Email Author Elan Head

2001 Stories by Elan Head

• Air Fare

  published December 27, 2001

  Among the things that have changed since September 11 -- television programming, color schemes -- the phenomenon most widely suffered has been... More >>

• Reel Strange

  published December 6, 2001

  The idea behind The Monkey Show Movie Theater -- a place "to watch a really strange movie with a small and intimate audience" -- is not a... More >>

• A Jug of Wine and Thou

  published November 15, 2001

  Jim Fiolek is a genial man with longish hair in a braid who does a very amusing pidgin English impression. He is the vice president of Zaca Mesa... More >>

• Baron Wasteland

  published November 8, 2001

  The Disappearance of Baron Dixon, which is a local indie film -- or, more evocatively, a "mockumentary" -- has some fine moments.... More >>

• Sex Defender

  published November 1, 2001

  Rob Becker does one thing, mostly, and he does it very well: Defending the Caveman, the longest-running solo play in Broadway... More >>

• Not Your Mama's Recipe

  published October 25, 2001

  Say your mother made casseroles. In particular, she made one with a funny name -- "Mom's Mish-Mash," you called it -- with condensed cream of... More >>

• Grape Expectations

  published October 18, 2001

  Before this week, if Arizona knew more about Rioja than did, say, South Dakota, that owed less to residents' discernment than to their... More >>

• Stage Coaching

  published October 18, 2001

  Three weeks ago, on a hot September night -- the air rising from the asphalt made its own hot draft -- a very small crowd collected outside the... More >>

• Turnin' Tricks

  published October 11, 2001

  Ed Ellis and Bob Kubota, who do card tricks, do them in the same way that Vincent van Gogh, who did paintings, did sunflowers:... More >>

• Kidney, Beans and Rice

  published October 4, 2001

  There are two reasons to frequent Chez Bubba's, the wonderful Caribbean and Creole restaurant on First Street downtown. One of them is Bubba.... More >>

• Boots & Bloodsport

  published October 4, 2001

  Arizona cowboy Cody Hancock rides bulls. It's something that he loves to do and that his father did before him. It's also how he makes a living.... More >>

• Sweet Successes

  published September 20, 2001

  Ellie Black, who is Navajo, and Isabella Mannone-Bertuccio, who is Italian, cook for the same reasons that Mary Kay Pallo and B.J. Hernandez, who... More >>

• Chicano and the Man

  published September 6, 2001

  Ralphie May, who is white, calls black men "niggers." In his standup act, he uses the word repeatedly; he also riffs on Mexicans, who "see the... More >>

• Horns of Plenty

  published September 6, 2001

  There is a trick to making shofars -- the hollowed-out rams' horns blown on Rosh Hashanah -- and also a trick to blowing them. Generally, though,... More >>

• Mop Art

  published August 30, 2001

  Seldom are the advantages of a home-based art space so obvious as in the case of "A Good Way to Learn, Lesson 4: Chores (Content Clean)"; it's... More >>

• Cooking Up a New Life

  published August 23, 2001

  John Dunbar, a sous chef, cooks in the restaurant kitchen of a storied hotel where he also teaches classes. In some ways, this is not unusual for... More >>

• Gut-Punch Lines

  published August 23, 2001

  Joe Rogan, who as a standup comedian works more or less the same hours that strippers do, is not a 9-to-5 kind of guy. He is, however, an... More >>

• Tongue Lashing

  published August 16, 2001

  Nothing provokes a visceral response quite like, well, viscera -- the smooth muscle stuff that younger generations of Americans, whose meat comes... More >>

• Beyond Words

  published August 2, 2001

  Some things just can't be put into words. In the case of Indian classical music, neither can they be put on paper."It would be extremely... More >>

• Hit and Mis

  published July 12, 2001

  "I don't know if it will be read by everyone, but it is meant for everyone," Victor Hugo wrote, famously, of his novel Les... More >>

• Ice Try

  published July 5, 2001

  The month of our independence, July is that time when Americans reflect on the qualities that make our nation great -- and in Phoenix, in July, no... More >>

• Another Opening, Another Show

  published June 21, 2001

  Five years ago, the playwright Eve Ensler achieved a small revolution: Single-handedly, she made countless American men nostalgic for ballet.... More >>

• Ring Cycle

  published June 21, 2001

  The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus takes itself seriously when it claims to delight young and old alike -- so seriously, in... More >>

• Wiccan à la King

  published June 14, 2001

  Sure, the recipes inside are solidly good, even inspired. But the name, The Wicca Cookbook, is enough to choke on.Forget about "eye of... More >>

• Vincent to Go

  published April 19, 2001

  Vincent Guerithault on Camelback, a wonderful restaurant, abuts a gas station on one side and a 7-Eleven on the other. Its parking lot is... More >>