Columbine High School

Sandy Hook Slaughter: Adam Lanza's Mom, Ron Barber's Wisdom and Bob Lord's Petition

Just like many of you, I've been transfixed this weekend watching the TV news coverage of the slaughter of the innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And like a bad case of acid reflux, the national debate has begun -- for the umpteenth time -- over the issue of gun ... More >>

Tuscon City Council Votes to Support Law Calling for Stricter Background Checks On Potential Gun-Owners

The Tucson city council voted unanimously last night to support the federal Fix Gun Checks Act of 2012 after hearing testimony from the survivors of the January 2011 Tucson shootings. "Based on the testimony from them, based on what's happened in the last couple of weeks in Milwaukee and Aurora, a ... More >>

Throwback Thursday: Everclear

I couldn't have asked for a better time to hear about the Summerland Tour. While waiting for a coffee in Venice Beach, California, I was browsing Up On The Sun on my phone and saw that Everclear was coming. I knew what I had to listen to, because I rolled down the windows and rocked out to "Santa Mo ... More >>

Thirteen Years and a Hundred School Shootings Later, Why Is Hollywood Still Obsessed With This One?

Cannes 2011 Has Issues

Arizona Does "Not Have a Single Common Sense Gun Law" On Books, Brady Center Finds

www.last2pics.comYee-haw​For a state that recently became only the second state in the entire country to pass a law that names an official state gun, it shouldn't come as much of a shock that Arizona scored a whopping zero points on this year's Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence annual scoreca ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 3, 2011

Branded: Can Tucson Ever Live It Down?

Tucson: How Will the Southern Arizona Community Be Remembered After a Shooting Rampage that Riveted the Nation?

The City of Tucson​A mention of Columbine evokes images of two teenage gunman shooting up a school full of terrified classmates. Waco? The public mind recalls the infamous standoff and siege, the flames that ripped through a compound and the more than 80 people who died. Will ... More >>

Tucson Rampage Adds to Long History of U.S. Shooting Sprees

​Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, which left six people dead and 14 others injured -- including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- is just the latest in at least 30 documented rampage shootings in American history.Listed below are 10 of the deadliest:

10 Album Covers That Have Been Banned [NSFW]

​A few weeks ago Kanye West announced on his Twitter page that the original artwork for his upcoming album My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy had been banned here in the US.Technically, the artwork wasn't banned. Instead Kanye's record label, strongly suggested that the album artwork be replaced f ... More >>

Concert Review: Everclear at The Big Pour

Jonathan McNamaraEverclear at The Big Pour.​It's a well-established fact that the mark of a truly brilliant pop song is its ability to stand the test of time, captivating new generations or, at the very least, remaining meaningful to it's intended audience over a lifetime. As an admitted Gen X/Y c ... More >>

Green Day Brings Classic Rock Feel To U.S. Airways Show

Luke HolwerdaGreen Day's Billy Joe Armstrong on stage at U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix.​Depending on who you ask, there's something either: a) vaguelyorb) obviously and irredeemably pathetic about a 37-year-old man in skinny black jeans. So, yes, Green Day singer Billy Joe Armstrong immediatly ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Fanboy/Neo-Nazi "Vito Lombardi" is Thomas Vito Coletto, Alleged Columbine Copycat (w/Update)

from KPHO Channel 5 Thomas Coletto, aka, "Vito Lombardi" in 2007 I've discovered the true identity of the neo-Nazi who posed for a pic with Sheriff Joe Arpaio on May 2, which he then posted on Stormfront.org. His name is Thomas Vito Coletto, birth date 8/23/1989. And he has a record. Specific ... More >>

May 7 In Blogs: Eyes Set to Kill, NIN, Travel Channel, Dave Matthews Band and More

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio Fanboy/Neo-Nazi "Vito Lombardi" Is Thomas Vito Coletto, Alleged Columbine ... More >>

Columbinus Interprets the Columbine Shootings Into Must-See Theater

Teenage Wasteland

Columbine play illustrates the dark side of high school

Geek Mythology

Revenge of the nerds at Perihelion

King of Pain

Sheriff Joe crowns himself anti-corruption kingfish and J.T. Ready looks for race friends on Newsaxon.com

School Daze

Bully takes you back to the battlefield of high school

No Way Out

The final spiral of a tormented musician

element a440

Selfish
(self-released)

Reel Life

Film showcase avoids the 'hood

Pokafase

Pokafase
(Artist Direct)

Multiplying by Zero

Ben Coccio's mock documentary gratuitously rehearses the school shooting scenario

Teen Spleen

Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

The New Racism

Nothing's black and white at Millennium High School

Life or Art?

Two local bands put divergent spins on their metal theater

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about in search of fear itself

Monsters of Rock

Danish 'psychobilly' band lampoons America, offers twangy satire

Buddy & Julie Miller

Buddy & Julie Miller (HighTone)

Rammstein

Mutter (Republic/Universal)

Letters

From the week of March 29, 2001

Milk of Human Blindness

Pay It Forward is so sweet it should sicken, but the sugar won't be denied

New Paper Views

"Fragile Moments" and "Screen Shots," two separate exhibits at ASU, tie disparate childhood memories together

For the Record

MDFMK's Sascha Konietzko on controversy, scapegoating and Columbine

Flashes 06-08-2000

Hurray Bashing

Anatomy of a gay hate crime in fictional Lummox, Texas is a one-man tour de force

Invisible Scourge

While society frets over the threat of school massacres, a more insidious and lethal rampage mounts on the streets, unacknowledged

Murphy's Law

Year after year, Murphy school district officials watched their students die in a hail of violence. They decided to take matters into their own hands.

Maim That Toon!

Musicalized South Park is something to @#$%& about

Flashes

Letters

From the week of May 27, 1999

Culture War Heroes

William Bennett and the right make might at a Scottsdale resort

Space Cadets

Trekkies docu examines starship troupers

Flashes

Flashes

Go Ask Alice

On the eve of Alice Cooper's boxed-set release party, several local musicians are cursing the bar that bears his name

COSMIC EVENTS

UOFA TELESCOPES PRODUCE STANGE PROTESTS AND WEIRED OFFICIAL REACTIONS