Are you still having emotional issues because of that punk ass bully from the fourth grade? Well, you’ll have to keep going to your shrink for that, dude. However, if you like tough looking pooches, then you may want to hit up the AZ Bully Expo, which will feature everything…
Commodification of art is nothing new (we especially like those Hello Kitty vibrators), but a respectable art gallery slumming in a mall is right up there with Walmarts on sacred burial grounds, even if it’s exactly the kind of “social embeddedness” that Joe Baker, ASU’s Director of Community Engagement, has…
With a football program of ASU’s caliber, a contest against the NAU Lumberjacks is a guaranteed notch in the win column. However, as we learned in 2003 and 2006 when the boys from Flagstaff came to town, not-so-impressive showings by the Devils can spell later-season doom. In the ’03 tussle,…
Your vegan upbringing turned you into a meat-craving psychopath. At age 9, you offed your hippie parents and hid their bodies in your digestive tract. Ever since, you’ve found it hard to control your beastly instincts and have started roaming with the zombie crowd. At night, you loot the butcher’s…
You grew up in a fascist household where creativity wasn’t encouraged. At age 2, when you drew an abstract version of your dog, your parents took note of its asymmetry and shook their heads critically. They couldn’t tolerate anything but pure genius, and if that wasn’t achievable, they enforced utter…
Drinking. Drugging. Thugging. Odes to these will be legion when Bay Area underground rapper Andre Nickatina brings his subtly named Coke White Tour to Marquee Theatre. As he has throughout his nearly 20-year recording career — as well as on his new CD, A Tale of Two Andres — Nickatina…
What will life be like for Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps after Beijing? Cheers and parades? His face on a Wheaties box? If his predecessor and former swimming buddy, three-time Olympic medalist and former teen phenom Nadia “Anita” Nall, is any indication, he’ll have a year or so of endorsements…
Did you hear what those geezers on the Arizona Cardinals preseason broadcast were saying during the Kansas City Chiefs game on August 16? That the redbirds’ win was a monumental turning point, especially considering that it was coach Ken Whisenhunt’s first exhibition victory in six tries. Give. Us. A. Freaking…
If you’re a golfer, summer’s either the greatest thing since sliced bread or an involuntary exile from the links. If you’re poor, it’s probably the bread, ’cause you don’t have to spend as much of the doughy stuff to get in your 18. Many of the power resorts significantly lower…
A friend of ours freaks out when he realizes the molecules he’s inhaling have been inside our lungs, too. You other wusses better check out “Human & Animal Grossology” at Arizona Science Center beginning Saturday, May 24, and get desensitized to all the emissions and secretions of us Homo sapiens…
The NL Central club who are fighting for their wild card lives visit Phoenix for the final time in 2008 during this three-game series. Mon., Sept. 1, 1:10 p.m.; Tue., Sept. 2, 6:40 p.m.; Wed., Sept. 3, 12:40 p.m., 2008…
If we know you like we think we do, you like to get drunk and sing your ass off. Don’t be embarrassed; we saw you push that mousy guy with the Mariah Carey octave off the karaoke machine and throw the party into gear with your rendition of “Thriller,” replete…
It’s just not right to watch Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 paean to the big screen on a little one, even if it’s a big-screen little one, so take this opportunity to see the fabulous flick on the scale for which it was intended. Wed., Sept. 3, 6:30 p.m., 2008…
Masked Mexican wrestling. Children welcome. Ooooo-kaaaay. It’s safe to say that the fiends who’ll be grappling at the Lucha Libre Mexicana bash won’t be staging a south-of-the-border High School Musical. Rather, they’ll be trying to rip off each other’s máscaras (masks), which is a pretty emasculating thing to a luchador…
Special guests at this year’s sci-fi/fantasy con include MaryJanice Davidson (the Undead/Betsy the Vampire series), Greg Weisman of Gargoyles fame (pictured), Anthony Alongi (Jennifer Scales), and the Skiffytown League of Heroes. Fri., Aug. 29; Sat., Aug. 30; Sun., Aug. 31, 2008…
Wanna turn your brain off for a couple of hours? The touring production of the over-the-top Broadway revival oughtta do the trick. The show, which features a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban, is the ultimate backstage-tuner romp, featuring songs…
Portugal. The Man likes spontaneity. They also like random punctuation in the middle of their name. You could even say the Alaska-based quartet has a knack for doing things ass-backwards. For example: Even though the band writes music while on the road and works out the parameters of some its…
By Lilia Menconi I’ve always given myself a big, fat pat on the back for being somewhat self-aware. Usually, I can admit to my flaws without too much of a problem. So here’s a little confession: I grew up in the suburbs and I’m a consumer. I can’t help it…
For the downright dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-famous film director Zhang Yimou utilized the form of a basic painting scroll as the quintessential backdrop for his techno-savvy take on 5,000 years of Chinese cultural history. As it unfurled, Zhang’s mammoth 95-by-381-foot roll became the perfect prop…
The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf a good 25 years. That isn’t to suggest that it’s fetid product in need of tossing out: Parts of it are genuinely delightful, and Rainn Wilson doesn’t squander his first feature-film starring role…
Some say the world will end in fire; some — like Werner Herzog — say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly idiosyncratic filmmaker leads an expedition, alternately comic and visionary, to the heart of coldness. Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World chronicles his trip…
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It’s hard to knock any sequence that climaxes with a musical number titled “Rock Me, Sexy Jesus,” done up nice and Grease-y. Problem is, the 80 or so…
