It's official. Arizona has its head up its backside, and it now has the trophy to prove it. Last night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher announced the winner of a four-week long competition to decide which of the 50 was America's stupidest state. And -- like there...
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Artist: Ryan Bingham & the Dead HorsesTitle: Junky StarRelease date: August 31Label: Lost HighwayRyan Bingham is one country artist that I'm pulling for. I'd heard his first LP (later repackaged and expanded as Mescalito in 2007) and suitably impressed. On that record, Bingham's youth was apparent yet he still sounded...
It's safe to say that they don't make them like Leon Russell anymore. An authority no less than T-Bone Burnett said about Russell, in an April interview with The Onion A.V. Club, "I haven't been intimidated for a really long time, but Leon was scary-good. He understood Henry Mancini, he...
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Leon Russell
Twelve years ago, Jose Saenz was a Los Angeles Unified School District dropout and run-of-the-mill tagger known on the east side of Los Angeles as Smiley, a nod to the way he flashed his trademark brilliant grin. At age 22, he sidled up to two young east-side men peddling dope...
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SMILEY'S SAGA Ingenious cartels: These cartel guys are really smart. Good concept to use American gangbangers to run drugs and people into the United States. They speak the lingo and can cross the border with ease, unless the Border Patrol knows their identities and turns them over to the cops...
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The Reel World
Opening with a close-up of the crow's feet around its subject's eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary-portrait Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work celebrates Saint Joan the Resilient, Showbiz Survivor. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg dogged the indomitable stand-up comic throughout the course of her...
We stumbled upon the Miss USA Pageant (known in the world of beauty pageants as Miss America's even ditzier cousin) on NBC last night, and before we could change the channel, one of the contestants nervously answered the question "how tall are you" with "I'm great, thanks." Then, much like ghoulishly watching a...
More than in any other genre, rappers rarely seem content just being rappers. Jay-Z is a business mogul, Diddy has a clothing line, Ice-T has played a cop on TV for a decade, and Snoop Dogg makes a lot of money simply by being a lovable goofball. Curtis "50 Cent"...
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Fiddy’s Biz
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Monsters of Folk was coming to the Orpheum Theatre last fall, but Charlie Levy didn't have the cash to buy a billboard. So the Tucson-based music promoter hired a friend to paint a mural. They made it a happening. On the First Friday in October, an artist named Joe Pagac...
Renowned painter and sculptor Ludvic (obviously important since he only has one name) is the featured artist at this month's Artist in Residence dinner at Paradise Valley's Lon's at The Hermosa Inn. The dinner is scheduled for Friday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. Guests can peruse a few of his...
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Best Coast: Crazy for You
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Sorry – No Music at the Oscars
Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement? It's certainly something of a surprise. When the movie was announced in 2007 with the title Nottingham, reports suggested that it would sympathize with the normally vilified Sheriff of Nottingham...
But we've spoken with about a dozen current and former local cops in the last few days (most of them initiated the contact), and check this out: When mentioning the highly publicized (and highly charged) incident near the intersection of Interstate 8 and Arizona Route 84 last Friday afternoon, every last...
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The Oscars are Sunday and Meryl Streep has a nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of Julia Child in Julie and Julia. Looking for other great films where food preparation and eating are central themes? Time to eat, drink and watch movies. 10. Chocolat (2000): Ok, so this one...
After an incident between Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson and a Phoenix police officer ignited tensions between police and minority communities, minority leaders have come out against the Phoenix Police Department, claiming it has a problem with its use of excessive force.A report released yesterday by the PPD shows that...
Whether you love them or you hate them, you really can't ignore them: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards were last night, the event emitting the amount of buzz you'd expect from such a celebrity confab.Maybe Kanye's gaff at the MTV awards freed everyone up, because this year, stars really seemed...
Lost boy John Hughes was inducted into the pantheon this month when the Academy devoted a moving Oscar-night tribute to the departed writer-director. But do you actually remember being a teenage moviegoer in the 1980s? It wasn't all some kind of wonderful. Hughes movies came out twice a year, if...