Email Author Steve Jansen

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published August 18, 2011

  "Knocked Out"

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published October 20, 2011

  "Sons of Blood and Thunder"

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2006 Stories by Steve Jansen

• Overexposed

  published December 28, 2006

  During a recent visit to the newly expanded Phoenix Art Museum, I overheard a fellow patron say, "The art at this museum never ceases to... More >>

• Raising the Bar

  published December 14, 2006

  You love music, you enjoy a drink while listening to music, but you aren’t all into acting like a hipster foolio in public while... More >>

• High Fidel-Ity

  published December 14, 2006

  Spanish-language students and foreign-film connoisseurs can kick it together during the weekly English-subtitled Spanish Place Movie... More >>

• The Sonny Side

  published November 16, 2006

  Old folks' music. An antique museum piece. A bleak and forgotten cause. All stereotypes to describe the American-born and -bred art form known as... More >>

• The Sound of Música

  published November 16, 2006

  DJ Big Latin is a punisher of the following: 1) dance floors, which are torn up when his wheels of steel are in motion; 2) uninitiated eardrums,... More >>

• Avant-Garde the Border

  published November 9, 2006

  Glenn Weyant's The Anta Project — a single, 54-minute track created by playing the steel walls and barbed-wire fences along the... More >>

• Carly's Angels

  published November 2, 2006

  There’s a new weekly Live Visual Art series, and it’s happenin’ at one of our favorite Roosevelt Row hangs: Carly’s... More >>

• Bodhisattva

  published October 26, 2006

  Bodhisattva's 20-minute, three-track EP Magnetar may not appeal to those who are prone to popping headache pills whenever they hear time... More >>

• The Feeblez

  published October 19, 2006

  Hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, and based in Tempe since 2002, this hip-hop trio of Ether, Dirty Nap-Z, and Tusk One brings its gritty hip-hop... More >>

• Imagined Life

  published October 5, 2006

  Suzanne Falk, 36, is a self-taught photorealistic painter who creates through a unique imagined reality. Her oil paintings, often mistaken for... More >>

• Green Grocer

  published September 28, 2006

  Remember the "good old days" when glass bottles of milk and fresh-baked loaves of bread were delivered to your doorstep? Well, Boxed Greens does... More >>

• Drunken Immortals

  published September 14, 2006

  Before we even marinated our eardrums to Hot Concrete — the Drunken Immortals' third full-length album that's out to steal your mind... More >>

• Rakim

  published August 31, 2006

  When we heard Rakim (of Eric B. and Rakim fame) was coming to town, we bopped our collective heads while listening to his last release, 1999's... More >>

• Q-Tip Girl

  published August 31, 2006

  Lisa Albinger, 30, creates stirring depictions of relationships, womanhood, and growing up with scoliosis, using cotton swabs and paper towels... More >>

• Brutal 'Scapes

  published August 31, 2006

  Paris-based photographer Maurice Sherif is great at showing viewers everything by showing them nothing at the same time. Unlike... More >>

• Homme Boys

  published August 24, 2006

  Irresistible music and community-building art unite when StraightNoChaser Presents: “one,” a hip-happening evening of danceable... More >>

• Briefs Encounter

  published August 10, 2006

  Skin events are hot during the Valley summer. Hell, skin events are hot all the damned time. That's why Pat O's Bunkhouse Saloon invites all... More >>

• Liquid Courage

  published August 3, 2006

  Been to the gym this summer? Make it pay off during One O'Clock Shirtless Shots, where you'll get a penny shot for exposing yourself from... More >>

• Go Fish

  published August 3, 2006

  City anglers can get fishy without leaving town at Red Mountain Park Lake during Urban Fishing. The eight-acre oasis features two fishing... More >>

• Skip Town -- For Real

  published June 1, 2006

  Urban legend has it that you've gotta be downright filthy rich (and/or retired) to escape the sweltering Phoenix summer. Meet some mythbusters... More >>

• The Project

  published March 23, 2006

  The Project enjoys bringing it back to the blunt-tokin' old school days of "Bitches Ain't Shit" gangsta rap circa nine-deuce, but with a twist,... More >>

• Dietrichs

  published February 16, 2006

  These days it seems that for a band to be credible, it has to reference some predecessor or style, preferably prefixed with "post." There's... More >>