Oscar Fuchslocher is still behind bars at a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in Florence, but a federal court decision means he should be reunited with his wife in Phoenix as early as this week, according to Fuchslocher's lawyer, Patsy Kraeger. Fuchslocher is a Chilean citizen who has...
And the Winner Is . . . : In the movie business, it's the Oscar. In the record business, it's the Grammy. And in the restaurant business, it's the James Beard Award. Right now, the firm of Deloitte & Touche is tabulating the results of the first round of balloting...
Logan's Run? On the morning of Wednesday, March 26--just as the first copies of the March 27 issue of New Times were hitting the streets--Kim Boyden received a voice mail message from a representative with the City of Scottsdale's Victim Assistance Program. Boyden, whose photo was on the cover of...
Film actors are generally said to have good chemistry or no chemistry. But bad chemistry in movies does exist, and a sleep-inducer called Inventing the Abbotts is a case in point. In ascending order of age, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly and Joanna Going play Pamela, Eleanor and Alice Abbott, well-off...
thursday april 24 Hamlet, the Ballet: Center Dance Ensemble's Frances Smith Cohen conceived and choreographed this production, which incorporates jazz, modern and ballet styles by the dance troupe, live acting by the Courtyard Players, and an original rock score. Performances are scheduled on Thursday, April 24; Friday, April 25; and...
thursday april 10 The Descendents: This relic of punk's original wave had an inordinate impact on today's punk-pop scene. Basically the band All (the Descendents' descendant) augmented by original vocalist Milo Aukerman, the revivified act returned to doing what it does best--and did first--on its latest release, Everything Sucks: speed-saw...
No News Is Now News I've long been convinced that the Arizona Republic is blatantly biased and skews its coverage of the news to suit its own agenda a la the old Communist newspaper Pravda ("Scenes From a Slaughter," Amy Silverman, January 23). Now, with the demise of the Phoenix...
Sour Puss Have New Times funsters run out of politicos (past and present) to poke fun at? Can't find anything funny about Joe or Fife this week? No schoolteachers or cops to pick on? Must be a real slow time of year; that's got to be the reason Red Meat...
Oscar Fuchslocher first came to the United States from his native Chile in 1989, as an exchange student at Ironwood High School in Glendale. He liked Arizona so much he came back the next year, this time as a visitor on a six-month visa. The visa was renewed, but eventually...
Still Reeling I didn't think I would miss M. V. Moorhead's film reviews, but at least he was concise and interesting. Bring back Moorhead or practice some editing on the wordy bunch New Times now has banging the keys. Carter Youngman via Internet Lost in the Translation In her pathetic...
One night in March 1987, Mary and Manny Carbajal and several members of their family gathered around a kitchen table at their home in downtown Phoenix. It would be more than a year before their 19-year-old son Michael would become world famous, and his inspirational story had yet to be...
So you gotta ask yourself--here are two bands, both clones of the Boogie Knights, who are managed by the BK's firm, Perfect World, and use the same keyboard samples, play the same song selections (what's the fascination with "Copacabana" anyway?) and buy their wigs from the same thrift shops. So...
In Absolute Power, Clint Eastwood plays Luther Whitney, a master thief who burgles on little cat feet. He's as stealthy as the Pink Panther pilferer, though not nearly as amusing. Luther, you see, is presented to us as an artist. We first see him at the National Gallery dutifully copying...
Lots of hearts are in the right place in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, but none is beating. Scripted by Lewis Colick (who wrote Unlawful Entry) and based on the true story of how the killer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers was finally brought to justice after three trials,...
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) is Prince of Denmark. After his father (Brian Blessed) dies, his uncle Claudius (Derek Jacobi) takes the throne and marries Hamlet's mother, Gertrude (Julie Christie). When the late king's ghost reveals he was murdered by Claudius, Hamlet must decide which course of action to take. Meanwhile, he...
Imagine a block of Soviet workers' housing plopped down in central Phoenix, then cloaked in shades of hot pink and aqua. Le Corbusier meets Miami Vice. Imagine four hulking cinder-block-and-glass buildings whose residents live in strict compliance with covenants, codes and restrictions dictating everything from window coverings to doormat placement...
Why a movie of The Crucible now? Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witchcraft trials was first staged on Broadway in 1953, when McCarthyism was still in flower, and it was not a resounding success. Now, of course, it's a staple of rep theaters and high school and college stages,...
In the post-Babe era, can you make a live-action movie about animals and not have them talk to each other? For me, this is the deep philosophical question raised by Disney's new 101 Dalmatians, a live-action remake of the studio's 1961 animated feature--in which, by the way, the animals did...
Phoenix resident Donald Campbell was fed up with neighborhood dogs using his front lawn as their personal rest room. First, he posted a sign asking passers-by to pick up after their pets. When that didn't do the trick, Campbell took more extreme measures. In February 1994, according to police reports,...
For most of us, getting ready for the holidays means whipping up a batch of Chex mix, hacking up a Hickory Farms beef log and hoping that this year's monthlong ordeal will pass as quickly and as painlessly as possible. But when it comes to Christmas, twin brothers Bob and...
Whoever whispered, "Build it, and they will come," obviously wasn't speaking to Andrea Zuhri-Adams. In 1993, Zuhri-Adams, an African American, was recruited by Phoenix city officials who wanted a minority-owned business in the ground floor of the city parking garage at 333 East Jefferson, just east of America West Arena...
In these pages some five months ago, you were introduced to the phenomenon of Rods. Unidentified Flying Rods, to be exact. Unexplainable, tubelike things perhaps hundreds of feet long of unknown origin that allegedly course through our skies so fast as to be barely perceptible to the human eye. But...
