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Will Ferrell Puts Out Yet Another Bizarre Guerrilla Super Bowl Ad

Will Ferrell's one man revival of Old Milwaukee beer continued with yet another guerrilla Super Bowl advertisement that only ran in a handful of tiny markets. According to Reddit, this ad, featuring Ferrell passionately kissing a woman on the bus to the strain of vintage Chinese music, ran in Sherma ... More >>

Norway Turns To Interpretive Dance To Sell More Fish

Remember those "Got Milk?" and "Beef, It's What's For Dinner" ads? Well Norway is apparently trying to convince its people to eat more fish and to that end they've introduced a series of truly horrifying awesome advertisements promoting sushi. See Also: --Watch This: Someone Eating Little Baby's ( ... More >>

Watch Will Ferrell Speak Swedish and Make Fart Jokes on Behalf of Old Milwaukee

Will Ferrell has done another series of ads for Old Milwaukee Beer this time in... Sweden? The comfortably retro looking ads are apparently airing on Swedish television and feature Ferrell speaking fondly of Old Milwaukee Beer in Stockholm and ts environs. See Also: --Will Ferrell's Old Milwaukee ... More >>

Arizona Diamondbacks Nip Dodgers Again

The Arizona Diamondbacks dealt another blow to the Los Angeles Dodgers' playoff hopes Wednesday night at Chase Field, beating them 3-2. It was the Dodgers' sixth loss in seven games and the D-Backs' 10th win against them this season. More importantly for the D-backs, the win kept their faint playof ... More >>

Destroyer Announces Phoenix Date This Summer

​Up on the Sun favorite Dan Bejar and his band Destroyer released their newest album Kaputt more than a year ago. We liked it then, we liked it at the end of the year, we like it now still. It's a charming ode to the smooth sounds of late-'70s/early-'80s yacht rock, cannily balancing the line betw ... More >>

Will Ferrell's Old Milwaukee Beer Commercials!

It turns out that Arizona missed out on a very important commercial during this past Sunday's Super Bowl. It featured an American comic genius, a field of flowers, and a can of ... Old Milwaukee beer.

Chef Elizabeth Meinz of Orange Table, Part 2

​This week we're chatting with Elizabeth Meinz, executive chef and general manager at Orange Table in Old Town Scottsdale. We got the scoop on where the ham and American cheese went Monday, and today we're talking business and community with the busy mother of two. What new projects hav ... More >>

Happy Bon Iver Day!

Bon Iver​Construction paper? Check. Squiggly scissors? Got 'em. Magazine cut-outs of kittens? Definitely. No, we're not helping our kid sister make a collage; we're making ironic D.I.Y holiday cards to celebrate Bon Iver Day. That's right, y'all, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett has proclaimed July ... More >>

15 Good Songs You Might've Missed in 2010

Peter Storch​I listened to more than 3,000 songs in 2010, so I was asked to come up with a list of the best of the year. But you've probably heard "Swim" by Surfer Blood and "Boyfriend" by Best Coast and "Helicopter" by Deerhunter and "Hustle and Cuss" by the Dead Weather, so I came up with a ... More >>

Touring By Bicycle? Milwaukee Folk Singer Peter Mulvey Bikes into Cave Creek

Milwaukee singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey has an odd gimmick: He rides his bike on tour. Like, across state lines and stuff. He's apparently biked around to about 120 shows over the last three years and will be cycling into Cave Creek on Saturday, October 30 for a show at the new Janey's Coffeehouse ... More >>

Oct. 14 In Blogs: Doug Ducey, Lance Henriksen, Holy Fuck, Kobalt, and Prop 203

​​​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:

Andrew Thomas: Top 10 Options for All That Free Time on His Hands

Dave Foley? Who's that?Today is a red letter day in former County Attorney Andrew Thomas' life. From here on out, barring a bolt of lightning, he'll have oodles of free time to pursue other interests. So here are some suggestions for "Candy." Feel free to add your own. I did leave out him learning j ... More >>

Jaill

That's How We Burn

Incoming: Social Distortion, Hot Hot Heat, Ra Ra Riot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nickelback

