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The luncheon appears to be nothing special, just another stop on the rubber-chicken circuit for some of the state's true power brokers--the heads of Arizona's utility...
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Flat Duo Jets
Lucky Eye
(Outpost Recordings)
The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based Flat Duo Jets have been bringing their stripped-down brand of southern roots music on...
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Holding Serve: I got a long, angry note from a waitress who's put in eight years on the job. According to her, "It's getting rugged out here." She wants to remind the public...
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita still has the power to scare off people. Proof is the book's new movie adaptation, directed by Adrian Lyne and scripted by Stephen Schiff and...
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The new album Step Inside This House has Lyle Lovett singing a love song to his home state of Texas, or at least to many of the Lone Star State's finest songwriters. A two-CD...
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Get Dave Kleespies talking about his job and you're listening to a driven man.
On second thought, make that a "pedaled" man.
A What's My Line? panel-stumper just waiting...
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Maybe it was some need to exorcise the past that sent Roger Clyne and P.H. Naffah hiking through the desert this summer.
Clyne, the singer and primary songwriter of The...
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Crackers & Co. Cafe, 535 West Iron Avenue, Mesa, 898-1717. Hours: Breakfast and Lunch, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., seven days a week; Dinner, Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m.
You...
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Insofar as filmmaker Tony Gatlif's justly admired "Gypsy trilogy" is an exploration of his roots and a search for his nature--he was born in Algeria to Gypsy parents of...
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Whirling dervishes? That's one of those phrases that has somehow entered the language even though most folks have no idea of its meaning. The first thing that pops into your...
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The longtime attorney for the Arizona Veterans Service Commission is calling it quits, saying serious mismanagement and shoddy leadership have destroyed the agency's...
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In the booklet for his 1985 career anthology, Biograph, Bob Dylan mused on the differences between his rapturously received 1974 "comeback" tour and the contentious series of...
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The Jonathan Demme-directed Beloved runs nearly three hours, and it's a long slog. This adaptation of the 1987 Toni Morrison novel bursts with ambition. On one hand, it tries...
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thursday
october 15
Arizona Opera opens its season with Lucia Di Lammermoor, Donizetti's unforgettable, baleful 1835 tragedy of madness, murder and forced marriage--in...
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The Arizona Boys Ranch is back in business despite concerns over the death of a 16-year-old in March at the campus near Oracle.
The state Department of Economic Security...
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Old habits certainly die hard.
Blake Schwarzenbach knows this well. Nearly two years ago he brought his band, the seminal San Francisco punk-pop outfit Jawbreaker, to an...
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The hero of The Mighty--the title character, in fact--is an eighth-grader known by the nickname "Freak" (Kieran Culkin). His might isn't physical--he's a small, frail boy who...
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Quayle to the Rescue
With the race for attorney general a dead heat, Democrat Janet Napolitano and Republican Tom McGovern are looking for cash--and cachet--wherever they...
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There are worse things to do than sit through a boring history lesson--like attending a dismal comedy trying to pass itself off as a history lesson.
A pair of plays that...
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Chicken Chronicle
I must say I am shocked by the laughable one-sidedness and aggressive tone of the cockfighting cover story ("Out, Out, Damn Sport!" October 8). And shame...
