Jack Kerouac

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THE LOUD POETS SOCIETY

A NEW GENERATION REVIVES THE BEAT ERA AND PHOENIX LITERARY LIFE THROUGH AN OLD FORM OF COMPETITION: THE POETRY SLAM

MR. HOWL

ALL POETRY AND NO MUSIC MAKE ALLEN A DULL BOY; GINSBERG'S BOX PROVES HE'S ANYTHING BUT

The Valley Monitor

ALL POETRY AND NO MUSIC MAKE ALLEN A DULL BOY; GINSBERG'S BOX PROVES HE'S ANYTHING BUT

Recordings

ALL POETRY AND NO MUSIC MAKE ALLEN A DULL BOY; GINSBERG'S BOX PROVES HE'S ANYTHING BUT

Calendar for the week

ALL POETRY AND NO MUSIC MAKE ALLEN A DULL BOY; GINSBERG'S BOX PROVES HE'S ANYTHING BUT

Jack's Back

ALL POETRY AND NO MUSIC MAKE ALLEN A DULL BOY; GINSBERG'S BOX PROVES HE'S ANYTHING BUT

Pulp Faction

Hard-boiled soft-covers find a home at The Lost Dutchman

BEST DIVE BAR

Bikini Lounge

Arizona Hermit Author Wins Major International Literary Award

A self-published book author who spent the last four years living as a hermit in a southeastern Arizona fire lookout has won a prestigious  international literary award.Glynn E. Thompson's book, The Raving Eunuch Monks, sold 500 copies by word of mouth alone after he published it last year, accordi ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

Rebel With a Cause

Fictional high school cheerleader chooses On the Road over Girls Gone Wild

Tom Russell

Hot Walker
(Hightone)

Caught on Film

Pollack Cinemas snags indie flicks

True Confessions

Summer heat makes us want to sit perfectly still and read about peoples wild, wild lives

Miller's Crossing

Editor discusses book on the Mexican border

Road Worrier

Restless singer-songwriter David Dondero seeks out love and mourns the loves he's lost on The Transient

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

Confess, Greg

For years, Fletch was out of print. Now, his father explains why.

Less Is More

No longer an enfant terrible, composer Terry Riley continues to astound and amaze

Blues Valentine

After nearly three decades, the fateful desert meeting between Tom Waits and John Hammond is fully realized with the release of Wicked Grin

Birth of the Cool: Beat, BeBop and the American Avant-Garde

By Lewis MacAdams (Simon & Schuster Free Press)

Everything Old Is New Again

You gotta do your homework on the originals if you really want to appreciate Shadow of the Vampire and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Hey, Joe!

Gumbo lines up the most wanted in jazz, blues and heritage

Pompousness and Circumstance

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

Molten Wax

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

Concealed Weapons

Despite some misfires, The Pistoleros keep looking for a break and say that rumors of their demise are greatly exaggerated

Texas Flood

Despite some misfires, The Pistoleros keep looking for a break and say that rumors of their demise are greatly exaggerated

The Case of the Terrified Tiger

She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

Sixty-One Things to Know About Bob Dylan

She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

WHISKER'S MOTHERIS A CAT REALLY CAPABLE OF CREATING AN ARTISTIC MOUSERPIECE?

She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

BLACK LIKE HEWITH THE DEATH OF WOLFMAN JACK, THE LAST TRUE CHILD OF RADIO IS GONE

She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

WIN THUMB,LOSE THUMB

She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

Death Cab's Ben Gibbard, Son Volt's Jay Farrar Team Up For Kerouac Project

​When Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard takes up a solo project the results can be stellar -- just look at The Postal Service. So his newest project, a team effort with Son Volt's Jay Farrar (read an extended Q&A with Jay from earlier this summer here), is pretty intriguing. The pair recorded ... More >>

Shelby James and the Crying Shames

​When Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard takes up a solo project the results can be stellar -- just look at The Postal Service. So his newest project, a team effort with Son Volt's Jay Farrar (read an extended Q&A with Jay from earlier this summer here), is pretty intriguing. The pair recorded ... More >>

Bob Log III, Adam Arcuragi, Sticky Fingers' Michael Jackson Tribute, and More

The ladies love Bob Log III, who's scheduled to perform at Chopper John's on Saturday Night.​Although downtown may or may not be ovah (depending on the particular mood of our fair editor Martin Cizmar), but in the meantime, East Phoenix might just be coming alive when it comes to live music. In a ... More >>

Bob Dylan Torture Test Puts Teenagers on 72-Hour Dylan Binge

​The hits, they keep-a-comin'. Seattle's The Stranger recently conducted a brilliant field test, if you will, which forced four 17-18 year olds to listen to nothing but Bob Dylan for 3 days. Specifically, the youngsters had to listen to Dylan's exhaustive three disc set Biograph while they pa ... More >>

The Fighter: The Micky Ward Story Falls Through the Ropes in a Too-Familiar Film

​The hits, they keep-a-comin'. Seattle's The Stranger recently conducted a brilliant field test, if you will, which forced four 17-18 year olds to listen to nothing but Bob Dylan for 3 days. Specifically, the youngsters had to listen to Dylan's exhaustive three disc set Biograph while they pa ... More >>

Howl

​The hits, they keep-a-comin'. Seattle's The Stranger recently conducted a brilliant field test, if you will, which forced four 17-18 year olds to listen to nothing but Bob Dylan for 3 days. Specifically, the youngsters had to listen to Dylan's exhaustive three disc set Biograph while they pa ... More >>

Modern Artist Dick Seeger Pioneered Scottsdale; Now He Turns to His Own Backyard

​The hits, they keep-a-comin'. Seattle's The Stranger recently conducted a brilliant field test, if you will, which forced four 17-18 year olds to listen to nothing but Bob Dylan for 3 days. Specifically, the youngsters had to listen to Dylan's exhaustive three disc set Biograph while they pa ... More >>

Mike Viola on Get Him to the Greek, Breaking Bad, and Living with Kim Fowley at 13

​Mike Viola is one of those guys you've heard a hundred times and not realized it. He's the vocalist singing "That Thing You Do" (from the 1996 film of the same name); his '90s band The Candy Butchers scored serious buzz along side his friends Fountains of Wayne; he's written songs for Get Him to ... More >>

Matt Hopper and The Roman Candles @ Yucca Tap Room

​Mike Viola is one of those guys you've heard a hundred times and not realized it. He's the vocalist singing "That Thing You Do" (from the 1996 film of the same name); his '90s band The Candy Butchers scored serious buzz along side his friends Fountains of Wayne; he's written songs for Get Him to ... More >>