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La Mission: Macho Meets Homo in this Laudable But Terrible Film

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission ... Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt's second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a swaggering, neck-tattooed macho who will finally realize the damage his rock-hard masculin ...

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Karate Kid Remake Is Too Cynical to Catch a Fly with Chopsticks

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Like its predecessor, 2010's Harald Zwart-directed The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother (Taraji P. Henson) are introduced in the Detroit apartment that he grew up in, now packed into boxes. Ralph Macchio shipped off to the Valley; Dre is going ...

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Tea Party T-Shirt: Can What You Wear Determine Whether You Can Go to the Polls?

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Diane Wickberg had never really been political. The 55-year-old Flagstaff grandmother was a registered Independent — and not just in name only ... "I just voted for the person who would fit my moral beliefs," she tells me. "If they were Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent, I ...

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Ask a Mexican on Vale Verga and Swimming with Clothes On

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

I worked a summer job during college in southern Arizona during the late 1960s, when most of my co-workers were Mexicans from the state of Sonora. Their favorite expression when something was broken was ... no vale verga ... , literally "Not worth dick," but actually meaning "totally ...

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Gloryhole

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

The music world's seen a lot of reunions lately. Morris Day and the Time are getting back together; as are legendary '60s Brit-rockers The Faces (albeit without Rod Stewart), and even the members of Velvet Revolver have been working on some new material. This even extends to the local level, as the ...

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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 10, 2010

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

TIN-POT DICTATORS ... Joe and Andy have no scruples: What Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas did to that poor judge is truly criminal ... With the other coun ...

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Phoenix Coyotes re-sign Scottie Upshall to 1-year contract

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Published June 9, 2010 at 7:50 p.m.

General Manager Don Maloney, with a new budget in hand, now will deal the remaining free agents ...

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Gameday Thread, #60: 6/9 vs. Braves

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Published June 9, 2010 at 7:45 p.m.

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Kenshin Kawakami ... RHP, 0-8, 4.91 ... Ian Kennedy ... RHP, 3-3, 3.46 ... If we can stop Kawakami from getting the victory tonight, he'll have gone winless for a dozen starts at the beginning of the season - that's a streak which hasn't been surpassed in the NL since Matt Beech went without a W over his first fifteen starts for the '97 Phillies. Needless to say, I am hoping this proves to be the case, rather than the Diamondbacks being the first team in 2010 to provide the taste of victory to

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