"Diane took it really hard today," the clerk said, bagging up the purchases of the last customer of the day, yesterday afternoon, at Diane Ribbon & Notion, a craft supply warehouse favored by Phoenix artists and the latest casualty of what economists are struggling to name, but for these purposes we'll just call the Really Bad Economy.
Looking around the huge warehouse at 2319 W. Holly Street in Phoenix -- located inconveniently, sort of in between the fairgrounds and the I-17 -- it'
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
