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21. Night & Day

    The Greatest No-Show on Grass

    For Tiger Woods, the desert’s always greener in Dubai

    By Jay Bennett

    Published: January 24, 2008

    As an excuse to get loaded with half a million of your closest polo-shirted friends and at least one major airline executive, you can’t get much better than the FBR Open....

22. Night & Day

    Fantasy Football

    Games that not-quite-good-enough people play

    By Chris Bowman

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Right now, many NFL enthusiasts around the country can be found at home crying in their beers, bellyaching about their favorite squad being unceremoniously ousted from...

23. Night & Day

    Skeer Tactics

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 24, 2008

    We ain’t skeered to admit that we gots a bit of white trash in us. We’re also not scared to admit that we say “ain’t skeered.” That’s why...

24. Night & Day

    Phoenix Suns vs. Atlanta Hawks at U.S. Airways Center

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The Atlanta Hawks make their one and only visit of the 2007-08 season when they take on the Phoenix Suns. Tue., Jan. 29, 7 p.m., 2008

25. Night & Day

    Dope Floats

    If Gilligan creator has his way, the Minnow never will be lost

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    TV mogul Sherwood Schwartz, creator of barking mutts like Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, can’t let a bad thing go. Consider 2002’s The Brady Bunch in the...

26. Night & Day

    Will Leitch

    By Clay McNear

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Will Leitch don't like the bling, yo. Referred to by some as the sports world's Jon Stewart, this outspoken/irreverent young grump founded Deadspin.com with the notion of...

27. Night & Day

    Sami Yaffa at "Shake!" Motherfucking Dance Party"

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The bassist for the New York Dolls and Hanoi Rocks spins some wax with host William Fucking Reed. Sat., Jan. 26, 9 p.m., 2008

28. Night & Day

    Bob Riggle

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart performs. Sat., Jan. 26, 8 p.m., 2008

29. The Bird

    The Bird wonders just what Joe Arpaio's top dog is doing down in Honduras

    From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons

    Published: January 24, 2008

    JABBA IN PARADISE This incredulous avian kept rubbing its peepers in disbelief. Was that really Sheriff Joe Arpaio's chief deputy, David Hendershott, looking like a cross...

30. Fenske

    Guess which driver's facing 21 years in prison — the drunk , rich, white one or the sober, poor, black one?

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Two cars collided last year on Cinco de Mayo. Considering the date, you might assume that at least one of the drivers was drunk — and you'd be right. Laura Varker was 17...

31. Letters

    Letters from the issue of Thursday, January 24, 2008

    Published: January 24, 2008

    A HOUSE DIVIDED Finally, some authenticity: I couldn't side with The Bird more about the Phoenix hip-hop scene ("Wigga, Please," Stephen Lemons, January 17). I'm a huge...

32. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    More than mariachi: Yes, Mexicans dig your rock 'n' roll. So why can't you listen to some Café Tacuba?

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: January 24, 2008

    At a weekly gig by a Doors tribute band, I've noticed the majority of the crowd is Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems the crowd missed the exit to the Lupillo Rivera show or...

33. Music

    Yeasayer's experimental rock finds a way to make a connection

    By Rob Trucks

    Published: January 24, 2008

    "It's like almond," Anand Wilder says, "like the nut." No, this isn't a setup for a nut joke. Wilder, the guitarist/vocalist of the abruptly acclaimed, suddenly sanctioned...

34. Club Candids

    North Scottsdale's newest slice of La Vocé Vita

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Considering the stiff penalties for drinking and driving, it's not often we make our way to the outskirts of town for a cocktail. But on Friday, January 18, we were feeling...

35. Shrapnel

    3 Inches of Blood pools together a classic metal sound

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Ah, the new wave of British heavy metal. Affectionately known to metalheads the world over as the NWOBHM, the genre's sound was characterized by galloping rhythms, operatic...

36. Shrapnel

    Why wait until December? Let's commence with the 2008 music year in review

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: January 24, 2008

    For those of you going through "year-in-review" withdrawal, here's a day-by-day account of what the year's given us so far. January 1: Dick Clark's "New Years Rockin' Eve"...

37. Listen Up

    Joe Jackson

    Rain
    (Rykodisc)

    By Thomas Bond

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The first two lines on Joe Jackson's new album are: "Hey, can you hear me now, as I fade away and lose my ground? Maybe you'd like to know what I'd have to say, if I was still...

38. Listen Up

    Cheb i Sabbah

    Devotion
    (Six Degrees)

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: January 24, 2008

    On his previous disc, La Kahena, San Francisco-based, Algerian-born DJ Cheb i Sabbah explored the sounds of his native North Africa, adding tracks and loops to the material he...

39. Listen Up

    Kate Nash

    Made of Bricks
    (Interscope)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Kate Nash's debut LP, Made of Bricks, was released last summer in the U.K., where she became an overnight sensation; both the CD and single, "Foundations," charted at number...

40. Listen Up

    Various Artists

    Juno: Music From the Motion Picture
    (Rhino)

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Too many movie tie-in collections put profits before cohesion. Tunes by widely disparate performers, most of whom just happen to record for companies affiliated with the film...