Email Author Julie Peterson

2009 Stories by Julie Peterson

• High Times

  published December 31, 2009

  Have some rich friends living downtown? Well, this is the time to make them do you a favor so that you can view the Fort McDowell Fiesta Bowl... More >>

• Guy Talk

  published December 17, 2009

  Food Network fan or not, you've likely peeped the spiky-haired chef/host of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Guy Fieri. (Think T.G.I.... More >>

• Treble in Mind

  published December 3, 2009

  Try traveling, growing up, and/or growing old with two other people, and you'll realize there's hardly anything on which three can agree --... More >>

• APS Fantasy of Lights Opening Night and Parade

  published November 26, 2009

  If your inner Cindy Lou Who is craving an electric parade, Santa's arrival, fireworks, and a massive tree, then be in place for opening night of... More >>

• Newfangled Contraption

  published November 26, 2009

  Somewhere near the risk-taking gene that makes people jump off stuff, there must be a gene that prompts humans to crave novelty in a somewhat... More >>

• Velvet Grammar

  published November 19, 2009

  It's no picnic having one's grammatical errors bitched about. Hey, we know. But Mignon “Grammar Girl” Fogarty makes vocab... More >>

• Big Woman on Campus

  published November 12, 2009

  When Jimmy Carter visited Changing Hands Bookstore, the parking lot overflowed. When pop sociologist Malcolm Gladwell spoke, his genius-y head... More >>

• Go Native

  published November 5, 2009

  If you've provided an alternative to soulless megacorporate retail since 2005, have you gone "establishment"? Local First Arizona's Certified... More >>

• Ooky Dokey

  published October 29, 2009

  Halloween's a richly complicated holiday that began when Samhain, a harvesty Gaelic fest, got mashed up with All Saints' Day, the heavy-duty... More >>

• Discomfort and Joy

  published October 29, 2009

  These days, serious stage drama is scarcer than hen's teeth. Fortunately, when Space 55 Theatre isn't bringing the pants-wetting funny, the... More >>

• Ghosts in the Machina

  published October 22, 2009

  At an evening of poetry and spoken word, should one express any uncertainty about which is which? Well, a lady in hipster specs once... More >>

• Camille Kimball

  published September 24, 2009

  In writing A Sudden Shot: The Phoenix Serial Shooter, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Kimball sat through weeks of testimony,... More >>

• Fighting the Power

  published September 17, 2009

  With revolution, civil wars, and other continuing atrocities since 1964, some Zimbabweans almost miss the colonizing dimwits they overthrew.... More >>

• Notes to Self

  published September 10, 2009

  Used to be, dude'd write a novel, lose the manuscript in a burglary, or burn it in an angst fit. Forget anyone besides Aunt Myrna ever reading... More >>

• Murder, She Wrote

  published September 3, 2009

  The setting sun's pale, delicate fingers caressed the chain restaurants and MILFy boutiques of Mesa’s Village Square at Dana Park,... More >>

• Too Cool for Public School

  published August 27, 2009

  Every day since 1981, Rafe Esquith has faced an L.A. public schoolroom full of kids who nearly all live in poverty and speak a first language... More >>

• Long Live The Mean Queen

  published August 13, 2009

  Okay, Lisa Lampanelli, we've checked out your pretty new hair and glam frocks on Comedy Central roasts and your HBO Long Live the Queen... More >>

• Barr None

  published August 6, 2009

  "I started going to the library doing what most people do: looking at books," says Phoenix photographer Peter Sills. "One of the things I... More >>

• Barr None

  published August 6, 2009

  "I started going to the library doing what most people do: looking at books," says Phoenix photographer Peter Sills. "One of the things I... More >>

• Glass Hero

  published July 9, 2009

  For an artist, finding the medium you were destined to work in is like finding a soul mate or the perfect home. John Modzelewski had been... More >>

• Glass Hero

  published July 9, 2009

  For an artist, finding the medium you were destined to work in is like finding a soul mate or the perfect home. John Modzelewski had been... More >>

• Handmade in the USA

  published July 2, 2009

  We want our belongings to work as hard as we do. That wish sometimes clashes, gladiator-like, with artists’ urge to make art that does not,... More >>

• Shootout at the MV Corral

  published June 25, 2009

  You think the Wild West is as dead as the Clanton gang? Well, you may change your mind after hearing the tale of Miracle Valley, located in... More >>

• A Splendid Rose

  published June 18, 2009

  The news that artist Rose Johnson had died suddenly in Bali on May 31 seemed like a bad dream. Johnson left indelible marks on Arizona in her... More >>

• Handmade in the USA

  published June 18, 2009

  We want our belongings to work as hard as we do. That wish sometimes clashes, gladiator-like, with artists’ urge to make art that does not,... More >>