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1. Feature

   Inhumanity Has a Price

   Corpses, a flesh-eating virus, the most-sued sheriff in America. Lawsuits against Joe Arpaio have cost us $41 million, so far

   By John Dickerson

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Maricopa County law enforcement violated the constitutional rights of this newspaper's readers in October. Using secret grand jury subpoenas, County Attorney Andrew Thomas...

2. Night & Day

   Here Comes Anti-Claus

   Santa-hatin’ scenesters unite

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Andrew Jackson Jihad has received a grip of ink in our esteemed publication. From glowing praise (“Their music could almost be the perfect soundtrack to the black humor of...

3. Night & Day

   Bling It On

   Note to hipsters: emo hoodies are not wearable art

   By Sloane Burwell

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Peeping and appreciating art at the gaggle of Roosevelt Row galleries doesn't mean sporting beatnik berets or bongos, emo hoodies, ironic t-shirts, or the ever-present...

4. Night & Day

   Class City Rockers

   Get your swank on in downtown Phoenix. Yes, really.

   By Lilia Menconi

   Published: December 20, 2007

   You may be a pock on the rash of post-post-adolescent artist folks squatting in the downtown area, but that doesn’t mean you gotta spend your Saturday nights as the...

5. Night & Day

   Enamel Magnetism

   Sex, gender, and corroded sardines

   By Nina Carapetyan

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Good old Michel Foucault would likely regard Jessica Calderwood’s enamel art as mere fodder for the repressive hypothesis, which attempts to give revolutionary importance...

6. Night & Day

   Harmonic Convergence

   Desegregating the dance floor at Martini Ranch

   By Adriane Goetz

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Don’t you just love watching children cry when they didn’t get absolutely everything they wanted for Christmas? If there’s one kernel of knowledge worth taking...

7. Night & Day

   Silent Night?

   Not in IMAX 3D

   By Clay McNear

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Unless you count "Fairytale of New York" by Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O'Connor -- which we don't, necessarily -- what's the last popular song that entered the collective...

8. Night & Day

   The Glass-Bulb Menagerie

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: December 20, 2007

   Things that are typical Phoenix in the wintertime: Holiday lights. Strip malls. Strip malls with holiday lights on them. And, of course, ZooLights: Nature All A-Glow, which has...

9. Night & Day

   Ho Sweet Ho

   Peep the past and present of a venerable Scottsdale landmark

   By Sloane Burwell

   Published: December 20, 2007

   These days, it seems like half of Arizona is on its way to pseudo-Tuscan McMansionville. It's too bad, really, since mid-century modern architecture is found in exactly two...

10. Night & Day

    Spice Boys

    By Clay McNear

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Eat a deep-fried chimi, then work it off. Hell, eat a dozen, 'cause love handles are an endangered species at the muy picante Latin dance night called Caliente Friday featuring...

11. Night & Day

    Whoa, Susana

    Lassos and lamé at Karamba

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: December 20, 2007

    While our lame ass sits at home reading crime novels and waiting for the phone to ring, somewhere in this city of immolation Susana is carefully choosing a skin-tight outfit to...

12. Sidebar

    Dead End

    Beaten, hanged, strangled, and ignored, these men and a woman lost their lives in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's custody

    By John Dickerson

    Published: December 20, 2007

    • On March 26, 1996, Jose Rodriquez, 39, died in a pool of his own vomit on a jail floor. His cries for help went ignored by Arpaio's jail employees. Rodriquez's...

13. Sidebar

    Inmates' Rights Lawsuit Languishes

    The unresolved Hart vs. Hill suit was filed 30 years ago in federal court. It brings up the same jailhouse abuses that occur today

    By John Dickerson

    Published: December 20, 2007

    The lawyer behind the arrests of New Times executives Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin is central in a seminal lawsuit alleging that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office...

14. Lemons

    Self-Mutilation

    AZ's new employer-sanctions law will hurt workers, employers, and the economy, in what can only be seen as a massive self-inflicted wound

    By Stephen Lemons

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Jornaleros rise early. At the crack of dawn on a cold Sunday morning, there are about 30 or so day laborers milling about at the Macehualli Work Center near 25th Street and...

15. Jensen

    Cyberspace Invaders

    County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

    By Bill Jensen

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Maricopa County law enforcement officials are increasingly turning to the Internet to target private individuals they consider a "threat." Who qualifies as a threat in their...

16. Letters

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 20, 2007

    Published: December 20, 2007

    GOOBERVILLE Get off your butts: Sanctuary city? Yeah, Phoenix is a sanctuary city — for bigots and carpetbaggers ("Hen Party," The Bird, Stephen Lemons, December 13;...

17. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    Caste of Whiners

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: December 20, 2007

    U.S.A. citizens are sick and tired that for more than 40 years, Latin American elites have lived like monarchs because they pimp their poor to American businesses for cheap...

18. Music

    Your Brain on Music

    Science starts to unravel our natural affinity

    By Chris Parker

    Published: December 20, 2007

    How does music engage and touch us so deeply? Why is its presence so intrinsic to what we do? It's everywhere, from stereos and headphones to movie soundtracks and...

19. Club Candids

    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    Arcadia after dark

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: December 20, 2007

    The Arcadia neighborhood is known for stellar real estate and early mornings at La Grande Orange. So the nightlife is most likely to take place safely at home with a nice...

20. Shrapnel

    Naughty and Nice

    What do musicians want in their stockings?

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Every year around the office, it's the same old pickle: What do you buy for the Secret Santa gift exchange? You don't want to go super-cheap, because somehow everyone...