Craig Willbanks wants you to know that John McCain--former prisoner of war, current senator, White House aspirant--is a traitor, a liar and a wimp. Willbanks and McCain...
Monsters of Grace, the latest in a series of collaborations between composer Philip Glass and theater mastermind Robert Wilson, is commonly described in press releases as a...
Flo's, 14850 North Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, Scottsdale, 661-8883. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday,...
"I hope it's better than The Truman Show," said the woman in line behind me at the publicized "sneak preview" of EDtv. Afterward, a man in my row declared, "That was a lot...
So you've seen all the Oscar winners and also-rans, and you've caught up with whatever might vaguely be interesting among current releases. Don't panic, you needn't resort to...
Closed Government The Arizona Legislature thinks you're an idjet. Yeah, you. Specifically you, sitting there, sipping your (insert name of tasty beverage here) and...
Joe Zawinul is discussing the kinship between musicians and boxers. "When I see a fighter, like when I hear someone play music, I know right away if the motherfucker has got...
Channel Eight Is Enough: If you watch public television's KAET-TV, you've probably seen enough promos for its new cooking series, Savor the Southwest, to think you've already...
Ginger and Fred. Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. To the list of unforgettable movie dance partnerships, we may now add Omar Epps,...
"It's a serious subject, and people tend to put it in this sort of serious shelf," says Rodrigo Duarte Clark. "But life doesn't stop being humorous just because people are...
For six months, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has ordered one of his employees to spy on a key member in the election campaign of Tom Bearup, the only announced candidate seeking to...
Leave it to Austin. The self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World" finally has a band go platinum after two decades of false alarms, and it's deemed such an epochal...
Imagine a bunch of kids watching the classic 1956 film musical The King and I on television, then going outside and spending the rest of the afternoon acting it out in the...
thursday march 25 In Paula Vogel's drama How I Learned to Drive, a teenage girl known as Li'l Bit is taught to drive by her Uncle Peck in '60s-era Maryland. Arizona...
Improper food storage! Clogged sinks! Insect residue! Tagging along with county restaurant health inspectors, KTVK-TV Channel 3's crack news team regularly brings viewers...
Blur 13 (Virgin Records) In the end, "Song 2" meant nothing. It was Britpop masquerading as Seattle rock, a hit single that was all release and no tension. How very...
Rudy Mendoza says he believes in working through the system. So when he found a racially charged statement by a Phoenix cop in his neighborhood's Block Watch newsletter, he...
Mimes are usually mute and wave gloved hands in the air. Actors pretend to be someone--anyone--else. Yet you never know what to expect from performance artists. One day they're...
Tile Counsel I just finished reading your article in the Phoenix newspaper ("Wordstock Nation," Dewey Webb, March 11) and it was such a masterpiece I just had to write and...
Those who enjoy wasting time and money on one spectacularly horrible theater production per season shouldn't miss Insurrection: Holding History. This perfectly execrable...