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1. Feature

   Relentless stickering and guerrilla marketing have made Digital Summer one of the Valley’s hottest bands

   By Benjamin Leatherman

   Published: May 8, 2008

   It's a warm night in March, and the city of Scottsdale is under siege. Under cover of darkness, a fanatical force more than a dozen strong moves through the suburb, with the...

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   Radiation Vibe

   Dallas minx pushes the UV index off the charts at Myst

   By Lilia Menconi

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Attention, fellas. If you want to know your lady ain’t a ho, get her naked and check for tan lines. If she’s got ’em, that’s a good sign. It means...

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   Shakin’, Not Stirred

   Pacific NW band plays everything but the South Pole

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: May 8, 2008

   The press release for Pink Martini’s upcoming performance in Scottsdale has this to say about the 12-piece ensemble from (where else?) Portland, Oregon: “a cross...

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   Classical Gas

   Bartók? de Falla? Led Zeppelin? Sweet.

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: May 8, 2008

   If you didn’t attend March’s Downtown Chamber Series concert . . . oh, man. That Crumb piece with the pitched wine glasses, intense violin and cello sections, and...

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   Eclipse of the Suns

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: May 8, 2008

   The Phoenix Mercury were 2007 WNBA champions. Remember? Of course you don’t, dammit, because they don’t get much love in our Suns-obsessed city. Well, we’re not...

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   Everybody Loves Raiment

   Living clothes to the edge with Angela Johnson

   By Leslie Barton

   Published: May 8, 2008

   What we know about fashion could fit inside one of our C cups, but we do know what we like, and Angela Johnson's Vaudeville Style Mystery Menagerie Fall 2008 Collection Fashion...

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   I Survived Concerts Under the Stars

   If you can’t stand the heat, get into the slightly cooler heat

   By Clay McNear

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Anyone who’s survived a few Phoenix summers recognizes that there’s a subtle linguistic thing going on with the phrase “under the stars.” Many arts groups...

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   Off-Off-Off Broadway

   Film star draws on vaudeville to sell his odd little movie

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Crispin Glover doesn’t want to be misquoted. He’s worried that journalists don’t understand his peculiar new film, What Is It?, so he asks that interviews about...

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   Mexican-America's Sweetheart

   By Philip Haldiman

   Published: May 8, 2008

   When you have a successful book and a syndicated column featured in 35 newspapers, what’s a Mexican to do next? Well, we asked the Mexican, and here’s what he told...

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    Trigger Happy

    By Clay McNear

    Published: May 8, 2008

    One review of the flick She’s Got It – which opens the Celebrating Israel at 60 Film Festival – used the descriptors “goofy,” “adorable,” and...

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    Standards of Excellence

    Jazz luminary sings the classics – better than we thought

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: May 8, 2008

    We recently discovered that we’ve been taking Dennis Rowland for granted, especially after the most prominent straight-ahead jazz vocalist in town schooled us last month...

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    Got MILF?

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: May 8, 2008

    You knew this day was coming. Ever since America’s favorite acronym hit the mainstream in America’s quintessential get drunk/get laid flick American Pie, you knew...

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    DIY'd in the Wool

    Asian Man founder pushes punk philosophy from the ground up

    By Jose Gonzalez

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Mike Park boasts quite the résumé. He fronted the legendary ska-punk band Skankin' Pickle, founded the Plea for Peace Foundation – which is Park's effort "to...

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    Summer Slam

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Digital Summer is one of the most popular bands in the Valley. Their shows attract hundreds of screaming fans who crowd the stage and sing along with such hard-rockin melodic...

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    Neverland on Grand

    By Clay McNear

    Published: May 8, 2008

    If Peter Pan owned a gallery, it would be Trunk Space, that Neverland on Grand. Our dauntless Lost Kids strike again on with their SuperFun Activity Challenge!, featuring the...

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    Lucky 13

    Chester Bennington and crew celebrate indie success

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Thirteen, an unlucky number to many, is actually an impressive figure if you’re talking about the life span of a typical indie business in Phoenix. Maybe that’s why...

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    Wings of Desire

    Flapping beauties wrap up their stay at DBG

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Oh, the lovely, majestic butterfly. There isn’t a person in the world who could hate these gorgeous critters. They give unattractive people hope that morphing from a fat...

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    Lions for Lambs

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: May 8, 2008

    In this hell-ride of a season, the ASU Baseball team is looking to play somebody (anybody!) that isn’t a powerhouse program. You’d think that Loyola Marymount would...

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    By Odin’s Beard!

    Viking metal fest sounds like a kick in the Asgard

    By Clay McNear

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Heed our command, insignificant humans: Attend Pagan Fest USA or we lords of Asgard shall smite thee with our mighty gavel, Mjolnir! The thundering Norse beasts we have...

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    A Marriage Made in Hell

    Rivetheads, goths snuggle up at Homme

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: May 8, 2008

    We were leaning against the DJ booth at Homme for the Thursday-night weekly FALLOUT when someone's shadow sidled up and queried, "So, you a rivethead or a cybergoth?" Granted,...