Top Five Must-See Shows This Week In Phoenix

Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it. Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest — our top five must-see shows this week. See also: -Stop Hating…

AVN Awards 2013: The Least Dressed (NSFW)

Last weekend, The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas hosted the 2013 AVN Awards. Adult film star Asa Akira took home the award for Best Female Performer while James Deen snagged the prize for Best Male Performer. If you don’t know who those people are, it’s okay, we don’t either…

Foursquare and Voice Media Group Announce Partnership

Hey, Phoenix Foursquare peeps, Phoenix New Times is getting its own Foursquare badge as part of our just-announced partnership with the social media company. Follow us on Foursquare here, and make sure to leave a comment when you’ve unlocked the special Phoenix New Times badge. To unlock the badge you’ll…

10 Greatest TV Themes of All Time

Oh you don’t own a TV? How brave. Seriously — people love bragging about not watching TV, but they’re missing out. Whether watching live, on Netflix, or on DVD, there’s almost nothing as fun as zoning out in front of the TV. We’re partial to music too (you might have…

Manifesto: Words to Live By

Phoenix may have fallen behind in the size department in recent memory — slipping to sixth-largest city in America — but if you favor quality over quantity, you’re in luck. This place is taking shape in a tangible, meaningful way, and it’s about time we started acting like big-city folk…

Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance

[Editor’s note: The following post by Houston writer and ESL teacher Shea Serrano was named the best blog post of the year in the first-ever Voice Media Group music writing awards. Originally published by our sister blog, West Coast Sound at L.A. Weekly, it’s a hilarious real-time account of an…

Record Heat: NYE by Brad Dwyer

Once a week Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…

Top Five New Years Eve Parties in Metro Phoenix

If it ain’t one apocalypse, it’s another, right? First December 21 rolls on by with nary an earthquake or a giant dragon emerging from the sky and burning us all to death with his flaming volcano mouth, and now we’re perched on the edge of the dreaded fiscal cliff. But…