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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 slight...
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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 this...
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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 hunting...
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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 be...
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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...
