Email Author David Gofstein

1999 Stories by David Gofstein

• Pack Again

  published December 9, 1999

  They never used the name. Sinatra really hated it. Ever modest, he preferred "The Summit," but somehow that never stuck. Back in the early '60s,... More >>

• Kings of the Road

  published November 25, 1999

  Talk about a long, strange trip. It's now been better than 40 years that The Kingston Trio has been on the road. With guitars and banjos in... More >>

• In Harmony's Way

  published November 4, 1999

  Way out west where the avenues are numbered in the triple digits, there sits ASU's Sundome Center for the Performing Arts. Through the years, this... More >>

• Glass Ears

  published October 28, 1999

  Ira Glass has a story to tell you. Actually, he has lifetimes' worth of stories to tell you. And there are a lot of people who enjoy... More >>

• Still Ridin' That Twain

  published October 14, 1999

  Hal Holbrook has enjoyed the career that all actors dream of having. Since the 1940s, he has worked continuously onstage, in movies and on... More >>

• Major Drums

  published October 14, 1999

  Over the course of the coming months, ASU Public Events, in its 1999-2000 season, is presenting the A3 program, as in Asia, Arizona, and the Arts.... More >>

• Kamehamayhem!

  published September 23, 1999

  Deep within the halls of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., is a grand room known as the Statuary Hall. All 50 states have contributed... More >>

• Stan Freberg

  published September 16, 1999

  Stan Freberg Tip of the Freberg: The Stan Freberg Collection 1951-1998 (Rhino) Once upon a time, radio and... More >>

• Stewart Saves His Century

  published July 22, 1999

  All this millennium talk of recent days is nothing new to Al Stewart. His 1989 song "Last Days of the Century" pointed to the event better than 10... More >>

• Beak Experience

  published April 29, 1999

  Amazing. For six years (an eternity in TV time), there was a hilarious, loud, wild, entertaining and educational show on TV every Saturday... More >>

• Titan of Trash

  published April 29, 1999

  As a puppeteer, political satirist, performance artist and even as host to a long-running Saturday morning kid's science show, Paul Zaloom puts... More >>

• Fooling the Play

  published March 18, 1999

  Putting together a new theater company with a performance space to call your own in the Phoenix area is an exercise in frustration. No one is in a... More >>

• Shermania

  published March 4, 1999

  Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh, Here I am at Camp Granada. Camp is very entertaining, And they say we'll have some fun if... More >>

• Art for Art's Sake

  published February 11, 1999

  That corner of Civic Center Plaza next to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts has been under construction forever. But now, where once there stood... More >>

• Anonymously Yours

  published February 4, 1999

  It was 1986 when four women joined forces in New York to perform a cappella music of the medieval era. Naming themselves after an unsigned... More >>

• Go West, Bardner

  published January 7, 1999

  Wes Martin is a guy who does not subscribe to the commonly held belief that culture in the Valley stops at the Black Canyon freeway. As a 10-year... More >>