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Larry Pohorily thought mortician Mark Eisenhour was playing some sort of sick joke. What Eisenhour told him on the phone couldn't be true. Pohorily drove to the funeral home,...
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The Republic of Gannett
The Millennial Arizona Republic will soon be the property of Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the galaxy. Naturally, the Flash has been working...
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Standing on the stage of New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, the old man looked broken, beaten down, a scream reduced to a whisper. It had been almost two years since he had last...
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Tee Pee Tap Room, 602 East Lincoln Street, Phoenix, 602-340-8787. Hours: Lunch and dinner, daily, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. On game nights, restaurant remains open one hour after game...
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Director Alison Maclean, from Canada by way of New Zealand, turns her camera on the American landscape -- or, more accurately, the underbelly of the American landscape -- in...
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Have Pat Robertson and The 700 Club been informed? A major bookstore chain is encouraging parents to initiate their children into the world of wizardry and magic. To celebrate...
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In the wee hours of June 17, 1972, G. Gordon Liddy slipped into his bedroom and undressed quietly in the dark, hoping not to wake his wife, Frances.
"Is that you?" Frances...
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For the hundreds packed into Nita's Hideaway on June 27, three hours seemed like a glitch, as time froze and the rest of the world just disappeared. The reason for this...
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Won't some caring chef please come to Tony Makridis' rescue and take over his long-awaited Cafestia coffee house, pastry shop and bar? The owner of Phoenix's much-loved...
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Why is the film called Disney's The Kid? Is it really possible that the studio was so concerned that someone might actually mistake the film for an update of the Chaplin...
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"There ain't no cure for the summertime blues," says the song. Rubbish, Scottsdale Gallery Association would say -- not only is it bad grammar, but patently untrue. Its cure:...
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The acting planning director for the City of Phoenix is under investigation for making racially insensitive remarks to Hispanics attending a meeting to discuss a new ordinance...
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On a crowded bus in Buenos Aires, a gaggle of teenage girls huddle in the back, giggling and gossiping as teenage girls everywhere do. Their exuberant youth was too much for a...
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Is there a more bankrupt genre than the parody movie? So many movies nowadays are so painfully self-aware and referential anyway that there often isn't much left to make fun...
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What has oversize lettuce leaves, tomato and onion slices and a beef patty, all sandwiched between a giant poppy-seed bun? It's a hamburger with everything -- and then...
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This summer's Musicmaker.com-sponsored twin tour -- by a Jimmy Page-led Black Crowes and modfathers The Who (hitting Blockbuster Desert Sky on August 13 and 14, respectively)...
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Of Bias and Guilt
Worthy discussion: Regarding John Sheehan's letter to the editor (June 15), which was written in response to Michael Lacey's June 1 piece, "Bad Dog": I've...
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Members of the Liar's Club sit and stare plaintively into their drinks. You'd think they were contemplating some recent run of emotional trauma and bad luck, the death of a...
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Back in the mid-'80s, when Athens, Georgia was the new Left Bank and all bands Southern were undergoing a great deal of public scrutiny, Drivin' n' Cryin' was supposed to have...
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We'll dispense with the baseball shtick and just remind you that the band's name cheekily refers to mediocrity below and barely up to the call of duty à la...
