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21. Night & Day

    The Grill of Victory

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: November 8, 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...

22. Night & Day

    S.O.B. Story

    Controversial comic rides the mid-career rollercoaster

    By Niamh Wallace

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

23. Night & Day

    Sensei Says

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

24. Night & Day

    The Movie Star Blues

    Dumb & Dumber star’s got his mojo workin’

    By Clay McNear

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

25. Night & Day

    Step Lively

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

26. Night & Day

    Come Sail Away

    Cap'n DJ mig50 says cut loose, kick off your Sunday shoes

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

27. Fenske

    Temple of Doom

    Michael Levine is determined to save the temple that rose from the Holocaust and bar mitzvahed Spielberg. The Black Theatre Troupe wants him to go away

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: November 8, 2007

    In a city where everybody is nice, where conference tables in fancy law firms take the place of the proverbial smoke-filled room, Michael Levine is something else. He is not...

28. Club Candids

    We Heart Halloween

    Yet another holiday bash

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: November 8, 2007

    There are certain holidays that call for a celebration extension, and Halloween is definitely one of them. We partied it up over the pre-Halloween weekend, but we just didn't...

29. Booze Pig

    Pussy Galore

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Flashback to a year ago: I'm rolling around in bed one morning, wanting to vomit and complaining about my acid reflux. My young girlfriend is just emerging from the shower when...

30. Film Feature

    Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

    Venerable director returns with a devilish thriller

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: November 8, 2007

    "There's a reason I've had some good pictures and other guys will never have good pictures," Sidney Lumet says matter-of-factly on a recent afternoon in his New York office...

31. Backstage Pass

    Phillip Fazio

    Nun on the run

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: November 8, 2007

    "Two Ladies," indeed! Cabaret director Phillip Fazio apparently has a thing for impersonating the fairer sex. Here, the former child actor fesses up to an affection for Maggie...

32. DVDish

    The Kids Were All Right

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

33. News

    Hot Potato

    When it comes to neighbors, just what legally constitutes a nuisance?

    By John Dickerson

    Published: November 8, 2007

    In August 2005, Nathan Thinnes sold his house. It must have been a relief. Coming home from work one evening, just days before the closing, Thinnes heard his dog whimpering...

34. Music

    Industrial Strength

    Alter Der Ruine grins through the goth

    By Daniel Raven

    Published: November 8, 2007

    It's 7:30 on a Saturday night in September, and Asylum is already packed. The Tucson club is the only venue in Arizona that consistently caters to fans of industrial music, and...

35. Film

    Badlands

    Coen brothers transcend themselves

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: November 8, 2007

    "Hold still." That's what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear it, it's the out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss...

36. Stage

    Theater Scene

    Previews and reviews of what's running now

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical: Artists Theatre Project launches its fifth season with a reprise of the company's popular 2004 staging of this campy tuner about a whorish teen...

37. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: November 8, 2007

    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...

38. Letters

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 8, 2007

    Published: November 8, 2007

    TOUGHEST BOUT It’s a shame about Michael: About "Brother's Keeper" (Paul Rubin, November 1), I was a big big fan of Michael Carbajal's and remember all of Rubin's great...

39. Shrapnel

    Reviewing the Reviews

    Fogman talks back

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Like an imaginative, hyperactive kid let loose amid the instruments in an elementary school music room, Minneapolis native Andrew Broder spent his first couple of albums under...

40. Film

    Santa's Brittle Helper

    Trying to attract a different set of underage babies

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Banking on the career choices of Vince Vaughn garners increasingly erratic returns, which is ironic, given that he has finally settled on (or surrendered to) a consistent...