Archive Search Results

21. Night & Day

    Erin Go, Brah

    By Kurt Brighton

    Published: March 13, 2008

    If your cheesy, green-beer-swilling, American version of Saint Paddy's Day got a Mohawk and a few tattoos, then did a fat line of blow along with its usual bucketfuls of...

22. Night & Day

    "The Art of John Lennon, Presented by Yoko Ono"

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 13, 2008

    George couldn't draw to save his life. Linda was into photography, and thus went Paul. Ringo still uses Crayons to pen his daily mail -- so we hear. That, by default, makes...

23. Night & Day

    Desert Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 13, 2008

    It's soooo tempting to buy one of those cheerful-looking succulents you see in the Garden department at Target. Don't succumb! They're mass-produced and babied in nurseries,...

24. Night & Day

    The Phoenix Lights . . . We Are Not Alone

    Published: March 13, 2008

    The documentary examines the Valley's mysterious UFO "invasion" of the late '90s, and the theories behind it. Sun., March 16, 1, 4 & 7 p.m., 2008

25. Night & Day

    Tammy Lechner

    By Clay McNear

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Despite the bold assertion in the accompanying photo, author/photojournalist Tammy Lechner should've titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high...

26. The Bird

    The Bird praises L. Ron Hubbard, skewers a bladder-challenged bigot and offers a warning to the Big Cactus

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

    Published: March 13, 2008

    WHITE-TRASH WEENIE Like you needed more proof that immigrant-bashing nativists are low-life garbage. Noted Yosemite Sam impersonator "Buffalo" Rick Galeener was allegedly...

27. Fenske

    A shocking court decision might free builders from responsibility for home defects

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: March 13, 2008

    This is just what you homeowners need. After all, home sales in parts of the Valley have slowed to a trickle. (Thought you could buy a new house and flip it in a few months?...

28. News

    A key witness in the Robert Ortloff murder trial recants what she's been telling authorities for 24 years

    By Paul Rubin

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Lisa Pickett Steedman, a key witness in Robert Ortloff's murder trial, had just torpedoed the defense with startling courtroom testimony that contradicted everything she'd told...

29. Letters

    Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 13, 2008

    Published: March 13, 2008

    DRUG DOCS A history of abuse: Your story on the addicted doctors was scary as hell ("The Doctor is Out," John Dickerson, March 6). Can you imagine? Your physician goes out of...

30. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    Ask a Mexican breaks into your house to talk border control and illegal immigration

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Mexicans are angry that the United States might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly...

31. Music

    Al Perry and Fish Karma reflect on decades in the desert

    By Sarah Ventre

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Phoenix was built on a desire to buy and to have. People can own acres of land on the side of a mountain, and they can go to the outlet mall to pick out all the finest...

32. Club Candids

    Home is where the art is

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: March 13, 2008

    We love Art Detour weekend. Not only does it bring out the best of downtown, but it's also one event we can cover that doesn't result in a hangover the next morning. On Friday,...

33. Shrapnel

    Firestorm Fest: It's the best lineup of crappy band names in the biz

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: March 13, 2008

    There are a lot of bad band names out there, but no genre suffers from titular uncoolness like metalcore (which we'll admit we're not fans of). The Firestorm Fest — a...

34. Shrapnel

    For St. Paddy's Day drinkers, here are superior alternatives to those tired Irish folk songs

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: March 13, 2008

    In the opening to his 875-page treatise on Irish nationalism, The Green Flag, Robert Kee attempts to decode the DNA of that island's people, sketching an ancestral tree that...

35. Home Grown

    Alive In Wild Paint

    Ceilings
    (Equal Vision)

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: March 13, 2008

    In a world, as Elvis Costello recently described it, full of noisy things, it takes a lot of perseverance and guts to be quiet. If Ceilings, the Equal Vision debut album from...

36. Home Grown

    Mello Mello

    An Abstract Love Story
    (Mello-Soul Records)

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Despite An Abstract Love Story's playfully ribald themes, orgasmic vocal snippets, and big-person talk of wine and toking cabbage, one just can't shake a rather juvenile image:...

37. Listen Up

    Cavalera Conspiracy

    Inflikted
    (Roadrunner)

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: March 13, 2008

    It goes without saying that Sepultura's indelible impact on metal hinged on the chemistry between the band's sibling co-founders, Max and Igor Cavalera. But despite the buzz...

38. Listen Up

    Sheryl Crow

    Detours
    (A&M)

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Sheryl Crow is back to her old self after the fiasco that was 2005's Wildflower. By renewing her partnership with Bill Bottrell (who produced her first CD in 1993), she comes...

39. Live Wire

    The English Beat

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: March 13, 2008

    In the beginning (i.e., 1978), the music gods created The Beat. And verily, the firmament known as Birmingham, England, brought forth a mighty 2-tone ska revivalist group,...

40. Live Wire

    Nile

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Everybody together now: Anoint my phallus with the blood of the FALLEN!! With that quaint little sing-along, South Carolina death metal institution Nile takes cock rock to an...