I'm so sad for Sunnyslope. One of the hippest hangouts in the neighborhood -- one that really upped the area's cool quotient -- is counting down the hours until it goes dark.It looks like Bomberos Cafe & Wine Bar really is going to close its doors for good, after failing...
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Anyone who's a fan of Adult Swim owes something of a debt of gratitude to Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation. Ditto for anyone who's enjoyed South Park, Beavis and Butthead, and any of Pixar's gorgeous feature films. In 1977, Craig 'Spike' Decker and the late Mike Gribble brought cool,...
Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell's The Fighter, celebrated the helmer's Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a "For Your Consideration" ad on the cover of Variety, touting him as "the comeback of the year." It was an odd choice of phrasing, considering that The Fighter, Russell's first feature to...
Randy NewmanThe Arizona BiltmoreSunday, May 29Randy Newman doesn't need to tour. Grab a singer/songwriter record from the early '70s, why don't you. Look on the back, where the songwriting credits are. Chances are you see Newman's name next to at least one of the songs. Maybe you saw Toy Story,...
Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock compared his molester wife's teenage victim to the fictional character of Dorian Gray, a young, hedonistic pleasure-seeker with loose morals, whose beauty infatuates an older man. Brock's callous opinion of the victim can be found in the 100-plus pages of documents detailing the sexual relationship...
Oh, you guys, it's terrible luck in the world of theater to have peacock feathers in your set or costume or props. And as Judy Garland's mother, Valerie Saunders wears a passel of them (in one of several mostly striking and accurate costumes by the show's author, local writer Richard...
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Gross Point
Rocky VotolatoRhythm RoomSunday, February 27Last night, while film geeks dressed to the nines for Oscar parties, indie folk fans flocked to the Rhythm Room in casual attire for an evening with Rocky Votolato and Matt Pond, both of whom celebrate over ten years of music experience. Rocky Votolato stopped by...
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:...
Film: Winter's Bone (2010)Popcorn Alternative: Root Beer Glazed PopcornEntrée: Rabbit Stew with Bread and ButterBeverage: Beer or Root Beer See what we're cookin' after the jump.....
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The Social Network and The King's Speech would first like to thank the academy for a boatload of nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards (live on February 27). Oscar nominees were released this morning by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it's looking like a good year...
An organization called Epilepsy Action got YouTube to take down Kanye West's new music video for his song "All of the Lights," according to Stereogum.After receiving numerous calls about people being affected by epilepsy after watching Kanye's video, Epilepsy Action took a stand and made some phone calls themselves. It is...
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Canibus @ Club Red
Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline our dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: Wow, that was like a steam punk, anime, video game nerd's wet dream. I think we just saw someone's wet dream in movie...
The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a bestselling tale of second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on the far side of Hadrian's Wall, is a thunderous boys' adventure of the old-school type — there's not a female...
In past years, the theatrical release of the Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts has provided a fun peek into intriguing bite-size cinema from across the globe. But for the 2011 edition, the series is at last making room for the five nominated documentary shorts as well. Unfortunately, this year's nonfiction...
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Arkin is Coming!
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Summer Guide: Movies
When playwright Greg Kotis was here a few weeks ago, he theorized that his script Eat the Taste -- in which a playwright is kidnapped by mysterious operatives and urged to write a one-man Broadway show about and starring former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft -- is not produced particularly...
This week's big movie may be found on TV. Arch-independent filmmaker Todd Haynes makes a characteristically sidelong move toward the mainstream with his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierce, which starts this Sunday on HBO. Haynes, the most academic yet mass-culture-minded of U.S. indie directors, began his career in the late Reagan...