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Long before we were officially a state, Arizona was making history — and not all of it bad, though some of it certainly borders on the unbelievable. In 1910, a Maricopa Count...
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"Not alone for gold and silver / Is Arizona great / But with graves of heroes sleeping / All the land is consecrate!" — "Arizona March Song"
The goal of finding Arizona's 10...
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By the time this issue hits stands, it will have been just over a week since Soul Train impresario Don Cornelius was found dead by a self-inflicted gunshot in his Encino, Californi...
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Does any label evoke doubt more than "white rapper?" For every Eminem, there are a dozen Vanilla Ices.
"I agree there are authenticity issues with white rappers, and I think just ...
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The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask ourselves: If you could do the past f...
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"We Got Cactus," Bloodspasm (1985)
Bloodspasm tore up a series of now-closed Tucson clubs and house parties with blistering hardcore punk starting in the mid-1980s. But the band's...
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...I . . . I SUPPORT AZ, NOT OBAMA! How dare he sue a state! What is he a king? A dictator?!
Victoria Jackson, Miami Lakes, Florida
Editor's note: What the former Saturday Night Live star didn't see, since she read "Tea Party Princess" online, is that her "I Support Arizona!" sticker is seen prominently on the cover of our print edition.
Ja...
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My family for six generations have been born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. Everyone speaks Spanish most of the time. Right now, almost every Republican in the state is trying t...
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"You just have to get crazier" were the words of advice that mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the moment in Wim Wenders' soaring...
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Thursday 9
16th Street Bar & Grill: Kickback Thursdays with DJ Cedric Ceballos (hip-hop, classics, neo-soul, reggae, R&B, Top 40, old school)
Afterlife: Beat the Scene Thursdays ...
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This year's Academy Award-nominated shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament — though some categories require sitting through a lot of mediocre to get to...
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To get on the bad side of Hall of Fame rocker Alice Cooper, Mexican boxing idol Julio Cesar Chavez, and a man who scaled Mount Everest takes some doing.
But Brian Weymouth, a vete...
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With Shark Week still months away and the return date of Deadliest Catch a looming mystery, it’s a dry season when it comes to aquatic adventures on Discovery Channel. Luckil...
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Unless you closely follow Tiger Woods’ travails in balancing girlfriends, golf isn't always the sexiest of sports. Movies like Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore make golf look fun...
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The progress of mankind has been pretty awesome, right? Cell phones have more computing power than a warehouse full of UNIVACs, enabling us to sext folks all around the world. We'r...
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Mom may have told you never to skate indoors, but the guys at MuggShots Bar don’t share her sensible sentiment. Although that’s not a huge surprise. They’re not b...
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It’s no secret that late Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis was a devout Christian. But rather than stoop to the level of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, he allowed his ...
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As great works of literature and pop culture have taught us, forces of good will always have a vile and villainous nemesis to oppose them.
And as anyone who’s seen Anchorma...
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Indianapolis is bracing for war. It's Super Bowl week, after all. Time for the Annual Invasion of the Hookers, which promises to be as harrowing as the Ottoman Empire's advance on ...
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It's ironic that Be the Void, the new album by Dr. Dog, begins with a song lamenting being "Lonesome." Ironic considering the band's steady rise: A couple of well-received albums o...
