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They Call Him Dr. Germ

Oct 9, 2008, Vol. 25, No. 33

FEATURE: As UA microbiologist Charles Gerba cheerily explains, billions of nasty microbes await you every day read more »

CURRENTS: Supporters of Proposition 403 want voters to forget about TUSD's past problems and instead look to the future read more »

CINEMA: 'Blindness' is bleak, realistic, well-done and very, very depressing read more »

MUSIC: Bang Camaro takes the best of the '80s and makes it all their own read more »

ARTS: The latest farce presented by LTW is a bit too frantic and way too familiar read more »

BOOKS: An adventure-seeking scribe ventures into drug-producing Mexico and lives to tell the tale read more »

CHOW: For quick, tasty Vietnamese eats, Saigon Phö hits the spot read more »

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2008 Fall Club CrawlTM Venue Details

Schedule subject to change; visit clubcrawl.net for last-minute changes to schedules and maps, and to sign up for free text-message alerts the night of Club Crawl™! Bud Light Lime Music Stage 8 p.m.: Nancy McCallion...

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Beautiful Movement

FUNHOUSE gets some choreographing and taiko help for its free modern-dance concerts in the park

by MARGARET REGAN

Lee Anne Hartley had to learn to dance with a stick for her free Dance in the Park concert this weekend. The stick in question is a "jo stick" used in martial arts. In her...

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Been There, Done That

The latest farce presented by LTW is a bit too frantic and way too familiar

by JAMES REEL

I recently heard someone dismiss Ray Cooney's farce Funny Money as Run for Your Wife 4. In other words, Cooney, Britain's leading farceur, has stitched Funny Money together according to exactly the same pattern he...

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Dollars for the District?

Supporters of Proposition 403 want voters to forget about TUSD's past problems and instead look to the future

by MARI HERRERAS

Ann-Eve Pedersen doesn't have to look at the figures that show Arizona ranks 49th in per-pupil spending on education; she gets to see it firsthand in her son Lars' classroom at Sam Hughes Elementary School....

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Marching Madness

Club Crawl™ headliner Mucca Pazza started out as goofy communal-band fun

by JASON CROCK

Last year, 30-piece "circus punk marching band" Mucca Pazza considered making their way from Chicago to Austin for the South by Southwest music festival. It can be an arduous journey--hundreds of acts are all trying...

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Pick of the Week

Diverse Tucson

by TAYLOR AVEY

Manny Aregullin has waited a long time to perform at the annual Tucson Meet Yourself festival. "My mom always used to take us when I was younger," said Aregullin, music director for the Sovereign Arts...

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Picking on the Pious

Bill Maher skewers religion in his funny, confrontational 'Religulous'

by BOB GRIMM

Organized religion and some of its many followers take a kick in the nards from Bill Maher in Religulous, a funny and sometimes brutal indictment of all things God-related. This documentary is sure to stir...

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Point Spread

How big is John McCain's lead in Arizona? And why is Tim Bee unavailable for comment on the bailout vote?

by JIM NINTZEL

Two polls released last week paint dramatically different pictures of the presidential race in Arizona. A Cronkite-Eight Poll shows Democrat Barack Obama trailing Republican John McCain by just 7 percentage points. But a Rasmussen Reports...

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Relentless Horror

'Blindness' is bleak, realistic, well-done and very, very depressing

by JAMES DIGIOVANNA

It's been said that Blindness succeeds at being thought-provoking, but fails as a thriller. But that's like saying that Citizen Kane succeeds as a movie, but fails as a doughnut recipe. Blindness simply isn't a...

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Requiem for an Arrest

Charges against a Samaritans activist are mysteriously dropped

by TIM VANDERPOOL

As she stood handcuffed in the desert on Jan. 11, Kathryn Ferguson tried to reason things out. She glanced at the hills lacing the smudge of a town called Arivaca, near Nogales. She wondered whether...

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Campaign Fatigue: Join Hilary Meehan Downtown

Tired of the election season? Got a bad case of campaign fatigue? The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has a solution with Hilary Meehan’s Running for Her Life Campaign Kick-Off Performance Speech on Jacome Plaza,...

Your 2008 Fall Club Crawl Lineup! Saturday, Oct. 11

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