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1. Feature

   Flushing Them Out

   Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants

   By Megan Irwin

   Published: December 27, 2007

   Daniela's world is very small. Though she was born in Mexico and traveled thousands of miles to Phoenix, she might never leave her neighborhood again. As an undocumented...

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   Wrassle Mania

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: December 27, 2007

   Good news for all of you fans of faux wrestling. The two largest wrasslin’ organizations in town -- Impact Zone Wrestling and Rising Phoenix Wrestling -- have literally...

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   Out With the Auld

   Waiting for the bomb to drop in Phoenix, Tempe

   By Clay McNear

   Published: December 27, 2007

   Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why are we directing you to the Rogue Bar and Coach & Willie’s for New Year’s Eve? Easy. They’ve got the...

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   Wonderdogs

   Poor Al and gang say “nyah, nyah” to their detractors

   By Nina Carapetyan

   Published: December 27, 2007

   We all love underdogs. Overlooked and underestimated, they rise to the occasion and put the critics in their place, like that spindly kid in fifth grade who kicked Sister...

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   March Madness

   By Nina Carapetyan

   Published: December 27, 2007

   If you need a good excuse to salivate over estrogen-rich cheerleaders and huge inflatable dolls, tell your wife that you’ll be attending the Fort McDowell Fiesta Bowl...

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   Shock ’n’ Roll

   Underground-theater group wants to make you squirm

   By Leslie Barton

   Published: December 27, 2007

   Local theater director Joseph Benesh won't go so far as to say there’ll be nudity in the underground production The Bobo Theatre Project: A Lullaby Jubilee in 3 Acts, but...

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   Sexy Beasts

   Gussied-up varmints put their best hooves forward

   By Leslie Barton

   Published: December 27, 2007

   Yippee-ki-yay! The Arizona National Livestock Show presents its 59th annual critter competition with more than 2,000 cream-of-the-crop cattle, ewes, horses, and swine from...

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   Female Bonding

   By Niamh Wallace

   Published: December 27, 2007

   The Invisible Pink Unicorn, birthed on the whim of early Internet users fed up with religion, gained underground ubiquity as a symbol of atheism. LAS Gallery's “The...

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   Purr Diem

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: December 27, 2007

   The folks at Cherry Lounge & Pit bill the clientele who come to Kitten Thursdays Ladies Night “cougars in training.” Hey, gals, aren’t you offended? Oh, you...

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    Happy Jew Year

    Swinging-single meshuggenehs hit the big time

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: December 27, 2007

    What do you do while you’re waiting for your hit stage play to be adapted into a feature film starring Henry Winkler and Carrie Fisher? Why, you tour the country with a...

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    Creature Feature

    John Carpenter’s classic flick slays

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: December 27, 2007

    If you thought McLovin from Superbad was a badass, wait ’til you get a load of MacReady, Kurt Russell’s alien-slaying character in John Carpenter’s classic...

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    West is Best

    Published: December 27, 2007

    The uber-chic retail center adjacent to Jobing.com Arena is promising a huge celebration featuring live entertainment from swing kings Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Times...

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    Kung Fooey

    Cult flick is artistically challenged

    By Clay McNear

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Among other carny-style curiosities, the 1979 kung fu film The Crippled Masters features an evil hunchbacked warlord, a warrior who lost the use of his legs when the warlord...

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    Devils’ Advocate

    Sure, ASU got the boot, but the Fiesta parties on

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Question for ASU football fans: Did you really want to face the mighty Oklahoma Sooners in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? Wouldn’t you rather enjoy the game instead of watching...

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    Screening of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas at Arizona Museum for Youth

    By Julie Peterson

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Everybody has a soft spot (pun intended) for the floppy, colorful characters in the "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" exhibit, a traveling show that begins its Southwestern...

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    Coyboys and Indianans

    By Clay McNear

    Published: December 27, 2007

    There’s no way the teams playing in the 2007 Insight Bowl – the Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 and Indiana Hoosiers of the Big Ten – can top last...

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    Ship Happened

    Kickass doc tells it like it was

    By Clay McNear

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Cabin boy Leo DiCaprio and society princess Kate Winslet sucking wind on the bow of the Titanic – yeah, that’ll happen. Director Stephen Low’s doc Titanica tells...

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    Out With the Auld

    Waiting for the bomb to drop in Phoenix, Tempe

    By Clay McNear

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why are we directing you to the Rogue Bar and Coach & Willie’s for New Year’s Eve? Easy. They’ve got the...

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    Black Comedy

    Chris Rock takes out the poor white trash

    By Peter Breslin

    Published: December 27, 2007

    You know what’s great about America? Well, for one, superfunny black comedians. From Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor to Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, African-American...

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    Paper Heart Failure

    Last one out turn off the life support

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: December 27, 2007

    This week, a wave of sorrow will crash over the artists, bands, and performers of Phoenix as they endure the loss of a dear friend: the Paper Heart. For the past seven years,...