The Heard Museum Guild Library Book & Treasure Market isn’t the biggest literature offload of the year, or the most publicized, but it’s one of the best, where you can paw through the Guild’s relatively modest but off-the-beaten-path selection of priced-to-move tomes, music, and movies. Sat., Jan. 26, 9 a.m.-4…

Ask any Phoenix hiker where she/he’s off to on a Saturday morning, and the answer is inevitably Camelback Mountain or Piestewa Peak. Yaaaaawn. As romantic and adventurous as they may seem to a 500-pound shut-in, most hikers are timid types who prefer the comforting ruts made by their own boots…

Our locks dip below our shoulders and our T-shirt features an image of Dubya and Cheney man-hugging beneath the catch phrase “Meet the Fuckers,” so we’re probably not the target demo for the folks behind the Papago Military Vehicle Show. But even conscientious objectors should dig the unusual antique and…

Will Leitch don’t like the bling, yo. Referred to by some as the sports world’s Jon Stewart, this outspoken/irreverent young grump founded Deadspin.com with the notion of returning our morally bankrupt pastimes to the glory days of thrill of victory/agony of defeat. He’s an advocate for the long-suffering Joe Schmoe,…

TV mogul Sherwood Schwartz, creator of barking mutts like Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, can’t let a bad thing go. Consider 2002’s The Brady Bunch in the White House and 2004’s The Real Gilligan’s Island reality show. But straight-to-video’s not enough, it seems. The canny ol’ bastard and his…

Jaded as we are, we thought we’d seen everything, but a sympathetic story about a skinhead? That’s the premise of David Gow’s 2006 film Steel Toes, which binds a neo-Nazi accused of racially motivated murder (Andrew Walker) to his liberal, Jewish defense attorney (the ever-fabulous David Strathairn of Good Night,…

The most opinionated — but almost always correct — voice in sports broadcasting may look like a pansy-ass frat boy, but don’t be misled. Cowherd’ll clean your clock if you dare to call in, but — like 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace — the idiots just keep calling. So ring him…

Folks who are older than dirt might remember those balsa-wood airplanes sold at the five-and-dime — another fading memory. The balsas were pretty high-tech then – they flew – but now it’s all about who has the biggest stick. Joystick, that is. Big girls and boys show off their newfangled…

With its soccer-mom Stepford wives and bland strip malls, Chandler ain’t no Milan. Truth hurts. But one of the suburb’s shining lights, Bistro@Kokopelli Winery, 35 West Boston Street, brings a taste of lo stivale to Chandler with its Italian-American Festival. The fest features Chianti and Pinot Grigio tastings, sumptuous cuisine,…

So, you’re famous. You’re rich. You bathe in champagne. You’re filled with fleeting shame when you drive your Ferrari past people who live in boxes. How to slay the Guilt Monster? Charity. It’s the right thing to do, plus your accountant says it’s a super tax write-off. But alas, fundraisers…

Except to diehards, singer/songwriter Todd Snider is criminally unknown, and you have to be criminally insane if you don’t check him out. The sardonic, ironic Snider lives in Nashville, but he hardly fits that thar mold. In fact, he’s decidedly anti-Nashville, à la John Prine; a fine example of Snider’s…

Dodge? Cool? Who knew? While we’ve been preoccupied with the Far East, the American auto manufacturer has been making insidious inroads into our collective subconscious with its whiz-bang Viper engines and curvaceous Rams. Join fellow fanatics at the Viper Truck Club of America’s MOPAR Desert Challenge. Sun., Jan. 20, 9…

Mondays bite, which you already know. What you may not know is that you can haul yourself and your post-weekend malaise down to one of the hippest joints around — Majerle’s — for Martini Monday, where you suck down half-price cocktails. You’re welcome. Have a nice day. Mon., Jan. 21,…

It just don’t get any better than a Jumbo Jack and a paw clap with the little Sun who could — Brazilian blur Barbosa, by most accounts the fastest man in the NBA. Leandro’ll be at the fast-food joint signing autographs and promoting the upcoming Jack in the Box Celebrity…

While January’s NBA sched is providing Your Phoenix Suns a mini-respite of sorts from the minefield known as the Western Conference, this year’s baffling Sunnies squad can’t afford to rest easy against anybody. Still, they might be able to catch a quick breather against the East’s poor-to-middling Milwaukee Bucks. Phew…

“The Music of Led Zeppelin: A Rock Symphony” might be the Phoenix Symphony’s highest-grossing concert of the season, and that’s the point. Geezers with elbow patches on their jackets are an endangered species, so orchestras – like the London Symphony with its salute to the Beatles – are going to…

P.F. Chang’s Rock ’n’ Roll Arizona Marathon and Half-Marathon . . . huff, puff. We’re out of breath just saying the damn name, so we’re not too hopeful about taking home the trophy at this annual endorphin-o-rama. (A post-race blowout featuring Kool & the Gang follows at 5pm at Tempe…

A post-race blowout featuring Kool & the Gang starts at 5 p.m. at Tempe Beach Park. Sun., Jan. 13, 8 p.m., 2008…

Pollak — who began his show-biz career doing standup — is a Hollywood star, sort of. He’s one of those cats whose face is all over the place but whose name escapes you. Well, check out the star — or, mostly, minor star — of A Few Good Men, The…

Cars. Cars. Cars. What the hell’s going on with all of these friggin’ cars? It’s like somebody flipped a switch and thousands of garage doors opened simultaneously, their owners looking to hock their high-end roadsters while the hocking’s good. And while we peons in our battle-scarred Neons can’t hope to…

Boys Don’t Cry star Hilary Swank is a lot of things, but none involves belting out showtunes. Thank God. Things’ll be busting out all over, though, at the Phoenix Kings Club Drag King Show. The girls-cum-boys of the Kings Club put on a saucy little cabaret, which will be augmented…

Christian Slater stars in Frank Cappello’s film about a bland little man trapped in a bland little life whose bleak future is transformed by the unintentional intervention of a damsel in distress (Elisha Cuthbert). William H. Macy co-stars. Tue., Jan. 8, 7 p.m., 2008…