Eight years before Stephen King invented Christine, a 1958 Plymouth Fury with a taste for blood, monster-truck icon Bob Chandler was transforming his used 1975 Ford F250 into the aptly named Bigfoot. More than 30 years later, Chandler and the original Bigfoot will make a guest appearance at Monster Truck…
Remember the tale of Daedalus? It’s a thin line between failure and glory? Well, broken bones await the losers, but world domination is the sweet prize for the champions of the Action Sports World Tour. The amazing spectacle features skateboarding verts, BMX box-jump competitions, and freestyle motocross demos. A few…
Did’ja get picked last in grade-school volleyball? Did it leave an emotional scar? Perhaps you became antisocial and personal relationships suffered as a result of the trauma. As you grew older, you began to push people away. Now you can’t even hold a conversation with the opposite sex unless you’re…
What’s the matter, baseball fans? Brandon Webb, Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher and 2006 Cy Young winner, and Ken Griffey Jr. play-alike Justin Upton not good enough for you? Oh, you want more? How about tops in the National League West (at press time) and a three-game series against the surprising…
The ladies of the Trés Gay Cabaret Comedy Show freely admit to “committing comedy crimes the last Sunday of every month,” but we think the real felony here is not hitting up the zGirl Club to see hilarious gay comics riff about relationships, bad haircuts, and being overweight. Since zGirl…
Everyone knows that closets are for skeletons, hiding one’s true sexual preference, and — oh, yeah — clothes. Retro Wednesday encourages you to sport your finest junk-hugging, boob-encasing, cotton-poly blends. What you do about your skeletons and sexuality is none of our damn business. Karamba features three huge rooms, each…
The Arizona Cardinals need your, uh, athletic support, this season. With ex-Pittsburgh Steelers offensive savior Ken Whisenhunt in charge of getting all Mr. Miyagi on the bird butts, the team with high hopes for a decent record debut their home ’07 campaign against the Houston Texans during a preseason tune-up…
When auto promoter Johnny Lozoya profoundly effected Arizona’s lowriding scene with one of the state’s first lowrider happenings in April 1979, he quipped to Lowrider Magazine that “not one park, auditorium or any type of convention center would allow a lowrider show.” Well, Johnny, you’ve come a long way, baby,…
Imagine a James Bond type born in the heart of Mexico City in the ’50s, standing alone in the land of tequila and murder, a man who would eventually become a pompadoured, sharkskin-jacket-wearing Johnny Danger, a spy with the penchant for dodging bullets and saving dames in trouble. This is…
Karlie Hustle has radio muscle — she’s a weekday “Power Jock” at Power FM 98.3 — but she’s equally comfortable working the nightlife shadows. Over the past year, she and spinning partner DJ-M2 have funneled their collective soul every hump night, and on Wednesday, August 8, Hustle and M2 celebrate…
Most American sports are better with brewskis. Beer-league softball. Golf. Fishing. Then you’ve got your lower tier of “kids’ games” that are suddenly adult-approved once suds get involved. Dodgeball. WhirlyBall. And now kickball — as in the NAKAD Kickball League, sponsored by the National Athletic Kickball Adult Division. The rules…
Rejoice in the blush of a beautiful Arizona dawn and head toward Two Cow Cove on the shore of Lake Pleasant when Arizona Wakeboard Association Competitive Wakeboard participants slash and spin through the brilliant blue water. The early wakeboarder scores the tasty waves as single-board “skurfers” shred water in search…
You’ll never bat against blotter-licker Dock Ellis and, well, odds are pretty damn good that you’ll never stand in line to try out for the Diamondbacks. No worries, because you can still swing some wood or aluminum all summer long at the Kiwanis Park Batting Range. The Kiwanis management team…
Some guy must have muttered a prayer — “Gee, St. Peter, a free pool day would be cool” — as he shoved the quarters into the slot, because the heavens have parted and the late owner of J-Heads, Sid Copeland, is looking down from that big punk bar in the…
“Fuck You, Joe Arpaio” seems like a threat, but when rapper, one-man band, and comic devil Page the Village Idiot utters the insult, it reeks of promise. Page’s meager beginnings with hardcore punk outfits Idols of Perversity and The Claymores taught him the stage moves, but he soon tired of…
Bring a copy of The Enemy at Home and your pro-abortion sketchbook, wire up on the skunk, and let the semantics fly during Café Alumut. The collective-community interface is a mix of madness and genius. Like Cheers, there’s a cast of hilarious and intelligent thought criminals who will remember you…
