Dani Danger ain’t shy about discussing the body modifications she’s endured over the years. The outgoing, tattooed-and-pierced 25-year-old eagerly gushes about the subdermal silicone crucifix embedded in her chest or the trilobite-shaped scarification located above her left breast just as breezily as she discusses the weather. The aptly named Danger…
Hannah Ruebbelke-Smith. By Benjamin Leatherman Hannah Ruebbelke-Smith got both good news and bad news in court this week. The assault charge the 28-year-old bicyclist was facing in Phoenix Municipal Court was dropped by Judge John L. Wiehn on Tuesday morning after the city prosecutor’s office filed a motion to drop…
By Benjamin Leatherman The three-course meal personified. Lady Luck’s been smiling at me lately. No, I didn’t win the Powerball jackpot, or experience some other windfall. It’s just that things have seemingly been going my way lately. Like yesterday, for instance, when I was doing a full-tilt boogie around the…
By Martin Cizmar and Benjamin Leatherman Photos by Luke Holwerda Beck Hansen, live in Phoenix. See more shots in our Beck and MGMT slideshow. Music Editor Martin Cizmar and Clubs Editor Benjamin Leatherman both attended Beck’s show at the Dodge Theatre Monday night. Here’s their review, point/counterpoint style: Martin Cizmar:…
The hard-rockin’ Swedes of The Hives are scheduled to perform tonight at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe. By Benjamin Leatherman Our new music editor Martin Cizmar’s going to see The Hives at the Marquee Theatre tonight. Meanwhile, web editor Jonathan McNamara will be rocking out to Shiny Toy Guns show…
By Benjamin Leatherman Indie concert promoter Stephen Chilton (far left) speaks at this morning’s transportation and infrastructure subcommittee meeting. Downtown Phoenix activists and entertainment business people urged the city of Phoenix this morning to keep the soon-to-be-launched light-rail system running until 2 a.m. on weekends. As was reported last night,…
Gourmandizers of punk and rockabilly vinyl would be more than a little jealous at the sight of Nicky Flores’ record collection. Why? Probably because the 29-year-old DJ has some unique and choice wax stacked away in his accumulation of more than 1,500 platters. Like, say, an LP version of the…
By Benjamin Leatherman Sorry local drunks, Valley Metro’s trains are only scheduled to run until midnight. Word just reached us that members of the downtown Phoenix cultural scene will be out in force at tomorrow morning’s meeting of the city council’s Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee in hopes of getting the…
By Benjamin Leatherman Classes are back in session at ASU, so its only natural that sales have been brisk lately at Tempe’s Zia Records location, 105 West University Drive (or at least that’s what they told us). Here’s a list of their top 10 bestselling albums for the week of…
By Benjamin Leatherman Fresh Mint’s version of a balanced meal. To me, there are only two kinds of fake meat in this world: good or bad. By “bad,” I mean bland clumps of tofu (or a similar soy-based substance) which have been fashioned into a substance that vaguely resembles in…
By Benjamin Leatherman Nightwish is scheduled to perform this Sunday at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe. — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12: Death Pilot With Ethnic Degeneration, Impulsive Agression, Aizen, Slip Micky, and Ethan 103 [metal/rock] 7 p.m. $11 (visit www.13thfloorentertainment.com) The Sets, 93 E. Southern Ave., Tempe, 480-829-1822. Vic Dunlop [comedy]…
By Martin Cizmar So, hey there, I’m Martin, the new Music Editor here at New Times. It’s Thursday, when Niki usually does her Flier of the Week but, I gotta say, I’m not feeling a lot of the local fliers I’ve been seeing on MySpace this week. I feel like…
By Benjamin Leatherman “Say! Do you like television? Cause I got a deal for you!” If you happen to be channel surfing sometime after midnight this coming Saturday night, and the image of a guy getting electrocuted hits your television screen, don’t panic. (And whatever you do, don’t change the…
Juanito Garcia is on the rebound. Earlier this year, the 21-year-old Valley boxer (pictured) had a perfect 14-0 career record and the WBC’s super featherweight youth championship wrapped firmly around his waist. Then he fought Cornelius Lock. A fierce left hook by the Detroit pugilist KO’d our hometown hero during…
Maybe it’s just us, but the stale Mill Avenue nightlife scene has been in dire need of a shake-up recently. We’ve grown somewhat bored with the same old clubs pumping out the same old hip-hop and Top 40 tunes every weekend, and have longed for something better to come along…
Stephen Strange and Mike Red look kinda tired. It’s only natural, given that the two have been working around the clock since May on Television Noir, their beyond-bizarre late-night TV series that’s debuting this weekend on local station KAZT. But despite his fatigued state, Red’s able to summarize the frenetic…
By Benjamin Leatherman Money good! Pirating bad! After much anticipation and drama, the metal gods of Metallica are set to release their ninth studio album Death Magnetic for public consumption this coming Friday. Provided they haven’t already downloaded a pirated copy of the Rick Rubin-produced CD, die-hard Metalica fans will…
By Benjamin Leatherman Revolver Records, 4214 North Seventh Avenue, just recently celebrated its first anniversary, so we figured the best way to fete the music store and its owner TJ Jordan would be to let y’all know what his top 10 best-selling LPs were for the week of September 1-7…
By Benjamin Leatherman An inside look at the Cornish Pasty Co.’s veggie pesto chicken pie. Temptation is quite the bitch. It’s been almost three months since I swore off both fast food and sugary beverages, and lately I’ve been craving these forbidden foodstuffs something fierce. I’ve stuck to my guns,…
By Benjamin Leatherman Mr. Meeble is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hotel San Carlos. There’s gonna be plenty to see and do at the monthly First Friday art walk. Here’s a sample of the bands and musicians who’ll be doing their thing in and around downtown Phoenix…
By Benjamin Leatherman Perehelion Arts’ new home at the Artisan Villages complex. Here’s a news tidbit just in time for tonight’s monthly First Friday event: Perehelion Arts has left its long-time home on Grand Avenue and relocated two miles east to Roosevelt Row in the Evans-Churchill neighborhood. The renowned downtown…
By Benjamin Leatherman B.B. King is scheduled to perform on Saturday at the Celebrity Theatre. What do ’80s pop-rockers Hall and Oates, the hip-hoppers of Three 6 Mafia, and the metalheads of Whitechapel all have in common? Other than the fact they’re all on our iPod playlists (yes, we openly…
