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Long before we were officially a state, Arizona was making history — and not all of it bad, though some of it certainly borders on the unbelievable. In 1910, a Maricopa Count...
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Three years after local poets Ricquia Ross, Anthony Haskins, Lisa Glenn, and Harold Branch III joined forces to create a performance group and recurring open mic event called HomeB...
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If you become the soundtrack to FX's Portlandia, you've reached a new kind of hipsterdom. Or is it meta-hipsterdom? The semantics boggle the mind. The show satirizes the many eccen...
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Phillip Morris directors fall short of their
own high bar with
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), h...
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Other than a simple slate-rock sign before it that reads "Quan Yin Family," there's little to distinguish the one-story house from any other in this rural patch of Buckeye, where h...
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So begins the summer movie season, when we willingly pay to see movies we know will be bad. But between the raunchy comedies (A Good Old Fashioned Orgy) and silly sequels (Spy Kids...
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Looking at rapper DMX's life is like watching someone punch himself in the face repeatedly. One can easily picture a cherubic angel sitting atop one of the big black guy's shoulder...
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Blame the purchasing power of adult aficionados or the astonishing array of assembled talent, but comics are booming. Just look at conventions: Once small regional affairs, today A...
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Name: Jason P. Woodbury
Most played song on my iTunes: "Shangri-La" by M. Ward
Best concert I saw in 2010: Elvis Costello at Scottsdale Civic Center
Favorite single of 2010: "Ro...
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It's taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters. Premièring at Sundance in January 200...
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"Great," sighs the wicked witch in Tangled, a CG-animated spin on the Rapunzel story, "now I'm the bad guy." Mother Gothel, the frizzy-haired, sharp-featured enchantress with the i...
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Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that inspires less shock and awe than sickening ire. The movie opens with the...
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Before there was such a thing as “retro” – back when stockings were made from silk and had seams, and before twenty-somethings had the ability to Google Benny Goodma...
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ROACH MOTEL
Dead rats in the evening slop. Cells so full of cockroaches that you sleep in a mass of them. No air-conditioning. Overcrowding. A lack of guards to watch the inmates....
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Like many gold sellers, Republic Monetary Exchange LLC focuses much of its advertising on conservatives.
While many businesses bend over backward to avoid offending people, the fi...
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Dear Readers: The Arizona pendejas have emboldened hundreds of Know-Nothings in the past week to boast to the Mexican that they're not racist if they support SB 1070 because, accor...
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"In the Mood" has transformed the Phoenix Art Museum's Ellman Gallery into a fashion time capsule from the 1940s, filled with authentic garments from the World War II era that rang...
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Sue Krentz answered the phone about 6 p.m.
It was March 27, a Saturday, and she was in Phoenix, tending to her aged parents as a sister attended a conference.
Sue usually doesn't...
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When you write an album review every single weekday — as I have done at New Times' music blog, Up On The Sun, since January 1 — you become sensitive to the ebb and flow...
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GODDARD'S ICE PICK
Saturday's massive anti-SB 1070 march in Phoenix — estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 strong — concluded at the state Capitol, where severa...
