Cooperstown

Businessman Brian Weymouth Gets on the Wrong Side of His Celebrity Partners

Thirsty Thursdays at Alice Cooperstown

Looking for something to do this weekend? "Night Owl" is a quick guide to special nights at bars and clubs around town. We'll give you a few hints re: cover, dress code, music and atmosphere. Every Thursday marks Thirsty Thursdays at Alice Cooperstown.​Thursdays at Alice Cooperstown are supposedly ... More >>

KDKB alumni Dennis McBroom Remembers When Radio Still Had Tubes and The Tubes Had Radio Airplay

Courtesy KDKB.comVintage KDKB "carrot" shirts on display.​This weekend, 93.3 KDKB, the "sixth Longest-Running FM Rock Station in Nation," enters into its fourth decade of existence with a Saturday, August 13 celebratory by The Tubes at Foundry on First, one of the countless bands that got its ... More >>

Alice Cooper's Welcome 2 My Nightmare

​You've got to wonder when Alice Cooper even finds time to play celebrity golf tournaments. Not only is he busy inspiring attractions at Universal Studios, feeding Adam Richman Big Units at Cooperstown, and hosting a popular radio show on KDKB 93.3 FM, but Cooper's prepping release of a new record ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Challenges "Any Reporter" to Hot Dog Eating Contest. We Accept. Loser Quits His Job?

Joe Arpaio's Twitter pageGame on, sheriff.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's got a hankerin' for rocker Alice Coopers' two-foot wiener.Apparently so impressed with the two-foot hot dogs served at Coopers' Cooperstown restaurant in Phoenix, the sheriff has challenged "any reporter" to an eating ... More >>

Alice Cooperstown's Bases Loaded Hot Dog Contest

Jonathan McNamaraThe good news: to win you only have to eat one. ​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food ... More >>

MLB All-Star Game -- Jose Batista: Thank You For Not Being Pete Rose

www.seth.com"Charlie Hustle" in action.​Big ups to Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista -- for showing a little class in a game that means almost nothing.Lest we forget, that's more than we can say about baseball's No. 1 reject, Pete Rose.In the top of the fourth inning during tonight's M ... More >>

Seven Places We're Dining At Before The Rapture

Benjamin LeathermanDurant's is where we'll be once Jesus comes calling.Not to be gloomy or gauche, but it might be time to start thinking about your last meal.  As those obnoxious billboards scattered around town are warning, The Rapture is prophesized to be happening two days from now. Mu ... More >>

DJ Adam Osuna Talks Lady Gaga, House Music, Asher Roth, Lawnchair Generals, and More

DJ Adam Osuna​Name: Adam Anthony O'Suna, Sr. Nickname: Suna, brah! Current club nights: I play out when the opportunity presents itself. On guest rotation at Skyline on Fridays, Solstice on Saturdays, and Retro Hi-Fi about every month or so. Genres spun: Real house, jackin and good deep with a ... More >>

Alice Cooper's Downtown Watering Hole Named a Top-10 Celeb Eatery By Tripadvisor

​Shock-rocker Alice Cooper's downtown bar and grill, Cooperstown, has been named one of the nation's top 10 celeb-owned eateries by TripAdviser.Cooper joins athletes (Michael Jordan), actors (Robert DeNiro) and fellow musicians (Justin Timberlake and Gladys Knight) on the list, which was compiled ... More >>

There Is No Tempe Music Festival this Weekend. There is, However, a TMF-Branded "Garage Band" Contest

​Tempe Music Festival was supposed to be this weekend at Tempe Beach Park. That plan was scrapped back in February when organizers decided they needed to take a year off before mustering the resources to host another two-day event.What do we get instead? The finals of the festival's Garage Band Co ... More >>

Curt Schilling Says Steroid Cheats Have No Place in Hall of Fame

www.deadspin.com Curt Schilling and his "bloody sock"​Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling says professional baseball players, who have admitted to using steroids, should be barred from the Baseball Hall of Fame.New York Yankees fans would say: So should a dirty sock with some ... More >>

D-backs Legend Randy Johnson Expected to Announce Retirement Tonight

"The Big Unit"​Former Arizona Diamondbacks ace Randy Johnson is expected to announce his retirement from baseball in a conference call with reporters tonight, according to multiple media sources.In 22 Major League seasons, "The Big Unit" won 303 games and has a career ERA of 3.29. Johnson is ... More >>

McCain Tells Former D-Backs Pitcher Schilling to Run For Massachusetts Senate Seat

www.phoenix.fanster.com Former D-back Curt Schilling​ Arizona's very own maverick, Senator John McCain, is telling a former Arizona icon to hang up his bloody sock, and join him in the United States Senate.McCain also told Sara Palin to run for vice-president, and I think we all know how t ... More >>

8 Places for President Obama to Try on His Next Phoenix Visit

Call me a shameless arugula eater, but I still can't get over the Obama family's choice of dinner destination when they were in Phoenix this past Saturday night: Macayo's Mexican Kitchen on Central Avenue, the flagship among the Southwestern chain's 18 locations. Seriously? Sure, Macayo's has b ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Cover the Hits and More at Mesa Ampitheatre Concert

http://www.falloutboyrock.comFall Out Boy kicked off the first date of their Believers Never Die Tour Friday at Mesa Amiptheatre with a nearly 90-minute set that covered all the hits as well as highlights from their latest disc Folie A Deux. Chicago's fantastic four, dressed sharply in suits, took ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Grows Up

Fall Out Boy Grow Up

The Perfect Record for Cactus League's Opening Day

Happy opening day, Phoenix!Yes, today is the start of the baseball season. The real start, not the start they'll be celebrating in the upper Midwest next month, the one that requires parkas. It'll be 80 degrees and sunny across the Valley as the first pitch of the year will be tossed at seven ballpa ... More >>

Pitching Great Greg Maddux Retires -- Snakebit Against D-Backs to the End

Greg Maddux, one of our favorite pitchers ever, retired yesterday after winning 355 games, more than all but seven other men in the history of the game.   We especially loved the guy, seen throwing with the Cubs above, because he threw about as hard as, say, a middling high-scho ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 28, 2007

And It Begins...

Shallow Pop

Mr. 3000: "Just another baseball movie"

BEST PRO SPORTS TEAM

Arizona Diamondbacks

Mitt Museum of Art

Bank One Ballpark collection doesn't quite cover all the bases

A MOJOR LEAGUE VETERAN

HARRY THE HOARSE