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Top Five-Must See Shows in Phoenix This Week

Holy crap! What a weekend. We had the soggy-but-stellar Carnaval Eléctrico with Cold War Kids, Hanni El Khatib, Mergence, and more at Crescent Ballroom, the raucous Rampage Fest with Nü Sensae, White Lung, Allah-Las, and more at Sail Inn, and a thoroughly enjoyable-but-exhausting performance by Ma ... More >>

'Til Death Do Us Part: Arizona's Dangerous Love Affair with Guns

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Bill Tonnesen, Contentious Tempe Developer, Aims for Immortality

Is Heavy Metal Really The Devil's Music?

See also: Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson to Headline KUPD's Desert Uprising See also: Megadeth's Dave Ellefson: "Why I'm Trying to Become a Pastor" Last week, I found myself in an awkward conversation with douchebag with a popped collar and frosted tips. He asked me if I worshipped "the Devil," lo ... More >>

Five Bands/Arists Your Mom Really Doesn't Want You Listening To

Mother's Day -- the day we set aside of reflect on what our mothers, grandmothers, godmothers, and other types of mothers have done for us over the years -- is on its way. They were there when we first smoked marijuana (though they weren't aware what we were up to) and they were there when we stumbl ... More >>

Tim Minchin Talks Gingers, Religion, Ben Folds, Sperm Banks, Flight of the Concords, and More

Tim Minchin is a rather humble lad. Despite having millions of fans in his homeland of the UK, Australia, and here in the states (not to mention awards up the ying-yang) the 35-year-old piano-playing comedian and musician remains pretty modest about his success."I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing, ... More >>

Kyuss Lives! and Former Queens of the Stone Age Bassist Nick Oliveri Facing 15 Years in Jail

​Kyuss Lives!, which features most of the members of seminal '90s stoner rock band Kyuss (but not Josh Homme, who's apparently too busy being in Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures), is scheduled to play Marquee Theatre on October 6. It should be an awesome show -- after all, Kyuss' ... More >>

Arizona's Redistricting Commission Should Regard the Tea Party as Disruptive Loons

David Heartbreak Discusses Timbaland, Europe and the Origins of Moombahsoul

​​David Heartbreak is considered an innovator in the tropical bass dance genre, Moombahton. He is fresh off his self titled Heartbreak (EP) release and gearing up for his first European tour in September.He has been playing gigs in Europe for a while now and featured regularly on BBC's Radio 1.& ... More >>

Captain America Ignores Its Roots for Easy Money

Summer Guide: Movies

Jonathan Sakas Isn't Your Typical Pop Tart

Matthew Moore's New Project Documents Farm-to-Table Process

  Matthew Moore Artist Matthew Moore wants you to see where your food comes from.​Alarmed by predictions that his family farm in Surprise will be gone in just a few years, local farmer and artist Matthew Moore is doing what he can to preserve the legacy of the land. Over the pa ... More >>

Jan Brewer's U.N.-Bashing PR Stunt, and Its Sliver of Truth

courtesy of Dennis GilmanJan finds the State Department's mention of 1070 "downright offensive." Governor Jan Brewer's political operatives are by no means as dumb as their candidate. Evidence the PR stunt they let drop Friday, berating the U.S. State Department for daring to mention Arizona's brea ... More >>

Chef Christopher Gross Expects Another Foie Protest

​There are quite a few restaurants serving foie gras in the Valley, but for some reason, Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge have become a favorite target of protesters who consider the production of foie to be animal cruelty. Chef-owner Christopher Gross says he's had protesters show ... More >>

Gilbert Junior High School Student Competes on Jeopardy! Kids Week

Jeopardy! Productions, Inc. Gilbert resident Andrea Salt with Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek.​ Despite criticism of the Valley's educational system and its students, a girl from a Metro Phoenix school landed a pretty cerebral gig. Andrea Salt, 12, of Gilbert was one of 15 k ... More >>

Self-Help Business Booming in Sedona, Despite James Ray's Death Lodge Tragedy

"Spiritual warrior" James Ray​The sale of snake oil seems to still be a hot commodity in Sedona, despite "spiritual warrior" James Ray's October sweat lodge ceremony that killed three people and left dozens injured. Businesses in Sedona, as well as other self-help r ... More >>

The Pink Negro: As an Ivy League Lawyer, is President Barack Obama Hard Enough to Confront the Evil Personified by Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

Foie Gras Protest Tomorrow at Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge

Foie gras is on menus at some of the best restaurants in the Valley. But tomorrow, a group of protesters will do their best to shed a different light on the culinary delicacy -- and they'll do it in front of a well-respected Phoenix restaurant, James Beard Award-winning chef Christopher Gross' Chri ... More >>

Valley Bands on the Warped Tour

American Idol Top 13: Battle of the Crying Young Mothers

CAW CAW to you too, Megan Corkery. At long last, it has come to this--after weeks of watching tone-deaf wonders humiliate themselves during the first round of auditions, some slightly less tone-deaf wonders forget the lyrics to their songs during Hollywood Week, Casey Carlson give a bad name to bubb ... More >>

Hooray for Hollywood Alley: Memories of the past two decades at the Mesa rock club

Noise Boy journeys across the desert to hear Hanne Hukkelberg

Family Night: Turbonegro, Mondo Generator, and Year Long Disaster, October 4 at the Brickhouse Theatre

Great Expectations

Following the Trail of Dead

They Like It Rough

And so does our brave writer, who dove headfirst into a never-ending series of fascinating world- music compilations

Light Fantastic Tripping

Easing into an unscripted night out with the New Pornographers

Memental

A sleep-deprived Al Pacino tangles with a psycho Robin Williams in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

Survival

When the captain brought the journalist along on the whale hunt, the elders predicted trouble. The elders were right. The whale tried to kill them all.

My Funny Valid Dane

Simon Russell Beale makes his wry, melancholy prince work surprisingly well in the Royal National Theatre's Hamlet

Dying Breeds

Siberian Eskimos on the edge of the Earth and the brink of starvation saved their lives and their culture by reviving the lost tradition of whale hunting. Now they worry the gray whales are poisoned.

Prance Charming

Octogenarian dancer still on his toes

Shut Up, Jeremy!

Two rock critics tackle all 25 live Pearl Jam albums, and for what? Nothing, man.

Worlds Apart

When it comes to immigration for gay bi-national couples, love does have borders

Chicken Soup for el Sol

Phone Alone

In the middle of nowhere, Godfrey Daniels gets calls from everywhere

Untouched by an Anglo

Honky-Tonk Angels

The Valley's longest-twanging C&W/rock outfit charms a third time with a no-nonsense new CD

Gallant Effort

Pain Killer

Morphine's Mark Sandman isn't nearly as tortured as his noirish music would make you think

Recordings

Pic Hits for the week

Hope You Die Before We Get Old

The reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

Anal Dementive

Butthole Surfers tone down the insanity on Electriclarryland

FREON EASY

ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS.

THE LYIN' KING

HE'S SMART, FIT AND ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN. HE'S A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER. SO WHY DOES ANDY LING TELL SUCH TALL TALES?

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAIL

HOMEBOY JOM ROSE AND HIS CIRCUS SIDESHOW ARE BACK. YOU PROBABLY WON'T VOMIT.

THE BLUES DRUTHERSSPURNED BY MAJOR LABELS, THE POWERFUL PALADINS FLOURISH ONSTAGE

The Sauce Of His Content

Bluesman James Harman barbecues the blues on his latest LP Extra Napkins