A Venezuelan Air Force colonel is going to prison for 19 months in an illegal airplane-parts deal that netted a Phoenix man about $1.5 million. As New Times reported in May, Floyd Stilwell, a former principal of Marsh Aviation in Mesa, received probation and a $250,000 fine for his significant...
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Kitten @ Pub Rock
The corpse lay crumpled on the conference table, close enough that the studio executive could tug on the red heel of her Louboutins. She'd been lying there unnoticed, or perhaps just ignored, for quite some time. Her wedding veil was tattered and someone had spilled coffee on her white satin...
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young, or so sayeth Oscar Wilde. His eccentric wit is a perfect fit for L.A.'s Kitten, fronted by the just-barely legal Chloe Chaidez, who co-founded the band when she was just 15. By now, she's likely tired of hearing how...
Oscar Graham, chef and owner of Tumi, the tiny and unassuming restaurant of Peruvian cuisine in Chandler, makes very good ceviche. His ceviche de pescado features a mound of chopped pieces of white-flesh tilapia in a thin, bracingly sharp and spicy juice of lime and Peruvian chile peppers, topped with...
While guest-hosting a TV variety show in 1964, Dean Martin ridiculed a hot new rock 'n' roll act with his trademark blend of cocksure innuendo, aw-shucks buffoonery, and inebriated syntax: "Now, something for the youngsters — five singing boys from England. . . . They're called the Rollin' Stones. I...
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The Eisners, "the Oscars of comics," will be announced at Comicon (in San Diego) next month and I'm still madly reading to catch up with the best of the best of 2012's amazing crop of graphic novels. But, as it's (officially now) summer in Phoenix, it's not too burdensome for...
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash didn't set out to make a comedy about divorce. Eight years ago, when the improv comedians turned actors turned Oscar-winning screenwriters started writing a coming-of-age script based on a particularly upsetting moment from Rash's childhood, they just wanted a happy ending. Yet almost all the...
Brian De Palma had a good reason for remaking the erotic French thriller Love Crime: He could do it better. "I think it's very dangerous to remake a classic," says De Palma. "Leave it alone." But the 2010 corporate catfight flick about two female frenemies had a framework he loved...
By Michael Cryer When Paris James took the stage Tuesday night at the Musical Instrument Museum's "I Am AZ Music" Acoustic Blues show, a collaboration with the Phoenix Blues Society, and bid everyone "good evening," the audience said "good evening" in turn with a tone that was more "peace be...
Arizona Theatre Company, the state's largest producer of professional live stage work, ended its fiscal year June 30 with a $1 million deficit. In the wake of other Valley not-for-profit theaters having gone on hiatus or closed outright due to the recession, largely because of steep dropoffs in corporate giving,...
Need weekend plans? Voilà. The Amazing Johnathan @ Stand Up Live When the Las Vegas hotel and casino of his then-residency seemingly stopped promoting his shows, The Amazing Johnathan channeled his inner Peter Gibbons from Office Space last December and simply stopped going. After 13 years of headlining in Sin...
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Gem presents one standout piece. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: Saks Fifth Avenue is synonymous with style, and this 1960s summery coral shirtdress from the store's in-house label follows suit. In a light silk with a floral pattern around the skirt's hem,...
Local black leaders are wondering why they haven't heard a peep out of Senator Jeff Flake after his son's racist comments, including his use of the handle "N1ggerKiller" in an online game.After African-American activist Jarrett Maupin II told New Times Flake's apology was "half-assed," more black leaders have joined Maupin's...
Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: "It's now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman." Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and...
The Way, Way Back is a crowd-pleasing summer treat, predictable in its sweetness but satisfying all the same. It's like the multinationally branded ice cream sandwich you get on any pier in the Western Hemisphere — market-tested to appeal to as many people as possible (but that you don't mind...
Like so many screenplays, The World's End has its origins in a Starbucks. As director Edgar Wright tells it, the ideas for the sci-fi action-comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost came to him while shooting the trio's last film, the buddy-cop parody Hot Fuzz. That film takes place in...
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Gem presents one standout piece. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: Phoenix-based fashion designer Jennifer Paige Boonlorn makes bags for women who carry their lives around with them -- hence her brand's name, Soul Carrier. Made from re-purposed and up-cycled materials, our favorite...
In honor of National Yoga Month, we're sitting down with some of the Valley's favorite instructors to find out how they first got involved in yoga, how it changed their life, and why they believe everybody should incorporate yoga in their lives. Danielle Campagna-Withycome (she just celebrated her one-year wedding...
You missed your chance, over the weekend, to indulge in some multi-band '60s nostalgia, but tonight, Crescent Ballroom will make up for it by allowing you to resurrect old arguments about whether remaking "Pretty in Pink" was a bad idea (and then, inevitably, whether the end of Pretty in Pink...
Would you sign on for three months in shark-infested waters on a tippy raft under a captain who can't swim? The shrewdest joke in Kon-Tiki's surefire story — about Thor Heyerdahl's 4,000-mile South Pacific expedition to prove that ocean-faring Incans could have settled Tahiti — is that practically every character...