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For years, Capitol Police officers have arrested people without cause and harassed the homeless.
They target those who hang out along the sidewalks and parking lots near state...
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"Disco sucks" are fighting words to the finely honed ears of Charles Fields, widely known in the world of house music as DJ Feelgood. As a child growing up in Baltimore during...
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I'd have to be a moron not to go for the deal the Blockbuster guy is offering. I came in for one DVD, but the store is running this special, and the salesman's got me doing the...
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The most compelling element of Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta's valentine to a crew of footloose Southern California teenagers who set a radical new style in skateboarding...
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Peter Bogdanovich, maybe the last man alive who wears a neckerchief without irony, holds a copy of a newspaper article in which his old friend Larry McMurtry is saying nice, or...
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On a stark set dressed only with a nondescript console and a couple of chairs, three actors read verbatim transcripts from cockpit voice recorders of six real-life airline...
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The Spike has tried for years to get Phoenix Coyotes owner Steve Ellman to return phone calls about his wily financial maneuvers that led to the needless destruction of the Los...
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During its seven-year tenure as one of indiedom's leading lights, Seattle's 764-Hero has reaped a massive harvest of glowing reviews -- fascinatingly, all written by the same...
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After several years of attending The Best of the Fest event, I can pretty much guarantee that by the end of the evening, I'll be nodding off, stuffed to the gills with hors...
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Poor William Randolph Hearst. The snapping dogs of Hollywood just won't leave the guy alone. It's been barely 60 years since a little epic called Citizen Kane portrayed the...
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Although I spent two and a half hours looking at it the other night, I'm not entirely sure what Ramona is meant to be. I can tell you what it isn't: It's not at all...
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An evil clown. An eccentric French painter. A philandering husband. A fledgling drag queen. Man of a thousand faces, John Leguizamo has played an impressive variety of...
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From guest editorials in the Sunday paper to letters read to congregations across the Valley, Bishop Thomas O'Brien has been on an aggressive campaign to sell himself as a...
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When Hunter Brown was a kid back in Georgia, he used to listen to records in his room and try to play along on the guitar.
It's a necessary rite of passage for all players --...
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Though it's proven in the past that adversity tends to strengthen its resolve, the Phoenix Heat Quadriplegic Rugby team ("Murderball," Susy Buchanan, February 28) found no...
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Years ago, when I lived in Dallas, one of the local bands threw a huge party for itself to celebrate its two-year anniversary. Keeping a band together for two years is a rare,...
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Kids on the SkidsTeen angel, can you hear me?: Please, take the time to read this. I read your article about Christopher Camacho's death at the Adobe Mountain facility ("Dying...
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The "official" record -- Stereo, credited to Paul Westerberg, remember him? -- is sloppy in an "artful" way, meaning songs abruptly end when the tape runs out while others...
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Joy is woefully underrepresented in today's popular music. Your average rock musician would rather admit to an unironic appreciation of Britney Spears than express something so...
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Cibo Matto's 1996 debut, Viva La Woman, was a refreshing blast of ass-shaking grooves and nonsensical lyrics, made distinctive by its evocative samples and spare...
