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David Braid doesn't look like a gangster.
A pilot for US Airways, Braid has the friendly demeanor and wholesome blondness common to many Midwesterners — it's no surprise...
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You might’ve seen DJ Dino (a.k.a. Denard Webb) rocking the decks with dirty electro tracks last weekend at the Lovestruck party in downtown Phoenix. Or perhaps when he was...
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After pulling out of Fashion Square back in 2001 following a lease dispute with the mall's landlord, Westcor, the world-class toy shop returns as a 1,000-square-foot...
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ASU prof and one of the smartest guys in town discusses his new book African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage and Excellence, which offers "an examination of African...
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What did you say? You've been losing sleep because every time you turn back the bedsheets, there isn't a scorpion waiting there to say hi and you really want to get up close...
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Think Jesse Ventura and your mental image may very well be the emotionally traumatic sight of his jiggling crotch bulge, clad in purple iridescent fabric. Still, though...
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Worthwhile road trips feature unique sights and sounds, from tourist-drawing dinosaurs to roadside diners stuck in the past. It’s rare that the road-trippers bring the...
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Mad Juana’s MySpace page boasts, “Imagine Django Reinhardt and Patti Smith fronting the Velvet Underground in a Bourbon Street dive, and the exotic soulfulness and...
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Ah, Carnaval, the debaucherous Brazilian street party riddled with sparkles, feathers, and grabby hands galore. It’s usually reserved for spring, right before all the...
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Just because you wrote a few songs doesn’t mean you’re qualified to author an entire book. (How would you like to read Donny Osmond’s memoirs?) Fortunately,...
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Many equate the ancient-Indian mandala with life itself, so it’s an interesting analogy that artist Jason Ripper’s working in his new “Mandala” exhibit at...
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While Hurricane Katrina was wreaking havoc in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, President Bush was in Phoenix, posing for a photo-op, cake in hand, with birthday boy Senator John...
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Rob Gardner's musical profiles the infamous pirate Edward Teach. This production represents the world premiere following last year's successful workshop at the Herberger....
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The first-gen Korean-American novelist pocketed the PEN/Hemingway Award for his topical thriller Native Speaker. Lee reads from and signs works at this event, part of the...
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In 1963, SoCal native Johnny Lozoya was 10 and enthralled watching low-slung, growling machines called lowriders pace his neighborhood streets. As he tells New Times,...
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To some artists, drawing is an expression of beauty. To others, it’s a visual soapbox on which the artist can figuratively stand and whine about politics, injustice, or...
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A local day-labor center is about to close, bowing to the pressures of anti-immigration advocates. The immigrants who rely on the center for their crummy incomes fight to keep...
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Sooner or later, with all of technology’s leaps and bounds, we’re bound to stare a dinosaur straight in the reptilian eye. Not in the Jurassic Park way, but in the...
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Oprah. Elvis. Charlie’s Angels. Prison inmates. Fashion victims all, thanks to the jumpsuit. We’d tease and taunt these dinos and ne’er-do-wells, but, God help...
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What is it about the desert that makes people wax poetic? And how can we make them stop?
Holly Metz, a West Virginia native, takes smashing black-and-white photos of the...
