Email Author Dave Walker

1991 Stories by Dave Walker

• CHEE-TOS NEVER WIN! SNARING SNACKS IN THE BIO-BURBS

  published November 20, 1991

  A few desert-rat residents of Tucson and its surrounding small towns--your typical Sonoran outposts of dirt-bag chic--say they've heard the news:... More >>

• KDKB AT 20IN THE HANDS OF BILL COMPTON, THE STATION SHAPED A GENERATION--THEN FELL VICTIM TO ITS OWN SUCCESS

  published November 13, 1991

  IT STARTED in San Francisco in the Sixties, at KSAN. As the 1970s began, a few more stations across the country were picking up on the FM... More >>

• HEAR MUSIC, GET BUSTEDTHE DRUG TASK FORCE HAS PUT ROCK PROMOTERS IN AN AWKWARD POSITION

  published October 16, 1991

  The Maricopa County Demand Reduction Program Task Force--that multiagency gang of law enforcers which has been busting pot smokers at rock... More >>

• ARCOSANTI TODAYIN THE SHADOW OF THE BIOSPHERE, PAOLO SOLERI'S DREAM SHUFFLES ALONG

  published October 9, 1991

  BIOSPHERE 2 GETS a lot of ink these days. The project has finally reached "closure." A couple of weeks ago a handful of scientific-looking people... More >>

• THE KID IS ALL RIGHT

  published October 2, 1991

  Alex Macias, at age 19 the youngest buff present, first got interested about two years ago. "I got tired of hearing stories that he was a killer,"... More >>

• THE KID IS ALL RIGHT

  published October 2, 1991

  THE REMAINS OF Billy the Kid were assembled recently, for purposes of a postmortem. The Kid, a long-dead horse thief, gunman and ladies' man,... More >>

• THE KID IS ALRIGHT

  published October 2, 1991

  THE REMAINS OF Billy the Kid were assembled recently, for purposes of a postmortem. The Kid, a long-dead horse thief, gunman and ladies' man,... More >>

• A DOSE OF ETHICS

  published October 2, 1991

  Ethics evangelist Michael Josephson is trying to heal Arizona, a state made gimpy by corruption. Last week he spoke to a large roomful of... More >>

• IT'S NOT TV, IT'S MTVAND FOR KINGMAN'S KIDS, IT'S A WINDOW TO THE WORLD

  published July 10, 1991

  KINGMAN--This place is still an insulated, redneck, dust-blown, drive-by town, with mediocre-to-rotten radio, no mall and not enough to do.... More >>

• BRUSH WITH GREATNESS DICK GEORGE'S JOB IS TO PUBLICIZE RUBY, THE

  published June 26, 1991

  The hottest local public relations man is not slick or manipulative. At work he wears boots and a cowboy hat instead of the usual... More >>

• THE LONG GREEN

  published June 5, 1991

  You are playing in your company's annual golf outing, ostensibly a social occasion, but everyone knows the tournament's results will be... More >>

• VOCAL MINORITYYOU WON'T RECOGNIZE THE FACES, BUT THE VOICES ARE FAMILIAR

  published May 22, 1991

  "Gimme a bray-ay-ay-ay-ake! Gimme a bray-ay-ay-ay-ake! No-oh-oh-oh!" Standing alone in a soundproof room, a grown man is imitating a... More >>

• LOCAL BOY MAKES GODHOW A SCOTTSDALE NERD BECAME A BUDDING COMEDIC DEITY

  published May 15, 1991

  David Spade is hot and his mom is pleasantly surprised. "Everybody who was close to him knew that he thought funny thoughts," says... More >>

• STUDY HAULYOUR KID'S DUMB LUCK IS THIS MAN'S FORTUNE

  published May 8, 1991

  Claude Olney achieved the American Dream--the acquisition of vast wealth without a whole lot of labor--by turning his underachieving son... More >>

• HITTING THE BOTTLESOME CITY OFFICIALS ARE TOO FUSSY TO DRINK FROM THE TAP

  published May 1, 1991

  Since July 1989, the City of Phoenix has spent about $35,000 on bottled water for its employees. If our tap water is safe to drink--and... More >>

• MAKE MY DAY!BUY A VEGETABLE

  published April 24, 1991

  Charlie Humme spends his Wednesdays handing out flowers to passersby beneath the wood-slat hood that covers part of Heritage Square. ... More >>

• HEY, MAN, GO WITH THE FLOAT

  published April 17, 1991

  For a guy trying to make a splash in the relaxation business, Jim Eisenman lives with a lot of stress. To start with, he runs what... More >>

• COMING OUT OF HIS SHELLTHE PEANUT MAN TRIES TO GO GLOBAL

  published April 3, 1991

  In an era when sub-.500 baseball pitchers get million-dollar contracts, it makes sense that a peanut vendor has a publicist. In his... More >>

• IN HEIDI WE TRUST

  published April 3, 1991

  Only 3 percent of Valley residents place "a great deal" of trust in the Arizona State Legislature. Just 16 percent of new governor J.... More >>

• VAGRANT TOPS TALLY OF TAWDRY TITLES

  published March 20, 1991

  Where else would Hollywood go to shoot a movie titled The Vagrant? Phoenix, the setting for enough downbeat titles to program... More >>

• SCHOOL FOR SCANDALASU STUDENT COMEDY GROUP EXAMINES THE FARCE SIDE OF LIFE

  published March 6, 1991

  These two guys sit down at a table in the basement of the Memorial Union at Arizona State University. They're young, kind of geeky,... More >>

• IF PHOENIX WERE BAGHDADWOULD YOUR HOUSE BE COLLATERAL DAMAGE?

  published February 13, 1991

  After four weeks of Operation Desert Storm, American airplanes have made more than 50,000 sorties over Kuwait and Iraq and have dropped more... More >>

• KICK UP YOUR HEELS AND SINGWHAT ELSE WOULD A LAWYER AND A TOUR GUIDE DO AT NIGHT?

  published February 6, 1991

  On Thursday and Friday nights, the forces of flamenco are unleashed at Tapas Papa Frita. The guitar slashes, the vocalist wails. At the... More >>

• A HEROINE WITH A SPINEA TEMPE HOUSEHUSBAND CREATED A COMIC-BOOK CHARACTER WHO IS CAUSING EXCITEMENT IN REFERENCE ROOMS

  published January 9, 1991

  For a comic-book superheroine who hasn't been in wide circulation yet, the Incredible Librarian has quite a following. She gets fan mail from... More >>

• KING'S STAND-INASU LAW SCHOOL GRAD LIVES A DREAM

  published January 2, 1991

  When Joe Rogers first read Martin Luther King Jr.'s words in public, something strange happened. As president of the Congress... More >>