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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 20, 2010

May 20, 2010
BORDER WAR Stop the legacy of hatred: It's a shame that many North Americans forget where they came from. Everyone in this country owes their life, literally, to immigrants ("Hopeless," Michael Lacey, May 6). They built this country! They continue to build it. They come here every year, not to...
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Mother’s Day Dining Guide: East Valley

By Wynter HoldenApril 29, 2010
Being a mom is one tough job -- some say it's the toughest job there is -- and Mother's Day is the one day a year most moms truly feel appreciated. It's also the busiest restaurant holiday of the year, so now's not the time to prove mom right about your procrastination habit. We've got the...
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Zooey Deschanel: This Actress/Singer Really Can Act and Sing

By Craig OuthierMarch 18, 2010
Back in the day — and by "day," I mean the mid-'80s — a movie star wasn't really a movie star until he cut a shitty, self-indulgent music album that bombed everywhere except Soviet satellite states. After a Don Johnson Heartbeat here and an Eddie Murphy So Happy there, the...
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The Housing Authority of Maricopa County Fires a Whistleblower

By Sarah FenskeJuly 1, 2010
It's not easy to get fired from the Housing Authority of Maricopa County. Just look at the agency's former executive director, Doug Lingner: He misused agency credit cards, hired at least three relatives, and steered work to political cronies, all in his first two years on the job. He still...
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Saints Go Marching In

By Leslie BartonMarch 11, 2010
Ever since seeing the 1969 Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy in an old singleplex cinema, we’ve argued that big-box theatres need to feed the nostalgia of the cult crowd. But what gives a film cult status? Video sales. In 2000, the shoot ‘em up indie thriller The Boondock Saints was released in...
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Album Stream: She & Him – Volume Two

By Michael LopezMarch 15, 2010
Summer. Her collaboration with producer/performer M. Ward -- She & Him -- has become quite the force in today's music scene.NPR's Exclusive First Listen has made the duo's second album, the appropriately-if-not-imaginatively titled Volume Two, available for a full album stream a whole week before the album is released...
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Jesse James, Husband of Oscar-Winner Sandra Bullock, in Arizona for Sex Rehab; Why Would he Go Anywhere Else?

By James KingMarch 31, 2010
Welcome to Arizona, the sex-rehab capitol of the world. Jesse James, the bad-boy biker husband of Sandra Bullock, has reportedly checked into a sex-rehab center near Tucson after Bullock was blindsided with the news that James was having sex with the inked up, Nazi-sympathizing tattoo artist, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, while Bullock was filming the...
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Doug Lingner to Resign from Housing Authority of Maricopa County

By Sarah FenskeMarch 18, 2010
Doug Lingner, executive director of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County, will be resigning his position.Lingner, a former Phoenix city councilman, was the subject of a New Times cover story just five weeks ago. The story detailed his penchant for hiring family members and steering federal stimulus funds to supporters...
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Peter & the Wolf

February 18, 2010
Michael Christie serves as conductor during the orchestra’s rendition of the Prokofiev classic, which will be accompanied by the Oscar-winning stop-motion animated short of the legendary children’s tale. Thu., Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Feb. 19, 11 a.m.; Sat., Feb. 20, 8 p.m., 2010...
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Brooklyn’s Finest: This Sleepy Follow-Up to Training Day Cops Out

By Robert WilonskyMarch 4, 2010
All that remains of Antoine Fuqua's Training Day is Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance, his baddest and best. The rest of the movie? A blustering stumble toward parody — an overwrought, operatic buddy-cop flip-flop also starring Ethan Hawke as the rookie put to the test again and again by the devil...
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Movies Del Mundo

By Laura HahnefeldFebruary 25, 2010
Carlos Sorín, the 66-year-old Argentine film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and producer says, “When I begin working on a film, it's like standing on shaky ground. I never know where I'm standing. My only sure footing is to make the movie.” That sure footing has landed Sorín more than 24 awards...
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Animated Expression

By Wynter HoldenFebruary 25, 2010
Remember when classic cartoons were considered good family entertainment? That was before uptight parents condemned politically incorrect Bugs Bunny episodes and Wile E. Coyote’s promotion of violence. Yeah, because a cartoon canine blasting an animated roadrunner with TNT will clearly damage your kid’s fragile psyche. But American Dad and Gossip...
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Animated Expression

By Wynter HoldenFebruary 25, 2010
Remember when classic cartoons were considered good family entertainment? That was before uptight parents condemned politically incorrect Bugs Bunny episodes and Wile E. Coyote’s promotion of violence. Yeah, because a cartoon canine blasting an animated roadrunner with TNT will clearly damage your kid’s fragile psyche. But American Dad and Gossip...
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Doug Lingner’s Getting Pushed Out of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County — But His Resignation Isn’t Enough to Solve the Agency’s Problems

By Sarah FenskeMarch 25, 2010
Last Thursday, the board of directors of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County voted to accept the resignation of its executive director, Doug Lingner. The only problem? There was no resignation for the board to accept — not on Thursday, anyway. The board was voting optimistically, in hopes that Lingner...