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Long before we were officially a state, Arizona was making history — and not all of it bad, though some of it certainly borders on the unbelievable. In 1910, a Maricopa...
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"Not alone for gold and silver / Is Arizona great / But with graves of heroes sleeping / All the land is consecrate!" — "Arizona March Song"
The goal of finding...
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You would think that after 100 years of statehood, Arizona would have gotten hungry enough to give itself an official food.
Nope.
Today, the only state symbol you might want...
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Arizona is exactly twice my age. Both born in February, we've had a complicated relationship for most of my 50 years. The state has offered me mild desert winters and...
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Does any label evoke doubt more than "white rapper?" For every Eminem, there are a dozen Vanilla Ices.
"I agree there are authenticity issues with white rappers, and I think...
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By the time this issue hits stands, it will have been just over a week since Soul Train impresario Don Cornelius was found dead by a self-inflicted gunshot in his Encino,...
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Wordplay is essential for a rapper. Without it, what more is he than a dude who talks with music in the background? A love of language suggests a lot, and those who stayed...
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"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds working out flashed on the...
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The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask ourselves: If you could do the...
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Seeing Parenthetical Girls for the first time, via their Bergman-esque video for "A Song for Ellie Greenwich," induced the same chills I got when I saw Devo's TV debut on SNL...
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"The Fool," Sanford Clark (single, 1956, MCI/Dot)
In March 1956, KTYL disc jockey, producer, and songwriter Lee Hazlewood was out of money — to pay for more recording...
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"Out of Here," Sleepwalker, Man on the Moon (1998, Hayden's Ferry)
"There's just something in the vocal delivery of Jamal Ruhe. It was just Jamal singing and playing guitar,...
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"One Man Crusade" (1994), "The Inner Flame" (1997), and "The Farm" (2002) by Rainer
Blues guitarist Rainer Ptacek was born in East Berlin and spent his childhood in Chicago...
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Hardcore bands are kind of like the Tea Party: Both have strong opinions and are keen on shoving their righteous agendas down as many throats as possible. The genre can be...
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"We Got Cactus," Bloodspasm (1985)
Bloodspasm tore up a series of now-closed Tucson clubs and house parties with blistering hardcore punk starting in the mid-1980s. But the...
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PRINCESS VICTORIA
Victoria herself responds: Most interesting thing to me is that [inside the article] in an Arizona paper, the close-up photo of my ukelele case (with a...
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"Found Out About You," Gin Blossoms, Dusted, (1989, San Jacinto)
Having spent close to 15 years booking the old Long Wong's on Mill Avenue, Sara Cina played a huge role in...
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My family for six generations have been born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. Everyone speaks Spanish most of the time. Right now, almost every Republican in the state is...
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You know, if Bob Larson, the Scottsdale-based exorcist who tried to draw the devil out of Mayhem's bassist last August, were into expelling demons from every metal band that...
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Skrillex ain't the only one getting rich and famous off EDM's recent resurgence and 2011 crossover into the mainstream. Witness the rise of Wolfgang Gartner, whose...
