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Feathered Bastard:
Charles Ryan Attends Marcia Powell's Memorial Service, Says He Didn't Know Powell Had Guardian
Up on the Sun:
2009 MTV Movie Awards: Quite Enjoyable, Actually
Rest in Peace, Rose Johnson
Chow Bella:
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Arizona Qualifier
New in Tempe: Paldo Market
Valley Fever:
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The Phoenix arts community is still reeling today from news that one of its pioneers, painter and muralist Rose Johnson, 48, died yesterday, Sunday, May 31, at Sanglah General Hospital in Bali. The Jakarta Post is now reporting that Johnson most probably died from acute alcohol poisoning as a result of ingesting liquor that had been laced with methanol. Also known as methyl alcohol or wood spirits, methanol is a toxic form of alcohol that is used industrially in antifreeze, fuel and solven
TimesOnline, the online website for The Times of London is reporting today that noted Phoenix artist Rose Johnson, along with a number of other people in the past week, died in Bali from consuming arak, a type of local rice wine, tainted with methanol. According to the news report, police have arrested the owner and two employees of Tra Hita Karya, a small Denpasar rice wine factory, after finding three 650-gallon drums of arak that contained traces of methanol, a toxic chemical compound often
For all the talk of Rose Johnson's good-bye fete at the Icehouse being a celebration rather than a memorial, the emotional climate at Saturday night's send-off was more somber than sunny, as hundreds of people gathered to honor the former Phoenix artist. The Icehouse proved to be a particularly fitting location for Johnson's memorial, since she had mounted a number of important performance pieces there during the late 1980's and 90's. (See a slide show from the event as well as this week's cove
Rose Johnson's Memorial at Icehouse in Downtown Phoenix
There was no dirth of Rose Johnson-created (and inspired) art at the memorial celebration held in honor of the artist on Saturday night, June 20th, 2009 at the Icehouse downtown. Hundreds of people showed up to pay their respects to one of Phoenix's seminal members of this town's arts community. The memorial was capped by a procession of mermaids bearing offerings to the spirit of Rose Johnson...full story
See: Photos from the Rose Johnso
Just got a heads-up from Eric Iwerson, Senior Planner for the City of Tempe, that the city's talking about preserving one of artist Rose Johnson's murals that graces a bicycle locker at Tempe City Hall. The locker mural was executed by Johnson in 1997.
Courtesy of City of TempeTempe City Hall Bicycle Locker painted by Rose Johnson in 1997
Iwerson, whose job involves integrating public art with capital projects along bike paths, parks and streets, recalls that Johnson, who passed away on June
By Bromirski from Flickr Creative Commons"George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook" by Robert Colescott.
Much like the death of Michael Jackson overshadowed the loss of Farrah Fawcett, Bisbee, AZ artist Rose Johnson's untimely and tragic
demise diverted attention from the June 4th passing of 83 year old
Robert Colescott, an internationally known artist who lived his last
days in Tucson, AZ. We haven't heard too much buzz locally but the news o
In the past 20 years or so, Americans of all ethnicities throughout the country -- especially here in the Southwest -- have been making a big deal of Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration that spans several days and just happens to coincide with All Souls and All Saints Days (November 1 and 2) in the Catholic liturgical calendar. Leave it to those eminently creative Mexicans to concoct fabulous, regionally unique traditions that meld pre-Columbian rituals honoring t
