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Through binoculars at night, the corner of Ninth Avenue and Madison Street is a murky scene of people milling in the dark. Yet the few lights in the area radiate just enough...
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By definition, grindcore is an abrasive form of music. It's fast, harsh and noisy, residing somewhere between metal and punk, and inevitably confusing fans of both. Born out...
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Michael Monti's of Scottsdale, 7500 East Pinnacle Peak Road, Scottsdale, 480-585-3000. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and...
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The latest release from Paramount Pictures' bouncing baby, MTV Films, is set in a high school and has been inoculated with the usual doses of teenage angst, teenage wit, and...
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There's something unsettling about the overwrought lunatics created by playwright Richard Dresser. It isn't their crabby personalities or their limitless capacity for...
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My eldest sister--though she is herself the wonderful mother of two devoted daughters, and the devoted daughter of a wonderful mother--once told me that she had no special...
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Sitting on the couch, Shawndra Lee stretches, bored, as her mom talks about their HMO coverage. Her back cracks with a sound like a rifle shot. The loud snap is one of the...
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The scene is a self-serve copy shop on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, the time is several years ago and the protagonist is Wesley Willis, beloved local icon. Willis is built...
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Cheese Wiz: Readers with long memories may recall a column I did in this space about a year ago about one of the world's great cheeses, mozzarella di bufala.
Italians have...
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The most surprising thing about the new teensploitation horror film Idle Hands is the lack of masturbation jokes. It is a movie about a 17-year-old boy who loses control of...
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Early in this century, Russia's western borders rippled like a ribbon in the wind. Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed--you could wake up on the wrong side of...
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Lance Paul Hawthorne was not a model citizen.
When a landlord attempted in 1989 to evict Hawthorne for not paying rent, the overweight, sparsely employed photographer...
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"Who's in charge of this? Is it okay if I sing?"
The question came from Peacemakers guitarist Steve Larson. The answer was a soft murmur, neither affirmative nor negative....
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The "SLC" in SLC Punk! stands for Salt Lake City, but it might as well stand for Some Lucky Chump. The filmmaker, James Merendino, has stated that this tale of two punk...
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thursday
may 6
Veteran comic Jackie Mason--namesake of Oxford's postgraduate Jackie Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism--brings his show "Much Ado About...
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Grandstanding
Maricopa County has a critical stadium/arena shortage. Sports venues are few and far between.
At least you'd think that was the case, based on the...
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Ben Folds Five
The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
(550 Music)
It's a strange paradox of the music industry that a recording artist's most common response to...
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In familiar, stoic poses, the Duke hangs purposefully among framed moments of bronco busting, ranch landscapes, and flyers publicizing an event called "Bill Williams Steak Fry...
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We keep hearing rumblings that Phoenix has emerged as a major metropolis. Some inhabitants even take pride in the smog they inhale, viewing it as confirmation that we're in...
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Outside the Center for the New Age in Sedona, Oak Creek babbled like an inner child as rental SUVs on Highway 179 roared like angry parents.
Above the din, professional...
