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Carol Davidson is an Arcadia housewife, a grandmother, a missionary's mom, and until recently, someone who spent every Wednesday night practicing with the church choir.
But...
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"I'm one of the top five hated people in the music industry," says Nancy Stevens, the manager of local bands Violet Wild and Authority Zero and former program director of...
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I wanted to fall in love.
For years, I've been curious about a certain elegant stranger with the whole package: good looks, exquisite taste, and an impressive pedigree. I...
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It is said that a great actor or actress can "bring down the house," but before I saw (and heard) the 25-year-old American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson in the film version of...
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Aspirin? Check. Killer threads? Solid. Bail money? Sho'nuff.
Sounds like you're fully locked and loaded to get your New Year's Eve freak on, except you need some...
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Aside from that new ball, NBA Live 07 may be the worst product to bear the league's name this year. The new basketball game from Electronic Arts is so glitchy that scores of...
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For one night a week, the McDonald's at Scottsdale Pavilions is the coolest fast-food joint in the world. By our calculation, about half of the chain's trillions and trillions...
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It's been obvious to The Bird for a long time that Sheriff Joe Arpaio despises New Times. Why else would he violate the Arizona public records law by keeping documents about...
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"My meals are ravioli out of the can, and ramen. I came in here tonight with eight dollars in my pocket. I am so white trash."
Keith Mallette's telling me all this to drive...
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History repeats itself: 11 Decembers ago, Universal had the season's strongest movie — a downbeat sci-fi flick freely adapted from a well-known source by a name director....
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Travis Smith is serious about Christmas kitsch. Not only has he amassed thousands of vintage dime-store holiday ornaments, he's also spent decades rescuing the unwanted...
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When the Levees Broke (HBO)
Spike Lee's four-part doc, easily the best non-fiction film of 2006, gets a fifth part on DVD: a 105-minute epilogue that reveals just how little...
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It's been obvious to The Bird for a long time that Sheriff Joe Arpaio despises New Times. Why else would he violate the Arizona public records law by keeping documents about...
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When we coughed up the seven bucks to get in the door at PHiX for the "Gothabilly Nitemare Before X-Mas!" show on Saturday, December 16, Grand Avenue was pretty damn quiet....
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It took Norman Mailer seven years and 1,282 pages to write 1991's Harlot's Ghost: A Novel of the CIA, and, if memory serves, it took me 12 years to actually finish it. So...
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Everybody has bad days. You know, the kind of day when you oversleep, realize you have no breakfast food in the house, painfully injure your foot on a broken office chair and...
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Agnes & His Brothers (First Run)
All the King's Men (Sony)
American Pie: The Naked Mile (Universal)
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (Docurama)
The Celestine Prophecy...
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The man in the black shirt with large white letters that read "IMPEACH AND IMPRISON" stands out in the blue-collar bowling alley like someone shouting "Fire!" in a crowded...
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"People get caught up and lose everything they have trying to be famous. I like making safe, smart, calculated moves."
So says Will Glass, a.k.a. Intrinzik, during our...
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Bankrupt and brain-damaged in Rocky V, a bout fought so long ago that the other Bush was still sucker-punching Saddam, Sylvester Stallone's titular pugilist returns to issue...
