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1. Feature

   One mom's struggle to keep her son alive in the state's care highlights the challenges of supporting the developmentally disabled

   By Megan Irwin

   Published: February 28, 2008

   A late-July monsoon beat down on the roof of BJ Bolender's Honda as she drove the streets of west Phoenix, desperate to find her son Drew. He was at a house somewhere in...

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   Art "Buddy" Edwards

   By Clay McNear

   Published: February 28, 2008

   The co-founder of one of Arizona's all-time-great alt bands, The Refreshments, has carved out a very cool vanity niche for himself as a rock novelist. A wha?! Yep, the...

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   Mike Alewitz

   By Clay McNear

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Dubya's gone, and there's not another viable Bush on the horizon. Life is good, right? Well, the problem with victory is that she's the twin sister of defeat, and ne'er these...

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   Local to Global Justice Teach-In

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Tune in and turn on at this activist nirvana, which addresses some of the ills and issues of the times with a slate of socially conscious workshops, musical performances, and...

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   Moulin Rouge à la Rocky Horror

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Live performers/singers give director Baz Luhrmann's 2001 Nicole Kidman/Ewan MacGregor flick the full-on Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive/audience participation treatment...

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   The Brainy Bunch

   Theater troupe wants to blow your mind

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: February 28, 2008

   We’re not sure how SITI Company’s going to match its first Valley performance, which took place in April 2007, but we’re confident that the troupe can and will...

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   I Spit on Your Rave

   By Adriane Goetz

   Published: February 28, 2008

   As long as the production of hallucinogenic drugs and electronic music continues, raving will ensue. For those who dig the beats, but not the candy necklace/pacifier/glowstick...

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   The Sexual Devolution

   Women jog two steps forward, one step back in Tempe

   By Sloane Burwell

   Published: February 28, 2008

   If you’d told the first bunch of bra-burning, you-go-girl protesters that their granddaughters would pay money to run in a skirt, they would have bopped you on the head...

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   Word War Three

   How to stymie the office slut

   By Nina Carapetyan

   Published: February 28, 2008

   You recently got into a verbal confrontation with one of your co-workers, the one who does the ol’ in-and-out with the boss to retain her job. Her behavior (along with her...

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    The Crepes of Wrath

    Here’s some grub that won’t make a French chef blubber

    By Nina Carapetyan

    Published: February 28, 2008

    In the land of red, white, and blue, we think our diet of breaded SPAM, hot dogs, and underage girls is up to par, but any French chef worth his fleur de sel would blubber...

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    The Porn Supremacy

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Sure, we look good without a bra and we're sexually aggressive, but stacked up against the girls in Russ Meyer’s films, we're just pasty faced nuns pulling on our rosary...

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    It's All Geek To Us

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: February 28, 2008

    If you’ve ever broken your leg while playing the Wii (and we know somebody who has), there’s a good chance you have a serious obsession with video games. Find out how...

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    Location, Location, Location

    Deadline, deadline, deadline

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Poor Melvyn. His daily walk, which usually doesn’t amount to much more than waving at or chatting up his neighbors, is today filled with crises and mayhem. Plus, it’s...

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    Cactus League, Week Two

    Snakes come out of hibernation

    By Clay McNear

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Anytime you squeeze a bunch of big-league crybabies like Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, and Vladimir Guerrero into a snug space like the Valley, there’s gonna be drama....

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    Cactus League, Week Two

    Snakes come out of hibernation

    By Clay McNear

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Anytime you squeeze a bunch of big-league crybabies like Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, and Vladimir Guerrero into a snug space like the Valley, there’s gonna be drama....

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    "Up From the Ashes: Phoenix Goes to Mars"

    By Clay McNear

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Let's not pull punches. Phoenicians detest Tucsonans, their Birkenstock flip-flops and patchouli cologne, their laissez-faire approach to life, their liberal voting habits. (On...

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    Byte Me

    MySpace sucks. These guys don’t.

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Every time we log on to MySpace, we cringe. Not because of its inherent narcissism or the music promoter who posts the same bulletin 27 times in a row. We huff and sigh because...

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    Arizona Cactus League Baseball: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

    Published: February 28, 2008

    All games start at 1:05 p.m.; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 3/1 vs. Cubs; 3/3 vs. Athletics; 3/6 vs. Giants; 3/7 vs. White Sox (ss); 3/8 vs. Giants (Angels ss); 3/10 vs....

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    Arizona Cactus League Baseball: San Diego Padres

    Published: February 28, 2008

    All games start at 1:05 p.m. unless otherwise noted; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 2/29 vs. Royals; 3/1 vs. Mariners; 3/4 vs. Giants; 3/6 vs. Rockies; 3/7 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/9...

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    Arizona Cactus League Baseball: Chicago Cubs

    Published: February 28, 2008

    All games start at 1:05 p.m. unless otherwise noted; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 2/29 vs. Giants (ss); 3/2 vs. Giants; 3/4 vs. Brewers; 3/7 vs. Mariners; 3/8 vs. Diamondbacks...