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Perk Eatery's Pauline Martinez On What It's Like to Be on Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

If the Valley restaurant scene seemed "off the chain" this week, blame it on restaurateur and Food Network host Guy Fieri. The spiky-haired chef was in town quietly filming six Valley restaurants for the 14th season of his popular show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. See also: Guy Fieri Spends Time W ... More >>

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction: Some Awesome and Some Not-Awesome

For whatever reason, many of us enjoy watching rich people buy cars for one week every year, at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale.For most people around the country, that experience is given to you through the boob tube, but the in-person experience is a bit more than watching ... More >>

New Times Rolls With Joe Arpaio's School-Patrol Posse; Nobody Dies

"You play golf?" we ask 69-year-old John van Steinburg, as we roll past the entrance to Anthem's country club, riding in a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office patrol car.He doesn't, but since Sheriff Joe Arpaio's PR staff let us hop in the car with Steinburg -- one of Arpaio's posse members now on arme ... More >>

FMLY Fest at Fifth Street

PHX FMLY Fest @ Fifth Street|12/28/12Perhaps it was a few too many Santa Clauses wandering around, but FMLY Fest felt a lot like spending the holiday season with the extended family. The massive festival -- featuring 60 bands taking dozens of stages on Fifth Street, drew all sorts of interesting p ... More >>

Maricopa County Mugshots of the Week: Mixed Messages

Every week we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert's own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we'll take care of the rest.This week, our Fourth Avenue visitors are sending mixed messages, and it's hard to tell wh ... More >>

Alice Cooper's Ode to Teenage Rebellion Hits Middle Age

Songs With Minimal Lyrics and Maximum Catchiness

​New Year's may have been a couple days ago, but let's be honest: you probably still have a lingering headache after partying too hard. That's okay, we've got you covered with our Songs To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions, Eight Songs for Your Walk of Shame, and now 10 Simple, Yet C ... More >>

Mayhem and Spanky: How a Valley Metalhead Ended Up on Norwegian TV With Necrobutcher

In a profile of Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem I wrote for this week's issue, I relayed the tale of 42-year-old local radio producer and metalhead Anthony "Spanky" Pranke. Pranke and a few of his chums endeared themselves to Mayhem bassist Necrobutcher and a Norwegian TV crew while they were ... More >>

Buffalo Killers at the Compound Grill, 7-28-11

​Buffalo KillersThe Compound GrillThursday, July 28I'm all for ironic appreciation of the '70s, but you know what? Some things about the '70s can be liked without having to resort to some sort of "ha ha, isn't it funny" crutch. When I watch Dazed and Confused, I don't find myself laughing at the c ... More >>

America's 9 Worst Music Venue Names: When Shoddy Sponsorship Deals Embarrass an Entire City

The newly-named 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre in Tampa: Is this the gold standard in shitty corporate-sponsored venue names?​When it comes to corporate-sponsorship of venue names, Phoenix is blessed.Our basketball team plays in U.S. Airways Center, named for a successful local airline. Our hockey te ... More >>

Driving Force

Tampa Bay Rays Infielder Evan Longoria's Classic Camaro Stolen From Chandler Lot

ESPNEvan Longoria​While Tampa Bay Rays all-star third baseman Evan Longoria is swinging away in Florida as his team prepares for the upcoming season, thieves back in Arizona took off with his $75,000 Chevy Camaro. Longoria's 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS was one of two cars stolen out of the parking l ... More >>

March 8 In Blogs: Paddle Boarding, Lady Gaga, Caramelpalooza, and Scott Bundgaard

​​​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:

Day Drinker: Lunches for a Buck, the Must-Wear-Panties Rule, and Sam Elliott at The Recovery Room

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? ​"I'm later than I thought," the tall, white-haired, white-mustached man apologizes to Tana and I as he jumps out of his pickup in the back parking lot of The Recovery Room. It's a little past 10 in the morning. "I'll ju ... More >>

Significant Others

Pennsylvania musical groups birth solo outings

Transformers 2: Michael Bay Can’t Live Up to Michael Bay

Geek Beat: Transformers 2 Arizona Premiere Epic FAIL

A massive crowd turned out for last night's Arizona premiere of the new sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Fans lined up in rows that snaked through the Tempe Marketplace Harkins Theater, spilling out onto the sidewalk and clear around the other side of the building. Not everyone  ... More >>

Summer Guide: Cheap Beer and Summer Memories

You Asked For It: Always Randy

Always Randy's Protect Your Nuts is exactly the kind of record we have Your Asked For It to review. Truthfully, there's little chance I'd pop in an album with a cover featuring three semi-mulleted old dudes wielding baseball bats and a guitar in front of a background of peanut shells if it weren't ... More >>

The Good, The Bad, and The Gremlin

Luckily for auto nuts, it’s all good at WestWorld

How does Man Man stack up to other Philly bands?

Five Songs About ... Thanksgiving

Mechanical Bull

A few more changes would've helped Transformers

Auto-Chaotic

It's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

Prayer of The Mullet

Make it quick and painless -- but not short

Army Recruit

Five, six, seven, skate

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Shrapnel's Very Special™ holiday music guide

Fuelin' Around

Hot hydros at Firebird

Speed Demonology

Rice burners, bitchin' Camaros and bikini babes: That's After 9's Midnight Run at Speedworld

Milk Dude

Former front man back from the Dead

Car-Tunes Network

Chrome section backs up the brass at Deer Valley High School

Perfect Gamer

Even after catching the big unit's masterpiece, Robby Hammock still marvels that he's made it to the show.

The Fast and the Frustrated

All revved up with no place to go, Valley teens -- and hemi-ed up husbands -- go wild on the streets

Furious and Furiouser

Local lawyer lays down his opinionated tracks

2 the Extreme

The high-speed sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious delivers more noise and more flash

Critical Mass 2000

Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

Letters

Shout at the Mullet

Call me a heretic, but this follicle fashion is cause for sheer terror

A Question of Hope

One family's struggle to escape the devastation of gang culture

Clearing Samples

Moby returns to electronic music, and he's ready to Play

Molten Wax

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Our resident trailer-park critic finds out that hell hath no fury like a Parrothead scorned

Recordings

Flashes

The Best Laid Plans of Nikki Lynn

Somewhere in a nondescript Kingman subdivision, a mother and wife is poised to ascend to pornographic heights

Music Award Nominees

New Times 1998 Music Showcase

Payne Relief

How good fortune turned a skinny duo into the Valley's most inventive and engaging heavyweight act

Ragin' Cajuns

Cajun House responds to growing local discontent about its operations

Sophomore High Jinks

Trunk Federation returns from the road armed with a bold new album

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