Mickey Mouse

A Brief History of Movie Characters Getting Whacked in the Balls

Nobody's Tool: Maynard James Keenan Would Rather Talk About His Other Bands

Maynard James Keenan Discusses Donkey Punch the Night

Right now, there's a Tool fan angrily venting about the lack of a new Tool album in some dark corner of the Internet. Right now, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is most likely working on something other than a new Tool album. As detailed in this week's Phoenix New Times cover story, Keenan is a ... More >>

Azealia Banks - Coachella - 4/21/12

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage By Rebecca Haithcoat One assumes that thousands of people shouting, "I guess that cunt getting eaten" in unison has never happened at Coachella before. Yet you could hear just that yesterday during Azealia Banks' set; it was afternoon, and most of us were ... More >>

Major League Baseball and Arizona Diamondbacks Unveil Plans for All-Star Game Collector Cacti, Ballot Candidates, Glee and Whoopi Goldberg

Photo by Matthew Hendley From left to right, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, MLB Executive Vice President Tim Brosnan, Diamondbacks legend Luis Gonzalez, right fielder Justin Upton, Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick, team CEO Derrick Hall, and play-by-play TV announcer Darin Sutton in front of ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Supporting the Other Guy and Automated Laughter Tracks

Gimme Some Sugar: Candy Addict vs. Rocket Fizz

"Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh, soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie?" Up until two years ago when Georganne Bryant opened her colorful retro candy boutique, Smeeks, no one in Phoenix could. Seems Bryant started a trend. Up popped Sweets and Beats (now defunct),  ... More >>

Grinderman: Grinderman 2

​Artist: GrindermanTitle: Grinderman 2Release date: September 14Label: Anti-Most of the indie rock I've heard this year (well over 200 records and counting, with 11 weeks to go in this series) is really pretty toothless. Even the harder-rocking stuff, with its big drums or wall-of-sound guitars or ... More >>

Border Agents Seize More Than 100 Mexican Pinatas; Not Drug-Filled Pinatas -- Just Pinatas

www.pepperspolly.com​Mexican pinatas are the latest item from south of the border on the list of things not allowed in Arizona -- at least when they're made to look like licensed Disney characters. This isn't exactly a case of asking Mickey Mouse for his "papers please" -- Disney ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Films

FoodLab 2010: The End(?) and Letters of Complaint (2 of 2) to the French at Cuisine Innovation

​Roll credits. FoodLab 2010: Hard Cooking with a Vengeance. FoodLab 2010: Revenge of the French. FoodLab 2010: Molecular Gastrology Boogaloo, whatever you want to call it, this flick is finally finished, or is it? Plot summary: Beautiful, young, innocent girl (hey, it's my movie), struggles thro ... More >>

Valentine's Day Break-Up Gift and Everybody-Wins-Nobody-Loses-Time-Waster-Show, in "TV Dinner"

Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help. We're reviewing the most delectable and dreadful with a handy, must-see schedule so you won't miss a thing. How exciting! A box from your sweetie has arri ... More >>

Day Drinker: Royale Lounge

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? ​Sunday night, after watching, Two Weeks in Hell, a show about the brutal, two-week tryouts for wanna-be Green Berets, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. after dreaming about killing zombies with my bare hands on a 50-foot rope ladd ... More >>

On a Dissolving Faith in God and Worshipping Looney Tunes Characters

On Frequenting Cantinas and Being Opposed to Illegal Immigration

Phoenix Coyotes vs. Anaheim Ducks (Preseason)

Where It’s Legal to Sleep with a Jonas Brother

Wavves to Come Through Phoenix on Fall Tour

Ah yes, the ever popular x-ray of Nathan Williams' broken wrist.​Nathan Williams, the creative force behind Wavves, has been having an interesting last few months. There was the meltdown incident in Spain and the broken wrist. He released a new song, Mickey Mouse, a week ago and now he's announced ... More >>

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s Vs. Children Takes on Parenthood

New Wavves Song Available on Sendspace

As you might have picked up from my column last week, I think Wavves is one of the most interesting bands out at the moment. So I was pretty excited to read they've got a new song out, even if:a) They're still canceling shows due to Nathan Williams broken wrist.b) The song in question is called "Mic ... More >>

ZOMG!!! The Jonas Brothers Coming to Jobing.com Arena on August 11

The Jonas Brothers There's been a non-stop chorus of girlish screams of joy coming from across the Valley since this morning, and we've finally deduced they cause behind all the shreiking: The Jonas Brothers are coming in concert this summer. The trio of Disney-programmed animatronic pop ro ... More >>

Hot Links: Video Interview of 8-year-old Slaying Suspect Released by Cops; Four Million May Attend Obama's Inauguration; Credit Market Still

By Ray Stern In a police interview tape, the 8-year-old boy suspected of killing two in St. Johns sticks to his story that he came home and found the bodies. But police have already said the boy confessed to the crime, meaning his words in this video are just another example of his methodical plann ... More >>

Hollywood Ending

These nanny-bashers may be brutes, but they have good eyes

Trite Christmas

Our design columnist wouldn't have it any other way

The House Always Wins

How much you wanna bet this washed-up threequel makes a bundle?

Mofro

'Fro better blues

Organ Freeman

That old D-Back magic

Star Gays

OutFar! film fest outdoes itself

Movies: the Year in Review -- From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

BEST WAY TO KILL TWO HOURS WITH THE KIDS

Kiddieland/Enchanted Island Amusement Park

Colangelo's Kitchen

Our cafe critic goes Italian under America West Arena

Hill Factor

Windham Hill jazzes up holidays

Letters

Letters from the week of November 27, 2003

Pod Squad

Korean artist Lee Bul's karaoke pods will make you feel like you're in orbit

Kid Rocks

Stone cold fun at Rock Art Expo

Forbidden Fruit

The kiddies should be lining up as we slap a parental advisory on the latest batch of jazz, blues and heritage releases

Basket Case

Contemporary fiber arts is the oeuvre of two artists whose work is on display at ASU

Lame Time, Last Year

Reeking havoc, Phoenix style, in the 12 months the millennium forgot

Opa for Business

Jesus, Mickey & Joseph

Tijuana Brash

The de la Torre brothers' glass is full of frontera kitsch

Wayne's World

Septuagenarian groupies, Clinton bashing, deep-fried cheese

A Removeable Feast

It's Only Agro to Me

Fire Bugs

The Red Aunts play white-hot, evolutionary punk rock (and they're girls)

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

How Sweet It Is