Arrested Development: Season Two (Fox Home Entertainment) The best show on TV — which you’d know, if you actually watched the thing — also serves as one of the best reasons for the existence of DVD: No show has ever rewarded multiple viewings the way Arrested Development does. The second…
Super Dragon, I know, sounds like one of those fantastic drawings Jon Heder does while portraying ultra-nerd Napoleon Dynamite in the flick of the same name. You know, like Napoleon’s “liger,” a cross between a male lion and a female tiger that, according to Wikipedia.org, actually does exist in the…
Less than an hour into our survey of the sprawling Scottsdale party palace Barcelona, and already Jett’s bent over with a black gent’s teeth in her pretty posterior. And sadly, that black gent ain’t me. It’s tamer than it sounds. The ambisexual Giselle of the PHX still has her jeans…
The bathroom sink is bathed in blood, the splatter extending up onto the mirror above it. Near the stalls there’s a guy holding his tee shirt to his previously gushing nose. That’s just what you’d expect to see at a Madball show — tonight I’m at the Marquee Theatre in…
I really wanted to see Joe Arpaio get roasted on October 1, during an event to raise money for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s animal posse. I called the MCSO and asked how to buy tickets for the shindig. A posse man who identified himself only as Commander Tom told…
The Amityville Horror: Special Edition (Columbia/Tristar) Beyond the Gates of Splendor (Fox) The Black Keys Live (Fat Possum) Christmas With SCTV (Sony Music) Count Duckula: The Complete First Season (Koch Vision) Cream: Royal Albert Hall (Warner Strategic Marketing) Drawn Together Uncensored: Season One (Paramount) The Fly and The Fly II:…
Michael Eastman’s “America” at Bentley Projects: The ambient desolation of Michael Eastman’s photographs of empty streetscapes and seedy interiors seems prophetic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s leveling of New Orleans. At least two of the photos in this exhibition were made in the city, pre-storm. His portrait of a…
THU 6Someone in the world has to be selling that avocado-colored ashtray from the ’70s you never knew you always wanted. Or that cheap bust of Sigmund Freud. Or maybe that cute painted-teak coffee table. You just never know what’ll catch your fancy at a yard sale, which is why…
1. Coheed and Cambria, Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (Sony) 2. Disturbed, Ten Thousand Fists (Reprise) 3. Death Cab for Cutie, Plans (Atlantic) 4. Kanye West, Late Registration (Roc-a-Fella) 5. Avenged Sevenfold, City of Evil (Warner Bros.) 6. Damian Marley,…
Thursday 6 Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40) Anderson’s Fifth Estate: Area 51 with AKA (gothic, industrial) Axis/Radius: DJ AM spins for the CEG 5 year anniversary (dance) Draft House: DJ Dave outta NYC (hip-hop) e4: “Eve” Ladies’ Night in the Earth Room with DJ Tranzl8r…
You have to concede a certain amount of praise automatically for the massive imaginative output in Princess Superstar’s My Machine, a dystopian sci-fi hip-hop concept album about a future celebrity who takes over the world with the help of a cloning machine. As in any good epic, apocalyptic replicant war…
Miss Hildebrandt’s fourth-grade reading class, 9:30 a.m. ” . . . very good, Sarah. Emily Dickinson was a fine choice. All right, Jeffrey, what poem have you brought in for us today?” “This is a new one I found called ÔFoxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo,’ by Jimmy Pop Ali.” “Hmm, I…
Seven months after the European release of Idlewild’s soaring single “Love Steals Us From Loneliness” (and six months after the album it comes from hit shops overseas), American fans were still wondering how to steel themselves against a world without a domestic release of Warnings/Promises. The group’s U.S. label, Capitol,…
Contrary to the VH1 version of history, Scottish twins Craig and Charlie Reid are not some offbeat one-hit wonders. While their singles haven’t caught on the way their breakout hit, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” did, every one of their six Proclaimers albums contains tracks just as catchy and literate…
If there were a Grammy for “Best Song Title by a Duo or Group with Vocal,” Seattle quintet Minus the Bear would’ve easily taken the statue every year since its 2001 inception. Among the potential winners: “Thanks for the Killer Game of Crisco® Twister,” “Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey…
It never could’ve happened with Throbbing Gristle or Merzbow. But the fact that these are different times and that these accomplished clatter merchants have signed to Sub Pop gives us hope that we’re in for a new noise infusion. Everyone’s hedging their bets — even the VH1 Web site has…
Tearing Down the Walls Corrupt, sickening creep: Finally, after John Dougherty’s tireless reporting for the better part of five years, state and local authorities move in on Colorado City, Arizona! Never has anything been so eagerly awaited by right-thinking residents of Arizona and Utah (“Under Siege,” September 22). All I…
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection(Universal Studios) Alfred Hitchcock may be the best pop filmmaker in our history, and this gorgeous 14-film set is certainly worthy of the master. Licensing issues kept it from being as “definitive” as the box claims — missing, most notably, are Hitchcock’s classic Cary Grant collaborations…
Last year’s Katamari Damacy was so quirky, it should have been subtitled “Marketed to Stoners.” Its star, a little green prince, was forced to roll a giant gravity ball to atone for the sins of his father, the King of the Cosmos, who had gotten drunk one day and knocked…
Sue Chenoweth, 52, starts at one small place, and ends up with painfully intricate paintings that chase through the psyche and surprise even her. The lifelong Phoenician paints in a big, bright studio at Metropolitan Arts Institute (a.k.a. Metro Arts), a charter high school downtown, where she teaches art. Earlier…
The road to stardom may be paved with some kind of intentions, but Lisa Murray’s was slick with hand lotion. The Scottsdale publisher’s assistant is now Hollywood-bound, thanks in good part to her recent win on Entertainment Tonight’s “Caress Confidante” contest. (Although her new title suggests a career spent listening…
SAT 10/8If you’re a fan of mainstream, steak-and-potatoes Broadway shows — your Phantom, your Rent — then more power to you, frankly. But the latest offering in ASU’s “Beyond Broadway” series brings us something, well, beyond — in a gentle, lovely way. What else would you expect from a troupe…
