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Editor's note: The names of juveniles throughout these stories have been changed to protect their privacy. Although their criminal case files are public record, their...
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Summer 1954. As the rickety Greyhound bus winds down Interstate 10 toward Arizona, the ocean breeze slowly melts into the hot desert air. Sitting in the back of the dusty...
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Sushi Brokers
Pity the poor sushi. The once classic combination of pristine fish, vegetables and vinegared rice has been mainstreamed. As the number of traditional sushi bars...
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Kiss of the Dragon -- the latest vehicle for martial arts star Jet Li, a mainland Chinese talent who became a superstar in Hong Kong and has since succumbed to the...
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The will-call line for The Vagina Monologues snaked all the way across the lobby of the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, and I was the only man in it. That is, until another...
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Basket weaving can be wild. Really. A stroll through the newest exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum proves it. "The Ties That Bind: Fiber Art by Ed Rossbach and...
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On a warm day in mid-May, the Black Canyon School campus is quiet and clean, the rose and hibiscus bushes as well-groomed as the girls in their white sneakers, khakis and...
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California-born, Phoenix-bred Al Casey is part of the vast secret history of rock and roll, one of a legion of "session men" -- though the term is insufficient to describe...
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Steve is miffed. A 12-year Valley resident and self-proclaimed weekly reader of New Times, he says he has "never been so enraged by an article to [prompt him to] respond to...
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Even more than the recent Depression-era comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the turn-of-the-century drama Songcatcher is an absolute treasure-trove of old-timey, traditional...
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"Why the heck would anyone want to do a play about that?"I've been speaking for more than an hour with "Tony," a convicted sex offender, about Mr. Bundy, Jane Martin's one-act...
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The month of our independence, July is that time when Americans reflect on the qualities that make our nation great -- and in Phoenix, in July, no such quality is more...
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Fifteen-year-old Sun Lynn Henage threatened another girl with a butter knife after the girl cut ahead of her in line for the shower at the group home where they both lived....
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Country music history boasts many fruitful collaborations among family members: The Louvin Brothers, the Carter Family, the Stanley Brothers, Bill and Earle Bolick (the Blue...
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Originally, this was to be a story about how Stan Lee, the industry icon who ran Marvel Comics for decades and co-created Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, wound up remaking...
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A burgeoning partnership between Phoenix's La Campesina radio station and a new business relocating to the Valley is expected to shake up a growing money transfer market that...
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Albums like Pleasure Forever's eponymous release make me think of that great Charlie Parker quote, the one about how there are only two kinds of music: Good and Bad. By which...
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The operator of a boot camp for troubled teenagers where a 14-year-old boy died Sunday has a long history of violence, deception and shady financial dealings that sparked a...
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Summer's here and the time is right for . . . well, not much, seeing as how there's precious little on the horizon worth anticipating except for maybe the new Joe Stummer LP....
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Shalom RunPeace offering: I am disappointed that political instability threatens the safety of athletes competing for their country ("This Jew Won't Bunt," Paul Rubin, June...
