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Knight Moves

Bears of Manitou Wants to Fight the Colorado Wildfires (And You Can Help)

See also: Take Cover: Bears of Manitou Cover Damien Rice See also: Want to Write a Song for Bears of Manitou? Tons of bands use Kickstarter to secure funds to finish an album, but how many of them offer to take you camping and plan on donating excess funds to charity? Tempe folk rockers Bears of Ma ... More >>

The Six Coolest Carts at The Phoenix Idiotarod

​If you happened to spy bizarrely dressed groups of people pushing equally weird-looking shopping carts along the sidewalks of downtown Phoenix over the weekend, you weren't hallucinating. The Arizona Cacophony Society held the annual Phoenix Idiotarod on Saturday afternoon and caused plenty of ... More >>

The Maui Dog Big Kahuna Challenge

The Big Kahuna Challenge ​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than they should eat in a week -- dai ... More >>

Freudian Hip

Ceci n'est pas un cigare

John Cleese

Arizona Cardinals Photos For Sale -- (Not Cheap) -- in Arizona Republic Bid to Make Quick Buck

The Arizona Republic's parent company, Gannett, is starting to look like the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail, losing an arm here, a leg there --- except no one's claiming these are just flesh wounds. On the heels of a companywide 10 percent cut in personnel last month, Gannett told it's ... More >>

Brew Review: Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale

Johanna Carlisle

A sports doc for geeks? The King of Kong brings it on, now on DVD

New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Some Call It Pronk: Coping with The Cardiacs

Thou Shalt Not Be Too Funny

And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy

When the Stars Came Out

Lewis Blows His Top

Bond in a Bikini

Commons Killer

Conceptual like a Fox

Swindled Art

Profile: Pyrotechnician Kendon Victor

Bang Boy

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of September 27

New releases available this week

Black Forest

Gilliam has no one but himself to blame

Somali Sublime

They've got your goat

Brain Trust

Let video games rot your gray matter before the zombies get to you

Emerald City

Smoke gets in his eyes, but George couldn't be happier than rockin' out with Phoenix's young, loud, and snotty

George Harrison

The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
(Capitol)

The Minus 5

At the Organ
(Yep Roc)

Neil Innes

The unsung pariah of parodies

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers

Python's Brian returns, bearing cinematic salvation

King Artless

So much eye candy, so little substance

Idle Talents

Comedian's performance leaves out the Spam

BEST LIBRARY FOR CD AND DVD BURNERS

Burton Barr Central Library

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Spin City

Inkblotch throws a party

Natural Disaster

Was Terry Gilliam the man who killed Don Quixote?

Orc Chops

The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film

The Full Monty

After 26 years, a bigger, better Monty Python and the Holy Grail is more medieval than ever

Sundome-upon-Avon

The Shakespeare Revue

Idle Wild

Flute Epidemic

Gross Encounter

There's Something About Mary--and it's funnier than Dumb and Dumber

Head Time for Gonzo

Terry Gilliam plays a long shot in loopy Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas filmization

Crybabies

The Greatest Show Unearthed

Way over the big top with underground Cirkus Redickuless

Recordings

Sketch Marks

All in the Timing knows its pace

Contract and Expel

Famous parting shots from artists formerly "under exclusive arrangement" with their labels

The Plot Dickens

BEDTIME FOR BONZOS

LOONY BINGE