Craig Wallach

SAT 11/19With an abundance of screenwriting requests, a plethora of awards, and multitudes of speaking engagements, it seems that everyone wants a piece of Suzan-Lori Parks. She was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her dark comedy Topdog/Underdog, which is about two brothers, Lincoln...

11/10-11/13Conventional wisdom holds that in sports, the four "majors" consist of football, baseball, basketball, and hockey, though hockey now toils on the Outdoor Life Network while NASCAR runs laps around the competition both on television and at the turnstiles. This weekend, more than 200,000 of the faithful, or roughly the...

MON 11/7If you value your privacy, don't drop a love letter anywhere near Davy Rothbart. The founder of FOUND magazine has been scooping up people's discarded letters, journals and postcards for years and publishing them in the magazine or posting them on his Web site, www.foundmagazine.com. And it's not just...

10/22-10/23Critics of dodgeball consider the game a "dangerous sport," but it's really only as sadistic as the person chucking the ball at you. The main thing to remember is: A big rubber ball full of air is flying at your torso. So move. We know from experience that a rock-hard...

SAT 10/15f you're tooling around in Tempe on Saturday, October 15, and see a screaming horde running around and tearing its collective hair out, don't fret; it's not Godzilla rising from the abyssal depths of Town Lake, but a high-concept affair called High Trek Adventure. The homage to TV's Amazing...