Subject: Salt Lake City

• Phoenix Suns vs. Utah Jazz

  December 4, 2008

• ARIZONA, HOME OF THE OK QUARREL

  HEY, WE'RE THE GRAND CANYON STATE. WE LIKE BIG SCHISMS.

  November 3, 1993

• SWING SHIFTFORGET DISCO, HIP-HOP AND MOSHING--JITTERBUG IS BACK!

  September 7, 1995

• A HOUSE DIVIDED

  COUNTRY-CLUB LIVING IS NOT WHAT IT WAS CRACKED UP TO BE FOR ELLEN AND JOEL BARISH

  October 5, 1995

• Skunk Rock

  November 30, 1995

• Tori, Tori

  June 27, 1996

• Worst of Phoenix--The Music Scene

  Just a few splashes of vinegar to cut all the honey in this issue . . .

  September 19, 1996

• Second Helpings

  September 26, 1996

• Second Helpings

  March 4, 1999

• My Own Private Utah

  SLC Punk! is a sorry state of affairs

  May 6, 1999

• Flashes

  October 21, 1999

• Letters

  From the week of March 29, 2001

  March 29, 2001

• Top 10 sellers at Eastside Records

  August 5, 2004

• What's On Tap For Tonight's First Friday

  "Arms Wide" by Lindsey Nochta. We're changing things up for this month's edition of our First Friday preview post. In addition to providing you with a rundown of musicians performing at the monthly event, from here on out we'll also be giving you the scoop on much of the artwork being shown at the galleries and spaces along Roosevelt Row, Grand Avenue, and else where in CenPho. (As always, be sure to contact the venue for more info.) For example, peruse the colorful works of painter Suzanne

  January 2, 2009

• Little Idol Thrill in Jacksonville (Hey, That Rhymed!)

  George Ramirez at Gettysburg--Whoops, we mean the Jacksonville American Idol auditions.I've never been able to pinpoint exactly the reason, but I've always had an extreme, visceral dislike of the state of Florida. Maybe it's the alligators, perhaps it's the humidity that turns my hair into a giant puff ball, or maybe it's the fact that my parents forced my brother and I to spend every winter break until we were 14 at my grandparents' retirement community in Miami Beach. Whatever it is, Tuesday's

  January 28, 2009

• Idol Takes It to Salt Lake City, Where the People Are Mormon and the Singers Are Shitty

  Chris Kirkham and his friend Greg the Rabbit (or, as he's known to friends, Grabbit).Hey! We're almost there, folks! Almost at the end of the tedious Idol audition process and what is shaping up to be a yawner of a season so far. Hollywood Week starts on Tuesday, and that promises to be, at least, a little more exciting. When you put 100 chicks in a room and ask them to compete for something, the proverbial fur is going to fly. Some people claim they watch Idol through the audition stage only,

  January 29, 2009

• Suns Get Blazed in Portland Thursday Night. Up Next: Utah Saturday and Sacramento Sunday.

  When you're facing a solid opponent that's the second youngest squad in the league and hasn't played in four days, it's going to be tough to win, especially when you've had to grind out two tough victories in three days while fighting for your playoff lives. That's the best way to sum up the Phoenix Suns' experience in Portland last night, a not-even-close 129-109 victory for the Trail Blazers. Phoenix had to play yet another toughie less than 24 hours after a tough home win over the Utah Jazz

  March 27, 2009

• Salt Lake City Slickers

  Multimedia collective shows Utah’s not all it’s cracked down to be

  January 1, 2009

• Have Guitar, Will Travel

  Valley singer/songwriter takes his really good show on the road

  January 1, 2009

• STP ain't DOA

  July 24, 2008

• Corn or flour? You choose the tortilla

  July 24, 2008

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 1, 2007

  November 1, 2007

• Not With My Daughter?

  If it quacks like a good boyfriend . . .

  October 25, 2007

• Welcome to the Dollhouse

  Step inside

  May 3, 2007

• The Naming Debate

  Special reader-feedback edition

  March 22, 2007

• Stop Your Railing!

  Sure, light-rail construction is painful, but it will be worth it in the long haul

  December 28, 2006

• It Practices What They Preach

  Cast into the spotlight by fugitive polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs, the mainstream Mormon Church's trying to distance itself from its infamous cousin

  May 25, 2006

• Torino It Off

  This horrible Winter Olympics game doesn't even medal

  February 16, 2006

• Under Siege

  Polygamists are barricading their homes in the midst of mounting legal assaults by authorities

  September 22, 2005

• Drill Power

  December 30, 2004

• The Dwarves; The Freak Accident

  November 18, 2004

• Janet's Missed Opportunity

  October 7, 2004

• Various Artists

  August 19, 2004

• Double Exposure

  Arizona's finally followed Utah's lead and launched serious action to stop abuses by polygamists

  December 25, 2003

• Operation Mickey Mouse

  Could downtown Phoenix get more soulless? Yep! Check out Jerry Colangelo's secret plan.