A picture of Canadian rock band Nickelback​I remember it like it was yesterday: it was the summer of 2002 and I was in super-humid Milwaukee for Major League Baseball's All-Star Game. We were in the parking lot of Miller Park, enjoying the pre-game festivities, eating and drinking all of the ... More >>

Landmine Marathon Debuts New Video for "Shadows Fed to Tyrants"

​How do you make a metalhead swoon? Play him the new video for "Shadows Fed to Tyrants" by Phoenix grindcore band Landmine Marathon. If you read my feature on the band last year, you probably didn't have to read between too many lines to figure out that I have a huge crush on lead screamer Grace P ... More >>

Salt River Tubing, Cheap Trick, Soyal, and Down the Rabbit Hole Over the Holiday Weekend

​Salt River Tubing on Fourth of July Weekend The Salt River was more crowded by Bikini-clad beauties and alcohol-swilling ruffians than normal on July 4th Weekend. Check out the aquatic antics in these photos...see photos ​Cheap Trick at Talking Stick Resort on 7/3/10 I've seen these d ... More >>

2010 NCAA Baseball Regional: Arizona State vs. Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Arizona-Only Beer Fest Gives Grand Canyon State a Little Something to Take Pride In

Arizona Only: Phoenix's PBS station threw a beer fest only open to our state's microbrews.​Something about an Arizona beer festival felt a little trivial Saturday, a day when angry hordes across the country beat up our state's idiotic new immigration law at May Day rallies.Hell, they were p ... More >>

Sweat Lodge Victims Paid Up to $10,000 to "Change Their Lives" at Deadly Retreat

www.amazon.com​How much would you pay to not eat for 36 hours and then sit in a hot steamy make-shift tent with about 60 people in search of spiritual awakening?To be honest, that sounds worse than a prison sentence, but the participants in last week's tragic sweat-lodge incident at Angel Va ... More >>

To DIY For

Filmmaker logged 19,000 miles documenting do-it-yourself culture

Phoenix Fringe Festival: Paint the Town

Speak of the Devils

Pat Murphy: Amazing coach. Relationship counselor? Not so much.

I Gave Up Women with Bad Taste in Music

Kook's Korner: Run, Peter Cottontail! (hic)

Sarah Fenske’s in dogged pursuit of maternal instinct

Chill sweetens up Tempe

Southern Discomfort

As God is my witness, I'll never be thirsty again

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 12, 2007

Added Up

Punk + folk + evolution

Modern Machines

Taco Blessing
(Recess Records)

A quick music roundup

Coachella lowdown, plus new local showcase

Call Me Lightning

The Trouble We're In
(Revelation Records)

We're Talkin' Baseball

Cactus League springs into action

2003 Cactus League Baseball

Spring Training Schedule

Best Lounge That Was Tiki When Tiki Wasn't Cool

The Bikini Lounge

The Impossible Dream

Underrated blue-collar pop punks the Impossible Ones

Wanna-be in Pictures

Milwaukee's unlikeliest filmmaker gets star treatment in quirky American Movie docu

Is Anybody Listening?

Beyond Arizona, musicians rave about it, but the Phoenix Symphony, at 50, plays to half-empty houses at home. Can its new maestro, Hermann Michael, fill the seats?

Wall to Walternative

Talking Tiki

Grub Steak

SPANIC RISEFATHER TOM, SON IAN AND COUSIN BUTCH KEEP IT ALL IN THE FAMILY

SECOND HELPINGS

FIFE'S DOUBLE TALK ON EDUCATIONGOVERNOR SYMINGTON'S SCHOOL-VOUCHER PLAN IS A GIFT FOR CONSERVATIVES--NOT THE POOR

TENDERFOOT VITTLESWAGON YARD STEAKHOUSE / RUSTLER'S ROOSTE

TENDERFOOT VITTLESWAGON YARD STEAKHOUSE / RUSTLER'S ROOSTE

DOGIE BAG

KING OF THE MUCK RAKERS

GO AHEAD. THROW AWAY YOUR FUTURE. GARBOLOGIST BILL RATHJE WILL BE HAPPY.

PLEASE, SIR, CAN I HAVE SUMO?