Your jaw will hang open, barely attached by its thin wire of muscle and vein, when you listen to Eugene S. Robinson spitting out words like that Pavlovian pit bull Spalding Gray as he recounts his many impassioned interviews with hardened cons, CIA operatives, and cage fighters. A competitive fighter…
All that glitters isn’t gold, but it’s a sure sign that you’ve been visited by Sherry Goldberg, whose sparkly landscapes are an homage to all things girly and just a tad campy. And now, with her new, 3,000-square-foot Femmes Fatales & Fantasies art gallery, Goldberg’s blinged-out glitter glamour and 3D…
The most opinionated — but almost always correct — voice in sports broadcasting may look like a pansy-ass frat boy, but don’t be misled. Cowherd’ll clean your clock if you dare to call in, but — like 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace — the idiots just keep calling. So ring him…
Jaded as we are, we thought we’d seen everything, but a sympathetic story about a skinhead? That’s the premise of David Gow’s 2006 film Steel Toes, which binds a neo-Nazi accused of racially motivated murder (Andrew Walker) to his liberal, Jewish defense attorney (the ever-fabulous David Strathairn of Good Night,…
We get that “the jazz” isn’t for everybody, but here’s something tight for even you holier-than-thou indie-rock kids: A Musical Tribute to John Coltrane. A quintet featuring woodwind player Scott Zimmer, pianist Dan Delaney, Brett Reed on vibes and percussion, bassist Ted Sistrunk, and drummer John Lewis will interpret numbers…
In our salad days, many of us used the desert as a safe haven to carpet-bomb our brains into oblivion. We’d drive into the night like frontiersmen of coked-out glory, veering off-road into the scorching abyss. Darkness would resonate around us, as if it were more tenor than color. We…
As an excuse to get loaded with half a million of your closest polo-shirted friends and at least one major airline executive, you can’t get much better than the FBR Open. The PGA Tour’s fifth-oldest and highest-attended tournament pops the cork on its weeklong drunkfest on Monday, January 28. The…
Right now, many NFL enthusiasts around the country can be found at home crying in their beers, bellyaching about their favorite squad being unceremoniously ousted from championship contention. Or, worse, wagering their children’s college funds on the Super Bowl in hopes of ditching the bad taste left in their mouth…
We ain’t skeered to admit that we gots a bit of white trash in us. We’re also not scared to admit that we say “ain’t skeered.” That’s why we’ll feel tit-high on the hog when metal-monster-truck-crushers Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Bulldozer, and more visit for Monster Jam. Sat., Jan. 26,…
The Atlanta Hawks make their one and only visit of the 2007-08 season when they take on the Phoenix Suns. Tue., Jan. 29, 7 p.m., 2008…
TV mogul Sherwood Schwartz, creator of barking mutts like Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, can’t let a bad thing go. Consider 2002’s The Brady Bunch in the White House and 2004’s The Real Gilligan’s Island reality show. But straight-to-video’s not enough, it seems. The canny ol’ bastard and his…
Will Leitch don’t like the bling, yo. Referred to by some as the sports world’s Jon Stewart, this outspoken/irreverent young grump founded Deadspin.com with the notion of returning our morally bankrupt pastimes to the glory days of thrill of victory/agony of defeat. He’s an advocate for the long-suffering Joe Schmoe,…
The bassist for the New York Dolls and Hanoi Rocks spins some wax with host William Fucking Reed. Sat., Jan. 26, 9 p.m., 2008…
The correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart performs. Sat., Jan. 26, 8 p.m., 2008…
Our locks dip below our shoulders and our T-shirt features an image of Dubya and Cheney man-hugging beneath the catch phrase “Meet the Fuckers,” so we’re probably not the target demo for the folks behind the Papago Military Vehicle Show. But even conscientious objectors should dig the unusual antique and…
Attention, ladies. Next time you’re getting guff from your man about an expensive salon visit, hand him a copy of Deborah Rodriguez’s Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, a story that chronicles the author’s relief work in Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the Taliban. He’ll…
Since this is a piece about O Canada, we’ll try not to say “eh?” Uh, too late. Okay, while we’re at it, all Canadians live in igloos and eat blubber. Now that that’s out of the way, check out the 56th annual Great Canadian Picnic. Yes, there will be curling…
Interviewing Peter Mayhew can be a little intimidating. Putting aside the fact that the daunting, 7-foot-2 British-born actor has already been asked every question in the galaxy about what it was like to portray the fierce-yet-fuzzy Chewbacca in four of the six films in the Star Wars cycle, it probably…
Ask any Phoenix hiker where she/he’s off to on a Saturday morning, and the answer is inevitably Camelback Mountain or Piestewa Peak. Yaaaaawn. As romantic and adventurous as they may seem to a 500-pound shut-in, most hikers are timid types who prefer the comforting ruts made by their own boots…
The Heard Museum Guild Library Book & Treasure Market isn’t the biggest literature offload of the year, or the most publicized, but it’s one of the best, where you can paw through the Guild’s relatively modest but off-the-beaten-path selection of priced-to-move tomes, music, and movies. Sat., Jan. 26, 9 a.m.-4…
Roy Orbison rarely expressed anything celebratory in his work. In songs like “Blue Angel” and “Mean Woman Blues,” he — and we — found joy in heartache, beauty in the shades of gray in which Orbison’s music resides. So one wonders what the late singer would have made of the…
Remember every supersweet local act you’ve seen at Modified Arts? Well, there’s a supergood-ass chance that they’ll be playing during Modifest, a sidewalk art fair and live-music potpourri showcasing more than 20 bands. Here’s the rundown of groups who’ll be performing each day. Friday, Jan. 25: What Laura Says Thinks…
