Hot Fuzz (Universal) The second feature from writer-director Edgar Wright and writer-star Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) has been available on home video for decades: Hot Fuzz is, after all, a witty and wisecracking montage of clips from some hundred-plus A-list and bargain-bin action films, chief among them Lethal…
Beehive: What would summer in Phoenix be without an endless parade of jukebox musicals? Beehive is that genres queen and, like the monsoon, it arrives every year — usually in August and usually at a wee theater that cant afford a book musical this time of year. Broadway Palm tends…
The Archie Show: The Complete Series (Genius) Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (Warner Bros.) The Best of the Kids in the Hall: Volume 2 (A&E) Bloodlines (THINKfilm) Creature (MGM) A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (Docurama) Dallas: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner Bros.) Film Noir Classic Collection: Vol. 4 (Warner…
Most of us daytime working stiffs get our clubbing and drinking done on Friday and Saturday nights, but what about all those poor schlubs who serve us food and booze on our weekend benders? When do they get to ruin their livers? The poor babies have to sneak it during…
If we had our druthers (as well as a six-figure bank account), we’d be hanging in the Hawaiian Islands right about now, feasting on roasted pig and kicking it on sandy beaches while the rest of you desert rats were forced to endure the endless summer swelter. But since it’s…
We can’t claim to be the authority on a whole lot, but we sure as hell know a thing or two about the hair-pulling, time-consuming writing process. In the past 30 years, one of the best voices in contemporary prose, Jerry Stahl — Permanent Midnight author, ex-heroin addict, former pornographer,…
Axis/Radius is not for everyone, including us unapologetic fashion victims. But when you’re in the mood to get dressed up and stylishly messed up, try the club’s weekly Saturday Night Strip, which features dancing to DJs MCB and Swerv on the venue’s liquid-nitrogen-cooled floor. Oooh. Aaah…
In life, sometimes we have to face the music and ask ourselves the tough questions. Where is my career going? Am I living up to my potential? Can I do better than this guy? And, what smells so bad? The members of the five15 arts collective may be able to…
Now that Becks has descended on L.A., we figure no one will be making movies there anymore. They’ll be too busy fawning over the soccer superduperstar’s every meticulously coifed move. So it’s a darn good thing that people occasionally shoot films in Phoenix. We need another cash-cow industry now that…
Good taste ain’t welcome at Giligin’s. Neither is decorum, nor political correctness, for that matter. For proof, look no further than the naughty nightspot’s newest bar game, Dildo Plinko. As the name implies, this titillating take on the popular contest from The Price Is Right has patrons dropping differently colored…
Karlie Hustle has radio muscle — she’s a weekday “Power Jock” at Power FM 98.3 — but she’s equally comfortable working the nightlife shadows. Over the past year, she and spinning partner DJ-M2 have funneled their collective soul every hump night, and on Wednesday, August 8, Hustle and M2 celebrate…
Despite seeming like just another pop fad from the Land of the Rising Sun, Yu-Gi-Oh! has shown amazing staying power, with as loyal (and rabid) a following as ever. Unless it eventually comes to light that the game’s collectible cards are laced with OxyContin, the maintaining of a notoriously fickle…
It seems like you can’t swing a Prada bag without walloping a drag queen these days — not that you’d ever intentionally hit a drag queen, cuz she’d scratch your eyes out. Suffice it to say that you probably don’t want to mess with Tucson’s self-proclaimed “first gender performance group,”…
Van Gogh’s gloomy Wheatfield With Crows is thought to be a prediction of his impending suicide. Picasso bathed a series of paintings in blue to convey his sadness over a friend’s tragic death. So what would a psychiatrist make of local artist Chad Godt, a figurative painter whose abstract works…
Thanks to NBA whistle-blower Tim Donaghy, followers of the every-professional-sport-is-rigged faith have turned their focus away from always-controversial wrestling and boxing to the Not Basketball Anymore league. Maybe these kooks will finally appreciate the Bad Boy Boxing Tournament. Sat., Sept. 8…
When it stands alone, Honeytribe sounds like the name of any forgettable jam band playing in Your Town on a Sunday night. But stick the words “Devon Allman’s” in front and suddenly there’s cause for a plug. And though Devon Allman is a minor satellite in the Allman-centric Southern-rock universe,…
May we channel your mom for a sec? You’re hmmmty-hmm years old, and it’s time to say goodbye to those slimy reptiles, filthy warthogs, and poo-flinging primates — at least until next year. This is your last chance ´til summer ´08 to cool off at Phoenix Zoo’s Starry Safari, an…
Consider some of the movies that were released in 1977: Star Wars. Close Encounters. Saturday Night Fever. All had their day in the sun (the first in the blinding light of Tatooine’s twin suns). One film that didn’t see the light of day that year was Charles Burnett’s Killer of…
While there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues, you can certainly dilute the effects by turning those blahs into booze and dancing the night away at French Kiss. Since March, the banging club event has made quite a name for itself (its opening night earned a spread in Spin),…
Shiver we timbers? We think not. The Arizona Diamondbacks’ lumber — formerly wee twigs — has finally started to smoke, and we don’t expect that a bunch of third-rate Johnny Depps like the Pittsburgh Pirates will have much to say about dousin’ the flame. As if, ye lowly sea dogs…
Last month, when Kevin Patterson, funnyman host of Grand Avenue LIVE!, traveled through the jungles of Colombia (yeah, that Colombia, the one currently immersed in a four-decade-strong guerrilla conflict), the buzz around downtown was whether he would 1) come back alive and 2) indulge in the crack pipe. We’re not…
Neil Simon. Big, splashy touring musical. “Hey, big spender” — va voom, va voom — “spennnnnd a little time with me.” This does not sound artistically promising. However, if you spend your time and money on such big-buck bangs, you’ll dig the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, which stars Paige…
