It seems as though downtown Phoenix is finally taking shape as the vibrant place that the fifth-largest metropolis in the U.S. warrants. (Credit the long-entrenched arts community and local, independent businesses for fighting the good fight.) It even seems that, despite a few hiccups here and there, the civic leadership…
New Times presents a crazy evening of free Bud and Bud Light, free eats, and live entertainment with DJ Senbad, Bombshell Cabaret, Chuey the Rock & Roll Midget, and more during Doggy Style 4: Four on the Floor. Thu., Oct. 16, 7-10 p.m., 2008…
We dig the crossover thing when a musician who’s known to only dabble in one genre decides to try his or her hand at, say, melodramatic pop or Toby Keith-esque country barf. Sometimes the experimentation is successful (listen to Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below). Other times, the music comes off sounding…
Golfland SunSplash, usually the second-happiest place on Earth, has reinvented itself for All Hallows with The Gauntlet, a 4,000-square-foot maze re-creating the bubonic plague of the 1300s. Horrifyingly, the Black Death left its 75 million victims with decaying flesh, dark, scabby spots all over their bodies, and inflamed lymph nodes…
The former executive editor of The Washington Post (now vice president at large of the Washington Post Company) speaks about the Obama/McCain campaigns and “Focusing on the Future: Politics, Conflict and the Media.” Thu., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
You’ve just broken up with your lover, and feel debased because of how you handled yourself in the end. “I can’t live without you,” you sniveled like a rat fetus while sobbing at her door, overwhelmed by the memory of never having been breastfed. We think you need a lesson…
This is perhaps the only article in the history of her career which will not mention by name the sitcom on which actress Eve Plumb became famous. That’s because Plumb’s current career as a painter has produced work that frankly deserves to be admired not because it comes from a…
This is perhaps the only article in the history of her career which will not mention by name the sitcom on which actress Eve Plumb became famous. That’s because Plumb’s current career as a painter has produced work that frankly deserves to be admired not because it comes from a…
Here’s the sitch: You and your partner have managed to vanquish friend and foe alike at the alcohol-fueled bar sport of beer pong. The boys from the frat house? Easy pickings. The mooks down at the neighborhood tavern? Made ’em beg for mercy. But before anointing yourselves “champeens of the…
You may not be a crystal-rubbing, chakra-conscious goofball, but you have to admit that you still get excited about a full moon. You’ve watched too many werewolf movies and, let’s face it, creepy shit happens on a full-moon night. Couples argue, there are car accidents galore, and suicide hotlines across…
Some rappers obsessively brag about moving product, whether record sales or controlled substances, but Devin the Dude is much more interested in his El Producto. The Houston native’s Southern drawl is homegrown, but his laid-back style is helped along by plenty of blunts and brew. The consummate Everyman, the Dude…
Here are some damn fine reasons you should check out our minor-league hockey franchise, the Phoenix RoadRunners of the ECHL, as they begin the 2008-09 season: • it was Arizona’s first professional sports franchise. • it’s one of the most storied, hoisting championship trophies following the 1972-73 and 1973-74 campaigns…
The first question that comes to mind when checking out the flier for Hot Import Nights: What the heck isn’t included? In other words, it’s like the Arizona State Fair for automobile-lifestyle freaks. Along with a grip of eye-catching vehicles and a gaggle of eye-popping models competing for Miss HIN,…
Hey, guess what? There’s a recession and it’s screwing up just about everything, including the NBA. Yep, that’s right, the professional sports world is taking it in the backside alongside us peons. The squad that hails from the banking nucleus of these here jacked-up United States, the Charlotte Bobcats, may…
Feel that? You don’t? Okay, then go outside when it’s dark and try again. Now do you feel it? Oh, my goodness. Isn’t it awesome? Yes, we think so, too. We are so much happier now. You are, too, huh? If you don’t know what in the name of Sam…
Some comics are about an onstage persona that isn’t far removed from their everyday outlook. Others present unadorned, well-thought-out material that speaks for itself. Then there’s Kathleen Madigan, whose feet are firmly planted in both worlds. She’s not blue collar by any means, but her Midwestern, religious upbringing has infused…
AmeriSuites, we’re sure you’re a fine hotel. Though bestselling humorist and National Public Radio darling David Sedaris name-checked you as a less-preferred accommodation, it was, no doubt, only because a 28-city/28-day book tour ranks second only to a Valley DUI sentence as substantial, grueling hotel time. As Sedaris told The…
Somewhere in the course of making his mark as a mastermind behind Cartoon Network’s smartass Adult Swim programs, Christopher Ward found time to concoct a junk culture/computer nerd rap persona that sounds like Eminem strung out on whip-its. On his 2002 debut (Life’s a Bitch and I’m Her Pimp, free…
By now, even if you’ve never seen the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster, you probably know that the band was rescued from the brink of its own creative and personal disintegration through a couple years of intensive group therapy sessions led by life coach Phil Towle. Granted, St…
Born Ruffians, a nascent Toronto trio, move with mesmerizing twitch, shouting with childish abandon, as if they were Hot Hot Heat stuck in an elevator with the Go! Team. Frontman Luke Lalonde’s guitar tone is thin and shrill, switching between jagged Pixies pulses, and more lugubrious indie noodling, like that…
The former executive editor of the Washington Post (pictured) is joined by Tim McGuire, former editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, for a discussion in conjunction with National Freedom of Speech Week. Whaddaya wanna bet a couple of guys named McCain and Obama come up in the conversation? Mon., Oct. 20,…
The New Times Best of Phoenix Award-winning group celebrates with a rooftop bash and a packed marquee including HBO Def Poets Georgia Me, Abyss, and M’Reld. Big Baby hosts, and live music will be provided by The Rising Kings, HomeJones, and The Unit with DJ Private. Sat., Oct. 18, 6…
