This may sound boring, but these sales friggin’ rock. Plus, you never know when you’re gonna need a Vactor truck (example pictured). On the block this year are a couple of city sweepers, two stakebed trucks, a forklift, a dump truck, and tons of other gently used (or not) City…
This may sound boring, but these sales friggin’ rock. Plus, you never know when you’re gonna need a Vactor truck (example pictured). On the block this year are a couple of city sweepers, two stakebed trucks, a forklift, a dump truck, and tons of other gently used (or not) City…
Bring your best Fonz, Ralph Malph, or Potsie homage down to Arnold’s, er, Gammage for this event in conjunction with the nationally touring production Happy Days — A New Musical. Meet outside the main entrance, outside the doors to the box office. The winners of the celebrity-judged affair will attend…
With all the disparate influences Sonorous has in its lexis, the percentages of what you’re going to get (and when) are always in flux, and this clashing of expectations constitutes the best moments on the group’s second CD, recorded “live” to tape during two successive nights at the Lost Leaf…
The Valley’s other badass-chick club hits the hardwood — and each other. Sat., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m., 2008…
Hollis Cantrell and his Artistic gang try to beat the old record of 416 tattoos in a 24-hour period. Sat., Nov. 15, noon, 2008…
The band was revolutionary. The film was revolutionary. You know what? Both still are. Bonus footage of the Beatles classic shows each night at 7. Fri., Nov. 14, 5 & 9 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 15, 5 & 9 p.m., 2008…
Luis Gonzalez, arguably the most popular Arizona Diamondback of all-time, signs autographs. Sat., Nov. 15, 1-2 p.m., 2008…
After surviving brain surgery, some Tony-winning composers might just take it easy. But as William Finn’s life flashed before his eyes in 1992, he saw unwritten songs longing to be given voice. “When I got home to my studio . . . I basically put my hand over the piano…
If its name makes this short documentary sound like a how-a-bill-becomes-a-law school project, well, bingo. Still, word is the work is more engaging than its title lets on, and downtownies in particular should be interested in the end result of the two-year study of Phoenix’s Garfield Historic District by ASU…
So there you are, a couple of average Americans toodling along in Paris’ Alma Tunnel, when all friggin’ hell breaks loose in the form of the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed. What do you do? Well, since you’re average Americans, you probably seek therapy –…
“These are the people in your neighborhood/The people that you meet when you’re walking down the street/They’re the people that you meet each daaaay!” (Pardon us.) So goes the catchy Sesame Street ditty, a happy tune that could’ve easily been written for Conspire, the collectively owned and operated spot that…
Well, ain’t this a fine howdy-do? While ASU football, the mack daddy of Sun Devils athletics, has been getting its rump kicked up and down the Pacific Coast, the former 90-pound pipsqueak named ASU men’s basketball has been pondering a potential NCAA-tourney breakthrough year. And the path to March Madness…
When Queen’s Freddie Mercury penned the line “I want to ride my bicycle,” it’s doubtful he intended it to be a double-entendre. But don’t tell that to Reverend Phil Sano, the ordained minister of the Church of Bicycle Jesus, mainstay of the Portland bike scene, and the man who is…
By Lilia Menconi Disclaimer: I tell Betty Friedan to “suck it” in this blog. I don’t really mean that. It’s a joke, everybody. Impressed? You should be. Spaceboy by Julie Duschack is all fabric, folks. Don’t get me wrong – I appreciate the second wave feminist movement, I really do…
One of SeeSaw’s adorable cards. Aaaw! By Lilia Menconi I think I may have found a blog that’s better than Arty Girl. Impossible you say? Oh, shut your mouth! You’re so sweet! But, honestly, this one is pretty damn good. Local design firm, SeeSaw Designs, not only has a beautiful…
By Joseph Golfen On Saturday morning, thousands of walkers turned up at Papago Park out to raise money to help fight Multiple Sclerosis during the “MS Walk on the Wild Side.” Little did participants know that waiting for them was a battalion full of scum and villainy. The Empire’s troop…
By Lilia Menconi About a year ago, I saw this: and this: So I totally freaked out and wrote this. Both pieces are by local artist, Denise Yaghmourian. I spied Hook Cube (top) and Label, Jumpsuits (bottom) – or, at least, works very similar to them – at the Tempe…
By Steve Jansen (Image courtesy of the ASU Herberger College of the Arts) I grew up in Tempe and far east Mesa (yeah, yeah, don’t hold it against me, especially the latter) so pretty displays of public tagging were basically non-existent to my eyes. And if some lucky spray paint…
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints him. He’s frat-boy handsome and, therefore, almost anonymous when he stands in a movie-star lineup; in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things (2003), Rudd received a supposedly extreme…
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he’s left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high note. Soul Men, a comedy completed shortly before Mac’s untimely death in August, is no classic, but the comedian,…
The Guitar Hero series has finally hit a sour note. The fake rock rampart — which started out as a goofy way to live vicariously through Jimi Hendrix, and ended up being the most improbable cultural phenomenon since the spawn of Billy Ray Cyrus — has been comfortably picking and…
