Birthdays

The Father Figures Play Punk With No Rules

Baby Steps

Manny Happy Returns

Tammie Coe Celebrates Her Birthday In Style: Free Cake This Friday

In honor of her birthday, Tammie Coe Cakes will be handing out free slices of her "crack cake" this Friday. Both locations will be serving up free cake but the downtown location will be staying open until 10 PM to help facilitate your cake consumption needs. See Also: Anatomy of a Fondant Covered ... More >>

Amusement Lark

Feat of Clay

Blogs Teased in our November 24 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What are your 100 favorite Arizona songs? What bands names might you find on your Thanksgiving table? Wha ... More >>

Hoodlums Music Turns 13: Reflections From Owner Steve Wiley

​Birthday parties for 13-year-olds are usually pretty awkward (or maybe I'm thinking of my own, just-sorta-pubescent 13th birthday), but that doesn't seem to be the case with Hoodlums Music's 13th birthday bash this weekend. On Saturday, November 5, the local record store institution celebrate ... More >>

Iced Age

Tiny Prancer

West and Wild

Matt and Kim at Marquee Theatre 6/14/11

Shawn Anderson​ Matt and Kim Marquee Theatre Tuesday, June 14, 2011I've been told time and time again that I need to see Matt and Kim live. I almost made it happen last year, but their Clubhouse Music Venue show sold out before I could get tickets. From friends and reviews, I gathered ... More >>

It's Been One Year Since Joe Arpaio's Birthday Was "Ruined" by Blind People

www.cirvismaximvs.comJust for you, Joe -- on your special day.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio turns 79 today -- which marks the one year anniversary of his birthday getting "ruined" by blind people.On the sheriff's 78th birthday, he pouted all day because the National Convention for Guide Dog ... More >>

Cibo Birthday Week Specials and Birthday Blue Cupcakes in Today's Eater's Digest

allisoneats.com​Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Birthday Party! Happy Birthday Cibo! One of our favorite little downtown pizza joints is celebrating their sixth birthday this week.  To thank all of their loyal customers, they are offering ... More >>

Stevie Nicks Turns 63 Tomorrow; We Look Back at Her Birthdays through the Years

Wikimedia CommonsStevie Nicks​Pop chanteuse Stevie Nicks turns 63 tomorrow. Though Nicks is no longer a Valley resident (she sold her home in Paradise Valley in 2007 for more than $3 million), she was born here at Good Samaritan Hospital and we still count her among Arizona's most famous rock resi ... More >>

Southern Gothic

Happy Birthday, Amy Sedaris!

  ​If she's not the godmother of the cupcake, she's definitely the cupcake's bat-shit crazy aunt -- and we love her. Happy Birthday, Amy Sedaris.

Happy Birthday to The Vig Uptown in Today's Eater's Digest

www.sweetestkitchen.com​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?HBDBirthday party time! This Sunday, March 20th, The Vig Uptown is celebrating their very first birthday and you're invited to the party. From 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. all of the Vig's signatur ... More >>

Mope Floats

Flier of the Week: Strange Young Things

Adam Gross​Bass player Adam Gross of Strange Young Things managed to pull together a great flier that looks casual yet celebratory in honor of his bandmate Corey's birthday."I wanted to make the poster embody that spirit," Gross said. "I always associate bright colored text and confetti-like image ... More >>

Dave Thurston, What Are You Eating?

Dave Thurston​ Dave Thurston The improviser teaches free classes on improvisation Saturday, January 22 and Saturday, January 29 at Runway 21 Studios from noon-3 p.m.What'd you eat for dinner last night? Last night, I ate a salad that I made using only a blender that I got for my birthday.Favorite ... More >>

Miley Cyrus Plans a Normal Birthday Celebration

​A young celebrity has decided not to go all out in acknowledgment of their birthday for once, according to Celebrifi.Miley Cyrus, who will be turning 18 on November 23, isn't planning on celebrating her birthday Kim Kardashian style with five parties around the world. Her biggest birthday wish is ... More >>

Jack Maverik Plans TWO Birthday Parties for Himself at Long Wong's

Note that this flier says "Day One."​Part of booking bands at a small bar or club is the chance to throw a shindig in your own honor from time to time. Over at the new Long Wong's in Tempe, Jack Maverik is taking it to the extreme.He's booked not one but two birthday shows in his honor featuring a ... More >>

