Don’t cry for the former Safeway International. The snakebit tourney, which first lost its sponsor and then its five-year home at the Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club, has landed on its FootJoy-clad feet at the City of Phoenix’s newly renovated Papago Golf Course. Round one of the 72-hole, $1.5…
Generally speaking, we frown on guided hikes. The Sonoran Desert is not the Louvre, and true hikers hardly need to have someone spell out its (fairly obvious) magnificence. The extraordinary exception is the Elephant Mountain Fortress Hike at Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area. The relatively difficult seven-miler takes participants into…
Herbie Fully Loaded, The Love Bug — hell, when’s the last time someone made a flick about a Toyota Corolla? the beloved Volkswagen Beetle — old-school edition — is honored at this annual event, which features quarter-mile drags, a Show & Shine, and a swap meet. Sun., March 29, 2009…
Author/photojournalist Lechner should’ve titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high road with her Our Team, Our Dream: A Cubs Fan’s Journey Into Baseball’s Greatest Romance — described as a “passionate photo documentary highlighting 15 seasons with the Chicago Cubs.” Fifteen years? Ouch. The girl…
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 Native Art & Artifacts Appraisal Day. As many of us have witnessed on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, authentic Native Americana can be worth a bundle…
A friend recently flew to Chicago for a family function. It was a brisk 11 degrees when she touched down at O’Hare. When she returned to Sky Harbor a couple days later, the temp was 88. Perhaps that – and the fact that both of the Windy City’s ball teams,…
Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins and about 30 of his famous pals will take over Wrigley South, a.k.a. HoHoKam Stadium, for the second annual “Fergie & Friends” Celebrity Baseball Game later this week. Retired greats confirmed at press time include Juan Marichal, Dave Stewart, George Foster, Rollie Fingers, Bill Buckner,…
Author/photojournalist Lechner should’ve titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high road with her Our Team, Our Dream: A Cubs Fan’s Journey Into Baseball’s Greatest Romance — described as a “passionate photo documentary highlighting 15 seasons with the Chicago Cubs.” Fifteen years? Ouch. The girl…
Author/photojournalist Lechner should’ve titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high road with her Our Team, Our Dream: A Cubs Fan’s Journey Into Baseball’s Greatest Romance — described as a “passionate photo documentary highlighting 15 seasons with the Chicago Cubs.” Fifteen years? Ouch. The girl…
Author/photojournalist Lechner should’ve titled her book Chicago Cubs: Big, Fat Losers. Rather, she chose the high road with her Our Team, Our Dream: A Cubs Fan’s Journey Into Baseball’s Greatest Romance — described as a “passionate photo documentary highlighting 15 seasons with the Chicago Cubs.” Fifteen years? Ouch. The girl…
When last we met the Philadelphia 76ers, back in Philly on February 9, the Sixers’ young and relatively rested legs made quick work of the punchy Phoenix Suns, who were coming off a tough win the previous night in Detroit and looked like they could’ve used some more quality sack…
Following the Phoenix Suns’ figurative demise in their do-or-die game versus the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night, the dudes in orange have about as much chance of making the playoffs as did Don Quixote of slaying a windmill. But that doesn’t mean the end of championship-caliber NBA hoops at US…
Let us praise newly famous men named Mo. Not so long ago, Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Mo Williams was toiling in obscurity in the NBA’s beer-stained equivalent of Siberia: Milwaukee. Dude even had a chance to bust out of Brew City, but signed a six-year deal with the Bucks in…
It’s one of those weeks in the Cactus League. No marquee affairs like Manny and the Dodgers invading HoHoKam to take on the Cubs. No blood-feud rivalry games. Split-squad affairs everywhere you look. Blecch. It’s time to tune out the match-ups and check out a hot new park: Camelback Ranch…
It’s one of those weeks in the Cactus League. No marquee affairs like Manny and the Dodgers invading HoHoKam to take on the Cubs. No blood-feud rivalry games. Split-squad affairs everywhere you look. Blecch. It’s time to tune out the match-ups and check out a hot new park: Goodyear Ballpark…
Rent — Jonathan Larson’s rock-operatic update of Puccini’s La Bohème — has always cut across the grain of American theater. First, it’s an update of La Bohème, and (true) opera and Broadway generally don’t play well together. Second, its plot about an AIDS-ravaged bohemian arts commune always seemed a little…
By the time a must-win game for the Phoenix Suns rolls around, we’re usually breaking out the sunscreen and decorating the Maypole. This year, desperation’s come early. In the race for the Western Conference playoffs, the Suns sit in ninth place in an eight-team sprint following their disastrous 0-4 road…
L.A. and Phoenix ain’t the best of pals. They disdain us. We loathe them. But not right now. What’s good for the goose kicks ass for the bottom-line gander, and the rival Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers are allied in a higher cause for the next month or so:…
L.A. and Phoenix ain’t the best of pals. They disdain us. We loathe them. But not right now. What’s good for the goose kicks ass for the bottom-line gander, and the rival Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers are allied in a higher cause for the next month or so:…
Roosevelt/Grand remains the undisputed kahuna of the Phoenix arts, but the First Fridays concept has started seeping out of downtown like a stream of bubbling goo in recent years. One of the places the sticky stuff stuck is the charming if long-suffering stretch of Seventh Avenue called “The Curve” (and/or…
On tap tonight in Miami: basketball at its most poetic and primal. Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade, the NBA’s most elegant player, will provide the athletic iambic pentameter. A couple of aging but still dominant alpha bulls named O’Neal — the Heat’s Jermaine, the Suns Shaquille — will bang their…
It was billed as a battle of Supermen — old-school man of steel Shaquille O’Neal versus youngblood Dwight Howard — but the key players in last night’s Suns/Magic game in Orlando turned out to be a bunch of zebra-shirted mental midgets who whistled way too much while they worked. While we hate to…
