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41. Live Wire

    Exodus

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: January 17, 2008

    It's too bad the days are gone when metal bands tried to make their album covers look all tough and sinister and ended up with borderline laughable results instead. After all,...

42. Live Wire

    Gallows

    By Chris Parker

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Gallows wield their instruments with such malevolence that it wouldn't be surprising to discover they also use them to brain rodents in their flat. The U.K. quintet is heavily...

43. Live Wire

    Crash Romeo

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Crash Romeo work on their power chords as often as they work on their action-figure poses. Guitar-driven verses come with enough space to allow ax-slinger Steve Anderson the...

44. Needle Exchange

    Blunt Club

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Don't know if you're down with the latest 411, but Emerg McVay and the rest of the Blunt Club crew have ditched their longtime digs at Hollywood Alley in Mesa and set up their...

45. Turntable

    Seven nights of DJs and dancing

    Published: January 17, 2008

    THURSDAY 17 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top  40, rock, dance) Big Fish: Drunk Ass Thursday with DJ Kocky, & MC One (Top 40, hip-hop) The Blooze Bar: DJ...

46. Cafe

    GrainBelt GrillHouse: Hearty eats from the Heartland, right in downtown Gilbert

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Come January 30, Michael Savoie will have plenty to celebrate. That date will mark the first anniversary of GrainBelt GrillHouse, his comfortable, upscale-casual eatery in...

47. Booze Pig

    The Recovery Room is a slice of classic dive bar heaven

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: January 17, 2008

    December is gone and I think I've been drunk since Thanksgiving. For some reason, I decided to celebrate a Greek Christmas with my Jewish friends down in Tucson. What's a...

48. Film

    Katherine Heigl (27 Dresses) can learn a thing or two from Diane Keaton (Mad Money)

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 17, 2008

    If Diane Keaton were a comer in 2007, she'd likely be stuck in romantic comedies cooked up in movie studio test kitchens. No Godfather for her. No Annie Hall, no Shoot the...

49. Film

    It's more of the same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 17, 2008

    "I do think the writing is pessimistic — all that stuff about life being a tragic experience," says Angela Stark (played by newcomer Hayley Atwell) early in Woody Allen's...

50. Film

    Persepolis offers a glimpse of Islamic revolution and puberty through animated eyes

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation — though it moves fluidly enough and its drawings have a handcrafted charm...

51. Film

    Cloverfield is a big, dumb monster movie about nothing

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 17, 2008

    It took nine years for Godzilla to rise up out of the ashes of Hiroshima and wreak his destruction on the good people of Tokyo in 1954. Here in America, it's taken just over...

52. Stage

    Despite its hitting the right notes, ATC's The Pajama Game seems, oh, ho hum

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 17, 2008

    I needn't have worked very hard this week reviewing the show I saw, because the noisy dame who sat in front of me critiqued every musical number, every punch line in Arizona...

53. Backstage Pass

    JoAnn Yeoman dishes on her love for John Cleese and Waiting for Guffman and her aversion to stand-up

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 17, 2008

    JoAnn Yeoman's played in everything from Becket to Bye, Bye, Birdie! (her fave role: Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha), from princesses to hookers (currently, in Algonquin...

54. Theater Scene

    Reviews and previews of what's on Valley stages now

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The Oldest Profession: The cast of Algonquin Theater Company's first show of the season features JoAnn Yeoman, Judy Rollings, Sharon Collar, Jacqueline Gaston, and Barbara...

55. DVDish

    Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest, now on DVD, is a Wookiee mistake

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest (Fox) As someone with no use for Seth MacFarlane's potty-mouthed Simpsons rip, I'll admit to choking out a few giggles during his Star Wars...

56. Game On

    Unreal Tournament III blasts new holes in old terrain

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Unreal Tournament III is ideal for overcaffeinated teenage boys with PlayStation 3s, broadband internet connections, extensive online friend lists, hours and hours of time to...

57. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Alex Haley's Queen (Warner Bros.) Amazing Planet Earth (Questar) The Attic (Allumination) Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Warner Bros.) Breaker Morant (Image) Extras: The...

58. Resolution Guide

    Best intentions: Jump high or stay home

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 17, 2008

    I suck at New Year's resolutions. Resolving to discontinue my various bad habits is, I know, nothing more than an exercise in good intentions. Stop eating crap? Curtail my...

59. Resolution Guide

    Fit to be fun: The heck with the gym this year. Here's to exercise that isn't a drag

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Andrea Beesley-Brown ain't crazy about going to the gym. Ask the affable 28-year-old why, and she rattles off some fairly standard anti-fitness excuses: lack of motivation,...

60. Resolution Guide

    Hometown pride: Finding what's special about the 'Nix

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Okay, don't laugh: This year, instead of bashing this sprawling, hot vacuum we call home, I've resolved to stop dissing Phoenix. That's no simple task, because there's...