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21. Night & Day

    Water-Hazard World

    Swim in this ocean at your own risk

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: October 25, 2007

    When we were a kid, our favorite dinosaur was an orange plastic pterodactyl we sailed from the top of the stairs, aiming out the front door at the neighbor's dog. These days,...

22. Night & Day

    Creature Discomforts

    Annual exhibition draws the beast and the brightest

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Once you get past all the faux arachnids plastered on the outside walls and wade through the infinite spider webs that have snared several inflatable sex dolls, you're ready to...

23. Night & Day

    Meat Me at the Fair

    Free grub. Mmm.

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 25, 2007

    We've always tried to like -- and spell -- fancy-ass French food like fishyswass and keesh, but our palate hails from Texas, and our culinary hero is Homer Simpson. Thus, we'll...

24. Night & Day

    10,000 Maniacs

    Party monsters make specters of themselves in Scottsdale

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 25, 2007

    As if the beautiful people who haunt Axis/Radius and next-door neighbor Suede don't already wear enough makeup, the 85251 clubs are offering their clientele the chance to...

25. Night & Day

    Remember the Alamodome

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Eighty-two regular-season contests and an indeterminate number of playoff games from now, we'll see if the Phoenix Suns can finally corral those damnable San Antonio Spurs and...

26. Night & Day

    Hell to the Chiefs

    Lopping off heads of state in Tempe

    By Julie Peterson

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Those show-biz types -- writers, performers, carnies -- they just plain make up a lot of stuff. Shameful! So when Citrus Valley Playhouse creator Brian Nissen mentions...

27. Night & Day

    Slay Belle

    How to murder your husband or die trying

    By Julie Peterson

    Published: October 25, 2007

    If your Netflix queue is woefully lacking in Russian constructivist takes on American expressionist high-technophobic allegories, here's ASU Theatre to the rescue with Sophie...

28. Night & Day

    Damn

    By Clay McNear

    Published: October 25, 2007

    This one had the look of a mini-classic. The Arizona State Sun Devils at 7-0. The Cal Golden Bears potentially ranked No. 1. Not to be, as Cal’s golden aura turned to pyrite...

29. Fenske

    The Party's Over

    The Phoenix rave scene loses a hot spot — and may put another one on ice

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: October 25, 2007

    The old warehouse on South Fourth Avenue was a rarity for Phoenix, and not just because it's a cavernous old building in a city that has so few of them. What really made it...

30. Niki at Nite

    Heavy Meddle

    Watering the Tree of Rock

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Every time I've been around Eddie Kelly, the singer for Blessedbethyname, some beautiful woman has shoved her breasts in my face. Kelly works as a DJ at Centerfolds Cabaret on...

31. Booze Pig

    Some R&R

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: October 25, 2007

    I still have a headache from visiting R&R Stix in East Mesa. I usually wait a couple of days after I hit a bar to review it (mostly to rid myself of the hangover), but I can't...

32. Film

    Better Home and Garden

    But not much else

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Before he snagged the lead in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1972 screen version of Anthony Shaffer's 1970 stage play Sleuth, Laurence Olivier had, with his customary diplomatic...

33. Stage

    Well Hung

    Stuffed and nonsense

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: October 25, 2007

    One takes a mighty risk when one attempts Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, a frantic farce that mocks the Theater of the...

34. DVDish

    The Boys Are Back

    By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen editions with poor pictures and virtually no special features. This set...

35. Letters

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 25, 2007

    Published: October 25, 2007

    PUSH MEETS SHOVE Kick Joe, Andy, and Dennis to the curb: After reading the article on the grand jury subpoenas and watching the press conference announcing that the charges...

36. Club Candids

    Party Arty

    Get decked

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: October 25, 2007

    We know it sounds weird, but every once in a while, people congregate in a specific area for something other than alcohol. As foreign as that concept may seem, we experienced...

37. Film

    Emotional Wreck

    Tragedy piles up

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: October 25, 2007

    I gave up after about 100 pages of John Burnham Schwartz's 1998 novel Reservation Road, a typically overwritten and contrived slice of mass-market literary pabulum that...

38. Backstage Pass

    Mike Traylor

    Acting like he knows what he's doing

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: October 25, 2007

    He loves his baby sister and the Marx Brothers, but actor-director Mike Traylor — who's appearing this week in iTheatre Collaborative's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You...

39. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: October 25, 2007

    The Adventures of Aquaman (Warner Bros.) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One (Paramount) Battleship Potemkin (Kino) Breathless: The Criterion Collection...

40. ¡Ask a Mexican!™

    Not With My Daughter?

    If it quacks like a good boyfriend . . .

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: October 25, 2007

    Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I’m dating a Mexican guy? I finally found someone with my same values and who treats me way better...