Gift Exchange

SMoCA shows off new works from its permanent collection

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

​We have a lot of family birthdays in the spring so we decided to get a suite at the ballpark and have a joint celebration. A cake was ordered for the big event. When it arrived it said, "Happy Birthday Tom", the only problem was no one celebrating a birthday was named Tom. Well, we all had a go ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Virtual Birthday Cakes for President Obama: We Have a Feeling He's Not Gonna Like 'Em

​Jan Brewer got a chuckle out of us this afternoon, and it wasn't caused by her cigarettey-voice, her new BFF status with Greta Van Susteren, or even the sadly hilarious fact that she's somehow the governor of an entire state. It was her birthday wishes for President Obama in the form of ... More >>

Morning Poll: Does Joe Arpaio Owe Blind-Advocacy Group an Apology?

www.citizensrequired.com​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio had his birthday "ruined" last weekend and we found out yesterday that Joe's very-publicly blaming his birthday tears on the wrong blind-advocacy group. On Monday, Arpaio issued a press release whining that his invitation to s ... More >>

J.D. Hayworth to Host "Biggest Best Dang Birthday Bash" for Sheriff Joe

​With the amount of attention Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has brought to his 78th birthday, you might think he's a 16-year-old girl.First he "tweeted" that he needed ideas on how to celebrate his birthday. Then he claimed his special day was "ruined" because a blind-advocacy group uninvited ... More >>

National Guide Dog Group OK With Ruining Joe Arpaio's Birthday but Wish Boooting Him From Convention "Hadn't Happened"

America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" had his birthday "ruined" by a group of guide dog users over the weekend.​After our earlier post about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's less-than-feliz compleanos this past weekend, the president of the national group of guide dog users that gave hi ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Wants Your Help to Decide How He Should Celebrate His Birthday -- We Figure New Times Readers Might Have Some Suggestions

Anyone have any suggestions for the birthday boy?​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio "tweeted" earlier today that he needed a little help deciding what to do for his birthday this year and while "jump in front of a fucking bus" was our initial suggestion, we figured loyal New Times readers probabl ... More >>

A Blunt Birthday

Sixth Sense

Downtown’s best indie venue celebrates anniversary

DJ Epidemic

The Seuss is Loose

Bookmans’ birthday bash celebrates one of the best writers ever

5th Annual Lost Boys of Sudan Birthday Party

Club Candids: Hulkmania Holiday Hoedown Fest

Adriane GoetzLivin' it up at the Hoedown. ​When throwing oneself a birthday party, you can't go wrong with a Hulkster theme (of course, having 20-ish DJs, live art, a bike expo and a secret downtown location don't hurt either). Ali Karim and crew put their party planning skills to the test this S ... More >>

Curtains: Happy Birthday, Katie Valentine at Chyro Arts

used under Creative Commons License Detail of Frederick Hart's The Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.​It's always a heartwarming surprise to see a play by a non-famous local writer -- a student, recent grad, or someone just relatively new to writing for the ... More >>

[Sic] Puppies

Offbeat holiday comedy troupe performs on Grand Avenue

Cookie Monster

Tempe Town Lake celebrates birthday with a gigantic baked good

Brew Review: Hop Back Amber Ale

​Times are tough and sacrifices must be made. What do we mean? Take the simple birthday gift. For our upcoming birthday, our roommate opted not to buy us a present. Truth be told, his funds are tight and so are ours (so he won't be getting much either for his early December birthday). Instea ... More >>

Noodles at Nine 05

​A friend and I ventured over to Nine 05 recently for her birthday lunch. Once upon a time, this was a gal who used to eat at Fate about three times a week, so I told her she needed to check out the new Asian spot that's taken its place. I went with the tonkotsu ramen. When I reviewed Nine ... More >>

Page the Village Idiot Is Anything But

Terry Goddard on Twitter; State AG Ditches Boring, Third-Person Site, Tweets Personal Stuff

  Looks like our recent criticism of Terry Goddard's boring, old Twitter account made an impact, (though we're pretty sure we weren't the only ones suggesting he liven things up). The state Attorney General began a new, more personalized Twitter account this week, to the accolades of some ... More >>

Laughing Matter

While other museums suffer, SMoCA’s still going strong 10 years on

Thin Line Between Love and Skate

Exorcise your hot-or-not days at Skateland

Breaking Up with Breakbeats

It's Last Call at Fat's Breaks

57th Heaven

Celebrating a half-century-plus of midgets, dwarfs, and bombers

The Other Big Party

That's So Raven

Professional party girl powers up the time machine

Cradle to the Rave

Club kids strike again