Old West junkies are going to love this: The rehab of the Pioneer Living History Museum and Village, which gives it up to the days of the Arizona Territory, has been completed. Since 1969, the museum, which includes old-school homes and cabins, has acted as an ode to pre-statehood Arizona…

You lucky duck. It’s officially art season and one of our best institutions is going all out. Over at SMoCA you’ll have the evening to check out the spot’s four new shows that include the latest “southwestNET” series (this time, a group exhibit called “photography and video: Modernity and Its…

You lucky duck. It’s officially art season and one of our best institutions is going all out. ASUAM debuts its “Open for Business” project, which features installations by sixteen Valley artists that are dispersed throughout various Tempe businesses (Rula Bula, Cartel Coffee Lab, and Mood Swings Salon, just to name…

Here’s one of the few blanket statements we’ll ever make: Breast cancer sucks. However, as much as the malady is an unfortunate bunch of bull, the Susan G. Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure rules that hard. This year’s edition will feature more than 30,000 folks participating in either the…

The Phoenix Coyotes’ first game of the 2010-11 regular season redefines road trip. On Saturday, the Coyotes try to equal or better its super successful 2009-10 campaign when they travel to their away opener facing the Boston Bruins. And it’s super far away: the puck drops on the O2 Arena…

Kent Knudson, best known locally for shooting and killing someone else’s cow on his property as well as his role in 9/11 Truth AZ, committed suicide on September 25.”Kent had been suffering from depression over yet another traumatic legal difficulty and facing two felony charges, on top of his ‘Cowcrap’…

Think you’ve conquered the piss-your-pants-scariest haunted house in the land? Then you might wanna try and marinate your so-called brave soul at The Nest. The haunt – located at Rawhide at Wild Horse Pass, 5700 West North Loop Road in Chandler – is 50,000 square feet of super scary shit…

Do the names Jennifer Anderson, Kyle Lipetzky, and Helen Yung sound familiar? If not, they should or else you need to invent a way to live without eating. The above named folks – who create some of the tastiest food ever at Wildfish Seafood Grille, Il Terrazzo, and Sweet Republic,…

Сегодня мы можем показать вам альбом Greatest Hits. Sweet. So what does that say? No flipping clue, but we do know it’s what Russian punk ensemble Elysium writes about its two-volume greatest hits album (listenable at www.elysium.nnov.ru/music, BTW). They kind of sound like an Eastern Bloc version of early-‘90s Pennywise,…

You don’t have to pardon the dust any longer at 222 East Monroe Street. That’s because the dramatic changes to Herberger Theater Center are finally done. In 2006, voters approved a bond that would upgrade the 21-year-old downtown Phoenix performing arts venue. As a result, construction crews didn’t just apply…

Buddy Stubbs Arizona Harley-Davidson is giving a one-fingered salute to so-called conventional wisdom. Instead of cutting corners in this sucktastic economy, the dudes and dudettes that work at the shop in Cave Creek are offering a 2010 Harley-Davidson XL 883L Sportster. For freaking free. There’s one condition, however: You must…

Alto Arizona recently announced that Cornel West – author of social-science tomes, Race Matters and Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America – will be speaking at 3 p.m. Saturday, October 2, at the North High School Auditorium, 1101 East Thomas Road.In a program titled “How We Got Here: Historical…

Thanks to Tempe Bicycle Action Group (TBAG), you can do more than just ride around and drink beer during Tour de Fat. The non-profit organization is looking for folks to volunteer during the beer-and-bicycle fest that docks at Tempe Beach Park on Saturday, October 9. Givers of their precious time…