If you were trying to name the least likely American comedy star to crack up Muslims—or any sort of foreign audience, for that matter—Albert Brooks might come to mind.

There was a changing of the guard Jan. 10 when the Kyrene School District Governing Board elected Rich Zawtocki its president for 2006.
Law mandates that public school district governing boards elect a president and vice president for one-year terms at the first meeting of the year.

Zach is back. Zach Yoshioka, that is, the prolific young movie and music-video auteur of the Kyrene Corridor is debuting yet another of his homegrown cinematic efforts, 3 Can Keep a Secret, with a premiere on Friday, Jan. 27, at Tempe Cinemas.

It's a little late, but Happy New Year anyway. Like a lot of people, I indulged to excess over the holidays, and am starting 2006 by swearing off rich food and wine — well, for a week or two, anyway.

Although the spring sports season is almost a month away, the expectations for this year’s Corona del Sol softball team continue to build.

Salt River Project has started engineering work on the Loop 101-Ray Road route for its planned 69-kilovolt power line.

Time is of the essence. Time is money. Time waits for no one.  These familiar phrases form the bedrock for modern life. We all instinctively know the value of time and how important it is to living the American dream. Madison Avenue, book publishers and our own families have continually drummed this concept into our collective subconscious.