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Some arts patrons wear their wealth. Katherine Herberger gives it -- by the millions. In the 50-some years since she and her late husband, Robert, came to Phoenix from...
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The street sign on the corner where Cindy Foster lives is handcrafted. It's not crude, but it's definitely not government-issue. To get to her place, turn north off Lone...
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"Two nights ago in Manhattan, I was onstage thinking that there's something very cheap about this job," Rhett Miller says, via phone from the roof of a nightclub in Baltimore....
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The headlines scream that the Diamondbacks aren't making money. Attendance is down, and the baseball team is struggling. All eyes are on Jerry Colangelo to fix things.I've got...
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Just when we culturally deprived, mystery-starved Americans were convinced that that most delicious of movie genres, the French thriller, was dead and buried, a literate and...
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As a kid, I could never remember which one was Judy Collins. I shared a room with an older brother who favored female folk singers, all of whom, it seemed, had first names...
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Every eight weeks, Margaret Manchester begins the task of asking about 40 grown men to stop having sex.Some are already married. Some are thieves, con artists or pimps. All of...
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Robb LowThe Millennial Arizona Republic's first salvo of Decision 2002 was fired on April 6, when columnist Robert Robb belittled state Senator Chris Cummiskey for playing...
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Thankfully, the extended legal tussle that took place between the Honeydogs' former label, Mercury, and their new imprint, Palm, didn't claim this album as a victim, thus...
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Most restaurateurs follow the adage that the customer is always right. Even if the diner is nuts, the savvy eatery entrepreneur realizes the value in word-of-mouth.Unless...
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The directorial debut of actress turned screenwriter Agnès Jaoui (Same Old Song, Un Air de Famille), The Taste of Others is a work of delicate observation, falling...
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If you think today's kids are dumber than yesterday's, try getting anything past some precocious little dinosaur geek. Try to tell him or her that a Mamenchisaurus is a plain...
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The tortured personal and legal saga of Luis Sharpe took yet another turn April 19 when a judge released the former Arizona Cardinals star to a Phoenix drug rehabilitation...
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Rolling through downtown as thousands of glum-faced Phoenix Suns fans trek to their cars is not an especially fun ride. The well-scrubbed faces were as long as the afternoon...
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How do jazz players come up with the bucks to pay the rent? Do they sell plasma? Stuff envelopes at home? And was that famed jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean Gumbo saw selling...
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Joey to the World
Gabba gabba gab: Although I can't say that I am very familiar with the Ramones outside of the obvious hits, I can tell you that I relate to your story...
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In Native American folklore and art, the circle often illustrates the continuum of life (What? You were thinking of The Lion King?). So it's only appropriate that the Native...
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Last thing first. At this very moment, Chris Carter sits behind his desk in the Ten Thirteen Production offices, on the 20th Century Fox lot in Studio City, California,...
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Utter the words "public access" and you'll probably elicit little more than a comical wince from most people; the very term conjures up images of a wasteland of low- and...
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There's no greater compliment a fan can pay an artist than to confess that he reaches one's most private core. Alejandro Escovedo has done so in the past for this writer, most...
