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

• Seuss on the Loose

  published May 29, 2003

  Springing from the page to the stage, Seussical the Musical has more star power than a beach full of Sneetches stamped by Sylvester... More >>

• Van Guards

  published May 22, 2003

  5-28-6/19 This week the watchdogs of the Phoenix art scene will drop their bones and let you have a look at what they've been up to.... More >>

• Don't Be Fooled

  published May 15, 2003

  5/16–5/17 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Elvis Presley has been swimming in it since his death in 1977. From hi... More >>

• No Rave Review

  published May 8, 2003

  Congress was cheered when it passed a bill last month to combat child abductions. But local concert promoters are only gradually becoming aware... More >>

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  published May 8, 2003

  Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a female-fronted three-piece from (where else?) Brooklyn, are being hyped as the latest saviors of raw fucking rock 'n' roll,... More >>

• Bright Ideas

  published May 8, 2003

  5/8-5/31 With boldly colored canvases recently hung on the pristine white walls, David White, owner and director of downtown's New... More >>

• Package Deal

  published May 1, 2003

  Thu 5/1 We've thought long and hard about it -- there's no other puppet show quite like Puppetry of the Penis. When was the last... More >>

• Hardest Art

  published April 24, 2003

  Cursive front man Tim Kasher recites the incident clinically. "It ended up being one of those really unusual life and art reflecting each other... More >>

• Who Are These Guys?

  published April 24, 2003

  Saddle Creek, the Omaha, Nebraska, label that is home to Cursive, Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, the Good Life, the Faint, and Rilo Kiley, recently... More >>

• Net Work

  published April 24, 2003

  4/25-4/27 Tempe's finally found a perfect sport to host: AVP Pro Beach Volleyball hits the (imported) sand at Tempe Town Lake Friday,... More >>

• Reinventing the Neil

  published April 17, 2003

  Fri 4/18 When he heard Neil Diamond sing "Play Me," Randy Cordeiro took him literally. The front man of Super Diamond -- a trippy... More >>

• Pool Party

  published April 17, 2003

  4/18–4/19 Americans identify strongly with athletes, gaining a sort of secondhand machismo that's often lacking in our own workada... More >>

• Magic Motion

  published April 17, 2003

  4/18–4/20 Happily ever after happens in Ballet Arizona's season finale, Tales in Motion, which revisits Sleeping Beauty and th... More >>

• Refuge Found

  published April 10, 2003

  Sat 4/12 In 1987, escalating war forced an estimated 17,000 Sudanese boys to flee their villages, many after seeing their parents... More >>

• Roll With It

  published April 3, 2003

  4/5-4/12 While bicycle commuting seems like such an ecological, politically correct practice, here in the Valley, any thought of... More >>

• For Compete's Sake

  published April 3, 2003

  Mon 4/7 So your little kid looks, acts, talks and pitches like a mini-me of Randy Johnson - we're sorry about everything but the... More >>

• Hooked on Phoenix

  published March 20, 2003

  Carlton Enoch, executive producer and creative force behind the locally filmed cable variety show Off the Hook, is a man of big... More >>

• Sonoran Story

  published January 16, 2003

  Down in the nether regions of southern Arizona, where the Santa Cruz River nourishes the land and the grass grows waist high, lies the San Rafael... More >>

• Raw Talent

  published January 2, 2003

  You might be tempted to feel a touch of pity for World Wrestling Entertainment honcho Vince McMahon. About the same time his lame football league... More >>