SAT 1/15 Few poets and authors deserve a posthumous roasting more than Edgar Allan Poe. The Master of the Macabre, whose tales of woe and fright have haunted us for more than 150 years, will be “slammed” both literally and figuratively, again, on Saturday, January 15, at the fourth annual…
SUN 1/16 Very bad thoughts equal very bad health. Okay, so it’s not that simple, but you try boiling down the quirky indie film What the #$*! Do We Know!? to something rather elementary, Einstein! Still, Dr. Joe Dispenza, an Olympia, Washington-based chiropractor/author who makes a memorable appearance in the…
THU 13 One night with DJ Lady Tribe, a.k.a. “The Sexiest DJ on Earth,” most certainly isn’t enough. But that’s all you get on Thursday, January 13, when the notorious L.A. graffiti artist turned legit model/DJ headlines Latin Ladies’ Night at the Hard Rock Cafe, 3 South Second Street, with…
THU 30 We’ve considered hittin’ the sack early on Thursday, December 30, since we’re planning on at least 24 hours of New Year’s revelry beginning the next day. Then we heard about this month’s Thru the Wires show at Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt Street, and realized the experimental electronic…
Chris Bailey’s suffering a double whammy this holiday season. Not only is he spending it in the Iraqi desert, but he’s missing one hell of a party (in his honor, no less) this week at Suede nightclub in Scottsdale. Yeah, we know Bailey’s got more pressing issues to deal with:…
Eminem’s down with his niggas. Puerto Ricans like J.Lo and Fat Joe, and even that Asian kid in the baggy jeans, they claim posses of niggas. Thanks in large part to the marketing of commercial hip-hop, what was arguably the most destructive word in the English language has (rightly or…
THU 23 Just how many stockings can you stuff into a bikini — which happens to be clinging to one heavenly body at the time? We’re not sure if that’s what the organizers of the Xtreme Xmas Bash have in mind on Thursday, December 23, at the Big Fish Pub,…
SAT 12/18 Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” discussed how to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from becoming a burden to their parents. One of Swift’s solutions was to eat the children, as they represented a renewable food resource. Modest Proposal magazine — named after Swift’s…
THU 12/16 Snow? Tony “Scarface” Montaña would bury his face in it, but we’re not talking about blow. Sonik magazine’s “Snow” party on Thursday, December 16, at Devil’s Martini, 4175 North Goldwater Boulevard in Scottsdale, boasts two tons of real snow — the natural, non-homicidal-episode-inducing kind. The party includes six…
THU 16 Seems everyone from Dumperfoo’s Blunt Club in Tempe to Mickey’s Hangover in Scottsdale finally might have some central Phoenix competition in appealing to the laid-back set of Valley nightlife, thanks to the 16th Street Sports Bar and Grill, 6522 North 16th Street. The Grill’s weekly 16 Spot, which…
SAT 12/11 Look, there! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a boat covered in Christmas lights! Make that 40 boats, as a twinkling fleet of yachts, sailboats, motorboats, and even kayaks cruises down Tempe Town Lake, at Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway, on Saturday, December 11, for the…
THU 9 While hot toddies, bourbon balls and hot buttered rum are required party paraphernalia in other parts of the country during the holiday season, we here in the desert prefer a south-of-the-border Christmas spirit: tequila! On Thursday, December 9, Scottsdale’s pair of Blue Agave Mexican Cantinas (at 4280 North…
Sat 12/4 When y’all are ready to wade through them thar beer cans and lawn appliances that ain’t worked fer years, park yer double-wide at the Pumphouse II, 4132 East McDowell, for the Miss Trailer 2005 Pageant and Trailer Trash Party on Saturday, December 4. They’ll have all the PBR…
THU 2 Sorry to bear the bad news, ladies, but the catty confines of Paco Paco, 3045 North 16th Street, will be reserved exclusively for men on Thursday, December 2, as the Valley’s “hottest” gay Latin dance club puts aside its usual drag and trannie show in favor of the…
Thu 11/25 As the joke goes, they do celebrate Thanksgiving in Great Britain — only on September 6. Why? Because that’s when we Yankee blokes, back in 1620, fled jolly old England. (Ba-dum-cha!) But seriously, folks, desert-dwelling Britons (wanna-bes, that is) will celebrate T-Day with a party of their own…
THU 25 Maybe we’ve lost too many of our own brain cells along the way, but we were under the impression that spliffs and phatties were followed by the munchies. On Thursday, November 25, the before-and-after scenario is flipped, when Dumperfoo’s Blunt Club at the Priceless Inn, 5014 South Price…
During seven of the most frantic and festive days in the history of Arizona State University, a female nipple pierced with a 10-gauge barbell threw a wrench in President Michael Crow’s week. As news broke of ASU’s first Nobel Prize winner in the university’s 119-year history, the ASU community was…
THU 18 The NHL’s on strike, or haven’t you noticed? We can’t blame you, unless you’ve got some underage hockey-lovin’, howlin’-at-the-moon misfits itching to get out of the house and onto the ice tugging at your heartstrings. If so, we know of just the right remedy, thanks to (and because…
Five minutes before he limped out from the Boston Red Sox clubhouse for Game 2 of the World Series at Fenway Park, Curt Schilling wasn’t mulling over scouting reports on the St. Louis Cardinals’ heavy hitters. He wasn’t downing shooters of Jack Daniel’s, unlike many of his Sox teammates, as…
THU 11 With no bloody civil war immediately following the presidential election, it’s probably time to dispel all the rumors of a would-be apocalyptic clash between the United States of Canada and Jesusland. Guess we all figured that if we atheists and born-agains can’t all just get along, we might…
THU 4 We were always envious of those boys at Brophy Prep for their designer duds, sweet rides, and acne-free faces. On Thursday, November 4, we’ll continue to bow down and sing their praises, cooing “Fabulous, darlings,” and kissing their bums at the Brophy College Prep Fashion Show at The…
THU 28 To borrow and alter a rock cliché, if it’s live, you’re too old. At least, that’s been the mantra for those happy-go-ecstasy House kids for years, who now find themselves at the ass end of yet another all-electronic phase of progressive music. Enter New York’s Tortured Soul, who…
