Ricky Martin

96: Betty Alatorre de Hong

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

WTF for the Holidays: Seven Wacky Holiday Records

After Thanksgiving comes and goes, it seems like just about everyone gets into the holiday spirit. Even the creepy, strange and misguided among us (which describes most of the lovely Up on the Sun staff, now that we think about it). We're not sure what these artists were thinking when they relea ... More >>

Paul Simon Releases Tracklist, Info on Upcoming Album 'So Beautiful Or So What'

​Folk master Paul Simon has just released details about his upcoming album, according to Consequence of Sound.So Beautiful Or So What will be a 10-track LP, and it's scheduled to be released on April 12.Simon has put out a music video for the first track, entitled "Getting Ready For Christmas Day. ... More >>

Claude Mattox To Perform At CityScape Block Party; No Word Yet On Whether Phoenix Councilman's Band (Screamin' Javelinas) Will Join Him

Claude Mattox​The CityScape Block Party is taking over downtown Phoenix starting Thursday night ... and the musical lineup is mind blowing.Macy Gray! Third Eye Blind! And Phoenix City Councilman Claude Mattox?Yep. He is expected to make a solo appearance on stage Sunday afternoon for a 90-minute s ... More >>

Protest Songs About SB 1070: The Deadline for Our Compilation, A Line In The Sand, is Approaching Fast

We're giving you the canvas: You color it in.​It's been a week since we asked Arizonans angry about SB 1070 -- the law that essentially mandates law enforcement agents racially profile Hispanics and requires those Hispanics to prove their citizenship or risk deportation -- to send us their protest ... More >>

Top Ten Musicians Who Cannot Tour Arizona Without Proving They're "Legal," From West Coast Sound

Should Lady Gaga carry her birth certificate when she swings through town this summer?​It's a rough time to be an Arizonan. The only thing tougher is being a brown Arizonan. Our moronic, racist legislation, (our sister paper LA Weekly uses a much better, more accurate string of adjective ... More >>

Free Breakfast at Over Easy and Easter Marshmallows in Today's Eater's Digest

An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. ​ Starting Today, Over Easy and Hickman's Farms are teaming up to help out St. Mary's Food Bank stock up for Easter Sunday. Bring in a minimum of five non-perishable food items to one of the two Over Easy locatio ... More >>

On Sonia Sotomayor and Street Spanish

On the Iraq invasion and losing your lengua

Oliver Wadsworth

The Irish lieutenant's actor

Español Sung Here

Crossing over — who's doing it, who's not

Shakira

Wherever, whenever

Your Government at Work

Chicks and Salsa

Chase your booty shake with a shot or two

Muy Caliente, Baby!

Our denizens of the dark get singed by the hot chicas and fly papis at Club Bash's Noche de Salsa

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Cellblock Salsa

Obie Bermudez, Jerry Rivera, and Vico C bring an unfiltered prison consciousness back to Puerto Rican pop

LATIN - The New Classicos

Celebrating some of the year's best efforts in Latin music

BEST LATIN CLUB -- GAY

Paco Paco Club Premier

It Ain't Good -- So What?

Sometimes, the best music is the stuff you wouldn't dream of praising in public

High-Maintenance Superestrella

Paulina Rubio lives for the spotlight. Getting there, though, is a bit uneasier.

Best Latino Gay Dance Club

Paco Paco

Step Lively

At Bash Salsa Night, the rhythm is gonna getcha

Americano Idol

Marc Anthony's rabid fans divulge the key to his Latin-pop crossover triumph, and the rules of salsa

Red, White and Food

A sudden hunger for good old-fashioned American comfort food

Best Gay Latino Club

Paco Paco Club Premiere
3045 North 16th Street
602-263-8424

Coyote Lovely

White Trash Debutantes rock the Emerald

Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs

Pig Latin (Triple X)and Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys
Night Tide
(Hightone Records)

Mail or Muse?

Proving that the Voice still carries, we offer a roundup of the latest local discs filling our box

Man on the Verge

Celebrated ASU playwright Guillermo Reyes -- who's Latino and gay -- gives thundering voice to the marginalized

Bugs' Buffet

Tempted by record company largess? Drink up and dig right in.

Ricky Redux

This latest Latin sensation is nothing new

Fork Chops

Life as a restaurant critic

Race for the Prize

After a monumental 1999, the Flaming Lips return to the road, ponder their legacy and look toward the future

Suffer Safari

Another funk-rap-metal morph disturbs the peace

Voulez-Vous Coochie-Coochie?

Letters

Honk If You're Gay, Dad

Is the UK's Gay Dad a nurturing rock patriarch or the Pop that embarrasses you in front of your friends?

The Award for Mediocrity, Again

Yearning for civil unrest from any '99 Grammy nominee

Hotwired

11 great records paid for with your soul

Ricky-Ticky-Tacky

Ricky Martin's solo debut in Phoenix a sellout in more ways than one

Catch a Falling Star

Ricky Martin is in a show-biz tailspin. The boy needs help. And he needs it now.

Is It Time To Pull The Thug?

Gang style blasts through popular culture. Can the media be used to fight back?

Wayne's World

Septuagenarian groupies, Clinton bashing, deep-fried cheese

Never Too Old to Tango

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs take back the past with La Marcha del Golazo Solitario

Recordings

Still Loca After All These Years

The Latin Explosion in dance music causes barely a ripple at Latino venues like Club Orfeon

Long Journey Home

A trio of Valley vets goes for aride down that lonesome highway

Buck's the System

Busk Showalter, the Diamondbacks' workaholic manager, proves that there is crying in baseball.

Recordings