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21. Letters

    Letters from the issue of Thursday, February 14, 2008

    Published: February 14, 2008

    SPINNING GLOBE Higher learning: It is funny how the principal of Globe High School, according to Sarah Fenske ("Whadafxup With That?" February 7), suggests that Globe is...

22. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    Strange but true: Legal immigrants are known to rat out their undocumented countrymen

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: February 14, 2008

    My parents were Greeks who legally immigrated to the United States in 1920. When it became harder for Greeks to immigrate, they began to jump ship in New York. My father...

23. Music

    Seasoned veterans Los Lobos create cinematic music as they touch upon some thorny issues

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Ask your music-loving friend, record-store clerk, or average Joe on the street which band or artist they think has a finger on the pulse of American rock 'n' roll more than...

24. Niki at Nite

    Music editor Niki D'Andrea hangs with Ludacris at his star-studded Super Bowl concert

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: February 14, 2008

    If somebody had told me that one night, I'd be on my knees, staring at Ludacris' crotch for two hours, I'd never have believed them. But here I am, on the Saturday night...

25. Club Candids

    Beautiful barflies at AZ88

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Ever since we loitered at the Scottsdale Civic Center as 14-year-olds, we've been dying to drink at AZ88. Its banana-boat lighting and pink bathrooms were so enticing that we...

26. Shrapnel

    Love will be a many-splintered thing if you put any of these 12 songs on your Valentine's Day mix

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Every man has made at least one. The romantic mix CD is a sure-fire way to woo a woman's heart or, if your goals are more base, get laid. With Valentine's Day around the...

27. Niki's Pick

    Various Artists

    Ludacris Presents Disturbing Tha Peace
    (Disturbing Tha Peace)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Released in 2005, this was the second compilation (of three, so far) designed to showcase the artists on Ludacris' DTP label. Of the 17 tracks here, Luda appears on eight...

28. Listen Up

    The Heavy Circles

    The Heavy Circles
    (Dynamite Child)

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Roughly two years after her comeback album with New Bohemians (2006's Stranger Things), Edie Brickell gets together with stepson Harper Simon for a collection of new songs that...

29. Listen Up

    Nick Lowe

    Jesus of Cool
    (Yep Roc)

    By Thomas Bond

    Published: February 14, 2008

    In the midst of his career renaissance as the silver-fox master of many musical milieus comes the 30th anniversary reissue of Nick Lowe's debut solo album. Jesus of Cool has...

30. Home Grown

    Vocab Malone

    Notepad Nomad
    (self-released)

    By Joe Golfen

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Phoenix-based hip-hop artist Vocab Malone is clearly passionate about two things: God and rap — so much so, that he spends his 15-song album explaining this to you,...

31. Live Wire

    Emery

    By Joe Golfen

    Published: February 14, 2008

    It seems every time you turn around, a new Hot Topic-approved emo band appears. So, to break away from the rest of the gloomy pack, Seattle quintet Emery has relied on its...

32. Live Wire

    Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Rock stars often sing of desperation — touring is hell (fans and groupies want of piece of you, sigh), gimme shelter (in a private helicopter), and "you don't have to...

33. Live Wire

    Sia

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: February 14, 2008

    If you're looking for the ideal business model of how to achieve pop success in a marketplace where radio play lists keep shrinking and album sales are no longer a financial...

34. Live Wire

    G. Love & Special Sauce

    By Chris Parker

    Published: February 14, 2008

    G. Love's voice rides a rollercoaster of melodies — up, down, and around hairpin turns with a crafty grace that owes as much to old-school hip-hop as it does to classic...

35. Live Wire

    Baby Dee

    By j. poet

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Baby Dee became a legend in New York's art music underground for her antics with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and her penchant for roaming the city on a gigantic tricycle,...

36. Needle Exchange

    Ultra DJ Spin Off

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Normally, we avoid pimping our company's shit in this column (so as to avoid becoming soulless corporate shills and all), but we figured y'all would let us slide on plugging...

37. Turntable

    Seven nights of DJs and dancing

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: February 14, 2008

    THURSDAY 14 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) The Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones: Da Gutter...

38. Cafe

    Michele Laudig discovers a heaping helping of country fried soul at the Ranch House Grille

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: February 14, 2008

    I love a good mystery. There's a tiny, vintage strip mall at 56th Street and Thomas that's seen a slew of restaurants come and go over the years, and I've often wondered why...

39. Booze Pig

    A visit to the new Chez Nous leaves Booze Pig longing for the old sty

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: February 14, 2008

    I had so many memories of drinking in the afternoons with transvestites and guys doing lines in the bathrooms at the cool, old haunt that used to occupy the corner of Seventh...

40. Film

    In George Romero's latest zombie picnic, Diary of the Dead, ghouls feast on the Facebook generation

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. "If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off," says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film...