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21. Night & Day

    Hitsville USA

    By Clay McNear

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Every generation or so, the universe slips off its axis and Detroit catches a break. Right now, Motown’s livin’ large with the success of the Detroit Tigers, Pistons,...

22. Night & Day

    Interactive Imagination

    San Francisco artist’s never met a stranger

    By Peter Breslin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    If you usually go to a museum for quiet contemplation, ditch Josh Greene’s “Some Parts Might Be Greater Than the Whole” exhibit, which encourages elbow-rubbing...

23. Night & Day

    Deconstructing Destroyer

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Like most of the output from Vancouver indie-rock band Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams is a beguiling album that’s hard to pin down. Full of surrealistic tales of lost love...

24. Night & Day

    Pat Murphy's Law

    Everything that can go right will go right for high-riding Devils

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Hey, Pat Murphy. It’s time to stop worrying. Really, man. Unless your ASU Baseball squad drops its remaining seven games (which ain’t gonna happen), your team is...

25. Night & Day

    Phoenix Surplus Public Auction

    Published: May 15, 2008

    How serendipitous! We've been looking high and low for a scissor lift, a portable light plant, and a used garbage truck. Also up for for grabs at this annual city-merch...

26. Night & Day

    Shadow Play

    Published: May 15, 2008

    The Backwards Theatre honchos behind this production describe it as "a bizarre evening of experimental theater . . . in exploration of the shadow realm." If that doesn't grab...

27. Fenske

    Sheriff Joe wants to read Phil Gordon’s e-mail

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: May 15, 2008

    When Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon spoke out against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he had to know that retaliation would be swift. After all, past critics of the sheriff's...

28. News

    New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list

    By John Dickerson

    Published: May 15, 2008

     New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey has been honored with the Arizona Press Club's Distinguished Service Award. The lifetime accolade was given for...

29. Letters

    Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 15, 2008

    Published: May 15, 2008

    HEAR IT FOR THE BAND They're Digital Summer!: Digital Summer is an amazing band that has so much talent and deserves this type of recognition and much more ("Sticker Shock,"...

30. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    The Mexican on unjustly claiming cultural heritage and linguistic mix-ups

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 15, 2008

    My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising amount of angry responses — by real Scotsmen furious that letter writer...

31. Music

    The Dirtbombs discover a darker sound in We Have You Surrounded

    By Jay Bennett

    Published: May 15, 2008

    A hard-working rock 'n' roll band from Detroit, after nearly 15 years of recording and gigging all over the world, gets its best-known song placed in an Oscar-nominated movie...

32. Music

    Local MC Justus wants you to “get your A’z up”

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: May 15, 2008

    By all appearances, Justus is livin' large. The half-Greek kid from north Phoenix who once jumped onstage with The Roots and commandeered a mic as a freestylin' fan is now...

33. Shrapnel

    Front man Dan Bejar deconstructs Destroyer

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Like most of the output from Vancouver indie-rock band Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams is a beguiling album that's hard to pin down. Full of surrealistic tales of lost love and...

34. Shrapnel

    Singer Josh Grier puts his spin on Tapes 'N Tapes' recent reviews

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Minneapolis quartet Tapes 'n Tapes was one of the first examples of both the "blog buzz" and "Pitchfork effect" phenomena — widespread online fawning made their 2005...

35. Listen Up

    Mariah Carey

    E=MC²
    (Island)

    By Dan Leroy

    Published: May 15, 2008

    It's a tad disconcerting to hear Mariah Carey's once-unrestrained voice squeezed through producer T-Pain's trademark auto-tune warble machine. "Migrate" kicks off E=MC²,...

36. Listen Up

    Colin Meloy

    Colin Meloy Sings Live!
    (Kill Rock Stars)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Best known as the frontman for the Decemberists, Colin Meloy has occasionally gone the solo acoustic route. Sings Live!, compiled from assorted performances across the USA in...

37. Live Wire

    Harptallica

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Unlike corn or that long-overdue Scott Baio retrospective on The Biography Channel, the world is not running low on Metallica cover bands. After performing a quick Internet...

38. Live Wire

    Tera Melos

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: May 15, 2008

    To play math rock, especially the heavy, spazz-out variety, pretty much means to beat a dead horse. Audiences have become so accustomed to bands trying to freak them out that...

39. Live Wire

    Dios Malos

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Dios Malos gets points right off the bat for arousing the ire of none other than Ronnie James Dio, who, in a particularly befuddled show of hubris, ordered the band to change...

40. Needle Exchange

    Blunt Club's Six-Year Anniversary Party

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Your sixth birthday fiesta might have been the shiznit way back in the day — especially with pony rides, clowns, and a moon jump — but we guaran-damn-tee it...