Email Author Brendan Joel Kelley

Awards

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published June 16, 2005

  "High Voltage"

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2003 Stories by Brendan Joel Kelley

• Eyes Wide Open

  published September 25, 2003

  Phoenix Body Positive, an HIV and AIDS research and resource center, is presenting "HIV Through the Eyes of Parents," an art exhibition of... More >>

• Ruthless Journey

  published September 18, 2003

  No one can ever accuse Abe Ruthless of being highbrow. The 25-year-old former front man for punk rock misanthropes Slash City Daggers,... More >>

• Queens for a Day

  published September 18, 2003

  There's something queer happening at the happiest place on Earth. For the last several years, on a specifically designated day, more than 100,000... More >>

• Tome Sweet Tome

  published September 4, 2003

  9/10-9/14 A librarian's search takes him far beyond the card catalogue in Underneath the Lintel, the off-Broadway hit being... More >>

• Train Station

  published August 28, 2003

  Sat 8/30 Impact Zone Wrestling, the state's only full-service training school for professional wrestlers, celebrates its first... More >>

• Laugh In

  published August 28, 2003

  8/31-9/1 "I can't remember the last time I saw the sun rise," Valley comic and impresario Jimmy Danelli says. "When the sun comes up in... More >>

• Bruise It or Lose It

  published August 21, 2003

  Sun 8/24 This weekend is World Wrestling Entertainment's latest installment of the SummerSlam pay-per-view event. One of WWE's biggest... More >>

• Local Color

  published August 21, 2003

  8/27-9/19 On Wednesday, August 27, the planet Mars will be closer to the Earth -- 56 million kilometers -- than it has been in some... More >>

• Future Tense

  published August 14, 2003

  Revisit the history of the Valley's music scene, and in those annals you'll find an anomaly: In 1996, four youngsters, barely in their teens,... More >>

• Sweet and Lowdown

  published August 14, 2003

  It was 1979, a hair's breadth away from a quarter of a century ago, when the lowrider movement took root in Phoenix, one of the largest Chicano... More >>

• Family Circus Freaks

  published August 7, 2003

  Aderelict-looking Toucan Sam clutches a wad of money in one wing, a paper-bag-wrapped liquor bottle in the other. Behind him Cap'n Crunch and... More >>

• Idiot Savant

  published August 7, 2003

  8/7, 8/9 Last year, with her debut book The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, Valley humorist Laurie Notaro hit the New... More >>

• Horton Hears a Coup

  published July 31, 2003

  Sun 8/3 Praise the Lord and pass the Jack and dirty women -- you're guaranteed a hoe-down when the Reverend comes to town. The Reverend... More >>

• Tough Time

  published July 24, 2003

  Tue 7/29 "It's a grudge match," asserts boxer Leslie Sonnenklar. "She's going down in 48 seconds flat." Sonnenklar is being facetious... More >>

• Nanny Nanny Boo Boo

  published July 17, 2003

  Mon 7/21 "I hadn't really thought about doing thrillers for adults," says best-selling children's author R.L. Stine. He's speaking of... More >>

• Spin City

  published July 17, 2003

  Sat 7/19 For those who need more spontaneity in their nightlife, the promoters of Inkblotch are throwing up a staggering slate of DJs... More >>

• Circus of the Stars

  published July 10, 2003

  Sat 7/12 "The only way I can sum it up is: a freakers' ball with bands," E Bomb guitarist Eddie Lopez says of Planet Sex, the third... More >>

• Ho Folks

  published July 3, 2003

  Of its many owners, surely the strangest person to purchase Phoenix's first skyscraper, the Westward Ho hotel, was Roger Rudin, a fundamentalist... More >>

• Oz Fest

  published July 3, 2003

  7/3-8/23 Lions and tigers and a buffet? Oh, my. Starting Thursday, July 3, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre West, 5247 East Brown in Mesa,... More >>

• Comeback Artist

  published June 19, 2003

  On a recent Sunday evening, a good while after dusk, the artist known simply as Rodgell led a caravan of cyclists to his downtown Tempe studio to... More >>

• Amateur Power

  published June 19, 2003

  6/20-6/22 For jocks itching to get in the game -- whether that game is baton twirling or BMX bike racing -- the Grand Canyon State... More >>

• Culture Club

  published June 19, 2003

  Fri 6/20 Central Phoenix's cultural revival just keeps getting better. Enter Fate, a new restaurant venture by the proprietor of... More >>

• Cloud Control

  published June 19, 2003

  6/20-7/27 Hey, Mom and Dad, does your mini-me have too much rock and not enough opera in his cultural stew? Strike a balance by... More >>

• Hot Hot Feet

  published June 5, 2003

  Any soccer team that can attract players from all over the world to play during Phoenix's hellish summer must have something going for it. The... More >>

• Scenic and Heard

  published May 29, 2003

  Sedona resident Bruce Licher's instrumental aggregate Scenic is breaking a two-and-a-half-year performance hiatus at the Scottsdale Museum of... More >>