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Mention Lake Havasu City, and most people will pounce on the hamlet's hellacious heat, a triple-digit mind-roaster that frequently tops out the nation's thermometer. Either...
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No one would have blamed Ron Sexsmith if he'd decided to skip the Valley on his current tour. His last visit here, in July of 1997, qualified as a perfect disaster.
First...
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Buca di Beppoed: Readers may recall the food fight in New Times' letters section several weeks ago over my review of Buca di Beppo. Some correspondents bashed me; others sided...
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Disney departed from its usual practice of basing its big animated features on classic literature or myth when it made what has proved to be one of the studio's most popular...
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In most parts of this planet, the arrival of the day of the year when the sun is out the longest is a cause for celebration. Here in Arizona, though, the Summer Solstice...
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Step inside the "Vaginal Vault," Dr. Brian Finkel's nickname for the clinic where he performs more than 2,000 abortions a year.
Finkel's clinic, the Metro Phoenix Women's...
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When septuagenarian bluesman T-Model Ford sings "I'm Insane," he's not playing around. Even in a musical genre defined by tough times and hard-luck stories, Ford's life stands...
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Barmouche, 3131 East Camelback, Phoenix, 602-956-6900. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Dinner, Saturday, 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday, 5 to 10...
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Anthology films are an odd-duck genre: While there once was a time--long gone--when books of short stories were published with nearly the frequency of novels, their cinematic...
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It guards the door, like something out of whimsical sci-fi: a ferocious-looking dog pieced together out of rusted-out automobile parts. Shock absorbers form the legs, the body...
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Look, Ma, No Hands!
Provoked by a heady blend of overwhelming demand and genetic tendencies toward shameless self-promotion, the Flash is pleased to turn this weekly column...
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Sadly, the Sunset-strip scene of the '80s took the New York Dolls' name and dragged it through a thick, shit-infested mud bath, the kind through which few other pop...
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It has not been lost on the Quinn brothers--actor Aidan, cinematographer Declan, and writer/director Paul--that in old Gaelic culture the tribal bard, or storyteller, was held...
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thursday
june 17
Comic and masterful impersonator Craig Shoemaker--his repertoire includes ace renditions of Don Knotts and Patrick Stewart--returns to the Valley, the...
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Balkanization
While online looking for an article, I not unintentionally arrived at New Times. My purpose was to take a quick look at what's really happening in the desert...
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Cibo Matto
Stereo Type A
(Warner Bros.)
When Cibo Matto made it to MTV in 1996 with a goofy, giddy novelty song called "Know Your Chicken," the natural reaction among...
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We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight/Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane.
--Bob Dylan
A couple of prostitutes step off the dimly lit street...
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Before she burned her rear while sitting on a toilet in the kindergarten rest room, before she discovered that children were being forced to stand in the sun as a form of...
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Looking over my county government's plan to destroy the warehouse district south of downtown Phoenix, I wonder if the schizophrenic crackheads who roam there at night came up...
