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The date is February 24, but the calendar pages in Steve May's office haven't been flipped since January 11, the first day of his first session as a member of the Arizona...
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Tom Waits has unleashed his first album of new material in more than six years. For those who have followed the lowlife renaissance man's career over the past 26 years, that...
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Mommy Dearest: If you haven't already made reservations for a Mother's Day meal, chances are you'll be feeding Mom in the back seat of your car, after a stop at a...
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Based on the first Julian Barnes novel, Metroland is essentially a dramatization of the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime": "You may find yourself/In a beautiful...
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thursday
april 29
Seventeen of the Valley's top harp-blowers--Bill Tarsha, Dave Trippy, Roy Pinn, The Root Doctor, Mississippi Catfish, Bill Frain, Gypsy, Mark "Moose"...
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Fossil Creek, a major tributary of the Verde River, doesn't flow over travertine and river rock, bedrock gorges or deep canyons. It runs through pipes and tunnels, through...
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Fountains of Wayne
Utopia Parkway
(Atlantic Records)
At year's end, when critics and other know-it-alls compile their best-of lists for 1999, Fountains of Wayne's...
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T. Cook's, Royal Palms, 5200 East Camelback, Phoenix, 602-808-0766. Sunday Brunch: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
She carried us for nine months, then brought us into the world. She fed...
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Sean Connery has always been a terse, minimalist actor, spitting out his lines in tight bursts of Scottish brogue. But in Entrapment, the kingly Scot goes beyond minimalism to...
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Amazing. For six years (an eternity in TV time), there was a hilarious, loud, wild, entertaining and educational show on TV every Saturday morning. Beakman's World was a...
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The Arizona Department of Health Services plans to study the possible health problems caused by the ASARCO smelter in Hayden, despite officials' earlier dismissals of any...
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About a month ago, singer-songwriter Pete Forbes and his band were in Los Angeles rehearsing for a club gig that night. During a short break, the band's drummer, a wiry,...
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Remember Keiko Ibi, the pretty Japanese woman who gave the touching acceptance speech after she won for Best Documentary Short at this year's Oscars? The chance to see her...
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As a puppeteer, political satirist, performance artist and even as host to a long-running Saturday morning kid's science show, Paul Zaloom puts the most unusual things to work...
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The Spider Mafia
In case you missed the hilarity in an Arizona Republic story Sunday that was toned down so as not to offend too many readers in Sun City and other Sheriff...
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Look through the north window of Alice Cooper'stown and the message is clear. You're greeted by a life-size cardboard cutout of the king of shock rock in black leather,...
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During Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tenure, several of his employees have come forward with damaging information about what really goes on in the offices of "America's Toughest...
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Who says Phoenix isn't a theater town? For the past five years, a real live Broadway legend has walked among us--not that most people here probably care. In Phoenix, you're...
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Paul Peaty rolls up to the scene in his white pickup truck. The victim lies lifeless on the side of the road. Hit and run.
"That's a nice one," Peaty deadpans.
He gets...
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Killers Behind Badges
I'm still reeling from David Holthouse's column ("Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix," April 15), although I'm still not quite sure why. Both Scott...
