Arts & Culture

Where’s a sandbag when you need one? These were waiting in the east parking lot of the Steele Indian School Park…

Not everybody can own a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, but you can probably get your clunker over to the Buddy Stubbs Premier Motorcycle Museum.  The 3,000 square-foot facility houses more than a hundred years of motorcycle history, from 1915-era Harleys and 1920s model Triumphs to limited edition BMW bikes and vintage Indians. There…

Juan Valencia was a Cement Worker. Found on the low numbered avenue side of Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix…

As a child, seeing who could hold his or her breath underwater the longest was all the rage at a pool party. Well, this ain’t that kind of party. At the 21-and-older Echo Magazine’s Beach Ball 2010, some of the Valley’s hottest peeps get together for a day full of…

Flash doesn’t win ballgames. Take, for instance, the San Francisco Giants. While other teams signed blockbuster ballers during the off-season, SF added (yawn) Mark DeRosa and Aubrey Huff. Start talking about Giants like Nate Schierholtz and Andres Torres and we’re straight up snoring. However, these no-names have helped land San…

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? playwright Edward Albee’s still kicking at 82 (hasn’t he been around longer?), and his methods predate cyberbullying, kids. No one can hurt you more than those you love, right in front of you in flesh and blood. And you don’t get all emo and hang…

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. They practiced, they planned, they were ambitious and optimistic. Then, like so many rock musicians before them, excessive use of alcohol took it all away. Before they knew it, Hooves had embarrassed themselves at probably the biggest annual event in the Phoenix rock…

¿Dónde está Dos Gringos? It certainly ain’t anywhere near ASU. At least not anymore, as the local chain of party-hard Mexican bars divested itself of its north Tempe location last year. The bar lives on, however, in the form of Trailer Park, 1001 East Eighth Street, with a slew of…

The legendary hardcore punk band (who’s name quite possibly means either Millions of Dead Cops, Multi Dead Corporations, or Mariah Death Cult, depending on who you ask) make an appearance at Chasers along with English Oi!/hardcore act The Restarts. Local acts opening the show include DSC, Nightgaun, and Avon Ladies…

Carolyn Jessop presents her latest book, Triumph: Life After the Cult, which updates readers about her life since her escape from a polygamist community. Tue., May 18, 7 p.m., 2010…

Presently a pusher for Pizza Hut, comedian Jim Breuer has got the munchies for fame. Working the scruffy-haired hangdog look with half-mast red eyes, it’s easy to see how he was tapped by Dave Chappelle to co-star in 1998’s stoner cult-classic Half-Baked. So does Bruer really smoke weed? We don’t…

The most powerful force in commercial music today? No debate. It’s iTunes. According to recent data, Apple’s online behemoth crammed 69 percent of our collective digital-music spending into its swollen, Jabba-like gullet last year. That works out to 25 percent of all music sales — a fairly astounding figure that…

For Dan Snaith, a.k.a. electronic musician Caribou, winning the Polaris Prize for his fourth album, 2007’s Andorra, was vindication for seven years of hard work. The award, given annually to the best Canadian album, was an odd nod considering the solitary nature of his bedroom recording and the cultish appeal…

The Album Leaf isn’t so much post-rock as it is post-soft. Sigur Rós protégé and auteur Jimmy LaValle’s five largely instrumental albums could be called road music, because what they evoke is too many undulating miles of asphalt. Unlike The Odyssey, LaValle’s music isn’t epic. Odysseus went somewhere, while The…

Before there was JT “the ‘Dick in a Box’-endorsing Madonna-molester,” there was JT “the methadone-smooth folk-rock lothario.” And from almost the beginning, Carole King was there, too. Taylor first collaborated with singer-songwriter King on his breakthrough album, Sweet Baby James (1970), and her contributions to his career probably can’t be…