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As a reader, it can be easy to assume that all the critics at a particular publication are more or less of the same mind, but here at New Times, that isn't the case. We're just...
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By Charlie Bertsch, Jonathan Bond, Serene Dominic, Brendan Joel Kelley, Jimmy Magahern, Christopher O'Connor, Piotr Orlov and Mikael Wood Published:
January 1, 2004
"Here, put this on."
Nearly everyone you met in 2003 came with a personal soundtrack. From the little middle school "sevvie" in your car pool who carried a personal mix CD in...
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For good or ill, it was Dean Martin who led me to Pronto Ristorante. Not that I mean Ol' Pink Eyes himself arose from his grave to guide me, drink and cigarette in hand, to...
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Not unlike Kurt Vonnegut, J.R.R. Tolkien remains a massively popular author whose seemingly "morbid" work often reflects surviving the horrors of war, firsthand. Tolkien was...
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Depending on whom you talk to, Richard Wizardry is either a madcap genius or just another crackpot artist with a lot of leftover scrap metal and too much time on his hands....
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"The trends in book sales showed that African-American authors were crossing into the mainstream with a wider audience than maybe 40 years ago," says Judy Register, former head...
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Back in January of 2003, New Line Cinema released Final Destination 2, a horror movie in which the antagonist was the unseen hand of death itself. All of the main characters...
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Punk disrupts Modified Arts -- Riverboat Gamblers, Fuck You Ups and others, September 25: By far the most fun I have encountered in my travels through Valley clubs this year....
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"Aye Jesus!" and "Dios mío!" are some things you can expect to hear at many Mexican households every January 6. These and other "Oh my Lord" expressions are part of the...
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For all of its inspired side trips down Imagination Lane (let's call it that, because the "memories" of protagonist Edward Bloom are too majestic to be trusted and too...
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The theater year kicked off from the impossible heights of an excellent road company of The Producers and wound up, as ever, with a lot of cheesy Christmas shows. This was the...
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Thursday, January 1
Whether you need one last hurrah for the holidays or you're simply looking to let someone else feed and entertain you now that family obligations are out of...
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Bill Gallo -- Even dedicated art-house regulars missed Pavel Lounguine's Tycoon: A New Russian when it was released this fall, but this intrigue-spiced tale of a ruthless yet...
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1. Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium (Universal): A redefinition of prog rock that pries the scene from the death grip of pasty dudes in Rush shirts, De-Loused adds swing...
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Seems a little early for a remake of Minority Report, but when your movie's all about seeing and forgetting the future, who's gonna remember Paycheck anyway? Like Steven...
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For those constrained to four-door sedans, family minivans and walnut-size hatchbacks, the Carquest World of Wheels is the perfect escape from the mundane. The 35th annual auto...
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the last year -- which often seems advantageous -- you may have noticed that there's a pugnacious air of defiance among today's young...
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It's been an anxious year for the Latin music industry, as it has for the industry in general. The good news in a time of crisis: The acts that survive are fired up by personal...
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Ashlea Deahl, Brendan Joel Kelley, Jill Koch, Michele Laudig and Kim Toms Published:
January 1, 2004
On Wednesday, January 7, the Herberger Theater Center pays tribute to the burgeoning and much ballyhooed downtown arts scene with "Celebrating Visual Arts in Downtown Phoenix."...
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One question that nags in the Southern California rent-a-patient scam is this: Why have health-care insurance companies paid crooked clinics and doctors millions of dollars...
