Michigan

Joe Arpaio Escapee Rocky Marquez Was Caught, but He Walked Out of Another Jail Last Week

Rocky Marquez escaped one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jails in May by essentially walking out the front door, but he was caught in Michigan just a couple weeks ago by the U.S. Marshals Service.And you'll never guess who escaped a jail in Detroit last week by essentially walking out the front door.See al ... More >>

Z-Trip Highlights Sound Wave Music Fest

Antique Scream @ Palo Verde Lounge

Lousy Tipper Database Exposes Stiffers, Tightwads: Says One AZ Entry, "You always tip nine percent. Stop eating in restaurants!"

Listen up, lousy tippers. Yeah, you. You know who you are: stiffing your restaurant server, leaving him or her less than what they're owed after you've filled your face, and especially the guy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who, after having dinner with his family of five, left me the "tip" of a religio ... More >>

Laurie Notaro's Army of Foodies (Part Two)

I'm sorry, but there are always more. As soon as I hit save on my Army of Foodies list, I came up with another five. While these Amuse Douchers aren't always as prominent in everyday foodie structure, they are there. Thankfully, most of them will move on in about three months to whatever the next ... More >>

Erin Forney's Perfect Food Day

Photo courtesy Erin Forney​Erin Forney grew up the daughter of a butcher in Michigan. She's been in Phoenix since 2005 and has been "a food lover since birth." She documents her food adventures on her blog Food Tramp Diaries. While she does have the hereditary love of food and writes about ... More >>

Bell's Hopslam

​Beer: HopslamBrewery: Bell's Brewery, Inc. Style: Imperial IPAABV: 10 percent Several times a year, a brew is released that sets the beer-buying public in a frenzy. Like a locust swarm, they'll race from store to store to pick up as much as they can, leaving barren, empty shelves in their wake. D ... More >>

Owner of New Restaurant and Nano Brewery Coming to Arcadia Talks Beer, Why Tempe Didn't Work Out, and Explains What O.H.S.O. Stands For (Kinda)

​Jon Lane hasn't owned a restaurant before, but he's worked in several of them. Jon Lane​"My dad owned a banquet facility and I've worked in fast food, fine dining, and was a bar tender for Four Peaks and Dos Gringos for a while," he says. "If you're in the restaurant business, it's [re ... More >>

RAREaffair Didn't Disappoint

Zach Fowle ​Beer for Brains sure knows how to throw a party. On Saturday, close to 800 beer lovers soaked themselves in suds at the RAREaffair, thrown by the Beer for Brains Foundation. Held at Talking Stick Resort, this no-limit food-and-drink-tasting event featured more than 75 beers for s ... More >>

Top Five Concerts to Catch This Weekend: St. Madness, One Be Lo, Dave Alvin, The Script, and Agnostic Front

One Be Lo is scheduled to perform Friiday, September 23, at Club Red in Tempe. ​Making your weekend plans? We've already highlighted some of the best music going down this weekend, from the rock 'n' rolling Quarter Inch Crown, hardcore stalwarts H20, and the Music of the Old West performances at t ... More >>

Final Exit Network "Assisted Suicide" Defendant Pleads Guilty Today to Endangerment

An 86-year-old Scottsdale man pleaded guilty this morning to endangerment in the assisted-suicide case of a Phoenix woman who killed herself in 2007.   Right-to-die advocate takes one for the team​  In April, a Maricopa County jury could not agree on whether Franklin Langsn ... More >>

Elderly Pennsylvania Couple Receives Five Pounds of Weed in Mail from Arizona Address. Shockingly, Weed Probably Not From Arizona

​Arizona is well-known as a corridor for smuggling marijuana, and out-of-towners often like to take home a souvenir. Weed, however, is not allowed on airplanes, so stoners are occasionally forced to mail their cannabinoid keepsakes to their out of state homes (click here and here for a couple ... More >>

10 Anti-Religious Songs That May Be Inappropriate for Easter Dinner

Andres SerranoPiss Christ​Happy Easter, you degenerate rock 'n' roll fans. Most of you listeners of the devil's music probably only know Easter as the one major holiday that does nothing to shorten the workweek. But, there actually is reason for the holy day. In case you didn't know, Easter ... More >>

Morning Poll: Do Arizona Wildcats Stand a Chance Against Duke?

​If you're like us, your NCAA bracket is already worthless leading into the Sweet 16. But the University of Arizona's still giving some Arizonans a reason to pay attention to college basketball -- if only for one month out of the year.The Wildcats won a stunner over the Texas Longhorns yesterday, ... More >>

AZ Beer Week's Must-See Events

matchingfoodandwine.com ​​Arizona Beer Week, once upon a time just a twinkle in the eye of desert-dwelling beer lovers, is now upon us -- and has grown to juggernaut proportions. As our mom likes to say, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a beer week event. With somewhere in the ne ... More >>

DJ ill-legal? Talks Dubstep, Subversion, Rusko, Lazer Sword, Hyphy, Hovatron, and More

DJ ill-legal?​Name: Blake Ludera AKA: DJ ill-legal? Genres spun: Glitch, dubstep, breakbeats, and hip-hop mostly. I also like to scratch and get into some turntablism stuff, and on rare occassion I'll play house music or drum 'n' bass. I'm really all over the place when it comes to different ge ... More >>

