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Three years ago, Bill Tonnesen self-published a book announcing his plans to become one of the top modern artists in the world. The undisputed giants of the field were Richard...
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Tommy Lee's first tattoo was of Mighty Mouse, a small, gaudy rendering of the pocket-size superhero bursting through a bass drum with sticks in his hands. Back in his early...
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A lot of what's appealing about greater Phoenix falls into the classic can't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover category. I don't mean the lusher parts of Scottsdale or the desert...
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Perhaps in honor of the fourth anniversary of Cher's farewell tour, MGM recently released a DVD edition of Chastity, the 1969 stink bomb featuring the singer's first dramatic...
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About one week out of major abdomen surgery, it starts.
Not the pain, or my clock-watching hours of when I could take my next pain pill.
No, that would have been easy.
A...
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You'd think your own brother wouldn't bust your watermelon.
Produce-pulverizing comedian Gallagher didn't have a problem with his younger brother, Ron, touring as a Gallagher...
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Mesa Republican Representative Russell Pearce, co-chairman of the powerful Arizona House Appropriations Committee, is launching a pitched assault on the First Amendment to the...
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Tegan Quin is happy to set the record straight about some things that have been written about her and her sister Sara.
Their band, Tegan and Sara, is really a five-piece, not...
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A cynic might describe movies as the most depraved and fantastic system of exploitation ever devised. After all, they trade on the greed and hubris of financiers, the beauty...
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Punk rock, baby.
It's been one of those weeks where nothing seems to be getting my joystick hard. It's probably because I'm still down from this surgery I had, but, well, I...
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THU 17
Believe it or not, we capitalist pigs get it right once in a while. For example: a little thing called electricity, the assembly line, and, uh, belly-dancing. True,...
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"Jeez, Jett, try not to pull a Dale Earnhardt on our ass!" I croak as the PHX's sultry, bi-lovin' speed-demoness skids around a corner toward the alt-music nightspot Modified...
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With its previous albums, Thievery Corporation's adoration for the cocktail lounge could wear thin. But The Cosmic Game embraces a broader song-based collection, buoyed by...
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The chilling oddity of Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall is not limited to the fact that it's the first mainstream German film to grapple with Adolf Hitler -- six decades after...
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You shouldn't know from Sunday morning AM radio -- with maybe one exception. Too Jewish With Rabbi Sam Cohon and Friends, which debuted here last month, is fast becoming a...
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By day, Paula Shimel is an unassuming real estate marketer who loves to eat chocolate, update her blog and gush over her three cats, Nermal, Nala and Bastet. But on Friday...
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What Would Jesus Write?
Bunch of martyrs: I just wanted to say that Charles Pyeatte's rant in last week's Letters column ("The Passion of the Priest," March 10) was more of...
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Wow. A year ago, if you had told me that I would regard Canada's Comeback Kid highly, and utter "best album I've heard in at least a year" about its disc, I would have laughed...
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Katsuhiro Ôtomo's Steamboy will be released nationwide in both subtitled and dubbed versions. At the press screening, both were shown simultaneously in neighboring...
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John Nelson, 48, renowned outsider artist, creates primitive acrylic and collage-on-wood-panel works inspired by puns and word play that strike his fancy. Nelson’s new...
