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They line up by the warehouse door at Contractor Wire and Cable in south Phoenix like an army of IT guys delivering refurbished computers: 140 mostly white males, most in their...
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D.R. Wilke, with gray hair, wire-rimmed glasses and an ASU alumni tee shirt, and Paul Taylor, with short curly locks and a white Izod polo, grab a balcony table at the Gordon...
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I'd been sitting on the fence for the past week about Rokerij, Richardson Browne's classy new chop shop, when I happened to take a look at the fine print on the menu of this...
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"We must keep the atmosphere electrified!" announces creepy Igor in reference to an abominable experiment in Van Helsing, but he could be appraising the entirety of this...
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Ugly, boring guys with no prospects, take heart: John Adams' A Foreign Affair can help you bag a gorgeous Russian bride faster than you can say "Imperialist Murmansk." For a...
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Jake Flake's always up for a good poem -- a good cowboy poem, that is. As the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, the 69-year-old Republican has been known to...
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One day isn't enough. Phoenix should be celebrating Cuatro y Cinco de Mayo.
A two-day party would allow us to fete not only the Mexican Army's smashing defeat of the French...
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The last couple weeks have been sheer torture on the ears.
See, this coming weekend I'm turning 30, and in an effort to ensure that I'm not losing touch with what the kids...
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Don't read this if you're hungry -- or trying to do the low carb thing.
The Flores Bakery -- a small, sweet-smelling shop on Avenida del Yaqui, the main drag in Guadalupe --...
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The setting: an institutional high school in the affluent suburbs. The protagonists: two boys -- intelligent, charming and smoldering -- with typical suburban lives, including...
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There was a time, not so long ago, when "edgy" theater produced by young thespians in tiny black boxes was a hit-or-miss proposition, often involving tunics and more than a...
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Thursday, May 6 Catch a commando performance of Steve Martin's naughty new play. A young housewife endures a brief encounter with notoriety in The Underpants, Martin's spin on...
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My dawg Jett, a.k.a. the lezzy Nelly, has been ailin' of late 'cause she got dumped by her squeeze of the week, some fine hoochie-mama with bodacious ta-tas. The girl went...
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Sacramento's Low Flying Owls swoop into the Valley, bringing a modern mlange of hard, distorted guitar rock and off-kilter psychedelic experimentalism to promote their second...
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In Israeli writer-director Nir Bergman's Broken Wings, we never see an automatic weapon, a military roadblock or a horrific explosion on a city street. Rather than dealing with...
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All season long, Actors Theatre has been threatening us with its production of Tapestry: A Musical Revue Based on the Music of Carole King. Earlier this month, this usually...
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If you know Donato Giancola, you might find your likeness in the unlikeliest of places -- immortalized on bookshelves or idolized by millions of geeks the world over.
The...
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On his first solo night in February 2001, P hoenix rookie cop Shawn Dirks found himself accused of anal rape. He knew his accuser was drunk -- he'd encountered her during a DUI...
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In an era where even home musicians have the technology to make intricate collages of "found sound," the industrial art rock of Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten seems less...
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Mixing the down-under period charm of The Dish with preteen sweetness and some lightly rendered but significant social issues, Her Majesty provides an enjoyable family viewing...
