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The pinball symphony of 400 slot machines morphs into the thump and wail of a Yavapai-Apache drum circle as I leave the dim, eau d'ashtray interior of the Cliff Castle Casino...
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Was it Magnet, Spin or Pulse! that first coined the insidious term "stoner rock" in an effort to describe a new sound emerging from the desert? The sound that's at times...
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Tal's, 13610 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-348-0086. Hours: Dinner, Monday through Thursday, 5:30 to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 5:30 to 10 p.m.; closed Sunday.
When...
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First published under the title The Iron Man in Great Britain in 1968, The Iron Giant is a minor classic of 20th-century children's literature. The slim volume by the English...
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Ever since he was a boy, Richard Warren has been haunted by Buffalo Bill. In an attempt to exorcise his Wild West demon, Warren ditched a career in public relations and, in...
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Steven Spielberg wants your money. This isn't exactly news -- he's forever coming up with new and better ways of parting you from your dough, in theaters and out. GameWorks in...
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The Trap
On July 1, the day after sheriff's detectives Antone Jacobs and Phil Dougherty interviewed informant Burrows at Perryville, the Sheriff's Office asked the Department...
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Brad Bird, the adapter/director of the warmhearted animated feature The Iron Giant, made his name with edgier fare: He created TV's Family Dog, and worked on such series as The...
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Chris Hillman knew Gram Parsons perhaps better than anyone, or at least as well as anyone could know a wealthy young man dedicated to living fast, loving hard, dying young, and...
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Gregorian Enchantment: What's the best restaurant in town? There's no indisputable answer. But right now, after a memorable revisit, my list of top contenders would have to...
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So what would it be like to cab around the city with a record-company weasel, a couple of writers, a punk-rock singer, a porn-PR pro and an adult-film star wielding a large...
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It's hot out. Thank God New Times is around to break stories like this that other Valley media outlets won't touch, but we aren't content just to bellyache -- we offer...
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The governor's Growing Smarter Commission is visiting a dozen cities in Arizona this summer, offering free cookies and drinks and a 13-page draft report that could shape the...
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Someone once said of Gram Parsons that "his sadness was like his image." That he "should have played the blues." Had he been born a poor black sharecropper's son, he probably...
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In the highly competitive, dog-eat-dog world of the modern-day superhero, the members of the group that eventually becomes known as the Mystery Men -- they don't really have a...
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In 1986, when the city of Phoenix entered into an agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to re-dedicate a 1,365-acre tract of federal land as a city park, housing...
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It's a Thursday, early in the evening, and the barroom at Tempe's Balboa Cafe is abuzz with more than the usual happy-hour rumblings. In a corner by the stage, amid the din of...
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Runaway Bride, the long-anticipated reunion of Pretty Woman stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, isn't a sequel, but it feels like one. In everything, there is a distinct...
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The city of Phoenix has created a monster, and his name is Steve Cohn.
In the past three months, Cohn -- the managing director of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Phoenix,...
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Ween
Paintin' the Town Brown
(Elektra)
Paintin' the Town Brown, the most recent offering from demented duo Ween, reeks of contractual obligation or more likely Elektra's...
