While it doesn’t pay to piss off someone from either the far-right or far-left, the righty will just have you terminated. The lefty will harangue you, oh so slowly, to death. Danish intellectual Bjørn Lomborg can surely relate. The former director of Denmark’s Environmental Assessment Institute cut against the leftist…

For a town with the Hispanic presence of Phoenix, we see far too few big-name Latino/a musical acts. The folks behind the annual Food City Cinco de Mayo Festival are remedying that dearth with their 16th annual blowout, which features Grammy-winning supergroups Los Horoscopos de Durango and Montéz de Durango,…

Now that that dirt-ball institution named Manzanita Speedway is history, what’s a speed-freak desert rat to do over the weekend? We recommend a trip out to dusty Wittman for the inaugural Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. The modified mini trucks kick up dust and crank over dunes on the…

There’s only one thing wrong with going to the Super Bowl. Well, two. One is, obviously, not winning in a painfully last-minute kind of way. Two is having to wait until the next-to-last pick in the first round of the NFL Draft for your team to choose. Barring a trade,…

There’s only one thing wrong with going to the Super Bowl. Well, two. One is, obviously, not winning in a painfully last-minute kind of way. Two is having to wait until the next-to-last pick in the first round of the NFL Draft for your team to choose. Barring a trade,…

Generally speaking, we frown on guided hikes. The Sonoran Desert is not the Louvre, and true hikers hardly need to have someone spell out its (fairly obvious) magnificence. The extraordinary exception is the Elephant Mountain Fortress Hike. The relatively difficult seven-miler takes participants into the park’s achingly beautiful backcountry for…

The first time we went to the Coach House, we were dragged there by a sexy riot grrl/art chick with a thing for dive bars and booze. It was December, and the place was dolled up, wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling, with its infamous seasonal display of recycled wrapping paper, tinsel, and…

Some consider the Maricopa County Fair a hick stepchild to the (oh so worldly) Arizona State Fair, but that attitude implies there’s something wrong with hick stepchildren. The MCF may be a little slower than the State Fair, and a mite gamier ’cause of the County Fair’s greater emphasis on…

As you know — because you’re a New Times reader and we’re New Times — we’re not the sort to glad-hand politicians. If we were clinging to the lip of a crevasse and forced to pick a pol to save our life, we’d just let go. If choosing death wasn’t…

Chase Field’s fine if you don’t mind feeling like the metal sphere in a pinball machine, but if open-air ball’s your thing, Packard Stadium’s the only place to be now that Cactus League’s kaput. And it doesn’t hurt that ASU Baseball is kickin’ the crap out of the rest of…

We recommend the “Titanic: Treasures from the Deep” touring exhibit reluctantly, but nonetheless. Why? The “mobile museum” features goods recovered from the wreck site of the doomed ocean liner, which many would like to see designated a salvage-free memorial zone. The items you’ll see when “Treasures” visits Scottsdale Fashion Square…

The Rockies are in the thick of things. The D-Backs are long out, but could still act as a spoiler in Colorado’s bid to overtake the Dodgers for the NL West title. And for whatever it’s worth, this is the last time Arizona and the Rockies will meet ’til Cactus…

We know your dream. We’ve dreamed it, too, in our seedier moments. Ditch the job. Buy a hog. Fall in with questionable company. Prowl the city with greaser buds in search of babes, boobs, and booze. It’s a great gig if you can get it, and once a year –…

ASU’s not the most progressive of schools – it’s famed for its frats, jocks, and beach-blonde coeds – but it does boast one of the most kickass art museums in the country. No lie. Most anyone who’s been in this town a while and digs government-subsidized art that doesn’t suck…