Peter Pan

Robrt Pela's Heartwarming Valentine Tale: "If It's Friday, This Must Be the Body of Christ"

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. I know a 12-year-old who eats nothing but peanut butter and chicken fingers. Three meals a day. No kidding. She has, as that old poem a ... More >>

Baby Steps

Page Masters

Nicholas Petricca of Walk the Moon Wants to Jam With Michael McDonald (Let's Make it Happen)

With one of the catchiest songs of the summertime, "Anna Sun" has launched Walk the Moon to the top spot on millions of playlists. In between a series of stops at multiple music festivals, the band is currently making its way across the country on a headlining tour. Once they conquer the U ... More >>

Metal Mondays: The Most Metal Way to Paint a Wall

See also: All Hail Jim Marshall's Black Wall See also: The Ten Hottest Chicks in Metal So, by now most of you have seen the video from the Golden God Awards of Marilyn Manson (unfortunately sounding like shit) performing "Sweet Dreams" with Johnny Depp as a surprise guest. And while Depp is no stra ... More >>

Spicy Chili and Sweet Orange Blossom Beer at Hoptoberfest in Chandler

This turkey chili (front) made us reach for the Kleenex with its creamy heat, but the chicken chili was more of a bland sniffles cure. ​After two weekends of foodie and wine festivals, Chandler's beer drinkers got their fix this Saturday at the Hoptoberfest Chili Cook Off, hosted by the Hung ... More >>

Five Best Food Fights on Film

Tony Curtis (left) looks on as Jack Lemmon gets hit in the face with a brandy-flavored cream pie in 1965's The Great Race. Lemmon has a taste before proclaiming, "Brandy! Throw more brandy! Moooore brandy!" From the classic Laurel and Hardy custard pie fight to Eva Mendez angrily chucking veg ... More >>

Terri Director Azazel Jacobs Moves Beyond the Labels

Club Candids at The Colossal Event

Melissa FossumHoards of raving babes flocked to The Colossal Event for a night of indulgence on Saturday, April 23, at Madison Events Center.​ The Colossal Event boasted an impressive line up, including Steve Aoki, Felix Cartal, Chase & Status, and Jack Beats. The music wasn't the only thing ... More >>

Plain White T's Tom Higgenson on New Album, Cirque du Soleil, and "Hey There Delilah"

​ Plain White T's may be best known for acoustic love songs like "Hey There Delilah" and "1,2,3,4", but their newest album, Wonders of the Younger, takes listeners on a trip down memory lane, encouraging  listeners to look back at the past with a sense of Peter Pan-like innocence. And if you ... More >>

Gator Eats Tempe Town Lake Fish, Lands on Our Plate

In case you haven't heard, the poor fish that didn't survive The Great Tempe Town Levee Break of 2010 were fed to a six-foot alligator named "Tuesday" -- just one of nearly two dozen Arizona Herpetological Society reptiles that will feast on the receding water's tiny victims. That ins ... More >>

Patti Smith to Write Children's Book

Patti Smith.​Patti Smith has worked in nearly every medium. She is truly an artist in every sense of the word. Not only is she famous for her proto-punk music and poetry, but she's had exhibitions of photgraphs as well as drawings and paintings, she's modeled, been in film, and even chronicled her ... More >>

Phoenix Girls Chorus

Away We Go: Dave Eggers Makes His Screenwriting Debut

Much Ado About Playthings

Valley expo will make mouths of all ages water

Peter Pan in Converse: Shaq and the Suns Face D-Wade's Miami Heat Tonight

www.nba.com Dwyane Wade has returned to top form. That's bad news for Suns fans, good news for fans of the game. On tap tonight in Miami: basketball at its most poetic and primal. Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade, the NBA's most elegant player, will provide the athletic iambic pentameter. A ... More >>

Neverland on Grand

Johanna Carlisle

Keep Dreaming

NiGHTS' second coming feels more like a first draft

Booger and Borat. You Likes?

Best Bettys

Thespians a.k.a. Elizabeth

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

A Legendary Outing

Twilight Princess is the best Zelda ever

Freak, Out

Playing legendary photographer Diane Arbus, Nicole Kidman is an unconvincing weirdo

The Girl Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Judy Rollings spills a bean or two

Super Suits

Son of a stitch

Fable Bodied

The Fable Company does improv Aesop

Peter Panache

Barrie good boys

Candy Caine

Remake of Alfie gives misogynist character a makeover

Soft-Shoe Soft Sell

Shall We Dance? twirls into a feel-good finish

Soul Doubt

Louis Schwartzberg aims for America's Heart, but mostly sticks to the surface

Hail to the King, Baby

Even cast as an aging Elvis, Bruce Campbell must do battle with the evil, undead Bubba Ho-tep

Petering Out

This Peter Pan fails to fully satisfy

BEST CHILDREN'S THEATER

Great Arizona Puppet Theater

The Taste Thing

Learning to like the acidic at Perihelion Arts

Bearly Necessary

Jungle fever fails to fully catch hold again in this routine sequel

Ouch!

E.T. returns to heal our cynical hearts

Projections 2002

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

Nicks of Time

Pop's gold-dust woman bounces back from drugs, depression and sluggish sales

Dude Raunch

All-girl quartet Kittie has more balls than the rest of Ozzfest 2000

Let's Much Ado It Again

Three shows on this year's slate for the Shakespeare Theatre

Strange Bud Fellows

Boyhood friendship strays into no man's land in edgy Chuck & Buck

Shout It Out

Three-chord heroes take the hokey out of karaoke

Hotwired

11 great records paid for with your soul

Attached to the Puppet People

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is reason for dancing in Sesame Street

No Flash in the Pan

Mill Rats

POSTWAR AND REMEMBRANCE

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?SOME OVERLOOKED CHRISTMAS ALBUMS OFFER RELIEF FROM THE USUAL SEASONAL BLAHS

LOVE AS A CONTRACT SPORTWHEN BUSINESS AND ROMANCE MERGE, CUPID PULLS A CORPORATE TAKEOVER