Frank Sinatra

Laura S. Strickland, What Are You Listening To?

Laura S. Strickland Strickland is the Principal Flutist for the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble and a soloist in the upcoming concert, The Winds; Woodwind Masterworks, on Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, wh ... More >>

Derrick Hall, What Are You Listening To?

Derrick Hall Hall is the president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? Arizona Sports 620, KNIX or KMLE. What's the first album you bought? Kiss, Love Gun. What's the first concert you saw? Loverboy, ... More >>

In The Navy

Minnesota @ Club Red

As I Lay Dying's Jordan Mancino on Slayer and Frank Sinatra

​The members of Grammy-nominated metal group As I Lay Dying are further into their career than they thought they'd ever be. Not only does 2011 mark the band's 10-year anniversary, but the band released a new album, Decas, and are burning through the country with Of Mice and Men, The Ghost In ... More >>

Good and Bad Moods for the Spirit of Thanksgiving

ohdeeoh.com​There are a lot of right ways and wrong ways to celebrate Thanksgiving. Right ways include spending quality time with your family; wrong ways include making out with your first cousin because you only see him once a year. Here at Up On The Sun, we advocate all feelings of inner warmth ... More >>

Nikka Costa @ The Roxy Lounge

Top Ten Things That Make Frank Sinatra Cool

A young Frank Sinatra, after being arrested for "carrying on" with a married woman (which was a crime way back then). Not one of the things that makes him cool, but a damn good photo.​When it comes to crooners, they don't get any cooler than Frank Sinatra. Over the course of his 60-year career, "O ... More >>

The Best and Worst Baseball Songs

As a lifelong baseball fan, these lists come from the heart. Some lesser-known ballads will have their day in the sun while other too-oft worshiped pieces of garbage will finally be called out. I am not doing this to make any friends. It is all for the love of the game.

Wedding Music: Getting Hitched? Check Out Matrimony's New Musical Canon

Ask a Mexican: On Robbing From the Old, Giving to the Underpaid, and Crying Manly Tears

'American Idol' Kids Get to Play Dress Up and Sing Frank Sinatra Songs

​Last night on American Idol, it was Frank Sinatra night, and you know what that means--break out the suits and black dress! This was the classiest night of the season so far, as the contestants took on the legend.Harry Connick, Jr., the guest mentor of the night, was called a "superstar" by Ryan ... More >>

Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine

Hot Links: Arpaio Probed, Resort Approved, Sinatra Blown

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the MSCO, looking for evidence of discrimination based on race. Arpaio says "We'll open our books. We have nothing to hide." If that's true, then why has he repeatedly refused to rele ... More >>

Every Valley neighborhood should be so lucky as to have an eatery like Aiello's Fine Italian Dining

Oldies and Goodies

Zappa Plays Zappa

The Zappa doesn't fall far from the tree

The House Always Wins

How much you wanna bet this washed-up threequel makes a bundle?

Cause Celeb

The golden touch

Bada Bomb

An offer you can refuse

Summer Camp

Demme's Manchurian Candidate remake makes good

It Took Some Time

Why Morrissey is newly hip among bands that sound nothing like him

Dough Boy

Our foodie finds the top five pizza spots in town

Don of the Dead

Resurrecting the Rat Pack to an audience with its mouth full

Fly Me to the Croons

In its stylish tribute to Frank Sinatra, Phoenix Theatre does it My Way

Various artists

Eee-O 11: The Best of the Rat Pack, Live at the Sands (Capitol)

Beauty and the Beat

Nikka Costa has a big, funky voice and a great butt. Which will you notice first?

Unsung Heroes, Pasta and Pizza

Small wonders greet adventurous diners in Tempe.

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a movie that's better than this two-hour advertisement

Best Place to Watch First Wives and Lounge Lizards

The Velvet Room
7111 East Fifth Avenue, Scottsdale
480-941-6000

Joni Mitchell

Both Sides Now
(Reprise)

Pack Again

Suck 'n' Cover

New Times' critical vultures swoop down to pick at the latest carrion and dross

Grist From the Mill

Music Awards Showcase once again makes a virtue of excess

Second Helpings

Message to Santa

Retro Facsimiles

"Final Episode" Killer Curse Revealed!

Frankie With the Snarling Face

What future is there for rock without the Chairman of the Board to kick it around?

Below the Belter

Old-fashioned love songs redeem Crooners' off-key plot

Idle Worship

New book celebrates fave raves who had the choppers but not the chops

Impersonation Nation

The Blues Brothers, Marilyn, The Killer, Ol' Blue Eyes, Der Bingle and The King himself! The "Legendary Superstars" revue takes a Las Vegas formula to Apache Junction and audiences are, well, doubled over.

Aloha Again, Naturally

WHAT'S THE SCARIEST ALBUM OF THE LAST FOUR DECADES?

WHAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY?

THE PROBLEM FOR CRITICS AND JAZZ POLICE IS NO PROBLEM TO HARRY CONNICK JR. HE'S CROONING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK.

TUNES OF '93 IN TEN EASY STEPS SIR CHARLES, BARRY GOLDWATER AND DAVE FROM CIRCLE K WEIGH IN WITH THEIR FAVES

TRICKLES OF RICKLES

MR. WARMTH HEATS UP ON ROCK, THE RAT PACK AND, YES FRANK

STRANGERS IN THE STUDIOSINATRA FANS MIGHT WONDER-WHY DIDN'T HE DUET IN THE FLESH?

BRUTALLY FRANK: ROCK STARS VERSUS FRANK SINATRA: WHO DID IT HIS WAY FIRST?

JAMS TO THE WORLD

A STOCKINGFUL OF JOYFUL NOISES AND TANNEN-BOMBS

THE VOICE THAT TIME FORGOT

TONY BENNETT HAS OUTLASTED THE COMPETITION BY TAKING IT SLO-O-O-W