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The King Lear to the Macbeth of his Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's 1985 epic befits its source by being both a crowning achievement and one of the movies' more tightly controlled articulations of total chaos (or ran, in Japanese). Five years older than his L...
In Steve Carell's first few episodes of the American version of The Office, his character, Michael Scott, hewed closely to the template created by the series' British mastermind, Ricky Gervais. Scott, like David Brent before him, was cruel and obtuse, a nightmare of a boss who thinks he'...
The guy in a ratty T-shirt and Chuck Taylors steps off the street and into the air-conditioned cool of the head shop. Around him, shoppers peruse the dazzling smorgasbord of smoking instruments, but he knows what he's here for. Stepping up to the register, he points at a small plastic packet. "Gi...
WE IN THE Grand Canyon state salute, by statute, the howler monkeys in jingo trees.
Unable to regulate our border, unwilling to create a reasonable path to citizenship for the immigrants who labor in our place, Arizona law enforcement officially now undertakes to rid us of Mexicans...
Editor's note: Following publication of this article, U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton enjoined the state of Arizona from enacting key provisions of state Senate Bill 1070. Though the law’s most dangerous sections were put on pause, pending the outcome of litigation, the remaind...
As a staff writer for Phoenix New Times, award winning journalist Terry Greene Sterling reported for years on the political brawls and human tragedies that have made Arizona the epicenter for the national immigration debate. Sterling is now a contributor for The Daily Beast, and ...
Fort Wilson Riot has gone small in a big, big way. Starting life as part of a mammoth musical-theater experience—2007's critically acclaimed rock opera Idigaragua, staged at the Bedlam Theatre by a six-piece band and nine actors—the group has reemerged as a dynamic duo bearin...
MINNESOTA LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 65A already made electoral history once. in 2002, Cy Thao became just the second Hmong state legislator in the country, hot on the heels of Mee Moua's special election to the state Senate earlier the same year. At the time, Thao's election was seen as a refle...
WEDNESDAY 7.28
The Dead Weather
First Avenue
The Dead Weather is sometimes passed off as (just) another Jack White project, one where he gets to sink even deeper into the swampy blues-rock that he's built his name on. But without the pop aspirations of the White...
The most appealing aspect of the urban yard sale (other than getting free of one's unwanted hoard in exchange for petty cash) is the event's inevitable slide into street theater. While some customers sidle up for a quiet look at the selection of size 12 shoes or paperback books published 10 years...
Despite the small mountain of ill-fated betting tickets I've created in Shakopee, the folks at Canterbury recently let me lay my handicap whip to the betting public. Being in the company of people who get paid to pick ponies was both a lesson and a challenge.
"When I open up the form I ca...
"There's more than one way to skin a cat," said the old goat when, mad as a wet hen, he set out traps in his backyard to keep rabbits from destroying his vegetable garden.
He'd thought he was being sly as a fox, putting up a fake hawk statue, but he soon realized the thing was as useless ...
In south Minneapolis, the orange paper sacks are already starting to circulate, being handed to the host by a dinner-party guest or proffered to a friend as a thank-you gift. Within a few short weeks, the blazing hue has become the Kingfield neighborhood's status symbol—its Tiffany blue or,...
The best and the worst thing about theater in the park is the inherently mixed nature of how things play out. It's daunting enough to perform a tricky text such as A Midsummer Night's Dream without throwing in jet planes passing overhead and oblivious cell-phone chatterers wandering into...
The leg moved up and down rapidly and continuously as Lance watched from the corner of his eye while eating his dry omelet. The leg, six inches from his own, bounced like a piston.
"Why do people do that?" he wondered. "It serves no purpose."
He moved his own leg up and down to se...
You could be forgiven, on this occasion, for not recognizing Paper Tiger. Normally, the Doomtree DJ is unmistakable: Sporting a pair of white sunglasses, a baseball hat cocked to the side, and headphones slung around his neck, he commands his own corner of any stage where he waxes his turntable p...