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DJ Jon Dread: "[I'm] a White Redhead Trying to Come Up in a Predominately Black Genre"

Ronnie Styles hasn't sported long-ass dreadlocks for years, but he's still just as big into reggae culture and Rastafarianism as during his kinky-haired days, if not moreso. As such, the 32-year-old busies himself with spinning irie and dub sounds as DJ Jon Dread at The Sail Inn's Reggae Roots Unwin ... More >>

Steve Wiley: How Much Money Is Music Worth To You?

How much is music worth to people? This isn't a new question for me. For the past 25 years I've fed my family by selling the stuff. And even though I haven't operated a brick-and-mortar record store for almost a year now, I'm still as curious about it, and as relatively uncertain, as always. Aft ... More >>

Thomas Gold - Maya Day & Nightclub - 5/24/13

Thomas Gold Friday, May 24, 2013 Maya Day & Night Club After a solid day of watching The Walking Dead, thanks to Netflix and various other websites I would prefer not to get in trouble, I found myself at Maya for the first time to see Thomas Gold hit the decks. Like The Walking Dead, many people ... More >>

Frozen Bananas, Cornballs, and Mayoneggs: What To Eat While Watching Season Four of Arrested Development

It's the story of a wealthy family that lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development. And it's back. The Netflix premiere of the long-awaited fourth season of Arrested Development is almost upon us. When all 15 episodes are made availab ... More >>

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

The Screwball Economics of Major League Baseball

8 Great Shows You Haven't Binged-Watch on Netflix Yet

8 Great Shows You Haven't Binged-Watch on Netflix Yet

Jack Attack

Herb Box's LaDawn Driscoll: Caramelpalooza Candymakers 2013

As the chefs competing in Smeeks and Chow Bella's fourth annual Caramelpalooza -- coming 7 p.m. Friday, April 5, at UNION -- get out the candy thermometers, we've got our pens ready to introduce you to the faces behind the caramel. LaDawn Driscoll might be a newcomer to the Caramelpalooza competiti ... More >>

Polymath Project

Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns Talk Side Effects and Collaboration

Top Five Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

10 Greatest TV Themes of All Time

Oh you don't own a TV? How brave. Seriously -- people love bragging about not watching TV, but they're missing out. Whether watching live, on Netflix, or on DVD, there's almost nothing as fun as zoning out in front of the TV. We're partial to music too (you might have guessed), so when we started ... More >>

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critics' Poll

Top 5 Food Predictions for Phoenix in 2013

As another culinary year approaches, it's time to once again gaze into the crystal ball to predict the Valley's food trends for 2013. See also: Chefs, What Will the Top Food Trends for Phoenix Be in 2013? It's no secret that our food scene is slow to hop aboard the rest of the country's gastronom ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Fight Club

Professional food crusader Jamie Oliver's newest project sounds even more daunting than trying to reform public school lunches: Now he's trying to champion British cuisine in a Food Fight Club with chefs from the continent. See More: --Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Pulled For Sweeps, Replaced Wit ... More >>

Why the New Scary Found-Footage Movies Don't Look Like Movies at All

Gossip Girl's Top 10 Passionate and Devastating Music Moments

It's been a long road for Gossip Girl, from the teenage backstabbing and juicy gossip in the first seasons to the characters heading off to college, flirting with the rich and powerful, and being at the root of public scandals. The show's sixth and final season premiered last night, and there are ni ... More >>

Gathering of the Juggalos or S.S. Coachella? We Break Out the Scorecard

See also: S.S. Coachella Cruise Lineup Announced Featuring Pulp, Girl Talk, Z-Trip, and More See also: Z-Trip Talks Growing Up in Phoenix, Johhny D., Crate-Digging, Mexican Food, Smite, and More See also: The Gathering of the Juggalos 2012 Lineup Is Pretty Good. Really! See also: FBI Report Official ... More >>

Ladylike Approaches '70s Pop With Sharpened Tools

Ask a Mexican on Bilingualism and Catholic Culture

Weekend: Black Tusk, John O'Callaghan, The Ataris, St. Patrick's Day, and Dustin Wong

Is it just me, or has it been a crazy week? Between all the SXSW craziness (I'm not there, but the sheer amount of reading I've done from people who are feels staggering), the sorta-but-not-really surprise closure of The Clubhouse in Tempe, and trying to stay on top of everything happening on St. P ... More >>

Craft Coffee: Call It the "Bean of the Month Club"

