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When Arizona State University students filed back into the classroom this week, Bob Pettit found himself someplace he hasn't been for a very long time: an introductory...
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It's difficult to describe — even after spending a third of my life employed doing exactly that — the music on the Lymbyc Systym's new LP, Love Your Abuser, to be...
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It's not a good thing when a restaurant makes you feel like you're in an airport. Or a cafeteria. Or even worse, an airport cafeteria.
That's exactly how I felt when I...
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Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth is something alchemical. To an astonishing degree, the 42-year-old Mexican filmmaker best known for his...
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Imagine being trapped in a tiny room full of people who cannot sing but insist on doing so anyway (at the top of their lungs!), and you'll understand my discomfort while...
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Viva Piñata begins with you acquiring the deed to a barren patch of land on "Piñata Island," a strange place where everyone wears masks and the main form of...
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Hey, you — yes, you. You've been on the couch since New Year's, glued to James Bond marathons and all those ads for freaky pills that promise to trim 30 pounds overnight....
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It’s been decades since bad-ass broads like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem enlightened our primeval patriarchy. Now women watch football and mow lawns while men talk...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons Published:
January 18, 2007
This ornery oriole gags over the way most of the P-town press plays cocker spaniel to Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Take, for example, the myth that he's the roughest, toughest lawman...
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The digital age has become a major curse to the major labels: Album sales fell 4 percent in 2005, 4.6 percent in 2006. But for rock 'n' rolling indie entrepreneurs with access...
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She'll empty ashtrays and even clean the lobby toilet, but don't ask Laura Kerrigan to make your dog a star. By day, Kerrigan is Desert Stages Theatre's marketing director; by...
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The Protector (Genius Products)
Thailand's Tony Jaa has made clear his plan to take Jackie Chan's crown as the king of Holy crap, did he just do that?! He's about halfway...
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I can't keep up with modern exercise trends. First, I pretzeled my way through the Downward-facing Dog and the Feathered Peacock pose with at-home yoga videos. Then I...
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Trans Action
Off-color comments: I'm grateful that you wrote on this subject. Not many people write about this sort of topic ("Tranny-Gate," The Bird, Stephen Lemons,...
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When we heard about the grand opening of Lady Luck Tattoo Gallery in Tempe, we packed our camera and hit the party for some freaky photo-ops. After all, tattoos and Tempe go...
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Clerks II (Weinstein)
Council of the Gods (First Run)
Die You Zombie Bastards (Image)
Dreamland (Image)
Employee of the Month (Lions Gate)
Gridiron Gang (Sony)...
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Right now, vino is pretty damn keen-o. Never before has wine enjoyed the prominence and popularity it does now, whether being imbibed by scenesters, serving as a social...
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I'm a 60-year-old Chicano and proud. Why do young Chicanos keep imitating blacks? They dress like blacks, talk like blacks, listen to black music, and hang with blacks. Aren't...
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What's cool about Gorillaz is you don't need Jamie Hewlett's animation to appreciate the genius of the music. But what's even cooler is the way that animation steals the show...
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MySpace. CrySpace.
A place for friends. A place for nauseating self-indulgence.
Whether you love or loathe the online meeting and sharing place, there are sure signs of...
