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Dr. Arnie Serota was furious.
On February 27, 2002, a young man had fallen while rock climbing at Mount Lemmon near Tucson. He died of a head injury a few days later at Tucson...
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They're the Hot Club of Cowtown, and they stand front and center in a new generation of young pickers and grinners who carry on their shoulders musical traditions that stretch...
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No, I haven't seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The premise rankles my sensibilities way too much (really, a chick is dried up and desperate because she isn't married by 30?)....
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In the hit Armageddon, our planet – big mother, source of life and self – is threatened by Ben Affleck and other calamitous horrors, with the movie commanding attention throu...
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I couldn't help but scoff. A friend had forwarded me a notice about "Art & Society," a new lecture series taking place at Arizona State University, and the kickoff event...
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She's talented. She's hopeful. She's from Phoenix. And she might very well be the next voice you hear in country music, if the USA Network has anything to say about it. Tasha...
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People in different parts of the world take pride in their local specialties, especially if they have a high alcohol content. So in the Southwest, with our proximity to Mexico,...
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At last, The Spike has finally found something to watch on TV besides Celebrity Fear Factor. This show, which airs on most channels and practically around the clock, is...
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The 1990s brought two great technology hypes: the Internet and electronic music. Both were supposed to refashion the culture; both fell far short of their predicted impact....
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God bless my grandmother. Well into her 70s, she taught herself how to read by reading the Bible. Yes, this beautiful little wrinkled and toothless abuelita was a powerful and...
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It's hard to believe they were originally going to release Basic before bombs started falling over Baghdad; if it isn't the worst movie of 2003 so far, it's only because I...
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If there's a flaw in August Wilson's Jitney, it's that it bends the rule that says there are no easy resolutions in modern drama. Wilson, in his desire to present proactive...
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Thursday, March 27
Seductive silver-screen siren Mae West is the obsession at the heart of Dirty Blonde, the latest production from Arizona Theatre Company, which begins...
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I feel naughty about my respect for Evan Mecham, so I'm badly conflicted when I see him walking toward me through the Capitol Mall between the Arizona House and Senate...
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Tempe sucks a little less now.
Two new clubs opened in the non-smoking-mandated, increasingly regulated, fashionably cynical college town this month, filling gaps in the local...
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Bite Me takes St. Patrick's Day very, very seriously. She's got some Irish in her lineage and whenever she has the chance to be, ya know, a traditional gal, she jumps on it....
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War, as it turns out, is good for absolutely nothing when it comes to anti-war songs. At the risk of sounding like Bill O'Reilly (who, no doubt, listens only to Wagner), it's...
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Because April is National Poetry Month, it seems only appropriate to look to our poet laureate, Billy Collins, for thoughts on poetry and art in general:
Then I blinked and...
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Charles F. Long II, the controversial director of a boot camp for wayward youngsters who's facing murder charges, has lost his private defense attorney – apparently because h...
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AFI, an unusual hard-rock band, recruited veteran producers Butch Vig and Jerry Finn – an unusual duo – to produce its major-label debut, Sing the Sorrow.
Vig made his na...
