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Sitting down can be tricky for JoAnn Gray. She's also got to be on constant lookout for little boys with pins.
"Usually, I'll have someone walking behind me," she says,...
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"I want to break into 'Tiny Dancer' right in the middle of one of our songs and just weird everybody out," Andrew Pringle, pianist and vocalist for the Rescue Plan, tells me...
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Like Scottsdale really needs another Ho, one more glamour gal about town who lives to slink sexily through Valley nightlife, turning heads, breakin' hearts and bleeding...
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Over the years, moviegoers who double as sports fans have had ample opportunity to pick and choose their favorite miracle -- Shoeless Joe Jackson emerging from the tall corn,...
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One of the hottest trends going in the art world is for artists or groups of artists to work under a pseudonym. The phony name is a protest against commercialism in art, and...
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There's an oft-repeated urban legend about Dragon Quest's popularity in Japan: So many gamers ditched school and work to play that the government decreed that future releases...
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Published online: Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 3:10 p.m. MST
An independent voting-technology expert has discovered widespread problems within the Maricopa County Elections...
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If you didn't look at the track title on the Treme Brass Band's demo CD, you'd assume it was party music: jaunty tuba gets a jump on a buoyant melody filled in with trombone,...
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Over the centuries, the legend of Tristram and Iseult has fueled the derring-do of King Arthur, aroused Richard Wagner's operatic thunder, driven poets as diverse as...
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Susan Copeland at Burton Barr Central Library: Hey, America, wake up and smell the discrimination. That's the theme of Susan Copeland's exhibition "Refuse," a name that refers...
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Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection (Warner Bros.)
At a mere $42 through most websites, this four-film boxed set ranks among the best ever compiled; not only does...
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Published online: Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 3:10 p.m. MST
We at New Times would've gotten a big laugh out of all the pompous posturing by the likes of Maricopa County...
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When it comes to rap legends, few rhymers are more legendary than Tupac Shakur, but no one is more exploited. Controversial and often contradictory while alive, he has become...
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What's an unemployed former superspy to do? Faced with a midlife career change, suave Pierce Brosnan seems to have chosen wry self-mockery, reinventing himself as a scruffy,...
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According to Occam's Razor (Elite Entertainment)
Black Books: The First Complete Series (BBC/Warner)
The Chumscrubber (Universal)
The Constant Gardener (Universal)...
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Who Would Jesus Marry?
No better than pedophiles: I first noticed John Dougherty's latest article in his "Polygamy in Arizona" series on the New Times [national] Web site...
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In a scene awash with hardcore kiddies and cooler-than-you indie acts, the local reggae-punk hybrid renegades in Fayuca stand out like potheads at a policemen's ball. The...
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When a movie promises that a character played by Queen Latifah may well die during the course of the action, one might hope that the movie in question is Hostel, so that she...
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Most bands falsely advertise -- they describe their sound ad nauseam as different and unclassifiable, but a good listen usually outs them as either deceived or uninitiated. In...
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Tempe rockers The Heartless not only have hearts, but smarts as well. The heart beats throughout the band's seminal release, This Could Take Some Getting Used To, as all six...
