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81Julia Child: A Spy Who Knew Her Eggs
La Grande Dame de Cuisine: Julia Child I am basically a self-taught cook, due to the fact that I found my mother’s cooking dull and insipid. So from a very early age, I began to putter in the kitchen. The...
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76The Queen of Salsa: Celia Cruz
When someone says “salsa singer,” one of the first names that springs to mind is “La Reyna,” or the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz. A prolific and flamboyant salsa singer, Celia Cruz’s voice was...
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76Adventures in Good Music Karl Haas
To refer to the late Karl Haas as a “disc jockey” is almost an insult. The creator and host of the longest-running daily classical radio music program in broadcast history entitled “Adventures in Good...
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75More Tales from the Land of Pink Underwear and Green Bologna
Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio's infamous illegal alien “roundups” continue, which invariably result in the arrests of a few brown-skinned American citizens. They, in turn, file lawsuits for...
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80Brain Surgery Ain't No Salad (with apologies to EL&P)
Thirteen years ago this week, on February 9th,I was admitted to Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix after a CT scan revealed the source of my 6-month old headaches. When I first started seeing my...
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77Ruminations on Trephination
Being a former brain surgery patient, I remain fascinated by the subject. Ancient brain surgery proved to be almost too much for even me, however! On a recent peregrination to San Diego, I happened to...
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75Jazz Guitarist Sonny Sharrock--Ask the Ages
People can either take or leave jazz. There are those that are absolutely passionate about it; those that are snobs over it; those that are entirely dismissive of a lot of what is out there today and there...
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75The Toughest Sheriff in America
I am an Arizona native, born in Maricopa County. Over the years, we’ve had numerous county sheriffs who have worked to uphold the law in concert with the surrounding municipalities’ chiefs of police....
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73Koko Taylor -- Queen of the Blues
We lost another of the blues greats this week with the passing of Cora Walton aka Koko Taylor, on Wednesday, June 3rd, following complications from a May surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding. She was 80...
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75Think Your Sex Life is Private? Think Again!
You may or may not recall the birth control method called an intrauterine device or “IUD,” but many women relied on them after assurances from their doctor that they were “safe and reliable” and...
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