In The Walking Dead, the so-called survivors sure kill a lot of zombies. Don’t you ever feel for them? We mean, the walkers are just trying to get by like anybody else in this crazy world. It’s not their fault they love the taste of human flesh and brains. You…
Getting up on stage and reading something you wrote is not an easy thing to do; making it entertaining is even harder. Luckily, there’s Lit Lounge. Hosted monthly at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, this award-winning story-performing series fuses writers and performers sharing true stories with live music. On Friday,…
Beer: Tricerahops Brewery: Ninkasi Brewing Co. Style: Imperial IPA ABV: 8 percent You are the one who soaks the malt in a jar, The waves rise, the waves fall. Ninkasi, you are the one who soaks the malt in a jar, The waves rise, the waves fall. You are the…
Remember the scene in Back to The Future Part II when Marty goes to the future? It’s wondrous — flying cars, clothes that shrink to fit you, hoverboards. The Chicago Cubs even won the World Series! And this year, so full of badass technology and improbable baseball wins: 2015. Doesn’t…
Before it was a beer style, it was a party. The first Oktoberfest celebration was held on October 12, 1810, but far from the drinking festival it’s become today, this first party was actually held to celebrate a wedding. Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria (who’d later become King Ludwig I)…
Over the weekend, if you haven’t heard, the city of Denver was swarmed with brewers and beer nerds celebrating the 2014 edition of the Great American Beer Festival, the largest celebration of American craft beer in the country. While a grand beer-tasting set up in the main hall of the…
Margaret Cho’s first comedy album dropped in 1996. Give it a listen — her profanity-laced tales of personal kidney stones, oral sex, and her boyfriend’s mangina sound even more relevant today than they did almost 20 years ago. She might rightfully be crowned the first of the “not afraid to…
We once had a roommate who hated Bill Maher. Could not stand him. If Maher’s HBO show, Real Time, came on, the roomie would proceed to yell to the rest of us all the reasons he despised Bill. He stormed out of the house when he found us watching Maher’s…
Beer: Scotch Ale (Kilt Lifter) Brewery: Moylan’s Brewery & Restaurant Style: Scotch ale ABV: 8 percent When I was little, I had a hamster named Roxy. She was a great little hamster, playful and gentle, and the two of us used to hang out for hours, she running around in…
Cars and tattoos have a lot in common. They can cost a lot or a little. They can range from beautiful and shiny to sun-faded and hideous. You can get them from a professional or some shady guy you met at QuikTrip. Mostly, though, they’re both fun to look at…
Battle royale! Rarely is a matchup between the Arizona State Sun Devils and their perennial conference rivals, the UCLA Bruins, so juicy. One one side you have UCLA: undefeated, 12th-ranked overall, and fresh off a win against the now-Johnny-Football-free Texas Longhorns. On the other, Arizona State: also undefeated, ranked number…
Beer: White Russian Imperial Stout Brewery: SunUp Brewing Co. Style: Russian Imperial Stout ABV: 9.2 percent Sometimes, there’s a beer. I won’t say a heroic beer, ’cause what’s a heroic beer? But sometimes, there’s a beer. And I’m talkin’ about SunUp’s White Russian here. Sometimes, there’s a beer … well,…
Beer: Fresh Magic Brewery: Huss Brewing Co. Style: American-style Pale Ale ABV: 5.7 percent A hop picked right off the vine is a beautiful thing — conical, verdant, wonderfully fragrant. But a vast majority of the hops brewers use to make beer don’t look like this. While prized for their…
Cheering for the Sun Devils football team while watching them on TV is inherently dumb. Whistle for your favorite players, yell at the refs and clap for big plays all you want — they can’t hear you, chief. That’s why you need to get out of the house and head…
Beer: Mars, The Bringer of War Brewery: Bell’s Brewery, Inc. Style: Imperial India Pale Ale ABV: 10.1 percent Optional musical accompaniment to this post. Listen while reading and the review will sound WAY more epic. Like most artists, brewers draw inspiration for their work from many different sources. Sometimes the…
Normally, turning tricks for cash would be frowned upon by law enforcement, society and your mom, but Adidas and Cowtown Skateboards have found a way to make it okay: Tricks for Twenties. At this free-to-enter contest — the first of three to be held this year — reps from Cowtown…
There is an urban legend surrounding Judo master and ponytail debonaire Steven Seagal that goes like this: On the set of Out For Justice (great movie), Seagal boasted that as a result of extensive training, he was impervious to shime-waza, or chokes. Skeptical, the stunt coordinator on set called his…
Beer: Salut! Brewery: Old Bisbee Brewing Co. Style: ? ABV: 4.9 percent Not to be braggadocious, but I drink a lot of beer. Probably more than a reasonable and healthy person should, but that’s an intervention I’d rather have later. Through putting together these columns, attending beer festivals, participating in…
As preseason football goes, the match-up that the Arizona Cardinals drew for their third practice game on August 24 is actually pretty interesting. When the Cincinnati Bengals come to town, it’ll be the first time they’ve faced the Cards since 2011 and the first time Carson Palmer, longtime Bengals QB,…
Beer: Grapefruit Sculpin Brewery: Ballast Point Brewing Co. Style: IPA ABV: 7 percent There are generally two schools of thought when it comes to beers brewed with fruit: Hooray! and How Dare You? Given the number of examples on shelves crafted to be sickeningly sweet or brewed with more artificial…
To paraphrase the great Cleveland Indians coach Lou Brown: “We won a game yesterday. If we win one today, that’s two in a row. If we win one tomorrow, that’s called a ‘winning streak.’” So what’s it called, then, when you win 16 in a row? You’ll have to ask…
These are pumpkins. Seem a little out of place, don’t they? Know why that is? Because it’s f-ing August. The term “seasonal creep” has long been used to describe the way Christmas ornaments seem to start tinkling onto store shelves before the Fourth of July fireworks even get cold, but…
