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LIAR LIAR
Proud of journalism: As a journalist of 27 years, I can only say: Go, boys. Kick those Maricopa County Nazis' asses, ("Wilenchik's a Liar, and There's More," Michael Lac...
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HEY, NEIGHBOR
What's next? Blindness disclosure?: If home values continued to escalate at levels of the past few years, would Melton be engaged in this lawsuit ("Hot Potato,...
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...lest thing in the world), Tony said, "You ever hear the Misfits?" and cued a track on his CD player. "Singled out the kids who are mean to me!" growled the deep-throated vocalist, , with a plodding ghoulish backbeat behind him. The song throbbed and bled; the lyrics were about a kid telling his mom how he hates all the kids at school. Then the music goes sil...
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In August 2005, Nathan Thinnes sold his house. It must have been a relief.
Coming home from work one evening, just days before the closing, Thinnes heard his dog whimpering in th...
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...tertwine."
• Is an ardent admire of long-running American metal band Pentagram (named after a Satanic symbol), and has been to singer Bobby Liebling's house in Virginia.
• Was in the band Samhain, named after an ancient pagan holiday during which the dead are said to communicate with the living.
• Founded the adult-oriented publish...
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...ly there were a morning zoo worth its oats in this town, this would be prime drive-time music. Who couldn't use a shot of Lady Van Buren first thing in the morning, elocutin' like after an estrogen shake? Or a bone-bashing horror-pop rhythm section pummeling behind her? Or GLK secret weapon D.F. Jimenez, who peels off the tastiest 20-second guitar solos thi...
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There was a time, in the early '90s, when there was no mosh pit I wouldn't brave. I loved the sweat-drenched chaos, the primordial release of pent-up aggression, the feeling of bei...
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... I found music," he says, recalling how the Misfits shook him to the core. Growing up in a strict home ("not like snake-handlers but fairly religious"), and hearing Misfits singer sing, "I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch" on "Where Eagles Dare" was a revelation.
"Singing along with that, with friends, on a little shitty jambox, while we were skateboardin...
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Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with the semblance of life. Mangold's remake of 3:10 to Yuma isn't as...
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BUS FOLLY
A real "no-brainer": Regarding buses . . . Let's see, who were those other contractors bidding on the contracts ("Taken for a (Bus) Ride," Sarah Fenske, August 9)? W...
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The Bourne Ultimatum opens in Russia as the amnesiac super-spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) does what he does best: elude capture, crack skulls, brood. Lickety-split he's en route to ...
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Summer movie season has arrived. There are an insane number of films on the following list, and plenty of room for optimism. To that end, we've tried to cut back on the snarky comm...
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You wouldn't think a guy who dusted off Artie Shaw's arrangement of Cole Porter's classic "Begin the Beguine" — on pedal steel, no less — would say his third release for ...
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This week's generically titled studio suspense thriller, Fracture, has the good sense to begin where last week's generically titled studio suspense thriller, Perfect Stranger, ende...
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I greeted the announcement of Stray Cat Theatre's Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy with great glee, thinking, "At last! Someone has noticed the similarities between gory Hollywood...
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Singer-songwriter Cayce Lindner sports a thick gray beard, calls Northern California home, and plucks an acoustic guitar. This means most music writers are going to describe his ne...
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It's the bee's knees, daddy-o.
I love to swing, but I can't dance. I can't swing dance, either. But here I am at a VFW hall on Thomas Road in central Phoenix on a Sunday evening,...
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Best known for incredibly catchy punk songs about murder and monsters, Misfits-Samhain mastermind is the only alumnus from hardcore's original old-school scene to land an album at No. 1 on Billboard's classical album chart, with 1993's Black Aria. More sophisticated and eclect...
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Weyant's The Anta Project — a single, 54-minute track created by playing the steel walls and barbed-wire fences along the U.S.-Mexico border using a cello bow and modifi...
