Vietnam

How This New Music Will Make You Smarter (Thanks, Science)

A good 90 percent of my job as a music journalist is keeping my finger on new music, continuously discovering the vast spectrum of sound that human beings can create. Another 9 percent is attending concerts, where I destroy my liver and my hearing for shits and gigs. That final 1 percent is being a ... More >>

Bonjour Vietnam in Downtown Phoenix: Happy Hour Report Card

The Spot: Bonjour Vietnam 202 North Central Avenue 602-252-1223 www.hotelsancarlos.com/dining See Also: - La Condesa in Phoenix: Happy Hour Report Card - Pallets, a Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese Restaurant, Opens on Roosevelt Row - 10 Favorite Vietnamese Restaurants in Greater Phoenix The Hou ... More >>

Taking a Walk on the Royal Side at Hue Gourmet

For those who want to eat like a king, or in this case, an emperor, an imperial legacy of dishes can be found in one, rather strange place in the Valley. A counter-service stand in the Mekong Plaza food court in Mesa: Hue Gourmet. Distinctive to the rest of the country, the cuisine of the Vietname ... More >>

An Artist Statement by El Mac (VIDEO)

​During his recent visit to Vietnam, El Mac (who, full disclosure, we'll always consider a local artist -- no matter where he moves) recorded his artist statement for the Viet Nam The World Tour. Included in the short film are behind-the-scenes looks at one of his more recent murals in H ... More >>

Words of Wisdom

Sekong by Night Brings Cambodian Cuisine to Phoenix

The Last Candy Shop

This is a beautiful video about a candy shop on a street in Hanoi, part of etsy's Handmade Life series. Watch it -- just because.

Dinh Q. Le's "Signs and Signals From the Periphery" at ASU Art Museum Proves That Art Is Everywhere

Crystal Castles: "Vietnam" (Lightsoverla Remix)

​Song: Crystal Castles' "Vietnam" (Lightsoverla Remix)Context: It's been 40 years and one day since the Kent State shootings. 

Huntington, West Virginia, Needs More Than Jamie Oliver, in This Week's "TV Dinner"

Ding! Ding! Ding! America, thanks to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (the best reality show on TV right now) we now have a winner for the Glad-I-Don't-Live-in-This Hellhole award: Huntington, West Virginia! Great job, Huntington! What's your secret? Children who don't know how to cut food with a knif ... More >>

Snake Wine: What's Yer Poison (Literally)?

If "Hair of the dog" doesn't do it for ya, give "Juice of the snake" a try. ​In a rather repulsive example of how "That which does not kill you makes you stronger," snake wine (made predominantly in Vietnam, Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia) is said to contain medicinal properties t ... More >>

Curtains: Happy Birthday, Katie Valentine at Chyro Arts

used under Creative Commons License Detail of Frederick Hart's The Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.​It's always a heartwarming surprise to see a play by a non-famous local writer -- a student, recent grad, or someone just relatively new to writing for the ... More >>

Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall Exhibit

Hot Links: Gretzky Sits Out, Roosevelt Fires, and Parsley Recall

​The Phoenix Coyotes ice hockey team started training camp on Saturday without coach Wayne Gretzky. While awaiting the decision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in the sale of the team and team ownership, "The Great One" Gretzky thought it better to "sit back for a few days and evaluate," accordin ... More >>

Community Move Night: The Weather Underground

Joe R. Lansdale

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 18, 2009

“Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor” at Lisa Sette Gallery Uses an Alternative Photographic Process to Burn Images of Khmer Rouge Victims Into Your Soul

A Former Marijuana Smuggler and Vietnam War Hero Seeks Greater Recognition From His Government

Groove Merchants

Hippiefied shopkeepers dole out good vibes and daisies

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 2, 2009

For Canadians and Deserter Kim Rivera, Iraq Is Not Your Daddy’s Vietnam

Red-Hot, White, and Brown

Canadian-Indian comic seeks world domination

Mekong Plaza Offers Asian Groceries and Good Eats to Adventuring Foodies

Your Mexican-American Reading List for the Holidays

John McCain's Fame is Based on His POW Status, But He Has Abandoned Fellow Veterans

Stop-Loss contemplates Iraq war without mention the words 'Iraq' or 'war'

Random Acts of Violins

Music to swat insects by

For All Nam Kind

Viet youngbloods paint the future using age-old techniques

Walk Through the Valley

Don’t let Paul Haggis’ heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Lady Luck

Justina Duong

Foot in the Door

The pedicures might look pretty, but the American dream can turn ugly at the Valley's Vietnamese nail salons

Water World

A thirst for expression

Letters

Letters from the week of November 18, 2004

War Games

For the Valley's extreme gamers, the action is often too big for a computer screen

Back to the Future

The past is catching up with the Vietnamese son of a black American soldier

sNooze, You Lose

Hell on Earth

In the first battle of the Vietnam War, they were Soldiers, and then some

War Crimes in Downtown Phoenix

Vietnam vets discuss the allegations of atrocities leveled at Bob Kerrey

The Saigon Time Around

Vietnamese-born filmmaker revisits roots in Three Seasons

Return of the Native

Fest Market

Is John McCain a War Hero?

The senator's five years as a prisoner of war have been widely viewed as heroic. But as he prepares a White House bid, a small group of detractors is determined to expose him as a wartime traitor

Courage Under Fire

The Good War goes bad in Spielberg's brilliant Saving Private Ryan

Missing Earl Jr.

A Glendale couple forges a national alliance and a personal bond in their mutual quest to find the 2,087 Vietnam-era POWs and MIAs

ALIVE and Kickin'

Refugees from around the world find common ground--and a few good rumbles--in a Valley soccer league of nations

THE VET OFFENSIVE

AN EX-SOLDIER SAYS HARASSMENT DROVE HIM FROM HIS JOB. HIS FORMER EMPLOYER CITES "BIZARRE BEHAVIOR" ROOTED IN VIETNAM.

GRIMACE, YOU'RE ON CARNAGE CAMERADOCUMENTARY VISITS GULF WAR'S COLLATERAL DAMAGE, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

For Sale: One War Hero