I’d like to meet the jerk-off who decided that founding a city in the middle of the desert was a good idea. I’ve been gunning for this guy (because it has to have been a man — no woman would be stupid enough to set up housekeeping inside a kiln)…
THU 2 If you can get past Devil Doll’s (a.k.a. Cleveland-born Colleen Duffy’s) Sherilynn Fenn/”A Songstress Named Desire”/sell-your-soul-for-a-night-with-her good looks, you’ll have time to take a picture, too! But you’ll also hear a voice and a sound so smooth — smoother than Blue Velvet, in fact, the cinematic dreamscape one…
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Pizza is one of those foods I enjoy too much to actually indulge in very often. Once the feeding frenzy begins in earnest, I’ll go through an extra-large pie solo and start on the cardboard box if any cheese has dripped onto it. Keep your hands and feet away from…
Thursday 26 Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40) Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: DJ Suzy (hip-hop, dance) Dos Gringos — Scottsdale: Block Party with DJ Sterling (all genres) Draft House: DJ Dave outta NYC (dance) Elixir: DJ Lego (house) E-Lounge: DJ Domenica (high energy dance) Garcia’s: Latin Dance…
THU 26 Girlie shows never get old, even if the girlies do. Such is the appeal of Terry Earp’s play Have Tassels, Will Travel, based on the life of legendary burlesque performer CeCe Walker, a.k.a. “Satan’s Angel: The Devil’s Mistress.” Walker herself, long since retired from her days of twirling…
What to make of the Dead Kennedys’ “Too Drunk to Fuck” done bossa-nova style with vocals by Camille, a uni-monikered songbird who twitters like a tipsy socialite? Is this concept, stretched to album length by the production team of Marc Collins and Oliver Libaus, a silly gimmick? A wry bit…
Have you ever dreamed of being on stage singing with your favorite band? Sure you have. Pretty much everybody dances in their underwear, crooning into a hairbrush/spatula/spoon — whether they’d admit it or not. Some of the punk-rock elite decided it’d be hella fun to let fans live out their…
Phoenix Rising Love it or leave us: I was incredibly impressed with your story “Phoenix Has an Inferiority Complex” (Amy Silverman, May 12). Being from New York, and having more recently moved here from Boston, I personally find myself saying more and more that the worst thing about Phoenix is…
“Take a hit off this Indo, Kreme,” Snoop Dogg advises, passing me a spliff the size of a Subway sandwich. “One toke’ll give you Chinese eyes, nephew.” I grab the fatty and inhale ’til the cherry’s blazin’. My lungs feel like that cherry looks, but I’m doin’ my Kremealicious best…
SUN 5/29Kneebody isn’t lacking in credibility, not with the L.A.-based, instrumental jazz-rock fusion quintet’s collective résumé that sports gigs with Ani DiFranco, Snoop Dogg, and jazz trumpet luminary Dave Douglas. Yet even with academic credentials from New York’s prestigious Eastman School of Music for four of Kneebody’s five members (the…
SAT 5/28You are an MFA candidate. Tuition is sky-high. A 5,000-word short story is due tomorrow. A stack of rejection letters from highbrow publications is piled on the desk. You marinate in your own filth for days. Your partner hates you. And the frequent diarrhea. Oh, the shitty end. You…
5/27-5/30One thing’s for sure about the ongoing NHL lockout: Neither the owners nor the players at the heart of this ridiculous impasse will ever be mistaken for Mensa members. And while the sporting public at large has responded to the impasse with a collective yawn, that whimpering in the corner…
5/28-8/21How are Happy Meals marketed? The cynics and curmudgeons among us might scream, “Animated movies!” Fortunately, though, no cheap hamburgers are associated with Bob Sabiston’s new film, Grasshopper. Its inspiration was a random interview in a park with a complete stranger. When asked a lame question about astrology, “he just…
“Basically, I’m a very shy person,” says performance artist Trish JusTrish (pictured). “Now the joke is that because I’m terrible at one-on-one relationships, I have my intimate relationships on the stage.” On Thursday, May 26, and Friday, May 27, the “Home” event celebrates JusTrish’s birthday with the audience for the…
The dead aren’t the only ones lying around the graves at Pioneer and Military Memorial Park. On a sunny Tuesday morning, there is clear evidence that someone has been hanging out near the headstones during the night: An uneaten bagel sits atop the grave of a Civil War veteran, a…
Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a thoroughly professional, frequently spectacular piece of muckraking. But any American who hopes to watch this portrait of unfettered corporate greed, cynical power-lust, and outrageous deception without going postal about an hour into the thing would do well to bring…
If it’s been a while since you’ve seen a great work of art, perhaps you’ve forgotten what it feels like: It feels euphoric. At least, that’s the glorious, heel-kickin’ boost that resulted after a screening of Look at Me, by French writer/director/actress/superhero Agnès Jaoui. There was euphoria — and jubilation…
It’s fair to say that Madagascar, directed by one man who made Antz and another who used to work on Ren & Stimpy, is virtually plot-free — nothing more, really, than a scene or two from The Great Escape cut and pasted into an episode of Survivor. Its threadbare story…
Adam Sandler cast as a former pro quarterback — that laughable setup is about the only funny thing about this pointless, witless remake of The Longest Yard, which wasn’t intended to be taken as a comedy in 1974 and won’t be mistaken for one in its latest incarnation. (It was…
Trance-music don Christopher Lawrence is perhaps the best-known name in dance music to come from the United States, a country with no shortage of topnotch DJ talent. Consistently ranked alongside the U.K.’s hottest jocks in DJ Magazine’s annual poll, in 2004 Lawrence checked in at number seven, placing higher than…
You’d think having the biggest-selling local CD in 2003, The King of AZ, would have this MC resting on his braggadocio. But it’s 2005, and Atllas is champing at the mic — literally. As the title song screams out, “Hunger and Starvation” is not some Neverland faux ballad about feeding…
