Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once educational and groovy as all get-out, comes the latest in greatest hits from Sesame Street, before the neighborhood was gentrified for Elmo’s protection. Chief among the copious highlights in this…
The Best of the Colbert Report (Paramount) Blame It on Fidel! (Koch Lorber) Blood Car (TLA) The Crown Prince (Koch) Deck the Halls (Fox) Election (Tartan) Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season (HBO) Help!: Deluxe Edition (Capitol) I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Universal) James Bond Ultimate…
Yes! in my backyard. That’s the message behind the third annual Certified Local! Fall Festival, an activist fair highlighting local entrepreneurs who are doing it for themselves. So what’s in store? Stacy Bertinelli of the event’s organizer, Local First Arizona, says: “You can get a jump on your holiday shopping…
Considering the insanity that has been NCAA football 2007, we’ve been feeling an itch to hit the gridiron for some football of the non-contact variety. (Definitely not tackle, because we’re not that tough. We’re freaking writers.) And if Appalachian State can knock off Michigan, then why can’t we be recruited…
Art patrons, families, dude bros, and even Maricopa County plainclothes officers who aren’t on roundup duty are invited to the Heard Museum Spanish Market. More than 75 Southwest-area artists will sell their works while mariachi ensembles represent with south-of-the-border beats. Sat., Nov. 10; Sun., Nov. 11, 2007…
The standard-issue high school cheerleader is a baby-fatted, gawky teen destined for marriage and motherhood, but what of the preternatural beauty who realizes all she needs is that one lucky break or a good agent? In the 1978 skin flick Debbie Does Dallas, a naive pep squad pools its sexual…
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer for her timeless tale about Atticus Finch, Scout, and Boo Radley, but did she really write it? In his unauthorized bio Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, author and Lee scholar Charles J. Shields refutes the rumors that Mockingbird…
Hillary Rodham Clinton is pilloried regularly by dittoheads and the endlessly fulminating drones on Fox News, but the vast left-wing conspiracy has pretty much represented her with hand jobs and puff pieces. Until now. Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize winner and former Washington Post reporter who worked with Bob Woodward…
Ever wonder how hot Lieutenant Uhura (circa ’67, of course) would look on the big screen? Thought so. As if the nerd gods were listening, the divine Nichelle Nichols and the rest of the original Enterprise gang have finally been delivered to us in remastered, high-def glory in the form…
Women’s sports rule in the Valley. You hear us, Arizona Pigeons, uh, Cardinals? If you don’t believe it, let’s jostle those brain cells and remind you of the Phoenix Mercury’s WNBA championship as well as the ASU Women’s Basketball team, which made it to last year’s NCAA Elite Eight. The…
Doncha hate it when your nerdish friends quote their favorite bits from the Star Wars trilogy (the original, not the execrable prequels)? You know the scenes… the Mos Eisley cantina, the trash compactor, “I am your father.” While such mimicry seems irritating coming from our über-geek pals, it’s kickass coming…
Screw the baker’s dozen. It’s all about the number 10, because we Americans base our cultural milestones on the lovely number. When we turned 10 years old, we were pumped to enter an age expressed in double digits. Our first significant high school reunion is the 10th. And, most important,…
Your beloved grandma dies. Hard enough, so tell us you’re not gonna take a picture of her in the casket and keep it by the hearth, okay? Well, they did back in the Victorian Age, when death was a familiar caller and the act of dying was seen as more…
We don’t know if it’s Spike Lee’s temper tantrums, visions of Patrick Ewing’s box haircut, or the fact that their mascot is Dutch trousers, but it’s always a treat when the New York Knickerbockers come to town to battle the Phoenix Suns. This game marks the Knicks’ only Valley stop…
A brief history of NASCAR: The automobile was born. Two Southern dandies looked askance at one another. In lieu of dueling pistols, they jumped in their jalopies and set off on a gripping, 14-mph game of chicken. Somebody slapped a gigantic endorsement on the winner’s flivver. This, of course, is…
We scoured the globe to find this event: the New Times 10K presented by Whole Foods. The 13th-largest race in the States will feature a grip of fitness challenges, including a 5K run and walk, a 10K wheelchair event, and the main race. Sun., Nov. 11, 8:30 a.m., 2007…
The mouth-watering smell of juicy meat roasting over open flame will mix with the sweet smell of success at this weekend’s Southwest International BBQ Cookoff: Dual in the Desert, where competing teams of cagey cooks from four different states descend upon Rawhide for some grillin’ gamesmanship to determine who can…
2007’s been a rough year for D.L. Hughley. His co-starring spot on the Aaron Sorkin experiment Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip evaporated after the once-applauded but bizarrely boring show was canceled. Then, later in the summer, he was hated on by protesters for a joke made in the aftermath…
If the word “karate” ever passes through the shallows of your mind and you think of Bruce Lee, wax-on/wax-off, Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, or David Carradine, you’re seriously guilty of skewing the sacred practice of martial arts, grasshopper. Our suggestion? Check out the 43rd annual Western States Karate…
Like his films, the songs of actor-cum-musician Jeff Daniels range from the sublime to the preposterous. First, the characters. The frumpled, hapless dirtbag Flap Horton in Terms of Endearment. The strait-laced businessman who’s taken for a violent joy ride in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild. The mustachio’d citizen-soldier Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain…
The competition will be fast and furious at this weekend’s Pharaoh Step Classic event. Members of ASU’s Mu Eta Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will pit their skills at “stepping” — a synchronized and percussive form of dancing incorporating chanting, stomping, clapping, and other rhythmic movements that’s been…
It’s tough to admit, but we all share an indecent love of light rock. For years, we’ve been hiding our KEZ listening habits, and we’ve even cried to “Delilah.” We downloaded The Essential Daryl Hall & John Oates just to avoid embarrassment at the record store. Our advice? Embrace it…
