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Sam Pillsbury: Treat Your Wine Tasting Room with Respect

A comment overheard recently: 'If it looks like a Bar, sounds like a Bar, it is a Bar.' It's hard enough to grow and plant wine grapes in Arizona, or anywhere for that matter, and fortunately this is not a majority opinion, but I beg to differ. Let me explain about the gap between these two state ... More >>

Sam Pillsbury Spills on the Reason He Landed in Arizona, and Launches a Wine Column for Chow Bella

This week we introduce a new, occasional wine column by one of the best-known Arizona winemakers, Sam Pillsbury. Welcome to Spillsbury. When managing editor Amy Silverman asked me to write for Chow Bella and New Times, I had to stop and think how that was going to work. I think that will evolve. I ... More >>

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critics' Poll

The Hobbit and Dinner at Cornish Pasty Co. in Tempe

While a jumbo tub of hot buttered popcorn is one of our most frequently indulged guilty pleasures, we think a good movie deserves a little better company than junk food. Try out our movie and meal pairings for yourself or feel free to suggest one of your own favorites in the comments. The Movie: Th ... More >>

Fellow Geeks: Pack Your Bags, Pints Now Served at "The Hobbit" Green Dragon Pub

The Green Dragon pub, as seen in "The Hobbit," is now open to real world tourists. Check that, it's now serving tourists both brews and food at Hobbiton, the New Zealand farm where The Shire from the Lord of the Rings movies was filmed. See Also: -We Ate It: Denny's Nerd-Bait "The Hobbit" Menu -Wh ... More >>

The Hobbit Gets Neither There Nor Back Again

Hobbit Menu Coming to Denny's November 6th

In what has to be one of the strangest movie tie-ins in recent history, Denny's is rolling out a Hobbit-themed menu just ahead of the release of the Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The seemingly innuendo-ready dishes include a cheddar filled "Hobbit Hole," "Shire Sausage" and "Gan ... More >>

Wingspan

Music of Lord of the Rings in Concert @ Jobing.com Arena

Rubber, Hugo Cabaret, Tintin, and Other 2011 Films to Look Forward To

Mayhem Explained

A Look At Each of the Mayhem festival’s Headliners

A Look at Korn, Rob Zombie, and the Other Stars of the Mayhem Festival

Roadkill Bill, Vol. 3

Bisbee Cannibal Club director strikes again

Enya's Greatest Hits Coming Soon... Wait, Enya Had Hits?

Wanna hear something even crazier? This is actually Enya's second Greatest Hits record -- she also put one out in 1997.

Top Underrated Zombie Films

​Every zombie walk and kitschy zombie indie comedy is milking the zombiemania cash cow. However, the films that paved the way still get little recognition, which is a darn shame.These films explore just what a human can do under apocalyptic circumstances and how far people will go to survive. ... More >>

District 9: Alien Invasion as Apartheid Metaphor

Summer Guide: Coppolla, Mann, Allen, and Tarantino Bring the Summer Flicks

Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army another mindless sequel

Legend Has It

That old "last man on earth" setup? It really works

Die! Die! Die!

Check between the toes

Bob Shaye´s New Line

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

The Short Goodbye

Hero With a Thousand Faces

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion earns our highest score

Kid Stuff for Parents

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense

Love the Sin

Homewreckers on DVD

Dead Good

Edgar Wright's latest flick shows--once again--why zombies are so much fun

Days of Future Passed

"Sheer gonzo aesthetics" save the day in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Ghouls on Film

Skeleton crew pulls the strings

Monster Smash

RenFest Retch

Into medieval torture? Try the food at the Renaissance Festival.

A Long-Expected Party

A half-century of Rings-mania culminates in The Return of the King

She's Gonna Have It

In 2003, women continued to claim and transform the cinema

A Long-Expected Party

A half-century of Rings-mania culminates in The Return of the King.

Upper Middle Earth

The Return of the King marks a zenith in cinematic potential

Reduced-Salt Dogs

In the slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less

Dead to Rights

Stripped of pretentious excess, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later.

Grand Dames

The big-screen gals of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Orc Chops

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

Projections 2002

Cinema's magic lantern lights up another year, sort of

A Hard Hobbit to Break

Brilliant spectacle and even better performances make The Lord of the Rings a fantastic dream

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

A Slightly Dirty Dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no single movie really stood out

Grin, Reaper

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

Fast Talkers, Pugnacious Puppets, 007

HOUSE CREEPER

DEATH AND THE MAIDENS