It’s hard to overlook the power of shyness and the greatness it sometimes engenders. Eminent fraidy cats: Albert Einstein. Abraham Lincoln. Lucille Ball! Bill Callahan’s not quite famous, but you can still add him to the list. The lo-fi pioneer, a.k.a. Smog, is a mouse who’s learned to roar —…
Whimsy. Most artistic types run from the word like they’re being tailed by a zombie with a nail gun, but folk-art master Warren Kimble is more likely to chase you with a syrup-covered stick. He’s from Vermont, you see. The Whimsical State. Land of sugar maples, quilting bees, folks who…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Benoît Maubrey of Germany’s Die Audio Gruppe gets all conceptual and stuff when he calls his Audio Ballerinas — chicks wearing sound equipment on their tutus — “mobile and multi-acoustic sculptures.” They look more like human d’oeuvres trays to us, but whatever. The future is now, and it’s musical clothes…
Being a baseball geek used to be so simple. You’d open the newspaper and flip to the box scores. If you wanted to get really in-depth about it, you’d go to the store and buy a package of baseball cards disguised as bubblegum. But yesteryear’s gum-popping fans have morphed into…
Anytime you squeeze a bunch of big-league crybabies like Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, and Vladimir Guerrero into a snug space like the Valley, there’s gonna be drama. That’s fine. People dig that. But we like our aw-shucks Arizona Diamondbacks – and their chances to repeat last year’s 90-win success. Randy…
Anytime you squeeze a bunch of big-league crybabies like Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, and Vladimir Guerrero into a snug space like the Valley, there’s gonna be drama. That’s fine. People dig that. But we like our aw-shucks Arizona Diamondbacks – and their chances to repeat last year’s 90-win success. Randy…
Dubya’s gone, and there’s not another viable Bush on the horizon. Life is good, right? Well, the problem with victory is that she’s the twin sister of defeat, and ne’er these twins shall part. Does it really matter who gets the Oval Office in the fall? It matters not. What…
The co-founder of one of Arizona’s all-time-great alt bands, The Refreshments, has carved out a very cool vanity niche for himself as a rock novelist. A wha?! Yep, the ex-‘freshment’s transformed himself into a desert-rat Nick Hornby. Edwards’ debut, Stuck Outside of Phoenix, told tales on a fictitious Phoenix musician…
The words “Jim Carrey” and “masterpiece” seem oxymoronic, but the Pet Detective’s made two for the ages: The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Both films were born from marvelous conceptual leaps, then fleshed out by screenwriters Andrew Niccol and Charlie Kaufman, respectively. Still, each soared because…
The murderous brute raises his blade. The victim moans softly. The blade comes down, then stops mid-slash. Not tonight, fiend! Your stars are not aligned! Aries is in the ascendant! You got your Sagittarius in my Scorpio! Forensic astrologer Dave Campbell can see fiends and brutes coming a mile away…
The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s ’cause the AZCL has taken some major bites out of the FGL’s key-lime pie in the last two decades, wooing a number of teams from the…
The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s ’cause the AZCL has taken some major bites out of the FGL’s key-lime pie in the last two decades, wooing a number of teams from the…
It’s been a long time since a piece of art made us choke. But there we were, mouth full of water, and – boom! Out comes the wet stuff, dousing us and our computer. We howled, then toweled off. The art in question was a merry, glazed-ceramic piece titled The…
Why would anyone but a germaphobe pay retail when the world’s full of gently used junk? Well, the wasteful can go to Needless-Markup while we thrifty types hit the Junior League Rummage Sale – a scrap-heap nirvana brimming with secondhand treasures. Sat., Feb. 23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 2008…
Great news for the Dallas Mavericks. Their core rivals in the NBA’s Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns, have been navigating slippery slopes this season. San Antonio’s been pistol-whipped by lesser mortals. Phoenix has been — well, you live here. All this mediocrity should have Dirk Nowitzki…
We never thought we’d recommend something with the word “Smucker’s” in the title. (For one thing, we prefer Welch’s, the jelly underdog.) And we never imagined we’d advocate anything called “Stars on Ice,” because we’re not between the ages of 5 and 13 or 65 and 80. But we must…