Jonathan Meter Jessica Hertle, The Bite Sized Blog Craft Coffee's map of roasters.​ If you ballpark the number of coffee roasters in the United States who are seasonally finding the tastiest coffees from around the world and roasting them to perfection, you really only have more than a ... More >>

Guns N' Roses at Comerica Theatre, 12/27/11

Guns N' Roses Comerica Theatre Tuesday, December 27 See also: Our complete Guns N' Roses and Sebastian Bach slideshow. Our interview with Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson. The line stretched around Comerica Theatre, and snaked all the way down Adams, placing us just across the street from t ... More >>

Z'Tejas: Happy Hour Report Card

​The Spot: Z'Tejas Southwestern Grill, 7221 W. Ray Road, Chandler. (480) 893-7550. Other locations include Scottsdale, Tempe and Phoenix. ztejas.comThe Hours: 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Hours vary slightly by location, and the Scottsdale Z'Tejas inclu ... More >>

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

The Qwikster/Netflix Debacle: Ten "Sorry" Songs

Look, don't tell Netflix or Qwikster or whatever it's called today, but I am their perfect customer. When Netflix raised prices, I didn't cancel my plan. When CEO Reed Hastings announced that the service would be splitting into two services, Netflix for streaming video, and the absurdly named Qwikst ... More >>

Andrew Jackson Jihad's Sean Bonnette on Knife Man and Gawker

​Well, he's done it. Sean Bonnette, one half of Valley mainstays Andrew Jackson Jihad, lover of hip-hop, passionate defender of all things Phoenix, has moved away. But don't get up in arms. "This is just a temporary thing," Bonnette says of his recent move to Chicago to be with his girlfriend. ... More >>

Top Five Concerts to Catch This Wekend: Santana, Source Victoria, Blu Sensations, Greeley Estates, Psychedelic Furs, and More

​It's Friday, and you know what that means: Food Truck Day at Phoenix Public Market. Wait, it means something else, too...what was it? Oh, yeah. Shows -- a whole bunch of them. We've written up BroLoaf, Slightly Stoopid, Return to Forever, and The Rhythm Room 20th Anniversary gigs, but here are ... More >>

Steve Martin and Six More Actors Who Don't Totally Suck at Music

One of these men was "born a poor black child."​He may be known best as a "wild and crazy guy," but Steve Martin is the master of more than one craft. In addition to his work as a comedian and actor, Martin is a writer, playwright, and as Rare Bird Alert, his new album with The Steep Canyon Range ... More >>

Teaching Spanish to White Kids Is All the Rage -- Even in Mexican-Bashing Arizona

Five Phoenix TV Commercial Jingles That Make Us Want to Stick a Power Drill in Our Temple

​I had my wisdom teeth out last week, which meant a weekend full of popping pain pills, eating pudding, and of course, vegging out in front of the boob tube. Despite the advent of Hulu, Netflix and television on DVD, life without basic cable can still be a struggle. Watching Simpsons reruns on CW ... More >>

Jane Eyre: A New Adaptation of the Classic Stresses the Pursuit of Independence

Cheap Thrills, The Ramones, Roller Girl Tryouts, and More

​Been missing your weekly dose "dancing and debauchery" via Jared Alan and Sean Watson's weekly Cheap Thrills party? The DJ duo has some fantastic news. Not only will the event be landing at a new home this fall, it's also making a brief return this weekend for a special one-off. I spoke with ... More >>

Portrait of Yousuf

Netflix, fail. Phoenix Art Museum, success.

Departures: It’s Hard to Stay Mad at This Surprise Oscar Winner

Summer Guide: Checking Out the Library

Unwigged and Unloved: Spinal Tappers Play for Small but Appreciative Crowd

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

On Knowing Everything About Plants and Working Hard

Rotten Tomatoes' Ofay-Centric Critics, and the Biggie Smalls Biopic Notorious

"It was all a dream..."There are very few film critics I can read without getting at least mildly peeved at their gasbaggery. But the critics' pool on the geek-fan site RottenTomatoes.com really ticks me off, particularly in regards to the Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious, which I caught over the week ... More >>

Arty Girl: Nadia Hironaka at ASU Art Museum

E3 revelations are hit and miss – unless you really dig chopping wood

Letters from the issue of Thursday, June 12, 2008

PAM Shoots, It Scores

Why an afternoon at the museum is better than a Netflix night

Slay Belle

How to murder your husband or die trying

Tomorrow's Misery Today

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of March 13

Rock On, Write Off

Music can be a taxing enterprise