Arnold Schwarzenegger

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

Green Day Never Sold Out; You Just Got Old and Complacent

Editor's Note: It's not every day that a band capable of filling arenas headlines a gig at the (comparatively) intimate Marquee Theatre. But that's exactly what's going down tonight, when the Bieber-bashing, ¡Uno-¡Dos!-¡Tre! -releasing Green Day heads to Tempe for a sold-out show. Critical consen ... More >>

Arnold Returns -- but Do We Still Need Him?

A Lament: Action Movies Don't Have to Suck

Kuato & Quaid Brings Sludgy Sounds and Silly Total Recall Jokes

Guitarist Sonny Decarlo readily admits that his sludge metal/crustpunk quintet Kuato & Quaid probably won't to amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Ditto for his other groups PV Casualties, a sloppy Misfits cover band, and Level T, a weirdo rock ensemble that's featured pots and pans as i ... More >>

The Old, Good Total Recall

Reps for Strength

Angry Geese and the Ongoing Debate on the Ethics of Foie Gras

The end of foie gras in California is rapidly approaching. On July 1, the full provisions of SB 1520 will go into effect and both foie gras production and sale will be prohibited. SB 1520 was signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger way back in 2004. The law gave a seven-year grace period in which C ... More >>

A Five-Song Tribute to The Hunger Games

As expected, kids are going ga-ga over The Hunger Games. The $155 million dollar opening weekend was good enough to rank third in revenue behind only Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and The Dark Knight. The movie, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, has already spawned everything fr ... More >>

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, Diva, Matthewdavid, and Marshstepper at Meat Market Garment Factory, 3/7/12

​See also: Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw: Jamaica is "a Place of Infinite Music" Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, Diva, Matthewdavid, and Marstepper Meat Market Garment Factory Wednesday, March 7, 2012 There's a moment in "Night Gallery IV," the fourth track on Sun Araw and Eternal Tapestry's collab ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Death Swag Selling Well, At Home and Abroad

Cafe PressIt's never too early to become a patriot.​We might not be getting pictures of Osama bin Laden's corpse from Barack Obama -- but there's some interesting memorabilia for sale. The Toronto Star is reporting that t-shirts, greeting cards and coffee mugs celebrating bin Laden's death are se ... More >>

Barack Obama Holds Immigration Dog And Pony Show With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Bloomberg, But No Members of Congress

White House Left, right, or center: Don't hold your breath waiting for "immigration reform."​President Barack Obama is hosting a meeting to outline his views on immigration reform this afternoon with top cabinet officials and national politicians, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloo ... More >>

April 19 In Blogs: Sound Strike, Marijuana, Steve Nash, Mellow Mushroom, and Matt Salmon

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

"The Machine" Visits Scottsdale Muni Stadium in Video; Unknown if Leather-Clad Figure was Giants Outfielder Pat Burrell

Figured you might get a chuckle out of this video of "the Machine" taking a stroll among baseball fans last month at Scottsdale Municipal Stadium. Or, at least, it's someone who dresses like the Machine, a bizarro-scary character from the movie 8mm. We've no idea if the masked man behind the scan ... More >>

Superstar Billy Graham Made It Big in Wrestling -- Now the Steroids That Got Him There May Be Killing Him

Wyclef Jean to Run for President of Haiti?

Could you be looking at the next president of Haiti?​When Arnold Schwarzenegger became the governator in California, and Jesse Ventura was elected to the same post in Minnesota, it became publicly apparent that the lines would be forever blurred between entertainers and should-be serious politicia ... More >>

35MM Megafun

No wimps! A possibility of gimps and/or pimps, though.

(100) Days of Summer Films

May 11 In Blogs: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kimber Lanning, EaterAZ, and Fake Cancer Drugs

​​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Arnold Schwarzenegger Latest Celeb/Politician To Dis Arizona's SB 1070 Up on t ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger Latest Celeb/Politician To Dis Arizona's SB 1070

The Governator yuks it up at AZ's expenseYou know it's bad when California's tres unpopular, washed-up screen star guv -- whose dad was a member of the Nazi party back in the day -- is using your state's "papers please" law as the butt of his shuck-and-jive before a crowd of college grads."I was als ... More >>

Skinside Out

Lisa Sette artists flesh out captivating concepts

Skinside Out

Lisa Sette artists flesh out captivating concepts

Soapbox Opera

Bluegrass punks tell it like it is

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Arizona Qualifier

Jonathan McNamaraA group of competitive eaters downing dogs at the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest Arizona Qualifier at Arizona Mill Mall. See more shots in our slide show. Matthew Ramirez stepped out on to a raised platform in the Arizona Mills Mall food court and struck the sort of body building pose tha ... More >>

The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake Misses the Point, and That’s a Klaatu Barada No-No

Sundance 2008 leaves just a handful of buzz-worthy movies in its wake

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Rachel Stein, Showgirl

Back home in Holland, Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft a slick Holocaust thriller

The Ugly Truth in Austin, Texas

The case against Michael Moore and for B-list celebs at SXSW

Three-Question Especiál

If there were a wall, we'd just get it dirty

Numbers on Napkins

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(Bad Stain Records)

Murder By Death

Like Se7en, but more jokes

Private Dicks

Downey and Kilmer make perfect detectives

Foiled Again

Maybe it's time for this blade to stop swinging

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

BEST MARGARITA

Salty Señorita

Feels Like 80 Days

"The whole sordid affair is craptacular-craptacular."

Power Vacuum

Arizona's letting the Big Three utilities steal countless millions from us by standing in the way of solar energy

All Works, New Plays

Theater festival shines a light on the Valley's theatrical community

Sidestep of the Machines

The Terminator's back. Again.

Go Punk Yourself!

The North Side Kings mix mob stereotypes with hard-core rock. Got a problem?

Culture Shock

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

A Clone Is Born

Schwarzenegger reproduces the best of all his movies with a conceptual twist in The 6th Day

Christ on a Crutch

End of Days is neither as spiritual nor as action-packed as it needs to be

The Francisco Kid

Whacks and Wayne

Over-amped, overhyped, Batman & Robin strike out at bat

Silver Balls

Arnold goes last-minute Christmas shopping, and he buys a turkey

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