Subject: Los Angeles

• Birthday Parties

  January 8, 2007

• Fame, Shmame: Overlooked AZ Hall of Fame Nominees

  September 15, 2007

• Various Artists

  Savoy on Central Avenue (Savoy Jazz)

  March 11, 2004

• Art Scene

  A look at five Valley art exhibits.

  July 22, 2004

• Art Scene

  August 5, 2004

• Naughty and Nice

  What do musicians want in their stockings?

  December 20, 2007

• Phoenix Light Rail Marks First Crash With Vehicle Since Opening to Passengers

    Uh-oh. The light rail system has been operating with passengers for just four days and it's already been involved in a vehicle collision. That doesn't seem to bode well for the on-street system, which logged another minor accident earlier this month during its test phase. Whether the accident rate will pick up remains to be seen. Valley Metro has studied safety from other cities that had to learn the hard way, like Houston and Los Angeles, but knowing the Valley's drive

  December 30, 2008

• Sammi Hanratty, Local Child Actress, Stars in Doll-Based Movie

  Valley child actress Sammi Hanratty lives in Scottsdale -- when she can.Busy as a bee -- but not a Mean Bee (we'll get to that in a moment) -- Hanratty travels frequently to Los Angeles for her work in the CBS show The Unit or The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Next week, according to her Web site, she'll be in New York City at the young-girl's-dream-store American Girl Place signing autographs and helping promote her new movie, which is based on the popular series of dolls.

  January 2, 2009

• SxSWers Spirit Animal, Saint Motel and Asa Random Stopping in Scottsdale Monday

  Phoenix's prime place in the vast desert between Los Angeles and Austin really comes in handy this time of year, as we get tons of shows by otherwise-usually-too-hip-to-play-here acts stopping by on their way to South by Southwest. Jose Gonzolez rounded a bunch of them up for you in the paper this week, but I also wanted to mention a cool show happening at The Rogue Bar in Scottsdale Monday. Our friend Murph of So Much Silence fame is putting together a cool bill with Angelenos Spirit Animal (el

  March 13, 2009

• De-Liverance

  Repossession is nine-tenths of the law in fiendish rock opera

  January 22, 2009

• To B or Not to B

  Hanging with sorta-stars on Halloween

  October 30, 2008

• Labor Pains

  Timely play pits aliens versus alien busters

  September 4, 2008

• Mex Master

  July 31, 2008

• Let's Get Physical

  July 10, 2008

• Web Spinner

  March 20, 2008

• Partners in Crime

  Bad-boy remix collective hits the PHX

  January 31, 2008

• Brickhouse of Flying Paint

  August 23, 2007

• Grand Illusion

  Phoenix. The new Hollywood. Right.

  August 2, 2007

• The Silver Daggers

  Keep your hands inside the vehicle

  May 10, 2007

• Mary X-Mas

  You spin me right 'round yon virgin

  December 21, 2006

• White Demons

  Say Go
  (Sonic Swirl Records)

  December 7, 2006

• Underground Aesthetic

  Daedelus' brand of eclectic hip-hop is a true change of pace

  October 12, 2006

• Sandow Birk: To Hell and Back

  Divinely inspired

  September 28, 2006

• Fusion Music Festival

  Like a record, baby

  September 21, 2006

• The Clientele

  Broken English

  August 17, 2006

• Big Mouth

  Land of the falling expectation

  July 20, 2006

• I See Hawks in L.A.

  California Country
  (Western Seeds)

  July 6, 2006

• Osunlade

  Global housewarming

  April 27, 2006

• Old Soul

  Strumming towards ecstasy

  December 15, 2005

• The Briggs

  Bicoastal, or something

  August 11, 2005

• The Shape Shifters

  More than different

  July 28, 2005

• Seoul Survivors

  September 23, 2004

• Moving Units

  September 23, 2004

• Bamboo, Pee-Yew!

  July 29, 2004

• L.A. Unified Skills District at the Brickhouse

  July 22, 2004

• Static-X

  July 22, 2004

• THE NIGHT:Standard at Elixir

  THE DJ:Translator

  June 17, 2004

• Green Party

  May 13, 2004

• Urban Cowpie

  SMoCA's "PHX/LA" show really stinks

  May 13, 2004

• Adult Swim

  May 21, 2009

• Instant Classics

  June 11, 2009

• Now Open: 25 Degrees at CityNorth

  Craving a burger? Bored with the usual? Well you're in luck. Today's the opening day for 25 Degrees, an upscale burger joint/wine bar at the new CityNorth in north Phoenix. (The name, by the way, refers to the temperature difference between a medium-rare and well-done burger.) It's the third outpost of the restaurant, which also has locations inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in L.A., as well as Hotel G in Beijing. The menu features four signature burgers, as well as a build-your-ow

  June 15, 2009

• Christina Fernandez

  July 9, 2009

• DJ Fashen Bids Farewell to Phoenix Starting Tonight

  After close to two decades of spinning up hip-hop and dance music at practically every major spot our city has to offer (as well as working behind the mic at Power 98.3 for a number of years), DJ Fashen is departing the PHX in favor of an L.A. address. Much like Markus Schulz, and Eddie Amador before him, the 38-year-old says he's outgrown the regular Valley club grind here and feels like the SoCal scene will provide him many more opportunities. "I'm finally done with Phoenix," he says. "Ju

  July 15, 2009

• DJ Dossier: Fashen

  As you read this, DJ Fashen is getting ready to drop some high-energy dance cuts for club kids in our nation's capital. Then he'll spend the next few weeks bouncing around North America like some bald-headed pinball, flying between Boston, San Diego, Alberta, and even down to Florida. But somewhere in this cross-continent whirlwind of non-stop travel, Fashen will be making two appearances back here in his hometown. Unfortunately for local EDM fans, these gigs will be his last in the Valley

  July 17, 2009

• Why Don't You Start a Food Truck Business?

  Food trucks have quite the buzz these days, especially the Kogi Korean BBQ-to-Go trucks in Los Angeles. Rabid fans follow the biz on Twitter and get tweets on where to find Korean shortrib tacos at any given moment. While chowing down on some of Nobuo Fukuda's badass pork belly buns at his one-off event at Welcome Diner the other night, the subject came up in relation to Phoenix. Why the hell aren't there more food trucks in Phoenix? After all, we're all about car culture -- just like L.A. -- so

  August 10, 2009

• Former Ghosts

  October 1, 2009

• Skin and Bare-Bones

  October 15, 2009

• Skin and Bare-Bones

  October 15, 2009

• Secret Supper Club Finally Hits Phoenix

  ​By-invite-only, underground dinner parties have been all the rage in Los Angeles, Portland, New York, you name it. It's been one of the biggest trends of the year, but strangely hasn't hit the Valley until now. Better late than never, I say. A few different people in town have talked to me recently about wanting to start something here, but now they've all been beaten to the punch by the soon-to-debut Culinary Mischief (love that name!), whose private feast for 30 lucky guest

  November 23, 2009