  November 20, 2003

• Polygamy's Odyssey

  A brief history of the Mormon tenet

  March 13, 2003

• Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona

  For decades the state has let a feudal colony of fundamentalist Mormons force underage girls into illegal polygamous marriages

  March 13, 2003

• Marijuana and Mortality

  Boomers should look kindly on the medical marijuana measure

  October 31, 2002

• Short Shrift

  White-bread girl with tame issues keeps secrets for 50 cents a pop

  August 22, 2002

• Flame and Fortune

  The Olympic torch makes hot spots of two Valley sites

  January 10, 2002

• Babe Linkin'

  Lunch with Jaime Bergman from the TV show Son of the Beach

  March 22, 2001

• Graceland

  'Postmodern' pastor digs rock 'n' roll, loathes religion, but loves Jesus

  December 21, 2000

• Successful Organ Transplant

  Silent-film Phantom pipes up at Orpheum Theatre

  October 30, 1997

• Little Room for Improv-ment at the Phoenix Improv Festival

  It sounds like the premise of an especially horrific nightmare: You're on stage in front of at least 100 strangers. One of them yells out the phrase "Silly String in the Desert." And then the crowd, who all paid $15 to be entertained for the evening, expects you to use that phrase as the title of the completely improvised 30 minute musical you're about to perform for them. Now...go! Be funny! And hope that if you say something, well, not so funny, another performer is there to pick up the slac

  April 19, 2009

• Green Day Announces Tour Dates (But Not Venues), Phoenix in August

  Green Day announced dates for their 21st Century Breakdown Tour this morning (full list on jump) but haven't said where they'll be playing in each city. They come to Phoenix on August 22. That could just be a hiccup -- bands do sometimes announce dates before venues if one or two are up in the air -- but I think in this case it might actually be that they're not sure where they're playing a lot of places. I don't think anyone quite knows what the appetite for Green Day will be considering they'

  April 20, 2009

• Former Format Frontman's New Band, Fun, Starts Touring Tomorrow

  That Format-size hole in the heart of Phoenix music fans is about to get a little healing. Fun, the new NYC-based project by The Format's Nate Ruess, with ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Steel Train's Jack Antonoff, will embark on a 34-date tour with Manchester Orchestra tomorrow.Their first record isn't due until August, released this coming but the band is offering a free download of the Elton John-ish "At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)" by joining the band's mailin

  April 20, 2009

• Curtains: Hale Centre Theatre's April Ann in Gilbert

  Heather McCloud is April Ann.You may not realize it, but we have a Hale Centre Theatre in the Valley because a nice young couple, Ruth and Nathan Hale, moved from Salt Lake City to the L.A. area in 1943 and discovered they could get more acting work if they opened their own theater. The family business now operates five venues in three states.When the Hales were road-tripping in the 1950s, they encountered an interesting family who lived on a remote mountaintop in the Canadian Rockies. Ruth and

  July 1, 2009

• For All He-Mankind

  August 27, 2009

• Puscifer Sets Tour Dates, Plays Phoenix December 3 and 4

  ​Arizona-dwelling Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's side project, Puscifier, has announced fall tour dates, including two shows at Phoenix's stunning Orpheum Theatre. The show, which actually allows you to see Maynard, unlike Tool's concerts, where he stands on the back of the stage, has been explained as, "a performance art spectacle equal parts comedy cabaret show, guerrilla theater, lysergic animation sequences, Krautrock-inspired metallic jams and leering lunacy of various stripes."Soun

  September 1, 2009

• Rob Zombie "Hellbilly Deluxe 2" Tour To Open Tour in Phoenix

  ​ Just like the horror movies he gets so much inspiration from, Rob Zombie is not afraid to revisit a successful past project when there's money to be made. Thus we have the The Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Tour, which will open in Phoenix before hitting the rest of the U.S. around Halloween. Lest you think Zombie's been milking this shtick all along, the press release helpfully pints out that, "Not since 1998's super smash triple platinum HELLBILLY DELUXE has Zombie hit the road under that moniker. So

  September 15, 2009