If you want to cop Lymbyc Systym’s latest CD, Love Your Abuser Remixed, you best show up at the Valley band’s one and only Phoenix show. The 1,000-copy-only release features Systym remixes by The Album Leaf, Daedelus, and so many more banging groups. Tue., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
All games start at 1:05 p.m. unless otherwise noted; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 2/27 vs. Royals; 2/29 vs. Angels; 3/2 vs. Royals; 3/4 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/5 vs. Brewers; 3/8 vs. Padres; 3/11 vs. White Sox; 3/12 vs. Cubs; 3/15 vs. Rockies; 3/17 vs. Mariners; 3/18 vs. Athletics; 3/21 vs…
All games start at 1:05 p.m. unless noted; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 2/27 vs. Rockies; 3/2 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/6 vs. Rangers; 3/7 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/8 vs. Giants (ss); 3/10 vs. Mariners; 3/12 vs. Rockies; 3/14 vs. Athletics; 3/15 vs. Cubs; 3/18 vs. Padres; 3/19 vs. Rockies; 3/23 vs. Royals;…
Though Waters, Gilmour, & Company are no longer touring as a band (their last appearance was at Live 8 in the summer of 2005), Floyd fans have a good opportunity to experience the band’s music in a theatrical format in this show that covers that band’s career, from classics like…
Your woman just left you. You’re hurtin’, and can’t shake the grip of that badass mojo she left you – the endless drag of bills, progeny who can’t piss straight, and a serious case of castration anxiety. You’ve got the blues, boy. Options? Hit the bars — and eventually the…
Throughout their 40 years of balling, the Phoenix Suns have consistently made the playoffs. But once the team lost that star-crossed coin flip for the right to draft Lew Alcindor, one thing has plagued the squad in its NBA Championship quest: the inability to find a true center to enforce…
Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men was already a loud, furious play, adapted from the author’s 1950s television script, before director Scott Ellis got hold of it. In Ellis’ production, which began life four years ago at Manhattan’s Roundabout Theatre, the director turns up the volume on what is essentially an…
The Caledonian Society of Arizona presents the 44th annual affair, which features clan rumbles, Highland dancing and sporting competitions, bagpipers and drums bands, and much more. Sat., Feb. 23, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 2008…
The Wolf and his compadres at AzRockabilly host this kickin’ car/bike show, set to a backdrop of classic flicks (American Graffiti, La Bamba) and hot licks by DJ Nicky Flores and the band 13 to the Gallows. Sat., Feb. 23, 4 p.m., 2008…
Think what you may, but at the very least, you can always count on black metal for its directness. You can also count on it to be exactly what it is and nothing more or less. With album titles like Bondage Goat Zombie and Goatreich-Fleshcult, the Satan worshippers of Austrian…
If you’re ever walked into the studio of Suzanne Falk, one mesmerizing thing is her vintage toy collection. During the It’s Still Life life drawing class, participants can interpret some of her funky items in a setting that promises to transform “a simple still-life drawing session into a decadent and…
The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s ’cause the AZCL has taken some major bites out of the FGL’s key-lime pie in the last two decades, wooing a number of teams from the…
The honchos of Florida’s Grapefruit League used to lord it over Arizona’s Cactus League offshoot, but the fruit-eaters aren’t laughing so hard now. That’s ’cause the AZCL has taken some major bites out of the FGL’s key-lime pie in the last two decades, wooing a number of teams from the…
The murderous brute raises his blade. The victim moans softly. The blade comes down, then stops mid-slash. Not tonight, fiend! Your stars are not aligned! Aries is in the ascendant! You got your Sagittarius in my Scorpio! Forensic astrologer Dave Campbell can see fiends and brutes coming a mile away…
It must be springtime, because Sun Ra Arkestra’s Juini Booth is back in town performing gigs. The all-star bassist, who escapes the crappy East Coast winters by crashing with his sister in Mesa for a few months, is still performing regularly on the jazz circuit in NYC and Europe (for…
When WWE wrasslin’ returns to Pho-town with WWE Presents Monday Night RAW, it brings along the sturdiest metal chairs and hardest head-splitting turnbuckles. Some of the sweat-glistened superstars scheduled to appear include Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, and women’s top belt holder Beth Phoenix. Mon., Feb. 25, 6 p.m.,…
The biggest surprise about the Valley Metro Bus and Maintenance Roadeo? It’s not that there’s an actual freaking competition for paratransit mechanics, but that the public event has been going on for 25 freaking years. Sun., Feb. 24, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 2008…
The words “Jim Carrey” and “masterpiece” seem oxymoronic, but the Pet Detective’s made two for the ages: The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Both films were born from marvelous conceptual leaps, then fleshed out by screenwriters Andrew Niccol and Charlie Kaufman, respectively. Still, each soared because…
Thank the good Lord. The great-unwashed masses have left the Valley, en masse, to return whence they came. Now we can get back some après Super Bowl normalcy. Really, now. Does anyone head to Scottsdale to see people wearing the same oversize athletic jerseys at a street party? We didn’t…
We loved Donnie Brasco and GoodFellas, and after leaving the theater, we’d purse our lips like made men. So when the organized-crime book Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob surfaced, we were hooked like fishes that sleep well at night. The author, Bob Delaney, was a fresh-faced state trooper in…
We have one heckuva sports hangover. If the college bowl season was akin to draining cocktails at happy hour, and the golf tournament was killing a bottle of wine at dinner, then Super Bowl week was like closing down the bar with a gratuitous round of shots. After a two-month…
She may be playing the monster mom in Stray Cat’s Kate Crackernuts, but her friends and fans know that Johanna Carlisle is a real beauty — even when she’s barfing in the alley behind a convenience market. I knew I wanted to be in show business when I memorized the…
