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Rick Romley remembers precisely what he said to his rescuers after a land mine in Vietnam blew his body apart on April 7, 1969.
"I asked them if my balls were still there,"...
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Sitting outside one of his favorite haunts, Tempe's Stinkweeds Records, on a bright December afternoon, Eli Kuner is clearly on edge. He seems relaxed at first as he chats...
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Everyone knows about Pavlov's dogs: those canines that helped Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov demonstrate that the natural flow of saliva in Sparky's mouth could be induced by...
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This much can be said for the movie version of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Its villain, Count Olaf, just might be Jim Carrey's finest screen role. A...
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Last Wednesday, while Phoenix City Council members considered an ordinance that would allow police to evict transients from city parks, Kurt Brewer was relaxing at home. While...
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Quick, who's got the best selection of local music in the Valley?
Zia? Hardly. Eastside Records? Possibly. Leslie Barton? Definitely.
With hundreds of CDs bursting from...
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Phoenix residents awoke on the morning of March 9, 1991, to terrible news.
Someone had bludgeoned an elderly father and his daughter to death inside their small east Phoenix...
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Bluewall Audience has been so busy reviewing and signing contracts, conducting meetings, and approving shirt designs that at least every other week, its members have to...
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In Spanglish, which is less a story than a snapshot of a crumbling marriage populated by sitcom characters, Adam Sandler plays John Clasky, an average man with an...
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It's been a very long time since I've reviewed Actors Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol. I see it every year, but I haven't troubled anyone outside of my home...
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THU 16
Seems everyone from Dumperfoo's Blunt Club in Tempe to Mickey's Hangover in Scottsdale finally might have some central Phoenix competition in appealing to the...
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Let's see if I can do justice to this mutha: Monday nights at ACME Roadhouse in Tempe are off the hook, the chain, the rope, the string, and just about anything else you can...
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My guts are churning with anticipation and trepidation as I step into the dimmed alcove that is Cheerleaders, the topless gentlemen's club on University Drive in east Phoenix....
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A Very Long Engagement, the new film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (most famously of Amélie), will have its fans. For one thing, there's no denying its beauty,...
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Okay. Let's say that Jesus Christ is real, and that he was born to a virgin mother and is the son of an all-powerful but invisible being who offered up his only offspring in...
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Gaynel Hodge didn't pick a fight with Dick Dale. He just showed up at Dale's December 8 performance at the Rhythm Room, got a picture with the man who'd recorded his song...
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Old Guard
A dilemma of epidemic proportions: I was moved by your story on nursing homes. It is about time someone wrote an article about this despicable problem ("Hope I...
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When talking to people from the other side of the country, there are usually three local bands you can name that they've heard of: the Gin Blossoms, Jimmy Eat World, and the...
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Niki D'Andrea, C. Murphy Hebert, Douglas Towne and Joe Watson Published:
December 16, 2004
SAT 12/18
Jonathan Swift's satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" discussed how to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from becoming a burden to their parents. One...
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Before landing a record deal in 1978, the Police dyed their collective locks blond and posed as a punk band for a bubblegum advert. That wasn't the only time a pop trio got...
