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Sea Wolf: "Even Good Reviews Can Bum Me Out"

Indie rock band Sea Wolf is getting ready to wrap up a lengthy tour in support of their new release, Old World Romance. The third full-length offering from the group founded and orchestrated by California native Alex Brown Church veers a bit from their previous endeavors. The folk elements that prev ... More >>

Sweet Republic's Helen Yung on Growing Up in Hong Kong, Investment Banking, and Foie

Helen Yung Sweet Republic 9160 East Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale 480-248-6979, www.sweetrepublic.com See also: -- Sweet Republic Makes U.S. News and World Report's List of America's Best Ice Cream -- Tastemaker 88: Jan Wichayanuparp and Helen Yung This is part one of my interview with Helen Yung, c ... More >>

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 >>

Charleen Badman: On Lori Hashimoto, Chris Bianco's Mom, and the Kitchen Phrase That Gets Under Her Skin

Charleen Badman FnB 7125 East Fifth Avenue, Suite 31, Scottsdale 480-284-4777, www.fnbrestaurant.com See also: -- Charleen Badman and Pavle Milic to Open FnB on Craftsman Court on Tuesday -- FnB's Charleen Badman Tells Food & Wine Her Favorite Places to Eat, Shop and Sleep in the Valley -- 15 Met ... More >>

Throwback Thursday: Green Day's Dookie

We've been having fun examining various one-hit wonders and FM curiosities of the '90s each week with our Throwback Thursday columns, but now it's time to get serious and examine one of the biggest records on the '90s: Dookie by Green Day. Dookie was a game-changer, both for young millennials and ... More >>

A New Times Art Critic Reconnects with Underground Comic Icon Joyce Farmer, the Person Who First Inspired Her to Be One

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

Miniature Tigers and The Morning Benders at Rhythm Room

Shawn Anderson​It was difficult to tell who the crowd at the Rhythm Room were more interested in seeing last night, the opener or the headliner. Sure, the Berkeley based indie-pop outfit The Morning Benders had the top billing for the show, but this is Phoenix and the opener was Miniature Tigers. ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: No Pants Light Rail Rides, Elvis/David Bowie, Arizona Cardinals, and More

Adam Nollmeyer/Acme Photography Don't be shocked if you see something like this on the light rail this Sunday.​"Grab your best underwear! No Pants AZ is coming!" This is the message emblazoned across the homepage of local urban prankster group Improv AZ by its organizer Jeff Moriarty announcing t ... More >>

Green Day's Dookie -- 15 Years Later

Yes, you silly monkey, throw it alreadyOn this week 15 years ago, East Bay punk stalwarts Green Day released their career-defining album, Dookie. Yeah, I said career-defining. Say what you will about American Idiot and what it did for the band (skyrocketing them into mega-stardom), but Green Day wo ... More >>

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Robert Redford and the American façade

The Naming Debate

Special reader-feedback edition

New Times To Merge With Village Voice

Combination creates nation's premier alternative media company

Grizzly Fate

The bears had plans of their own

Raging Bull

Kerry's a wuss. Dubya's a doof. How can anybody vote for either of these clowns?

To a Tee

How Andy Brown took his tee shirts from the halls of NorthCanyon High to the racks at Urban Outfitters

Hulk a Maniac?

Under Ang Lee, the big green guy gets a healthy dose of existentialism amidst the action

Canadian Smoke

With a new album, killer fashion and trendy referencing, Hot Hot Heat prepares to invade the hip U.S.

Nowhere Fast

Blackalicious takes its sweet time moving from underground to overground

Peacenik Nazis

Radical right capitalizes on September 11 fears

Hoax, Lies and Audiotape

John Vanderslice is an excellent musician and songwriter. He's also a pretty good prankster.

Legal Beagles

Animal rights activists sue researcher

Song of David

Singer-songwriter overcomes addiction, jail, homelessness and psych wards to start a family and pen some of the best songs you've never heard

Twisp of the Tale

When C.D. Payne stopped writing ad copy, he created a revolutionary teenage hero

Of Carne Seca and Saguaro

Lunch with an accomplished writer

Greil Marcus

Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (Henry Holt and Company)

Hot and Bothered

Goldwater heir and local urban-music impresario join forces to turn up the Heat

From Mohawks To Mullets

Images from 25 years of Phoenix music

Honky-Tonk Angles

Johnny Dilks plays scholar to country music's past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

Cox Suckers

Shedding tiers over IFC

Growing Pains

After 11 albums, Berkeley's Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

Indian Stew

Not every anthropologist can digest Christy Turner's theory that the Anasazi were cannibals

Immigrant Songs

Los Tigres del Norte continue to document the complex lives of Mexicans in America

Calendar for the week

Medical Alert

Local concert-production company brings underground rock to downtown Phoenix

Beat Surrender

The Zen life and sad death of local drummer Jon Norwood

Rootin' Teuton

German choreographer to unleash white mice and plastic whale in $2 million Deutsch dance extravaganza

Menu for a Small Planet

Qi Whiz - Feng Shui

Two masters of the Asian art of place tell us how the energy of life flows downtown

Revolver

A periodic tour guide to indie rock subterranea (where the seven-inch is still king)

HOMELESS ON THE RANGE

GOP leaders want local governments to run social programs and charities to assume more of the burden. Neither idea is working in Kingman, where no good deed goes unpunished.

SMALL RADIO, BIG STAKES

A BROADCASTER KEEPS AIRING LIBERAL VIEWS TO A TINY PART OF NORTH PHOENIX. THE GOVERNMENT SAYS HE'S BREAKING THE LAW.

READY TO POP

MR. HOWL

ALL POETRY AND NO MUSIC MAKE ALLEN A DULL BOY; GINSBERG'S BOX PROVES HE'S ANYTHING BUT

DISCS WE'VE HEARDTHE CD JUST KEEP ON COMING

WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR

ASK MY CAT ABOUT COYOTE BREATH

THE LOVE BLOAT

TAKE HEART, AMERICA. THE COUNTRY'S "MOST ROMANTIC COUPLE" LAYS IT ON THE LINE.

WHOLLY CAL!

OUT WITH MARMIE, IN WITH RICHARD NIXON