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What Should We Make of Radiant Lincoln and Blubbering Private Ryan?

Heard Museum Explores the Legacy of Code Talkers

10 Things About Julia Child That Make Her Cooler Than You Ever Thought Possible

See also: Julia Child Restaurant Week Specials at Five Metro Phoenix Restaurants This Wednesday, August 15, would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. And although the American chef may be most known as a television personality, author of the groundbreaking book Mastering the Art of French Cook ... More >>

James Patock Files $20 Million Defamation Lawsuit Over National Mall Arrest for Guns in Trailer; Demands Return of Dog

Washington D.C. cops trashed James Patock's trailer, which served as his home.They threw him in jail for 45 days, where he was pelted with excrement.They even seized his 10-year-old German Shepherd, Lobo, and gave it away for adoption.All because police searched his trailer, thinking incorrectly it ... More >>

Retha Walden Gambaro's Sculpture Work Is Worth Facing the Elements on the Heard Museum's Patio

Crystals and Fossils Worth Millions (and Sold for $1) Moved From Phoenix After Lawsuit Settlement; May be Auctioned

Image: The Panorama Prospector Richard Berger, shown here with a 500-pound pyrite cluster, sued Paradise Valley resident Gary Midzor last year after his mineral collection was moved to Phoenix. The lawsuit has been settled -- sort of. ​ An extraordinary collection of crystals and minerals a ... More >>

Brian Kershisnik's "NICE WORDS" Relies on You for Meaning

Pop Art: For Some Local Artists, the Bad Economy Is Good News

Paint on a Happy Face: Local Artist Luis Gutierrez Is on the Cusp of Making It in the Art World Despite Struggling with MS

Rasta Redmon: Hopi Reggae Artist Casper Lomayesva Brings Redemption Songs to the Desert

Julie & Julia: Compliments to Meryl Streep

Deez Nutz: Philip Berg, Barack Obama Birth Certificate Challenger and 9/11 Nutjob

Get over it, nutbars. Come January 20, he'll be the Prez, and there's nothing you can do about it. Weird how the extremes of the far right and far left end up playing patty cake with each other in this country. Take, for example, Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg, a former Pennsylvania assistant attor ... More >>

New Times Staffers Weigh In on Why They’re Not Leaving Phoenix Anytime Soon

Walking on Water

Fred Unger's idea of gondolas on Scottsdale's canal went under. Now he's back with a bridge and $250 million

Off the Reservation

If you think the Heard Museum is all about dusty old pots and Indian blankets, you haven't been there lately

Willie Nelson

This close

Vinyl Fetish

Henry Rollins rummages through his beloved record collection

Iron Will

Will Oldham writes lovely, sad folk songs. Just don't let the stage name throw you off.

Shamrock This Town

St. Paddy's Day revelry gets the green light

Big? Try Huge!

'Snortin' Whiskey' may be ludicrously over-the-top, but songwriter and guitarist Pat Travers is not

Exile Adrift

Neglected German artist Jochen Seidel deserves greater recognition

Ghosts of Mars

The movement that Phoenix's Chicano artists began 25 years ago is far from dead. But the gallery that was their headquarters soon will be.

Hand Jive

Scottsdale councilmen signal their displeasure

End of the Road

Thirty years later, Harry Belafonte finds closure in a once-lost project

Life of Riley

Sun Records' rock 'n' roll pioneer survives cult-hero status

Book 'Em

Taking a look at some of the best music literature from the past few months

A Farewell to Armchairs

Fantastical but functional design makes 'Contemporary Art Furniture' exhibit fit for a dream house

O Children, Where Art Thou?

Museum peace unlikely as a proposed family center in Phoenix fights critics over right to life.

Alive and Kicking

Despite being entombed in the recent PBS series, Gumbo shows why jazz is very much alive and well with a fine batch of new releases

Critical Mass 2000

Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

He Got Rhythm

Ken Burns wants you to know why Jazz is America's music

Cosmic Stew

Gumbo finds some eerie connections in the latest jazz, blues and heritage releases

Fourth Coming

Gumbo celebrates Independence Day and Satchmo's birth with the latest in jazz, blues and heritage

Family Values

The Handsome Family's Brett and Rennie Sparks give up their songs of personal alienation for something more universal

Grand Funk

In search of the Wiley doodler

Chico Is the Man

How Dare They?

Can a city-funded museum afford to explore the riskier edges of contemporary art? The West's Most Western Town is about to find out.

Slummin' in Scottsdale

With his new residence built atop his antique shop, John Mollard thought he was set for life. He couldn't have imagined that the same city that encouraged him to build his home was laying plans to declare his neighborhood a blight, seize his property and

Sam I Am

How a baton twirler from Filer, Idaho, grew up to be Scottsdale's Mayor Sam Campana

Nomads Land

Bisbee's idyllic Shady Dell trailer park offers nostalgia--with a hitch

History Lessens

Trouble's a-brewin' at the museum north of town. Old-timers don't cotton to newcomers who want to turn the desert historical center into a Western theme park.

The Vision Quest of Philip Curtis

More than 500 paintings of social and psychological truths spanning 50 years have made Curtis the dean of Arizona artists. At 90, he's losing the most important tools of his trade.

Calendar for the week

Flashes

Greenhouse Defect

A Reputation in Ruins

Flashes

WHISKER'S MOTHERIS A CAT REALLY CAPABLE OF CREATING AN ARTISTIC MOUSERPIECE?

TOUR DE FARCETHE AUTHORS OF AMERICA'S QUIRKIEST GUIDEBOOK PUT PHOENIX ON THE MAP

IN A LEAGUE OF HER OWN

THE MEN WERE AT WAR, THE WOMAN WERE ON THE FIELD AND SOPHIE KURYS WAS PROBABLY STEALING A BASE