Archive Search Results
-
Feature
Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning Games
By Paul Rubin
Published: October 22, 2009
Tre Fields, a co-captain of the Carl Hayden Community High School Falcons football team, slipped into that place between consciousness and dreaming. A thought rolled into...
-
Night & Day
Phoenix Noir Signing Party
By Clay McNear
Published: October 22, 2009
For a place with an overall IQ of about 32 – to judge by all the shotgun-toting boobs sporting Sheriff Joe bumper stickers – Phoenix has an ace literary scene. Many...
-
Night & Day
R U ORNG? Suns Fest
Published: October 22, 2009
The Phoenix Suns host the family fest, which features a Suns team scrimmage from 1 to 2 p.m., pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treating, the Phoenix Suns Gorilla and Suns Dancers,...
-
Night & Day
Passionate Geekdom
Fanboy author pays tribute to sci-fi/fantasy great Ray Bradbury
By M.V. Moorhead
Published: October 22, 2009
Official biographers always run the risk of coming across like cheerleaders, but Sam Weller doesn’t seem to mind. He’s an unembarrassed fanboy for his subject:...
-
Night & Day
City of Hope
ASU exhibit shows “Phoenix from boom to bust and back again”
By Wynter Holden
Published: October 22, 2009
Five years ago, Phoenix homes were worth a mint. Now you can score a three-bedroom pad for $60K – if you don’t mind that the previous owners hammered holes in the...
-
Night & Day
The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
MJ moonwalks again in new concert flick
By Jay Bennett
Published: October 22, 2009
Remember when fans used to set up camp outside the box office, waiting through the night to buy tickets for rock concerts -- potentially once-in-a-lifetime rock concerts? For...
-
Night & Day
Something Wiccan This Way Comes
You haven’t partied ’til you’ve partied with a pagan
By Nicki Escudero
Published: October 22, 2009
We were traumatized when we saw the title characters in the film The Witches stomp on children-turned-mice, so we weren’t quite sure what to think about the 22nd annual...
-
Night & Day
Stinging Lessons
UK electro-house duo hits the Rogue
By Adriane Goetz
Published: October 22, 2009
Please don’t tell PETA we’re saying this, but the best kind of wasp is a dead one. They’re creepy-looking, can’t make honey, and don’t even have the...
-
Night & Day
Talkin' Trash
Let your genetic detritus shine forth at the Fair
By Clay McNear
Published: October 22, 2009
We were born on the wrong side of the tracks in Yahoo, Texas, and have spent every subsequent day trying to live it down. We drink wine, appreciate art, have offspring who say...
-
Night & Day
Pathetic Sex Between Weirdo Losers
Sound fun? Wait. There’s more.
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: October 22, 2009
Jules is a guy looking for a quickie. But be forewarned: If you want to hook up with him, you have to do it in his subterranean biology lab. That’s because Jules, the lead...
-
Night & Day
Collective Soul
Co-op boutique does it up, anniversary-style
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: October 22, 2009
Conspire, the co-op espresso bar and boutique, has blossomed in its two years downtown. The DIY outpost has not only given a home to locally created art, clothes, and goods,...
-
Night & Day
Paths of Glory
Community ride proves Tempe is the bomb
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 22, 2009
Bring up cycling culture to someone around here and you’ll eventually hear, “Oh, Tucson is better because it’s more friendly toward bicyclists.” Whatever....
-
Night & Day
Hike for Open Space
Published: October 22, 2009
Hikers of all ability levels can choose from five different treks (including one in the park's lovely Go John Canyon). Proceeds go to buy 4,000 additional acres of open space...
-
Night & Day
Romantasy Cabaret's Daringly Scary Macabre Masquerade
Published: October 22, 2009
The saucy vaudeville variety showcase with a Halloween tinge features Dolly Diamonds (pictured), Motley Sue, the Black Light Glow Set, and live music by One Kitty Gone. (Photo...
-
Night & Day
Gogol Plex
Music doc catches gypsy punks' rise from the underground
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: October 22, 2009
The raw energy of the gypsy punk musical circus that is Gogol Bordello can't be beat in a live context. However, if you missed the New York band’s show at the Marquee on...
-
Night & Day
Eating Steam Crow
Local Webcomic celebrates with a sweet shindig
By Gren Radcliff
Published: October 22, 2009
Not wanting to wait until Halloween, Steam Crow creators Daniel and Dawna Davis have put together quite a festivity for fans of their horror-pop art and stories. The two...
-
Night & Day
Sunny Business
Runnin’ in a desert wonderland
By Steve Jansen
Published: October 22, 2009
During the 2009 Chicago Marathon, it nearly snowed on the city’s half- and full-marathon events. And guess what? The event took place in friggin’ early October. Our...
-
Night & Day
Bunker Mentality
PGA tourney’s not the FBR, but you can get close – for cheap
By Clay McNear
Published: October 22, 2009
Though it’s a legit PGA Tour stop, fall’s Frys.com Open is kind of a weak-sister stepchild to its overwhelmingly popular winter kin, the FBR Open. But that’s not...
-
Night & Day
Ghosts in the Machina
Poetry Industrial Complex addresses naps both violent and dirt-related
By Julie Peterson
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 snapped at us, "If you don't understand the...
-
Night & Day
Arizona Exposition & State Fair: Peter Facinelli
Published: October 22, 2009
Though he's known for other things (including the lead role in the FOX TV series Fastlane and recurring spots in cable's Six Feet Under and Damages), the actor will likely be...
Now Click This
