for the right club to join – the right movement to believe in. Perhaps you’re just...
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Long Live Mock ’n’ Roll
Sham bands work double time on the reproduction line
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 1, 2008
Tribute bands can be a rather divisive subject in the rock world. Copycat acts like Beatallica and Atomic Punks pack in crowds across the country by aping bands like the...
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Air Force
Progressive-dance ensembles link up for Chocolate Factory treat
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 1, 2008
It’s First Friday time again. Yay! Right? Actually, boo (well, kind of). Ever since the monthly shebang caught on with the mainstream (example no. 1: emo kids from...
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How to Sustain an Erection
By Clay McNear
Published: May 1, 2008
A geodesic dome is the only structure made by man that strengthens proportionately to each increase in size. The geo’s also considered one of the most stable forms of...
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Fringe Benefits
Celebrating the weirdos of theater
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 1, 2008
As a small child, you wore those moon boots from your Halloween costume to school everyday. When you were a teenager, your parents begged you to make good grades and don a...
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Great Britons
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the Guana Batz
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: May 1, 2008
Life in England during the early ’80s wasn’t an easy slog. It was quite bollocks, in fact, what with the Tories putting the screws to the working class and all. One...
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Under the Influence of Giants
Name-dropping Seattle band drops all the right names
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 1, 2008
It’s oft-times impossible to marinate our ears to all of the talented bands out there. That’s why the “Influences” section on MySpace is so important, and...
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Movie Star Wars
Soiled space princess kicks ass and names names
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: May 1, 2008
She’ll never be allowed to live down that oddball wig she wore in her most famous film role, but Carrie Fisher has so much more to offer than Princess Leia and her Star...
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Divine Trash
One woman’s castoffs are another woman’s treasures
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 1, 2008
If you’ve ever had a garage sale, you’ve witnessed that special breed of bargain shopper. As soon as you put out the signs, they’re dive-rolling out of their...
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Superman Returns
Bass ace brings his talented toenail clippings back to town
By Steve Jansen
Published: May 1, 2008
Forget for a minute that Marcus Miller – who was one of Miles Davis’ last collaborators – is one of the best bass players in the entire world. The “Superman...
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Party of 5
They could throw a wingding, but they could not spell it
By Leslie Barton
Published: May 1, 2008
Our accountant kept telling us, "Diversify." We took that to mean, "Break up with your boyfriend and try out for a stripper gig." Humiliating on both counts. Now we realize...
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Almost Famous
By Clay McNear
Published: May 1, 2008
We’ve always figured that near-fame must be infinitely better than the thing itself. If you can be eternally on the verge, like country-rockin’ Cross Canadian...
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Legends of the Fall
By Clay McNear
Published: May 1, 2008
The 2007 New York Mets suffered a magnificent collapse. It was one of the greatest in baseball history, even loftier, in many minds, than that of the 1969 Chicago Cubs, who...
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When Fossils Attack
And we’re not talking about Ron Paul
By Peter Breslin
Published: May 1, 2008
Gigantic, pissed-off chickens with teeth. That’s the impression created by the imposing models on display in the “Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origins of Flight”...
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