Subject: Harry Houdini

• PHX barrister Mike Manning, retained as attorney in the Carol Anne Gotbaum case, calls PHX PD's actions "at first blush, astounding."

  October 1, 2007

• Carol Anne Gotbaum's autopsy under way; NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum issues statement saying Carol was "manhandled" by PHX cops.

  October 2, 2007

• Sgt. Andy Hill on surveillance footage of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest: More video exists.

  October 6, 2007

• Law is WAR: Video of Dennis "the Menace" Wilenchik vs. Judge Timothy "The Hair" Ryan (now w/improved video)

  October 8, 2007

• ACCIDENTAL HANGING: Medical Examiner Ann Bucholtz's autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum finally released.

  November 9, 2007

• Romantasy Cabaret at The Sets

  July 28, 2008

• Love Stories

  September 12, 1996

• Escaped Crusader

  March 27, 1997

• Fairy, Fairy, Quite Contrary

  FairyTale is charming, sometimes inspiring--and almost entirely fraudulent

  October 23, 1997

• Rattling Cages

  Some people golf. Some people fish. Some people collect stamps. Dale Burton spends his free time studying and caring for rattlesnakes.

  June 4, 1998

• Retouching Evil

  Using detailed instructions left by Orson Welles, top film editor Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie" ever, Welles' Touch of Evil

  October 8, 1998

• Goldfrapp

  February 28, 2008

• Sludge metal pioneers, The Melvins, are still doing things their own way on Nude with Boots

  August 21, 2008

• Pitiless P-Town

  The cranky cockatoo slams callous P-towners, pecks away at (sigh . . .) another bogus "plot" to off Sheriff Joe, and profiles the "Mexican Mutant"

  October 11, 2007

• The Police

  They've been practicing

  June 14, 2007

• Welcome to the Grand Illusion

  Memento director plumbs the depths of magic and loss

  October 19, 2006

• The Man of Ink

  Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

  October 26, 2000

• Out of Their Heads

  Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, is terrifically obsessive -- and potentially dangerous

  September 9, 1999

• The Case of the Terrified Tiger

  She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

  November 23, 1995

• Burning Man: An Attorney Says He Escaped His Blazing Home Using Scuba Gear; Now He’s Charged with Arson

  August 27, 2009