The Wolf and his compadres at AzRockabilly host this kickin’ car/bike show, set to a backdrop of classic flicks (American Graffiti, La Bamba) and hot licks by DJ Nicky Flores and the band 13 to the Gallows. Sat., Feb. 23, 4 p.m., 2008…
Think what you may, but at the very least, you can always count on black metal for its directness. You can also count on it to be exactly what it is and nothing more or less. With album titles like Bondage Goat Zombie and Goatreich-Fleshcult, the Satan worshippers of Austrian…
If you’re ever walked into the studio of Suzanne Falk, one mesmerizing thing is her vintage toy collection. During the It’s Still Life life drawing class, participants can interpret some of her funky items in a setting that promises to transform “a simple still-life drawing session into a decadent and…
The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s ’cause the AZCL has taken some major bites out of the FGL’s key-lime pie in the last two decades, wooing a number of teams from the…
The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s ’cause the AZCL has taken some major bites out of the FGL’s key-lime pie in the last two decades, wooing a number of teams from the…
The murderous brute raises his blade. The victim moans softly. The blade comes down, then stops mid-slash. Not tonight, fiend! Your stars are not aligned! Aries is in the ascendant! You got your Sagittarius in my Scorpio! Forensic astrologer Dave Campbell can see fiends and brutes coming a mile away…
It must be springtime, because Sun Ra Arkestra’s Juini Booth is back in town performing gigs. The all-star bassist, who escapes the crappy East Coast winters by crashing with his sister in Mesa for a few months, is still performing regularly on the jazz circuit in NYC and Europe (for…
When WWE wrasslin’ returns to Pho-town with WWE Presents Monday Night RAW, it brings along the sturdiest metal chairs and hardest head-splitting turnbuckles. Some of the sweat-glistened superstars scheduled to appear include Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, and women’s top belt holder Beth Phoenix. Mon., Feb. 25, 6 p.m.,…
The biggest surprise about the Valley Metro Bus and Maintenance Roadeo? It’s not that there’s an actual freaking competition for paratransit mechanics, but that the public event has been going on for 25 freaking years. Sun., Feb. 24, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 2008…
The words “Jim Carrey” and “masterpiece” seem oxymoronic, but the Pet Detective’s made two for the ages: The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Both films were born from marvelous conceptual leaps, then fleshed out by screenwriters Andrew Niccol and Charlie Kaufman, respectively. Still, each soared because…
Thank the good Lord. The great-unwashed masses have left the Valley, en masse, to return whence they came. Now we can get back some après Super Bowl normalcy. Really, now. Does anyone head to Scottsdale to see people wearing the same oversize athletic jerseys at a street party? We didn’t…
We loved Donnie Brasco and GoodFellas, and after leaving the theater, we’d purse our lips like made men. So when the organized-crime book Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob surfaced, we were hooked like fishes that sleep well at night. The author, Bob Delaney, was a fresh-faced state trooper in…
We have one heckuva sports hangover. If the college bowl season was akin to draining cocktails at happy hour, and the golf tournament was killing a bottle of wine at dinner, then Super Bowl week was like closing down the bar with a gratuitous round of shots. After a two-month…
She may be playing the monster mom in Stray Cat’s Kate Crackernuts, but her friends and fans know that Johanna Carlisle is a real beauty — even when she’s barfing in the alley behind a convenience market. I knew I wanted to be in show business when I memorized the…
It hit me in Muscatine, Iowa: My native Arizona has become the meanest patch of dirt in the Union. Go ahead; accuse me of blaring sweeping perceptions about an entire community. That never stops any married, white-haired, pearly-toothed Republican man who licks pole on the down-low. So why should it…
No Reservations (Warner Bros.) From its cheap, mid-’90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed Food Network behind-the-scenes, blech) to its wide-screen/full-screen option, this feels like something dropped right into the discount bins; it probably debuts at half off this week. And this soufflé of a romantic comedy deserves…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Arizona Theatre Company’s favorite playwright, Jeffrey Hatcher (Turn of the Screw, Tuesdays With Morrie, Ella), has adapted Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story of evil, dual personalities, and grisly murder for another ATC world première. Not to be confused with the wildly…
The Amateurs (First Look) The Beatrix Potter Collection (BBC Warner) Becoming Jane (Miramax) Blade: The Series — The Complete Series (New Line) Blue State (MGM) Charlie Chan: Volume 4 (Fox) Dallas: The Complete Eighth Season (Warner Bros.)Dedication (Weinstein) The Equalizer: Season One (Universal) Family Ties: The Third Season (Paramount) General…
Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off,” says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film student Ridley (Philip Riccio), the gauze-wrapped lead of his no-budget mummy opus The Death of Death. Pausing to regroup, cast and…
No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell’s eyebrows with a tweezer. Black, fluffy, and gloriously uni, they still aren’t the prettiest things about In Bruges. That honor falls to the Belgian city itself, known for its scenic medieval turrets, bourgeois tedium, and unfavorable comparisons with Amsterdam. Bruges…
Freudians disheartened by the Bearded One’s fall from psychotherapeutic grace may be cheered to learn that ol’ Sigmund lives and prospers at the movies, at least in child-friendly cinema. The Spiderwick Chronicles, an extravagantly oedipal fantasy adventure based on the popular children’s novels by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, comes…
Can’t get enough of Bill Clinton? Have we got a movie for you. Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy — one worth the effort, because some effort’s actually been put into it. Imagine, really,…
