Email Author Eric Schandel

2003 Stories by Eric Schandel

• Get Your Blocks Off

  published December 25, 2003

  Wed 12/31 Ding! The biggest showdown this week isn't Ohio State against Kansas State, but Tempe versus Scottsdale in the battle... More >>

• Large and In Charge

  published December 25, 2003

  12/26-12/28 In 1988, Tom Hanks starred in Big, a film about a 13-year-old who receives his wish and wakes up one morning in the... More >>

• White Matter

  published December 11, 2003

  Sat 12/13 Five inches of snow piled up in the mid-Atlantic last week, treating residents to winter's requisite charms: sleet, freezing... More >>

• 'Saur Subjects

  published November 13, 2003

  11/15-4/11 Bone up on history's big shots at the Arizona Science Center; this weekend, it unveils the largest exhibition of dinosaur... More >>

• Warts and All

  published November 6, 2003

  11/6-12/7 On the video screen and in the toy stores, technological advances have created a sea change in what passes for children's... More >>

• List of Fate

  published November 6, 2003

  11/8-11/23 In the shadow of the Cold War, a round of redbaiting in 1950s Hollywood produced a "blacklist" of film professionals banned... More >>

• Monsters Ball

  published October 23, 2003

  10/23-10/26 Darkness falls across the land/ The midnight hour is close at hand/ Creatures crawl in search of blood/ To terrorize... More >>

• Spurs of the Moment

  published October 16, 2003

  10/17-11/16 The 38th Annual Cowboy Artists of America Sale kicks off its boots on Friday, October 17, at the Phoenix Art Museum. For a... More >>

• Wild Guerrilla

  published October 9, 2003

  Thu 10/9 Between numerous guerrilla film projects, microcinema events and the Phoenix Film Festival (devoted to low-budget features and... More >>

• Web Masters

  published October 9, 2003

  10/10-10/12 When you bring the entire Titanic onto the Herberger stage and sink it to music, people start suspecting you are more than... More >>

• Gal Friday

  published October 9, 2003

  Fri 10/10 You know the ladies at The Biz as the ones who serve the drinks, spin the beats, or bounce the ruffians and check IDs. But... More >>

• Go for Broke

  published July 24, 2003

  7/25-7/27 Can't make South Dakota this year? Cheer up: Motorcycle rights organization A.B.A.T.E. (American Brotherhood Aimed Towards... More >>

• Lucky Seven

  published June 26, 2003

  6/28-11/2 "Seven," the latest exhibition in Phoenix Art Museum's Fashion Design Gallery, includes fashions so avant-garde that they are... 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 >>

• Animal Distraction

  published June 12, 2003

  Sat 6/14 If June in the Valley doesn't feel like optimum walking weather to you, you're either (a) perfectly sane or (b) simply... More >>

• Grit Parade

  published May 29, 2003

  Colorado's reigning kings of Americana are amping up the sound that prompted Denver Post readers to vote them the state's "best alt-country... More >>

• Viva Divas

  published May 22, 2003

  Sun 5/25 As the old saying goes, "Who does not love wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long" -- which also happens 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 >>

• 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 >>

• Father Land

  published April 24, 2003

  Sat 4/26 "...My father had a foot in each country, where the mud on each boot caked the same, and the dirt sifted the same through each... 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 >>

• Do You Hear the Pupils Sing?

  published April 10, 2003

  4/11–4/27 Children's theater will disregard the social injustices of post-Napoleonic France no longer. Greasepaint Youtheatre'... More >>

• Magical History Tour

  published April 3, 2003

  4/4-5/31 Every picture tells a story, and Valley music lovers are about to get an earful. Phoenix is the single Southwestern stop on the... More >>