It’s been 25 years this summer since Denver talk-radio host Alan Berg was murdered in his own driveway by one of his white-supremacist anti-fans. Eric Bogosian’s 1987 play Talk Radio, partly based on Berg’s career, just opened at Chyro Arts Venue, serving an unsettling blend of nostalgia, activism, and respectable…
A tequila expert — where do we sign up for that job? — shows off the subtleties of the worm-ridden firewater in this Maggie-tasting class. Reservations are requested. Mon., Aug. 31, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 2009…
House overstuffed? Wallet on fumes? Bring your collectible goodies down to Atomic and sell ’em on consignment basis at this event. Thu., Aug. 27, 6 p.m., 2009…
ASU’s Dr. Matthew C. Whittaker speaks in conjunction with the Faces of Diversity Brown Bag lecture series and the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Fri., Aug. 28, noon, 2009…
Head football coach Dennis Erickson and ASU athletics director Lisa Love head up the pep rally, which also features Sparky and the ASU Spirit Squad. Fri., Aug. 28, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 2009…
By this time, everything about summer sucks. The skimpy garb we eagerly threw on our summer bodies in May now makes us feel like unsophisticated slugs. And the backyard pool is as warm as bathwater. Yep, it would really take something spectacular for us to engage in a summer shindig…
Craving a rave with techno pumping, we’re writing this at 4 a.m. after spending hours in our water closet, blasting Citizen Records’ Teenage Bad Girl and flipping the light switch on and off in quick succession. We’re completely exhausted, and we adore this band. Performing at The Rogue Bar on…
The end-of-summer bash features a boutique, drink specials, spins by DJ Evan Samurin, and live music by Rockin’ Ronda. Sat., Aug. 29, 8 p.m., 2009…
The fan club, “bound together by . . . mutual love for the Ghostbusters license in all its forms,” gets together for a little pop-cultural fun in honor of the 25th anniversary of the original Bill Murray flick. Sat., Aug. 29, 2-4 p.m., 2009…
You’re a loser who can’t sleep, so what do you do? Listen to the nighttime shock jock on your local AM station. You listen just long enough to get pissed off, because this asshole gets paid to say stupid things in between pappy pop songs, and you know it. You’re…
Lawyers call it the “CSI Effect.” Since everyone and their mother started watching behind-the-scenes forensics shows, juries expect to see crap like mitochondrial DNA and holographic reenactments or they won’t convict. Crime labs process evidence overnight, right? And shoeprints or skin flakes are found at every scene. Suuuure. It’s no…
How did this happen, exactly? The Wildcat Kickoff Party, a UofA football confab featuring a pump-you-up speech by head coach Mike Stoops, isn’t taking place at some Tucson piece of you-know-what like Danny’s Baboquivari or the Wildcat House, but in the ASU Sun Devils’ backyard at the Arizona Biltmore Resort…
Her name may sound cute and innocent, but Phoenix artist Alison Sweet admits she likes porn. Don’t expect to find her surfing the Net for wet hunks or busty babes, though. Sweet’s interest is purely academic. Her artwork features old 16mm filmstrips illuminated in wall-mounted light boxes – and, as…
Newsflash: A positive musical message doesn’t have to be a Christian one. And, while we’re at it, straight-edge hardcore shows don’t have to be violent. If your mind was just blown, we suggest giving a listen to Have Heart, a Massachusetts band that’s been a commanding presence in the “posicore”…
If you crossed the Elvis Presley movie Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, you’d get . . . well, a film absolutely nothing like Paradise Now. Hany Abu-Assad’s tense, well-acted 2005 drama concerns two young men from the West Bank struggling with whether to carry out a suicide bombing…
Every day since 1981, Rafe Esquith has faced an L.A. public schoolroom full of kids who nearly all live in poverty and speak a first language other than English. By the time fifth grade’s over for the day, Esquith’s students have studied algebra and music, timeless literature, and economic and…
Efraín Gutiérrez’s indie 1976 film, billed as a “slice-of-barrio-life” and set in south Texas during the heyday of the Chicano Movement, screens in conjunction with the “Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement” exhibit. Sun., Aug. 30, 1 p.m., 2009…
Now 15 years in his grave, the monumental (and dainty) genius of the Apache artist lives on in myriad works and in this short documentary incorporating views of his art and interviews with surviving family members. Mon., Aug. 31, 1:30 p.m., 2009…
Some years back, we were figuratively pistol-whipped by a hyper-radical/feminist/queer/artist chick. She’d just lectured at a local college. When we were introduced, she saw only stereotype — white, male, not gay – and determined on the spot that our troglodytic dick was the clearer thinking of our two heads. Her…
Life is good when you’re a skinny hipster in a poppy, two-man indie-rock group. For an example, check out Bad Veins’ Benjamin Davis and Sebastien Schultz, a Cincinnati-based duo whose catchier-than-thou sound falls stylishly between The Killers and The Strokes, thus securing its destiny to become (what should probably be…
It’s a shame Marcy Playground will forever be associated with the words “sex” and “candy.” As far as one-hit wonders go, the strangely libidinous/gluttonous lead-off single from their self-titled 1997 debut really wasn’t so bad; it was mellow yet vaguely compelling, and the rest of the album was surprisingly strong…
What NFL team should be feeling the best about its upcoming season? Maybe the defending-champion Pittsburgh Steelers, who won their sixth Super Bowl title last February? How about the Dallas Cowboys, who may be feeling a little less emotionally overwhelmed after giving star receiver Terrell Owens his walking papers? Or…
