Arizona Secular Humanists member Randy Jones wanted someone to take Chuck Sloan’s camera so Sloan could get in the photograph. Since Sloan always takes the pictures, he’s seldom in any of them with his fellow nonbelievers. After an October 8 picnic at a Scottsdale park, Jones spotted U.S. Representative J.D…
As the Fife Turns Yes, loyal Flashes readers, it’s time for another gripping installment of As the Fife Turns. In this episode, we ask the burning question: Have Arizona Republicans had enough of J. Fife Symington III? Are whispers of “Recall Fife” heard across the desert? According to e-mail from…
The City of Phoenix turned a blind eye to Governor J. Fife Symington III’s financial troubles by failing for more than two years to demand repayment of a $2.7 million loan the city made to Symington’s Mercado partnership. Rather than meeting its obligations under a federal grant to immediately demand…
Bob Huey looked uncomfortable as he began speaking. He was nervous, and his speech seemed on the verge of falling apart before it could really get going. But then, shifting his weight and taking a deep breath, Huey spoke in a clear, forceful voice the words the small crowd had…
They nailed Al Capone on his taxes, and now the feds are taking a hard look at Governor Fife Symington’s tax returns. It makes sense, doesn’t it? Symington cheated those who banked at Southwest Savings and Loan on the $30 million Esplanade investment; he cheated the taxpayers who had to…
At 8:30 on the evening of October 4, 1994, Rebecca haro, lead paramedic for Samaritan AmEvac, and her partner were parked in their ambulance near 83rd Avenue and Glendale. . A call came over the radio: A man had been injured in a fight just blocks away. All 911 fire…
“This is where that bastard shot my son in the face, tu entendes?” he says.
Bomans New York Kosher Style Restaurant & Deli, 3731 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 9472934. Hours: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, 7:30 a.m. to 9p.m., seven days a week. Every time I spend a few days visiting friends and relatives in New York, I feel good about my long-ago decision to move…
thursday october 12 Chandler Doo Dah Days Festival and Super Duper Doo Dah Parade: It does the heart good to see a municipality unfetter the bun and let its hair down once in a while. City of Chandler’s annual oddball hoe-down is something akin to a fright wig. The second…
Ralph–I beg your pardon, “Rafe”–Fiennes plays Lenny Nero, his first full-fledged Hollywood hero, in Strange Days, a futuristic thriller from the penof James Cameron and the eye of Kathryn Bigelow. He’s a schmoozing ex-cop street hustler who deals in illegal virtual reality discs of addictive quality, and Lenny’s fiddling around…
Director Gus Van Sant’s crackling new film To Die For matches up perfectly with the performance of its star, Nicole Kidman. It’s as lean and graceful as a cheetah, and it wears a lewdly sinister grin that intimates you’re being let in on a naughty joke. Watching the film, you…
How Green Is My Valley: Too bad Phoenix does not yet have a delicatessen support group, where deli-starved folks like me can find a sympathetic ear for their cravings. (“Hello, my name is Howard, and I love knishes.”) Another hugely disaffected set of Valley diners–vegetarians–is much better able to soothe…
The Eureka! Theatre Company has shown itself to be a bastion of controlled-risk theatre. Founder and artistic director Evann Wilcosky has consistently produced top-quality productions of plays most theatres in the Valley won’t touch. Last season’s roster included Christopher Durang’s Baby With the Bathwater and one of the year’s best…
“Maria! I just met a girl named Maria/And suddenly that name will never be the same to me.” Her real name is Katherine Stewart, and she is the main reason to see the revival of West Side Story, currently stirring up the sleepy suburbs at Mesa Amphitheatre. West Side Story…
Remember camp? It was that over-the-top ironic sensibility that gained favor in the Sixties, and one assumed that, like Dada, in time it would find its way to the dung heap of history. But here we are 30 years later, and some people still have not lost their taste for…
Actors Theatre of Phoenix’s production of Ruthless! The Musical continues through Sunday, October 22, in Center Stage at Herberger Theater Center, 222 East Monroe. Eureka! Theatre Company’s production of The Woolgatherer continues through Saturday, October 21, at 7th Street Theater, 3302 North Seventh Street. For more details, see Theatre listing…
Morrissey Southpaw Grammar (Reprise) You crazy kids raised on teeny-weeny cassette inserts and itsy-bitsy CD booklets continue to miss the big picture when it comes to album art. It’s something to behold, worship, spit at and draw insane conclusions from. No wonder Generation X has yet to devise a “Paul…
When Shaggy’s first recordings hit the streets in 1991, the struggling dance-hall artist was preoccupied with dodging Scuds and piloting a Humvee as a Marine in Operation Desert Storm. It wasn’t the first time the armed service had interfered with his music career. When Shaggy was stationed at North Carolina’s…
Jesse Dayton figures it’s about time to get another tattoo. “I’m walkin’ lopsided with only one,” he says. The Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter scored his skin art 12 years ago, when he was a 17-year-old, greasy-haired rockabilly guitarist who opened a show for Brian Setzer. Setzer (a Jersey boy) advised Dayton…
I didn’t know whom to believe. Last week, I heard two such disparate stories about a booking gone awry at Nile Theater that I felt like Judge Wapner presiding over a surreal episode of The People’s Court. The plaintiff–Geoff Sanoff of the Washington, D.C., punk outfit Edsel–claims that Nile Theater…
The Blackboard Juggle Lisa Davis’ interesting article on the Phoenix Union High School District lacked the very same thing that the movers and shakers of today’s educational policies lack–no teacher input (“Does Not Work to Capacity,” September 28). Davis’ story was based on statistics instead of on kids. Could that…
Alleged backstabbing! Weeping editors! Miffed staff members! Financial strife! Confused readers! Unemployment lines! It’s all part of the topsy-turvy world of publishing, as the folks at Planet magazine have recently discovered. The tabloid is going through changes in both its editorial staff and its content, but just how drastic those…
