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Double truck, no jumps
You say you don't know Love and Rockets from Loggins and Messina? Can't tell the Sugarcubes from Supertramp? Well, maybe in the early Eighties you could g...
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Colorado developer Frank Aries had no intention of carving out another piece of ho-hum suburbia when, in 1985, he went calling on the Driggs boys, the freewheeling moneylend...
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Surely the meeting of the king of Seventies rock, Robert Plant, and the clown prince of Eighties rock, Cult singer Ian Astbury, has to qualify as one of the more ironic pop ...
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Submitted for your approval, one storefront greasy spoon, the kind of place most folks ordinarily wouldn't pay no never mind to. No, sirree, ma'am. Nothin' fancy about it, u...
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Yes, that's right. I've kept an intimate diary of the entire deal. As I look back through this journal of the Eighties, I see that more often than not my intuition has been ...
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If there's one maxim we believe, it's that musicians and other people in the biz-- like record-company bigwigs, deejays and retailers--are really frustrated critic.
MICHAEL CORN...
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Songs to learn and sing. The Eighties' Top 10 singles:
1. PUBLIC ENEMY "Fight the Power" (Motown, 1989). PE drove home the decade's most vital and direct statement with...
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The Hualapai tribal elder summons what strength is left in his failing body, and gets right to the point.
"If my people don't watch out, it's gonna get a lot worse," says 76-...
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Had Trevor Rabin been alone when he headed down to L.A.'s Roxy recently to catch Steve Stevens in concert, the latter-day Yes guitarist probably would've gone unnoticed for ...
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Angelo Ianuzzi has opened another restaurant in the Valley and this provokes a deep urge to exhume the past. Isn't this the guy who so brazenly fingered the tastes of the lo...
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There's a story about the late Gilbert Cady, ASU's long-time finance wizard, that helps explain why the campus looks the way it does today. Rudy Turk, director of the Unive...
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"We don't want any niggers and Mexicans out here." Duane Pell didn't think he shocked easily. But then, he didn't think that being a politician meant he had to listen to crap lik...
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Ex-Hollywood jungle ACQUANETTA remembers those happy days when Scottsdale caterer FRANK CALI once carved a Lincoln out of cream cheese for her. Now their relationship has ...
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When Tom Webb finishes reading a book in his room at the New Windsor Hotel, he sets it down carefully and precisely so the book's spine is exactly flush with the edge of the shelf ...
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Riazzi's Italian Garden and Red Devil are practically the same restaurant, so I'm going to write about them that way. While naturally there are some distinguishing characteristics ...
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The newest member of the Phoenix Environmental Quality Commission, cited by a backer for his "expertise" on environmental matters, is an attorney for one of the city's most conspic...
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It's a ion and ten degrees in the shade and you've warned your kids that if they don't behave, you're sending them outside until they're medium to well-done. So they aro...
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here's a scene in the new movie Scandal no self-respecting ska fan should miss. Christine Keeler is taken to London's West End section by her friend Dr. Stephen Ward to score some ...
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Around the L.A. offices of Polygram Records these days, executives are already referring to Saraya as the label's next Bon Jovi. And why not? Like Polygram's most successful act, ...
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After last week's column about Dr. William Bartel, the Paradise Valley dentist, there were some interesting phone calls.
Dr. Bartel, 46, has, of course, pleaded guilty...
