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21. Night & Day

    N*A*S*H Unit

    By Chris Bowman

    Published: January 17, 2008

    When Steve Nash returned to town and the Phoenix Suns commenced dominance of the NBA regular season, the entire league was altered, as the fast-paced “Nash Rambler”...

22. Night & Day

    The Puck Starts Here

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The Cards are done, the football Devils finished. Now are y’all gonna pay attention to the Phoenix Coyotes? They are having a nice run of late, uknow? Oh, yeah, of course...

23. Night & Day

    Coffee, Tea, or Mea Culpa?

    The word is “stewardess,” damn it

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Anything subtitled “Confessions of a Flight Attendant” blares a warning equivalent to “proceed to the nearest emergency exit.” But despite its awkward...

24. Night & Day

    "Radical Mod"

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Artist Liz Cohen -- va-va-va-vroom -- shows off her low-rider transformative cars and bikes, which include various, er, modifications, including spinning truck beds, pop-up...

25. Night & Day

    Chair

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Backwards Theatre presents the experimental-theater production, which is centered on a single wooden chair placed dead center on the stage. According to its creators, the event...

26. The Bird

    The Bird pecks aways at the white hip-hop poseurs in P-town

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

    Published: January 17, 2008

    WIGGA, PLEASE Comedian D.L. Hughley once quipped that everybody wants to be black 'til the cops roll up. And as The Bird's colleague Niki D'Andrea discussed in her recent...

27. Fenske

    After John McCain's win in New Hampshire, Sarah Fenske puts dibs on a seat on the bandwagon

    By Sarah Fenske

    Published: January 17, 2008

    There was a moment on the campaign trail last fall when I was reminded, suddenly, why John McCain was once the political crush of my life. The Senator Who Could Actually Be...

28. News

    A Paradise Valley homeless man who burned to death in December may have been tortured

    By John Dickerson

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The day after Christmas, Wayne Liersch showed up for work at Paradise Valley Mall. He was a maintenance guy; normally, his day consisted of changing light bulbs and cleaning up...

29. Letters

    Letters from the issue of Thursday, January 17, 2008

    Published: January 17, 2008

    BAD RAP? Kumbaya coalition: First and foremost, I want to commend New Times for finally giving people like Iroc and Willy Northpole the attention they have long deserved...

30. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    There's no good explanation for the link between Mexican-Americans and drunken-driving incidents

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that Mexican-Americans have the highest proportion of DUIs and alcohol-related traffic fatalities of any ethnic group...

31. Music

    Phoenix band Source Victoria's brew of distress and pleasure just may have created a new genre: Xanaxcore

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: January 17, 2008

    "I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these . . . somebody will listen to me . . ." — James Stewart, Mr....

32. Club Candids

    Gettin' into the grooves at Raising Arizona

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: January 17, 2008

    There's been a lot of talk about hip-hop at the New Times office, so by midweek, we were geared up for Raising Arizona at The Bar, a.k.a. The Lucky Devil in Tempe. (Click here...

33. Shrapnel

    Rogue Wave surfs on a swell of infectious pop bliss

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Environmental destruction, greed, suicide, and watching your elderly mother die may sound like strange topics to plumb for optimism, but that's exactly what Oakland's Rogue...

34. Shrapnel

    Magnetic Fields mines several black musical genres to create its latest: white noise

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Sasha Frere-Jones, Jessica Hopper, and pitchfork-toting denizens of the blogosphere: You'll be satisfied to know Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt experienced a...

35. Listen Up

    OneRepublic

    Dreaming Out Loud
    (Interscope Records)

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: January 17, 2008

    OneRepublic's Colorado connection is mighty tangential. Tulsa-born lead singer Ryan Tedder and guitarist Zach Filkins met while attending high school in Colorado Springs, and...

36. Listen Up

    Necrodamus

    No Rest For the Wizard
    (Shifty)

    By D.X. Ferris

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Guitarist Scott Stearns is an astronaut of musical violence. He explores dark, ugly places that reek of sulfur, rotgut, and boiling sweat. His Necrodamus project is a...

37. Listen Up

    Too $hort

    Get Off the Stage
    (Jive)

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Get Off the Stage is Too $hort's 17th album — not counting compilations and reissues — but it's also the end of an era. It's his last for Jive, the label he's been...

38. Listen Up

    Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

    Raising Sand
    (Rounder Records)

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: January 17, 2008

    On the surface, a musical collaboration between two such seemingly polar opposite talents as Americana/bluegrass goddess Alison Krauss and shouting, yowling Robert Plant is...

39. Live Wire

    Dionne Warwick

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: January 17, 2008

    For every quote, cliché, or saying, there is something or someone to disprove it. Dionne Warwick has disproved F. Scott Fitzgerald's "no second acts in American lives"...

40. Live Wire

    Pat Green

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The wave that this Texas-born singer/songwriter has ridden for the past few years isn't bad, considering he's someone who began seriously pursuing a professional career only...