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1. Feature

   New Times files a prelude to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas and a discredited ex-special prosecutor on behalf of its readers and the Constitution

   By Stephen Lemons

   Published: February 21, 2008

   New Times submitted a formal Notice of Claim on Wednesday, February 20, against the public officials responsible for a fiasco in October that saw the attempted trampling of the...

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   For the Love of Satan

   By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Think what you may, but at the very least, you can always count on black metal for its directness. You can also count on it to be exactly what it is and nothing more or less....

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   It's Still Life at The Firehouse

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: February 21, 2008

   If you're ever walked into the studio of Suzanne Falk, one mesmerizing thing is her vintage toy collection. During the It's Still Life life drawing class, participants can...

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   Here's a Grapefruit in Your Eye

   Stealing some sun from the Sunshine State

   By Clay McNear

   Published: February 21, 2008

   The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s...

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   Son of a Beach

   Who’s laughing now, fruit-eaters?

   By Clay McNear

   Published: February 21, 2008

   The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s...

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   Man or Astro-Man?

   Cosmic CSI tracks down zodiac killers

   By Clay McNear

   Published: February 21, 2008

   The murderous brute raises his blade. The victim moans softly. The blade comes down, then stops mid-slash. Not tonight, fiend! Your stars are not aligned! Aries is in the...

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   The Ultimate Snowbird

   Kickass bassist chills in . . . Mesa?

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: February 21, 2008

   It must be springtime, because Sun Ra Arkestra’s Juini Booth is back in town performing gigs. The all-star bassist, who escapes the crappy East Coast winters by crashing...

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   WWE Will Rock You

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: February 21, 2008

   When WWE wrasslin’ returns to Pho-town with WWE Presents Monday Night RAW, it brings along the sturdiest metal chairs and hardest head-splitting turnbuckles. Some of the...

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   Motor Skills

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: February 21, 2008

   The biggest surprise about the Valley Metro Bus and Maintenance Roadeo? It’s not that there’s an actual freaking competition for paratransit mechanics, but that the...

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    Brilliant and Brillianter

    Seems Jim Carrey’s not so dumb after all

    By Clay McNear

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The words “Jim Carrey” and “masterpiece” seem oxymoronic, but the Pet Detective’s made two for the ages: The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the...

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    Good Night, and Good Riddance

    Super poseurs are gone. The regular ones are back. Praise Jesus.

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Thank the good Lord. The great-unwashed masses have left the Valley, en masse, to return whence they came. Now we can get back some après Super Bowl normalcy. Really,...

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    Whistling Past the Graveyard

    Mob fink, NBA ref – how’s this guy still breathing?

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: February 21, 2008

    We loved Donnie Brasco and GoodFellas, and after leaving the theater, we’d purse our lips like made men. So when the organized-crime book Covert: My Years Infiltrating the...

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    Give Peaceful a Chance

    Soothing Japanese fest has the cure for what ails you

    By Jay Bennett

    Published: February 21, 2008

    We have one heckuva sports hangover. If the college bowl season was akin to draining cocktails at happy hour, and the golf tournament was killing a bottle of wine at dinner,...

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    No Sweat

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Wanna hear live salsa, merengue, and reggaeton without 1) waiting ’til 3 in the morning and 2) sweating your balls off at the club? Then check out Carnival: The Third...

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    The Opposite of Saks

    By Clay McNear

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Why would anyone but a germaphobe pay retail when the world’s full of gently used junk? Well, the wasteful can go to Needless-Markup while we thrifty types hit the Junior...

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    Lust in the Dust

    Cowboy junkies get a dose of man flesh in AJ

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Rough, chapped palms and brown dirt caked under fingernails. Unruly waves of sun-bleached hair reeking of dusty sweat. The soft, squeaky caress of well-worn leather. Buns in...

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    Beelzebabe

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Call us shallow, but why are we attracted to the Memphis-based, down-home blues band Delta Highway? Because the cover art for the band’s latest album, The Devil Had a...

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    Rednecks from Space

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Grease monkey with mesh back cap says, “Hey, dere. What kine of oil you be usin’, boi?” We say, “Uhhh . . . what?” Then we direct strange being from...

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    Wicked Cool

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: February 21, 2008

    If you’ve stepped into the trippy world of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s current southwestNET: Melinda Bergman exhibit and been wicked inspired, here’s...

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    Casualties of War

    Norteamericanos can’t go home again in acclaimed new book

    By Peter Breslin

    Published: February 21, 2008

    For some, la frontera is a fence and a fixed concept. For others, it’s a porous membrane and a zone of dreams. American Book Award winner Benjamin Alire Sáenz drops...