Swimming. Biking. Running. Ouch. We can manage sitting if we don’t have to get up too often for more Pabst, so kudos to those participating in the challenging Anthem Holiday Classic Triathlon & Adventure Race. Sat., Dec. 8, 9 a.m., 2007…
National championship? Bah. Rose Bowl? Humbug. As every ASU Sun Devils fan knows, any Devils coach — in this case, Dennis Erickson — who doesn’t whip the University of Arizona Wildcats risks decapitation. Erickson gets his first crack at the upset-minded ‘Cats. Sat., Dec. 1, 6 p.m., 2007…
The title of Katie May’s Black Sheep Gospel refers to a trio of itinerant sisters — an actress, a lesbian, and a religious zealot — who return to the fold to watch their dying, abusive stepfather get his just rewards. Part of ASU’s Festival of New Work, the play provides…
The gentle documentary, which took the Best Film award at the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival, was the brain child of Andrew Jenks, a then 19-year-old filmmaker who decided to live among the residents of an old-folks home and get their take on life, and occasionally death. Mon., Nov. 26, 7…
You think your marriage stinks. At 18, this former fundamentalist Mormon from Colorado City says she was forced to marry a stalwart polygamist nearly 40 years her elder — and to bear eight children by the geezer — before escaping from the grasp of the creepy Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints…
This T-Day feast’s the best in town. Period. And a menu from a previous year (this one’s is not yet finalized) illustrates why: baby lamb chops with a mint glaze, grilled salmon with a roasted red pepper coulis, and that old standby — turkey — gussied up with cranberry chutney…
Sculptor Aureleo Rosano may be self-taught, but he could teach a lot of other sculptors a thing or two. Many of his steel-and-glass mosaics have the look of oversize jewelry moderne, and a number are designed as wall hangings. Lovely. Nov. 15-Dec. 17, 2007…
We grew up listening to an anything-goes radio station that played everything from pop to metal to Motown to hard-core soul. Vocalist/guitarist Rich Michalowski of Southern Cal’s Mighty Six Ninety received a similarly diverse musical education via Tijuana’s famed radio behemoth Mighty 690, and it shows in his band’s fresh-air…
One of the many charms of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang is that they’re ageless and timeless. Charlie Brown’s the perpetual dweeb who wears the same clothes every day. (Either he has a closet full of the dorky ensembles or his wah-wah-wah Mom doesn’t do laundry.) Lucy is a charming bully…
Granted, it’s an attention-getting device, but some come-ons are better than others, and Jamaican Blue Coffeehouse & Wine Bar’s weekly White Trash Wine Night is brilliant. Think Thunderbird. Night Train. Any wine that comes with a twist-off cap. Any wine that comes in a plastic jug with a spigot. Any…
They call ´em boats, but the mechanized beasts competing at the 24th annual Coors Light IHBA World Finals are more like rockets whistling across the drink at speeds of up to 250 mph. Thu., Nov. 15; Fri., Nov. 16; Sat., Nov. 17; Sun., Nov. 18, 2007…
We grew up listening to an anything-goes radio station that played everything from pop to metal to Motown to hard-core soul. Vocalist/guitarist Rich Michalowski of Southern Cal’s Mighty Six Ninety received a similarly diverse musical education via Tijuana’s famed radio behemoth Mighty 690, and it shows in his band’s fresh-air…
Okay, you’ve lounged around on your expanding tush all summer long, but the heat’s history, so get your fat ass in gear at the sixth annual Hawk Trot. The 10K/5K starts on Greyhawk Drive just west of Hayden Road, near the Grayhawk Community. Registration precedes at 2:30. Sat., Nov. 17,…
Of all the athletes in the world, Arizona Diamondbacks left fielder Eric Byrnes is the one we’d most like to hang with. He’s just so fuckin’ cool. We’ve got our chance, and so do you, when Byrnsie greets his fans and signs autographs. He’ll ink anything you put in front…
So your grandma willed you a Navajo rug, and you’ve been using it as a door mat. Stop, for Chrissakes, and haul it down to the American Indian Art & Artifacts Appraisal Day. As many of us have witnessed on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, authentic Native Americana can be worth a…
Like his films, the songs of actor-cum-musician Jeff Daniels range from the sublime to the preposterous. First, the characters. The frumpled, hapless dirtbag Flap Horton in Terms of Endearment. The strait-laced businessman who’s taken for a violent joy ride in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild. The mustachio’d citizen-soldier Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain…
A brief history of NASCAR: The automobile was born. Two Southern dandies looked askance at one another. In lieu of dueling pistols, they jumped in their jalopies and set off on a gripping, 14-mph game of chicken. Somebody slapped a gigantic endorsement on the winner’s flivver. This, of course, is…
Your beloved grandma dies. Hard enough, so tell us you’re not gonna take a picture of her in the casket and keep it by the hearth, okay? Well, they did back in the Victorian Age, when death was a familiar caller and the act of dying was seen as more…
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer for her timeless tale about Atticus Finch, Scout, and Boo Radley, but did she really write it? In his unauthorized bio Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, author and Lee scholar Charles J. Shields refutes the rumors that Mockingbird…
Ever dreamed of running an offending ass off the road? It’s street legal at the Arizona State Fair Demolition Derby — a red-state birthright that’s been handed down from yahoo father to yahoo son since the invention of the auto graveyard. The slam-bang spectacle’s kinda like a car wreck. You…
Bad news first. Ingrid Michaelson’s indie-pop songs have been featured in an Old Navy sweater commercial and on the soundtracks to Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill. This is a slippery slope for any musician with a desire to be taken seriously. Now the good. The Staten Island native’s got…
Any transplanted Louisianan will tell you that authentic jambalaya and gumbo are hard to come by here in the land of arroz con frijoles negros. But 20-odd amateur chefs will give it their best shots at the Great Cajun Cook-Off. Proceeds go to the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity…
