Mark Wahlberg

Contraband: Just Another "One Last Job" Movie

Pool Parties, First Friday, The Palace, Jeff Bridges, Dropkick Murphys, Face To Face, and Nightlands Over the Weekend

​Cannonball Pool Party Kickoff The hipster pool party is officially back. The promoters of Sticky Fingers and Retro Hi-Fi have come together for the all new Cannonball Pool Party at the Lexington Hotel. The summer's remaining Sunday afternoons are going to be all about looking hip, taking a di ... More >>

Steelheart @ Club Red

​Cannonball Pool Party Kickoff The hipster pool party is officially back. The promoters of Sticky Fingers and Retro Hi-Fi have come together for the all new Cannonball Pool Party at the Lexington Hotel. The summer's remaining Sunday afternoons are going to be all about looking hip, taking a di ... More >>

If Video Game Characters Became Rock Stars...

Brütal Legend, a 2009 video game released by Electronic Arts, featured voice work by Jack Black, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and a soundtrack of more than 100 hard rock and metal songs.​Over the past three decades, two institutions have constantly remained near-unive ... More >>

The Fighter: The Micky Ward Story Falls Through the Ropes in a Too-Familiar Film

Brütal Legend, a 2009 video game released by Electronic Arts, featured voice work by Jack Black, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and a soundtrack of more than 100 hard rock and metal songs.​Over the past three decades, two institutions have constantly remained near-unive ... More >>

August 9 In Blogs: Joe Arpaio, Arterial Canal Crossings, Justin Bieber, Toast, and John McCain

​​​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:

Justin Bieber and Marky Mark Wahlberg to Rap Together?

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

The Other Guys: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Re-Team, with Decreasing Returns

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Films

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

Date Night: Tina Fey and Steve Carell Go Lowbrow -- and Chemistry Free

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

The Lovely Bones: Peter Jackson’s Use of 3-D CGI Renders This Film One-Dimensional

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

New York Cop Drama Pride and Glory Holds the Audience Hostage

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

OutKast's Andre 3000 acts up with Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

Crackers & Cheese

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes

Cannes 2007: The Joy in the Bubble

How many of these movies will you actually get to see?

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save American than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

Royal Flush

Who better to save American than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Training Day

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

Get Inside!

Your three-month forecast of the summer's top movies

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Music

Who's spinning what, where and when

Gross Yield

The awards for cinematic depravity

The Impossible Bomb

The awards for cinematic depravity

Tasty Tuesday

Our naughty nightcrawlers hang with DJ Fashen at Next and wolf down a club-full of Sugar

Funky Bunch

Oddly, it's not so bad

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

Say Wha? Say Why?

Searching for the meaning of life in a movie that barely exists

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Kitty Litter

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

Safe, Cracked

The Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

Deep Black

Listeners had to travel far beyond mainstream to find sublime black music in 2002

Whose Truth?

Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation

Number One With a Mullet

Heavy metal gets the lite treatment in the cliché-studded Rock Star

Gorilla Warfare

Tim Burton monkeys around with an icon. But is it evolution?

Hearts and Banjos

Valley rock 'n' roll vets Bruce Connole and Keith Jackson bond -- bluegrass style

Bad Case of the Runs

Non-Stop keeps its characters in motion, but, like the movie, they really don't get anyplace

Grime and Punishment

Gritty The Yards goes the extra mile

Short Cutlets

A Magnolia by any other name still smells like Altman

The XXX Philes

Everyone's in bed together in "family"-oriented Boogie Nights

Flimflam Film

Traveller packs some charm but brings few gifts

Sex, Lies and TV Talk

Tempe pranksters crash seven talk shows--and live to gab again

SLAM JUNK

Tempe pranksters crash seven talk shows--and live to gab again

ALL THE WAY LIVE

Tempe pranksters crash seven talk shows--and live to gab again

NKOTB

IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT STANDS FOR, YOU'RE A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL. OR ARE YOU?

BUSTIN' OUT OF BLACKFACE

WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?