Well, if you're one of these types of folks, then check out the Super Scorpion Search at Use...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/super-scorpion-search-usery-mountain-regional-park http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/ring-leader Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/ring-leader http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/see-world Worthwhile road trips feature unique sights and sounds, from tourist-drawing dinosaurs to roadside diners stuck in the past. It’s rare that the road-trippers bring the sights and sounds with them.

San Francisco-based performance-art troupe Double Vision trucks its combination of cho...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/see-world http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/voodoo-gurus Mad Juana’s MySpace page boasts, “Imagine Django Reinhardt and Patti Smith fronting the Velvet Underground in a Bourbon Street dive, and the exotic soulfulness and inflamed passion rises like a possessed voodoo spirit.” Yeah, well, that’s kind of true, but let’s break it ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/voodoo-gurus http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/party-central Ah, Carnaval, the debaucherous Brazilian street party riddled with sparkles, feathers, and grabby hands galore. It’s usually reserved for spring, right before all the Jesus lovers in the world restrict their normal states of debauchery and perversion for Lent. Somehow, they believe that a me...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/party-central http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/hit-refresh Just because you wrote a few songs doesn’t mean you’re qualified to author an entire book. (How would you like to read Donny Osmond’s memoirs?) Fortunately, former Phoenician Art Edwards — co-founder, co-songwriter, and bass player of The Refreshments — has more than the ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/hit-refresh http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/the-symbol-life Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/the-symbol-life http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/i-of-the-storm While Hurricane Katrina was wreaking havoc in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, President Bush was in Phoenix, posing for a photo-op, cake in hand, with birthday boy Senator John McCain. That lack of priority was only the beginning of the government’s failure.

For filmmakers Ed Pincus ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/i-of-the-storm http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/blackbeard-the-musical Thursdays-Saturdays. Starts: Sept. 5....]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/blackbeard-the-musical http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/chang-rae-lee Native Speaker. Lee reads from and signs works at this event, part of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's Fall 2008 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series.
Wed., Sept....]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/chang-rae-lee http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/hoodfellas In 1963, SoCal native Johnny Lozoya was 10 and enthralled watching low-slung, growling machines called lowriders pace his neighborhood streets. As he tells New Times, “They were definitely not my parents’ four-door family sedan.”

In 1979, Lozoya organized the first L...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/hoodfellas http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/mixed-race-messages To some artists, drawing is an expression of beauty. To others, it’s a visual soapbox on which the artist can figuratively stand and whine about politics, injustice, or whatever other crap is newsworthy. It’s hard to figure out which category local artist and ASU grad Hector Ruiz is in....]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/mixed-race-messages http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/labor-pains A local day-labor center is about to close, bowing to the pressures of anti-immigration advocates. The immigrants who rely on the center for their crummy incomes fight to keep the facility open. When one of the workers gets arrested, all hell breaks loose.

Sound plausible? Los Illegals...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/labor-pains http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/prehysteria Sooner or later, with all of technology’s leaps and bounds, we’re bound to stare a dinosaur straight in the reptilian eye. Not in the Jurassic Park way, but in the sense that somebody, someday, will create a dino that seems so real it might as well be. The folks behind the smash-...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/prehysteria http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/wardrobe-malfunction Oprah. Elvis. Charlie’s Angels. Prison inmates. Fashion victims all, thanks to the jumpsuit. We’d tease and taunt these dinos and ne’er-do-wells, but, God help us, the vexing garment seems to be making a comeback.

Holly Metz, a West Virginia native, takes smashing black-and-white photos of the parched terrain near her Gila River Indian Community home, many of which you can see in her “The Spirit of the Sag...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/talking-pictures http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/one-downsize-fits-all The economy blows. There are foreclosures on every block, big-name chains are filing for bankruptcy, and a tank of gas costs more than a week’s worth of groceries. Hell, even local art galleries and theaters are downsizing just to stay afloat. When faced with rising costs, Phoenix’s Bla...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/one-downsize-fits-all http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/that-old-block-magic Ask any nerd piss-ant what he knows about Japan and he’ll probably blather on about manga, the island nation’s sadistic game shows, or those Tokyo vending machines that specialize in used celebrity underwear. We don’t deny that a lot of strange things emanate from that coope...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/that-old-block-magic http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/love-thy-conference-neighbor Kudos to the Pac-10 conference for scheduling meaningful division games in August and September, including last week's Oregon State-Stanford tilt and a bitter-rivalry contest between Oregon and Washington. What do you have to say to that, Texas Tech (Eastern Washington, at Nevada, SMU, UMass) and...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/love-thy-conference-neighbor http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/alt-rock-rewind Guitar Hero II, but in the game's multicolored dots and horrendously processed guitar tone, it's hard to comprehend how foreign and chilling the Dallas band's bass-driven post-grunge masterpiece sou...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/alt-rock-rewind http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/the-digital-age Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/the-digital-age http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/quik-fix There’s a reason we don’t hear too much anymore about ’80s rappers like Kool Moe Dee, Doug E. Fresh, and EPMD. It’s because the music outgrew their particular rapping style. Shut, it’s not even called rap no mo’, you dig?

DJ Quik, who got his start in 1987, ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/quik-fix http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/end-game Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-04/calendar/end-game