Undefeated Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Patrick Corbin earned his fifth win of 2013 last night with a phenomenal performance on the mound at Chase Field, doing his part to help the Snakes defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1. The 25-year-old southpaw made it looked effortless as he went mano-a-mano with onetime…
Like certain cosmological phenomena streaking through the infinite heavens above, a chance to see Man of Astro-man? pulling a live gig in Phoenix is a rare occurance. It wasn’t always that way; the science fiction-obsessed surf-rock space oddities used to set course for renowned local rock bars like Boston’s (now…
When members of the college-aged party brigade or recent ASU grads looking to celebrate their milestone stroll into Gringo Star Street Bar this evening (and in all likelihood they will), they’ll encounter a few things that are a bit foreign to the Mill Avenue nightlife scene. Namely, arcade games, skeeball,…
Whenever prolific local musicians Andrew Jemsek and Ryan Avery collaborate on some project, the results tend to be fascinating and often unusual. In 2006, they formed chaotic dance/noise duo Nightwolf, followed three years later by The Quest, a “sloppy and weird” two-piece cover act that gigged in eateries. The pair’s…
Thursday 9 Afterlife: Touch Thursdays with DJ Tsunami, DJ Michael Ryan, & DJ Matt Fox (Top 40, EDM) AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Barney’s Boathouse: Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Pulse (Top 40, rock, dance) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (juke joint, R&B, French pop) Bobby…
The stickiness is back and it’s spreading. About six months after he pulled the plug on his ultra-popular DJ/dance event Sticky Fingers, William Fucking Reed has resurrected the event and given it a reboot of sorts, renaming it Sticky Fingers Mobile Disco. Instead of staging the shindig (self-described as a…
News broke within the last couple of hours that Jodi Arias was found “guilty as charged” by a jury of her peers in a Maricopa County Superior Court room for the brutal 2008 murder of lover Travis Alexander. Needless to say, there’s been much celebrating both outside the courthouse (where…
One of the more infamous figures in the Valley’s rave scene and local party monster lore has resurfaced in the media recently after being featured on the popular National Geographic Channel reality show Locked Up Abroad. Shaun Attwood, the British-born gentleman who was the onetime kingpin of a massive local…
Paul Goldschmidt was once again the hero of the Arizona Diamondbacks as he rocketed a tie-breaking, two-run homer in the ninth inning of last night’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers to secure a 5-3 win for his team. It was Goldy’s seventh home run this season and came off…
It’s time to cue up some Alice Cooper since, you know, school’s out for summer as of Wednesday as Arizona State University and other institutions of higher learning in Metro Phoenix. Once you sell back the armload of textbooks and say adieu to the profs, you might want to use…
As anyone who’s ever played Shadow of the Colossus, Rez, or Ico would likely attest, video games have become much more than just amusing distractions for geeks and teens. It’s as much a legitimate art form as painting or sculpture, and no less a source than either the Smithsonian or…
At absolutely no point over the next 72 hours or so should you have to ask the question, ¿Dónde está la partido este fin de semana? (or “Where is the party this weekend?” for you monolinguists). ¿Por qué? Because there are going to be an exhaustive amount of celebrations occurring…
When El Moisés began planning this weekend’s Grand Avenue Get Down, he initially envisioned it as an stunning convergence of Latino culture, art, and automobiles of every shape and size. But one thing the 38-year-old artist didn’t want, however, was for the two-day event to be considered “just another Cinco…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have been living and dying by their bullpen this season, moreso the latter than the former as of late. And last night’s 9-6 thumping by the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field was a pretty agonizing demise. “This will probably be one of the toughest defeats to…
Comic book geeks of Metro Phoenix better get plenty of sleep on Friday night, not to mention waiting until Sunday to check out Iron Man 3. That’s because Saturday, May 4, gonna be a red-letter day that’s like a ink-stained, pulp-filled, four-color mashup of Phoenix Comicon, Halloween, and Christmastime. The…
Thursday 2 Afterlife: Touch Thursdays with DJ Tsunami, DJ Michael Ryan, & DJ Matt Fox (Top 40, EDM) AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Barney’s Boathouse: Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Pulse (Top 40, rock, dance) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (juke joint, R&B, French pop) Bobby…
Special Events Arizona Event Center 1300 S. Country Club Dr., Mesa www.arizonaeventcenter.com Danny Serrano, Richard Galaviz Jr., Manny Llanez, Kevin Soto, Jorge Ruiz, Ernesto Ortiz, and other jokesters will perform during the Latin Comedy Night on Saturday, May 4. 8 p.m.; $10 for general seating, $20-$200 for VIP treatment. Call…
For some cats, customized hot rods, lowriders, and other souped-up rides aren’t just a casual hobby. They’re more like an entire way of life.Local artist El Moisés, for instance, grew up immersed in lowrider culture. And it’s heavily influenced his art, from childhood sketches of vintage vehicles his father painted…
Cool, dive-y live music venues in the West Valley are very few and far between. And there’s apparently one fewer as of this writing, as Donna Jean’s Libations over in Glendale has closed. Recent rumors of the bar’s recent demise led us to its Facebook page, where proprietor, um, Donna…
The enormous wave pool at Tempe’s Big Surf hosted more than just doggy paddles and belly flops during Wet Electric this past week. It was a giant twerkin, Harlem Shakin’ mass as local EDM fans raved, raged, and unleashed incalculable amounts of fist-pumps and ass-bumps in the shallow water while…
We’ve been seeing a certain bumper sticker plastered to more than a few cars around Scottsdale as of late declaring “I ❤ Pool Parties.” Said stickers were created by El Santo Cantina (in honor of its new monthly fiesta of the same name), it’s an emotion shared by the proprietors…
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Ian Kennedy fell into a major hole against the San Francisco Giants on Monday evening at Chase Field, having given up a total of three runs in the first two innings. However, that’s not what cost the D-Backs the game. Nope, Kennedy was able to overcome…
