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Fridge the Gap

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Turns out, refrigerators have a lot more potential than keeping your food cool and suffocating unsupervised children ... Leave it to a bunch of artists to make the kitchen-necessities-turned-death-traps into something beautiful at the Fridge-A-Thon exhibition. The show features fifteen recycl ...

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2010 World Cup: USA vs. England

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Watch the USA play its first 2010 World Cup match against England at any number of local bars ... Sat., June 12, 11:30 a.m., 2010 ...

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2010 World Cup

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Stateside, the World Cup doesn’t get the hype of, say, the Super Bowl or the NBA Playoffs, but, trust us, this is a big freaking deal ... Unlike Major League Baseball’s World Series (which pits only American and/or Canadian teams against one another), the World Cup is truly a globa ...

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Monday Night Chef’s Table

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Chow down on a four-course meal with selected beverages from Laetitia Vineyard & Winery of Arroyo Grande, California. Allow the chef to guide you through the dining experience that includes salad, crab, duck and a chocolate Halvah terrine. Reservations required ... Mon., June 14, 6:30 p.m ...

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Arpaio Kicks $40K to New Times, Plus Benjamin Bratt Discusses His New Movie, La Mission, and His Opposition to SB 1070

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

PUBLIC RECORDS PAYDAY ... It's a unique day in the annals of New Times -MCSO relations when Sheriff Joe Arpaio cuts this paper a check. But that's what our geriatric top gendarme just did, to the tune of $40,000 ... The check was act ...

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Space 55's Seven Minutes in Heaven Just Doesn't Make Out

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

A naked septuagenarian stuffs a boiled egg into his left armpit. A woman wearing plastic butterfly wings reads a dour poem, then torches a five-dollar bill. Three drunk guys shave off one another's body hair ... This is Space 55 Theatre's Seven Minutes in Heaven , a collection of unvetted ...

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Crystal Castles, Against Me!, and Blitzen Trapper; June 8 Was a Record-Release Bonanza

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

When you write an album review every single weekday — as I have done at New Times' music blog, Up On The Sun, since January 1 — you become sensitive to the ebb and flow of new releases. For whatever reason, when it comes to shit worth listening to, sometimes it's feast and other t ...

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Ozzmosis

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

It's decreasingly rare that a musician or band ever gets big enough that a tribute band is truly warranted. I don't believe a tribute band is ever a good idea, just because they do a huge disservice to the one being paid tribute. Having said this, if there is one musician who merits an amped-up trib ...

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MC Chris

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Shows like The Big Bang Theory give the false impression that geeks are usually brilliant and successful. In reality, most of us are rather shiftless and underemployed, but occasionally someone like MC Chris manages to profit from his geekiness. The Chicago-area rapper first caught notice ...

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The Bad Cactus Brass Band

Published June 10, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

You're a culturally land-locked Arizonan. As such, the closest you've ever come to a bona fide New Orleans "second line" street band is an episode of Treme — or maybe that funny funeral scene in the voodoo-rific James Bond flick To Live and Let Die ... Well, your jazz illiterac ...

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