Enchantment: Songs About New Mexico (1976)

Enchantment: Songs About New Mexico​Welcome to Obscuro, a weekly feature where Up on the Sun dives deep into the world of vinyl oddities: private press jobs, major label cast-offs, and general thrift shop clutter that's thus far escaped anyone's attention. These LPs have been hiding out, collectin ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Prop 203's Passage Means a New Billion-Dollar Industry for Arizona

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 17, 2010

Behind the Bar: Josh Warner at Wildfish Seafood Grille

​Josh Warner knows how to throw a party. The 30-year-old bartender at Wildfish Seafood Grille at the Scottsdale Waterfront might have a taste for light and simple cocktails, but he's not light on entertaining skills. After learning about what brought him to bartending, it's no wonder Warne ... More >>

Day Drinker: Man-Mines, Trouble and Heartache at the Snap Lounge (Part 1 of 2)

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? ​"We can't go back in there." "I know. It's too much, even for the two of us." "You call it. I mean, I'll do it, but if we go back in, who knows what's going to happen." "Run. Run to the car." ------ Stan was there f ... More >>

Day Drinker: Maverick Saloon

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? ​After surviving another holiday visit with the family in Michigan, where a new rule was set each time the temperature dropped another five degrees (don't knock the nativity set over when you're fencing on the Wii, don't ... More >>

Chef Talk: Andrew Ashmore of Modern Steak

At first glance, Andrew Ashmore looks more like a rocker than the executive chef of Scottsdale's Modern Steak. The 26-year-old from Grand Rapids, Mich. has a youthful appearance, with spiky hair and tattoos peeking out of his chef's jacket. Nicki Escudero On the patio of Modern Steak​But th ... More >>

Day Drinker: Royale Lounge

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? ​Sunday night, after watching, Two Weeks in Hell, a show about the brutal, two-week tryouts for wanna-be Green Berets, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. after dreaming about killing zombies with my bare hands on a 50-foot rope ladd ... More >>

Hot Links: MVD Closures, Job Losses, and Kiddy Porn

​Based on the most recent job-loss data, Arizona may have been hit harder by the recession than Michigan, a state infamous for job losses in the past. The most recent data shows that Arizona, since the start of the recession, shows the highest percentage of job losses. Arizona, according to th ... More >>

Q & A: Every Avenue

The guys in Every Avenue cite hometown heroes Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms as influences, and it's evident judging by the band's sophomore album, Picture Perfect.

On White Power, and Avoiding Tap Water

Swine Flu: Arizona on the Lookout for "Inevitable" Cases of New Virus

  Image: Wikimedia CommonsDoctors and clinicians across the state are preparing for what one official called the "fairly inevitable" discovery of a new strain of swine flu in Arizona.See: Shots of the Swine Flu's impact on Mexico City in this slide show. No sign of the virus that has killed ... More >>

Waiter Confidential: You're Now Free to Roam About the Classifieds

When it comes to playing hooky from work, you'd better be on your game - particularly if you work in a busy restaurant. Where my own exploits are concerned, experience has proven the best teacher. Susceptible to bouts of Cactus League-triggered spring fever, I've called in sick one day and returned ... More >>

Neil Young (Circa 1968), The Clash, What Laura Says, And Pavement Are Just Some Of What's Selling At Hoodlums Music & Movies

Neil Percival Young during the late '60s. Here's some irony for you. In November 1968, future rock 'n' roll hall of famer Neil Young was paralyzed with fear before his solo show at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor. According to a recent NPR story on the music legend, he had gone Splittsville from h ... More >>

The Bird shelters Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia from the flak she’s received for hoisting an Arpaio piñata head

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

Beachfront property in Tucson — going fast

Canada

The band from Michigan

Green Grocer

Dabrye

Two/Three
(Ghostly International)

The Volebeats

Like Her
(Turquoise Mountain)

Wolf Eyes

Weird sounds for the carnivorous soul

BEST LOCAL RON BURGUNDY

Ron Hoon

Dramarama

Ode to VH1

Man, Oh Manwich

Our gal about town enjoys the grub and the guys at My Florist.

La Isla Bonita

At long last, Madonna gets Swept Away

Friesen Weather

Acclaimed Portland bassist kicks off downtown's newest jazz showcase

You like us, you really like us

A week in which we bask in the all-too-temporary glow of readers' compliments

Brotherly Luv

Underground Empire and rap supergroup The Ten Commandments find favor in Philly

Polyamorous Pollyanna

The Vision Quest of Philip Curtis

More than 500 paintings of social and psychological truths spanning 50 years have made Curtis the dean of Arizona artists. At 90, he's losing the most important tools of his trade.

Joe Parham Stands Up

Is the African-American psychologist and former Ev Mecham staffer incompetent--or just streetwise?

Slow Strokes

Once dominant, U.S. swimmers have fallen back in the Olympic pack. And some observers are questioning whether Gary Hall Jr., the world-class sprinter from Paradise Valley, has the work ethic to find gold in Atlanta.

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