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Matthew "Scar" Haugen kneels in the middle of a wrestling ring preparing for battle.
The gangly 20-year-old knots the laces of his dirty navy-blue sneakers and then gathers...
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Joe Pernice, 35, has a kind of Clark Kent dichotomy to him, a surreptitious strength under a sensitive façade. In most of his photographs, Pernice looks like he just...
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My friends and I were driving around Los Angeles the other weekend, in search of, what else, food. It's mucky hot in Phoenix these days, I hadn't seen these pals in a while,...
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Much like "hilarious Islamic comedy" or "sublime Affleck picture," the term "terrific second sequel" isn't bandied about too much. Name one. Took you a minute, didn't it?...
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Of its many owners, surely the strangest person to purchase Phoenix's first skyscraper, the Westward Ho hotel, was Roger Rudin, a fundamentalist preacher who briefly took over...
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Michael Senger isn't just another pothead survivalist. He's a pothead survivalist with an Armageddon shelter and a working knowledge of the end of the world. None of which...
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For all the reverence shown to horses in American culture, precious few of us stop to consider what happens to them once they slip past their prime. Suffice it to say that the...
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Inspired Stupidity
And now another black eye.
For the Arizona Republic, natch.
On its front page the other day it listed Bishop Thomas O'Brien, Evan Mecham, Charles...
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Willie Nelson turned 70-years-old this past April 30. Seems like Willie's been an old, grizzled cowboy staring down the apocalypse for at least 35 years -- "Blue Eyes Crying...
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Known more for its cocido (beef stew), machaca and green salsa, Pitic Restaurant in south Phoenix on Wednesdays transforms into Mexican fight night.
Last week, rows of...
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DreamWorks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas pulls into port but a week before Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the...
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Thursday, July 3
Make the most out of your long weekend on Thursday, July 3, when the Lake Pleasant Fireworks Show offers a head start on Independence Day festivities....
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I still see you in your googly-wheeled Escalade, alone, cruising down the HOV lane at rush hour sporting your sky-blue "alternative fuels" license plate.
But I no longer...
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I can't blame the bands that have skipped town or gone into hibernation for the summer. Hell, I have to carry a bottle of water with me just to drive down the block, and...
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The first question on the minds of most potential viewers of Owning Mahowny is probably something along the lines of "What's up with that spelling? Who spells Mahoney' with a...
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"Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting." Even if one agrees with writer Alan Dean Foster's assertion, there's hardly cause for complaint. Liberty, bedlam, and the...
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Momentous rulings about anti-sodomy and affirmative action laws stole headlines last week as the U.S. Supreme Court ended its term, but the talk at the Maricopa County...
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Mogwai's music is a web of contradictions. The band is given to grand gestures, yet the music finds its power in subtlety: Delicate moments accumulate into something bigger...
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Quetta Carpenter, Jill Koch and Michele Laudig Published:
July 3, 2003
7/4-7/26
This month, when First Friday coincides with Independence Day, eye lounge tempers blind patriotism with more personal interpretations of what America is all about....
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Death Row
Death be not proud: Thank you for an article that had to be written. ("Off With Their heads," Paul Rubin, June 26) Instead of placing pressure on the state...
