1/17-1/18 Peaceniks and doves be advised: Steer clear of Papago Park this weekend. For all others who love heavy machinery and artillery, and who long for the days before Bono and Britney turned camouflage into a fashion statement, the 13th annual Papago Military Vehicle Show on Saturday, January 17, and…
Sat 1/10 Whatever your plans for Saturday night, give them a makeover and spend “An Evening of Positive Energy” at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. Benefiting Body Positive HIV and AIDS Research and Resource Center, the show features the Arizona debut of the Kinsey Sicks (“America’s favorite dragapella beauty…
Sun 1/11 If you’ve been searching for an ultimate runner’s high, P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon is the answer. More than 50 bands set the tempo for the race, which winds from Wesley Bolin Memorial Park through Papago Park and into downtown Tempe. Local bands, playing everything from pop…
1/8-1/11 Few festivals celebrate a culture’s past and present simultaneously. Yet this is exactly the point of the American Express Invitational Native American Arts Festival, as guests see both modern Native American art and the traditions that influenced it. The festival is preceded by a free lecture and demonstration series,…
No title at stake. No David-versus-Goliath match-up. No villainous group of gridiron ghouls like the Miami Hurricanes. Still, the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium on Friday, January 2, has something the other Bowl Championship Series games don’t: the Ohio State Buckeyes, the defending national champs of college football…
Fri 12/26 Granted, it’s a far cry from being college football’s most attractive postseason invitation, but this year’s Insight Bowl has a great personality — really. The match-up pits the Golden Bears of California-Berkeley, who handed first-ranked Southern Cal its only loss of the season, against Virginia Tech’s Hokies, who…
From the ashes of failed ventures past, the National Lacrosse League becomes the latest to infiltrate what is an already over-saturated professional sports market in Phoenix. But the NLL’s Arizona Sting isn’t led by just some hack entrepreneurs. These guys are Canadians, seemingly North America’s largest population of Zen Buddhists…
Memo to Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC, the trio known as Westside Connection: All major combat operations have ceased. Sure, that would be a debatable point in the so-called war on terror. But on the East Coast-West Coast, O.G.-No G, and pimps and ho’s fronts, Westside is throwin’ down…
For a band like Denver’s DeVotchKa, whose enigmatic sound is rarely articulated fairly in print, live gigs offer a chance to provide at least an intimation to virgin audiences. Yet by the time DeVotchKa’s surging assault of Slavic and Spanish styles — via cello, trumpet, violin, accordion and raging guitar…
Looks like another Tempe institution is a goner. A couple of months back, a pair of Arizona State University grads who own a couple of tony Scottsdale bars snagged Bandersnatch — a lowbrow mainstay of downtown Tempe’s quickly disappearing bar scene. At the time, longtime customers and employees of the…
In his 25 years as the footnote to the popular television newsmagazine 60 Minutes, commentator Andy Rooney has been called a racist, a nationalist, a homophobe and a sexist. But the latest criticism of the 84-year-old curmudgeon comes from an unlikely source: a self-proclaimed champion of freedom of speech. And…
