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During the Arizona State-Arizona series in Tucson a few weeks ago, Arizona Daily Star sports columnist Greg Hansen wrote of ASU's head baseball coach:
"Pat Murphy will win...
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Recently I was at a show at the Real Bar early in the evening, when the young'uns are out to rock. A two-person band had just finished its set when a crowd of tween and early...
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A humongous Pop-Tart. That's what this marionberry cobbler -- named for a type of blackberry, not the erstwhile mayor of D.C. -- reminds me of, from its gooey, purplish guts,...
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Cars, the latest vehicle to roll off a Pixar assembly line that has thus far yielded nothing but spit-shined classics, answers that age-old question: What would Doc Hollywood...
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Urban art is defined by the city that it represents. In a glorified cow town like Kansas City, the boring neon art installation at the top of the Sulgrave Building hints at...
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Face paint? Check. NoDoz? Check. Deep wellsprings of violent nationalistic pride?
No doubt, mate.
Yes, it's time for the World Cup, that quadrennial spectacle that...
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Robrt L. Pela Published:
June 8, 2006
The hell with whistle-blowing! The Bird is squawking loud and clear on behalf of workers who toil on the printing presses at Phoenix Newspapers (the company responsible for...
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How did you spend your day of reckoning? Expectant mothers, fearful of a 06/06/06 due date, were asking doctors to induce labor a day or two early to spare their babies from...
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Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion befits its roots in frosty Minnesota soil through its...
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In 1994, during a routine excavation at the site of Temple XIII in Palenque, Mexico, workers unearthed a pre-Columbian burial chamber containing the remains of a woman,...
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By Jordan Harper, Robert Wilonsky and Jim Ridley Published:
June 8, 2006
The John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection (Warner Bros.)
Featuring the most epic pairing of director and actor in Hollywood history, this 10-disc box spews machismo all over....
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Arizona State University officials cut an outrageous deal with insiders on the sale of the ASU president's house that appears to have shortchanged taxpayers more than a...
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They ain't weary and they ain't boys, but they are the Weary Boys, a handful of Humboldt County, California, escapees who got up one day, stretched, and decided to pack up the...
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Trotted out like ol' Trigger whenever there's a movie with saddles and six-shooters, the term "revisionist Western" would surely be a cliché if there were enough...
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"Annual Summer Juried Exhibition" at ASU Harry Wood Gallery: This year's crop of MFA hopefuls shows a surprising awareness of domestic issues including water conservation,...
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Black Hawk Down: Extended Cut (Sony)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector's Edition (Fox)
Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount)
Dumbo: Big...
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Aside from the fetish festivities this evening, which I'll describe in a sec, Chasers in Scottsdale looks like everyone's friendly neighborhood dive, with pool tables for the...
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By all rights, Stiff Little Fingers should suck. What was once perhaps the best band of punk's second wave is down to a sole original member (although a second, bassist Ali...
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With ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie -- particularly a real one -- to take our interest for...
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What is it with you Mexicans who want to take back California? Is it that conquistador blood that's driving you?
Go Back to Granada
Dear Gabacho,
Besides beards, light...
