Chris Farley

Sanctified and Funkdified: Herbie Hancock @ Orpheum Theatre, Friday, November 16

Pic Hits for the week

A Day at the Races

Inside the black humor of Politically Incorrect's Chris Rock

Best Place to Eat a Meal Stoned

Richardson's Cuisine of New Mexico
1582 East Bethany Home
602-265-5886

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Richardson's Cuisine of New Mexico
1582 East Bethany Home
602-265-5886

Deep House Daze

DJs Pete "Supermix" Salaz and bad boy Senbad burn wax at their bangin' Wednesday-night bacchanal, Batucada.

Slipknot Makes 'Em Mosh at Dodge

Luke HolwerdaI've been in my fair share of mosh pits, but I'm pretty thankful that I wasn't in any of the three or four that raged on all through Slipknot's show at Jobing.com Arena on Thursday night. Swirling like tornadoes full of teen angst and shirtless fat dudes, the pits dominated the already ... More >>

Cosplay: An excuse for adults to play dress-up (outside the bedroom)

Shh... Today, dear readers, I'm going to let you in on a little geek secret: We self-proclaimed nerds, geeks and dorks have an internal rating system. Think of it as a 1-10 scale of geekdom, with 1 being the girl who wears a bowl cut and plastic glasses i ... More >>

Have a FetishBall

Shh... Today, dear readers, I'm going to let you in on a little geek secret: We self-proclaimed nerds, geeks and dorks have an internal rating system. Think of it as a 1-10 scale of geekdom, with 1 being the girl who wears a bowl cut and plastic glasses i ... More >>

Booger and Borat. You Likes?

Shh... Today, dear readers, I'm going to let you in on a little geek secret: We self-proclaimed nerds, geeks and dorks have an internal rating system. Think of it as a 1-10 scale of geekdom, with 1 being the girl who wears a bowl cut and plastic glasses i ... More >>

Hi, My Name Is Ryan

The clown prince of Phoenix's downtown art scene is sacrificing madcap antics for a Mormon mission

Island Hip-Hopping

Stir it up in Scottsdale

Jokers Wild

Making it big in the valley's comedy scene is no laughing matter

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Sucks, Dickie

Just how does David Spade keep getting work?

Parade Route

Broadway smash hits the Valley

Mohr to Go

It's funny business as usual for standup star

Brutally Frank

Fasten your safety belts for the world's worst interview with indie-rock legend Frank Black

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously.

Bin There

Where have all the overeducated, underachieving record-store clerks gone?

Family Tradition

Hank Williams III hopes that country gold comes in threes

Spade in Full

Hank Williams III hopes that country gold comes in threes

Calendar for the week

Hank Williams III hopes that country gold comes in threes

Calendar for the week

Hank Williams III hopes that country gold comes in threes

Food Fighter

Time and again, Valley restaurant legend Nick Ligidakis has cooked his own goose. Will Cafe Niko be another overtrimmed turkey?

Little Room for Improv-ment at the Phoenix Improv Festival

It sounds like the premise of an especially horrific nightmare: You're on stage in front of at least 100 strangers. One of them yells out the phrase "Silly String in the Desert." And then the crowd, who all paid $15 to be entertained for the evening, expects you to use that phrase as the title of th ... More >>

SmokingGun for Luddites: The Slammer, the Octomom and Joe Arpaio

from The Slammer.com So what did you expect, the freakin' New Yorker? I have seen the future of newsprint, and it's in The Slammer, literally. Indeed, with all the bitching and moaning in the bloody Fourth Estate about layoffs, the Web, and the end of newsprint, here's a weekly newspaper ... More >>

Conor Oberst Pens Totally Reasonable (Yet Dead Wrong) Open Letter About SB 1070 Boycott

​Remember local promoter Charlie Levy's open letter urging bands not to participate in the Sound Strike boycott of Arizona because of SB 1070?It was, as Chris Farley might say, awesome.Levy has received a response from Conor Oberst (a.k.a. That Guy Who Should Re-Assemble Bright Eyes).Link here.Obe ... More >>

Ben Quayle Ad Sparks Almost Funny Parody From Second City "Comedian"

​We like to laugh here at New Times, so we were excited to learn that the Chicago-based sketch-comedy troop Second City had released a parody of Ben Quayle's uber-awful campaign ad, in which he claims "Barack Obama is the worst president in history."The ad sucks. It's tacky, lame, and concludes wi ... More >>

Pinal County Man Arrested for Offering 14-Year-Old Girl Cash for Sex; Dude Was Living Half a Mile From Victim's Home in His Car

PCSO Kenneth McDaniel​Living in a van down by the river, as the late Chris Farley eloquently explained, is not the most admirable abode for anyone. Living in your car parked half a mile from the 14-year-old to whom you've been anonymously writing sexually charged notes offeri ... More >>

John McCain vs. DREAM Act: Vote Expected Today

Tim'es a waistin', people. Hit those phones. Hit 'em hard.The DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would legalize the status of undocumented students brought here when they were young, is being discussed on the floor of the U.S. House even as I type this. A vote in both houses of Congress is expecte ... More >>

The "Reality Hits You Hard, Bro" Guy Hopes Fortune Follows His Fame

Tim'es a waistin', people. Hit those phones. Hit 'em hard.The DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would legalize the status of undocumented students brought here when they were young, is being discussed on the floor of the U.S. House even as I type this. A vote in both houses of Congress is expecte ... More >>

Snark Attack

Tim'es a waistin', people. Hit those phones. Hit 'em hard.The DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would legalize the status of undocumented students brought here when they were young, is being discussed on the floor of the U.S. House even as I type this. A vote in both houses of Congress is expecte ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Goes From Comedy Heights to Being the Tea Party's Princess

Tim'es a waistin', people. Hit those phones. Hit 'em hard.The DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would legalize the status of undocumented students brought here when they were young, is being discussed on the floor of the U.S. House even as I type this. A vote in both houses of Congress is expecte ... More >>