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When the most famous evangelist in Arizona history died last year, his will decreed that his estate be split evenly among his five sons. But there was practically nothing left...
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It's not a new phenomenon, but lately the perceptions of what punk rock is and is not have irritated the hell out of me. Do three chords, a faux-hawk, and a 14-year-old's...
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Multitasking is nothing new to downtown businesses, especially when it comes to nightlife. Think of Modified Arts (an art gallery/music venue), the OnePlace (an alternative...
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The grainy images are both utterly mundane and deeply disturbing. They flicker past silently; the soundtrack to this short movie is long lost. Yet there's a soundless wail of...
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After nearly three decades at the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Shelley Cohn departed for civilian life last year. During her stay — most of which was spent as the...
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Like a real war, Chromehounds involves long stretches of tedium, occasionally broken up by a few moments of sheer terror.
After what feels like weeks of ponderous marching...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons Published:
August 17, 2006
Is Congressman J.D. Hayworth a boob or an anti-Semite? This rascally warbler knows there's beaucoup evidence of the former, from J.D.'s days of almost starting fistfights on...
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Hello, Dan Quayle here. As the 44th Vice President of the United States of America, I all but coined the phrase "family values" back in 1992, when I famously criticized Murphy...
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Jason Lethcoe's book Amazing Adventures From Zoom's Academy doesn't particularly wow the reader with its prose, but the concept is solid — basically, Harry Potter with...
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Humanity's not looking so good these days. With war overseas, terrorism pushing our borders and serial killers in our midst, maintaining much faith in my fellow human beings...
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Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier (Paramount)
It's all here, more or less: the 1979 theatrical cut of Francis Ford Coppola's harrowing and still-hypnotic Joseph...
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Why do Mexicans forget about great beers like Tecate, Negra Modelo, and Bohemia and start drinking swill like Bud Light when they come to the United States? I always remember...
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No matter how bad some things are for people, they cannot resist.
You know you should watch your cholesterol, but every once in a while, McDonald's sounds terrific.
You...
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"The Big Lebowski Tribute Show" at Wet Paint Gallery: The thing about a cult classic is that you either love it or you hate it. The same can be said for this funky, eclectic...
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Benito (Lions Gate)
Cape of Good Hope (New Yorker)
Clark Gable Collection, Volume 1 (Fox)
Don't Tell (Lions Gate)
The Hard Corps (Sony)
Hong Kong Phooey: The...
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Memorial Daze
A necessary reminder: I can't believe the ignorance of New Times readers like Conner Young regarding what happened to us on September 11, 2001 ("Shameless...
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How come every time you see a NOFX picture, someone in the band is wearing an Adolescents shirt? Because The Ads friggin' wrote the book on old-school, Orange County agit-punk,...
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On a quiet stretch of Old Litchfield Road in Litchfield Park, a jazz group called the Energy Trio is warming up at Park Wines, an unassuming wine bar that usually features...
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Remarkably lovely U.K. trio The Clientele, whose sound primarily falls somewhere between the bright psych-pop of late-'60s Britain and the lush jangle-chime of L.A.'s '80s...
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Pity the poor music journalist charged with the task of describing the enticingly exotic and eccentric music created by DeVotchKa. Over its six years of existence, scribes and...
