Recollect President Abraham Lincoln and his killer sense of humor? Yeah, we don’t either. Regardless, the Remember Abraham Lincoln Comedy Show, a weekly shindig produced and hosted by comedienne Ronnie Deleski and comedy band Male Pattern Radness, showcases sketch comedy, standup, and improv. Mondays, 8 p.m., 2008…
So your grandma willed you a Navajo rug, and you’ve been using it as a door mat. Stop, for Chrissakes, and haul it down to the American Indian Art & Artifacts Appraisal Day. As many of us have witnessed on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, authentic Native Americana can be worth a…
“So, what gifts are you giving for the holiday?” Your psychiatrist poises her pen while you clutch at the box of Kleenex in your lap. “I’ve got plenty of time to pick something up at the airport, don’t I?” Shuddering, you close your eyes and fumble through scary-clown memories from…
Of all the athletes in the world, Arizona Diamondbacks left fielder Eric Byrnes is the one we’d most like to hang with. He’s just so fuckin’ cool. We’ve got our chance, and so do you, when Byrnsie greets his fans and signs autographs. He’ll ink anything you put in front…
Okay, you’ve lounged around on your expanding tush all summer long, but the heat’s history, so get your fat ass in gear at the sixth annual Hawk Trot. The 10K/5K starts on Greyhawk Drive just west of Hayden Road, near the Grayhawk Community. Registration precedes at 2:30. Sat., Nov. 17,…
On just about every corner in CenPho, some teenage malcontent with a spray can has thrown up his or her initials on anything stationary. Even worse are the morons with knives who etch their initials in glass windows, causing thousands of dollars in damage in exchange for inexplicable doodles. No…
We grew up listening to an anything-goes radio station that played everything from pop to metal to Motown to hard-core soul. Vocalist/guitarist Rich Michalowski of Southern Cal’s Mighty Six Ninety received a similarly diverse musical education via Tijuana’s famed radio behemoth Mighty 690, and it shows in his band’s fresh-air…
These are scary times for photography, an era in which a confused 6-year-old looks at the back of a film camera following shutter release and expects to see a digital preview. So it’s a good bet that these little tykes, and most folks, have never heard of a contact print…
Attention all glowstick-twirling club kids: Cosmic Paintball is the perfect spot to, uh, trip out and roll with the homies when the 12,000-square-foot complex goes psychedelic with flashing lights and music. Fri., Nov. 16, 6-11 p.m., 2007…
They call ´em boats, but the mechanized beasts competing at the 24th annual Coors Light IHBA World Finals are more like rockets whistling across the drink at speeds of up to 250 mph. Thu., Nov. 15; Fri., Nov. 16; Sat., Nov. 17; Sun., Nov. 18, 2007…
Granted, it’s an attention-getting device, but some come-ons are better than others, and Jamaican Blue Coffeehouse & Wine Bar’s weekly White Trash Wine Night is brilliant. Think Thunderbird. Night Train. Any wine that comes with a twist-off cap. Any wine that comes in a plastic jug with a spigot. Any…
You know those annoying friends of yours who are walking movie quotes? Well, you may wanna take them, then drop ´em off, at the “Admission” photography exhibit by Steven Roche and Whitney Candrea, who shot imagery made to look like celluloid scenes. Fri., Nov. 16, 6-10 p.m., 2007…
We once had a college roomie who would accuse us of “driving the Titanic” whenever we wielded the remote and chose a television program that wasn’t to his liking. Sorry, bud, but last we checked, there were no boob-tube clickers in “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” at Arizona Science Center. However,…
You may not know it, but Mythos Mediterranean Bistro is one of the wackiest destinations in the Valley, a spot where you can chow down on dolmas while listening to jazz by heavy-hitting NYC cats like Juini Booth, followed by trance DJs, followed by belly dancers, followed by the sound…
Yale women’s basketball coach Chris Gobrecht turned her mewling purse puppies back into Bulldogs in just one season, and thinks they’re ready to take on our Lady Sun Devils. We’d say she’s pissing on the wrong tree. At this writing, the Devils are ranked 12th, and return 10 players from…
You want The Truth? Can you handle The Truth? SoCal emo-metalcore sextet Bleeding Through’s third album hits like a falling anvil to the cranium: Ferocious blast-beats, crushing riffs galloping straight out of the Slayer/Biohazard playbook, and vocalist Brandan Schieppati’s evil demon-roar (and his occasional, requisite Mike Patton-esque crooning) are the…
One of the many charms of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang is that they’re ageless and timeless. Charlie Brown’s the perpetual dweeb who wears the same clothes every day. (Either he has a closet full of the dorky ensembles or his wah-wah-wah Mom doesn’t do laundry.) Lucy is a charming bully…
Australian and an occasional resident of his mum’s homeland, this writer has a serious passion for Aussie rock. Unfortunately, it’s been a few years since he’s called Australia home and, because of that, he’s a little behind on what’s happening Down Under. For a little help, he turned to Chris…
If you waded through the flood of NBA preseason predictions, you probably found a handful of adventurous pundits who envisioned the Phoenix Suns and Chicago Bulls throwing down in the NBA Finals. Sorry, but we don’t see the Bulls living up to their end of the bargain, so this is…
We grew up listening to an anything-goes radio station that played everything from pop to metal to Motown to hard-core soul. Vocalist/guitarist Rich Michalowski of Southern Cal’s Mighty Six Ninety received a similarly diverse musical education via Tijuana’s famed radio behemoth Mighty 690, and it shows in his band’s fresh-air…
Whether you like it or not, Americans have more in common with the French than you think. Maybe most surprising is an obsession with kart racing. (Who knew the Frenchies enjoyed a little redneck with their oui oui?) Get in touch with your inner françoise when PKRA Kart Racing hits…
There are those of us who will do almost anything to hear someone sing “Alfie,” arguably the most famous and most-often-recorded of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s many hundreds of pop standards. We (who also don’t mind hearing “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” “Baby It’s You,” and the…
