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It's a Saturday evening in late November on the border of Phoenix and Glendale. The scent of barbecue drifts through the brisk air on a residential street just north of...
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"Um, we better use Charlie," Rob Kistler tells me when I ask how I should address him when referring to the country-rock band he fronts under the pseudonym Charlie Shooter,...
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I was home alone, meditating in the buff after a particularly sweaty yoga workout, when he appeared to me in a blaze of glory: the four-armed, elephant-headed Hindu deity Lord...
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America -- and, by extension, Hollywood -- has an obsession with innocence and the loss thereof. Every generation has that Moment When Everything Changed, from Pearl Harbor to...
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After years of sucking the wind from famous people's sails, New York journalist Jeannette Walls has achieved some fame of her own. Her best-selling childhood memoir, The Glass...
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Movie-based videogames have a well-deserved reputation for sucking.
Ever since Atari's E.T. -- a game so ill-conceived that thousands of unsold cartridges were dumped en...
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At first you don't even notice it. What's to see? Funny how the ground level on either side of your feet remains unchanged, or barely changed, for so long. Then, okay, a...
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The crucial District 20 ballots that have become the centerpiece of a mushrooming election scandal are not in the Maricopa County Treasurer's vault as apparently required by...
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Try to explain the depraved ethos behind films like Eli Roth's new grindhouse pic Hostel to anyone other than a fan of the horror genre, and you'll most likely elicit a series...
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The critical consensus has Match Point as Woody Allen's finest film since . . . oh, let's see . . . Bullets Over Broadway, is it? Or perhaps Deconstructing Harry? Or maybe...
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Try though they might, neither actor Christopher Haines, who appears in Glen Berger's one-man, one-act Underneath the Lintel, nor Charles St. Clair, its director, can save...
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Magnolia)
The best two hours you'll ever spend learning about accounting, Enron is one part civics lesson, one part Greek tragedy, and...
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I am what is known in polite circles as a collector. I own 16 children's phonographs, 213 Old Maid card games, 47 LPs by Jerry Vale. Although many people see my endless...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela Published:
January 19, 2006
Letting a couple of cops off the hook after they beat the hell out of a Mexican national isn't enough for County Attorney Andy Thomas. And he's not content with declining to...
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Loyal patrons of Neckbeard's Soda Bar, the pirate-themed non-alcoholic music venue in Tempe that catered to teenage screamo and hardcore fans, have expressed a collective...
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Albert Brooks, the once-funny comic turned filmmaker, plays a once-funny comic turned filmmaker named Albert Brooks in Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, which he also...
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Four-time Emmy Award-winning director Charles St. Clair must be exhausted. In between classes at ASU West (where he's a professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance),...
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Adventures of Superman: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros.)
Asylum (Paramount)
Casino (MCA)
Celebrity Mix (TLA)
Final Destination: Scared 2 Death Pack (New Line)...
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I always envy those people who glide into January resolving to lose weight, quit smoking, or kick their eBay habits. These are self-inflicted vices, ones that might possibly...
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To celebrate the B-day of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss cat who discovered LSD back in the day and who hit the century mark last Wednesday, your humble Crunkalicious King of Kreme...
