Lady of the Rings Dewey Webb's "Lourdes of the Rings" (February 8) was most interesting, even and well-done, except that it gave a misleading, two-dimensional profile of Kay Torrez. For a half-century, Torrez has been an ardent, effective, respected neighborhood and community activist, much of it in the cause of...
Reeling Movie reviewer M. V. Moorhead was close, but not precisely correct, in describing LaJetee as a half-hour film "told entirely in still photographs" ("Uneven Dozen," January 11). There is a scene in which a woman blinks. Thomas J. Baker Payson Fife Imitates Art I just finished reading "Young Fife:...
The Bad News: Despite KUKQ's business-asusual broadcasting, the indie-rock AMenclave will cease to exist sometime Monday--the third and, evidently, final time the financially strapped station has folded since it signed on in 1989. The Good News: There really isn't any. The Cause of Death: What else? Money. Sandusky Newspapers, a...
MDRVRXP: see note below at "Art Films"MDNM @day:wednesday @mon:january @date2:26Martha Graham Dance Company: The most celebrated of all American dance companies observes the 100th birthday of its founder, late dance doyenne Graham, with a performance at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Gammage Auditorium, Mill and Apache in Tempe. It's also the...
Programmed by Mac and Strong, KUKQ is the place to find music devoid of commercial influences Somebody hold a wake, because "alternative" is dead--gone the way of all labels that catch fire and fry in marketing hell. Ten years ago, the battle lines were clear: There was commercial radio and...
Look into a radio executive's heart and you'll find Arbitron scars. The national ratings service, which counts radio's unseen audience by mailing out weekly diaries, has been the industry standard for decades. Arbitron's numbers--500 to 600 diaries are collected every month to measure this market of roughly 2.5 million potential...
There is nothing this newspaper would like more than to celebrate the downfall of Dave Pratt. Over the years, New Times has feuded gloriously with Pratt, the KUPD-FM morning man who has ruled local rock radio for what seems like forever. One Wednesday, when Pratt encouraged listeners to deposit stacks...
MDRVRXP: see note below at "Art Films"MDNM @day:wednesday @mon:january @date2:26Martha Graham Dance Company: The most celebrated of all American dance companies observes the 100th birthday of its founder, late dance doyenne Graham, with a performance at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Gammage Auditorium, Mill and Apache in Tempe. It's also the...
In Britain it's shaken up music, fashion and virtually the whole of U.K. youth culture. In Italy, its synthesis of classic funk samples and trippy techno-beats has been mesmerizing discophiles for almost a year. In cities like New York and L.A. it's considered to be the hippest thing to happen...
MARY McCANN, who booked from puff-metal station KUPD-FM after her employer couldn't come up with a suitable contract, is set to roll now with Mrs. Jumbo Inc., her locally based music agency. Ironically, one of McCann's first projects was to book LIME GREEN as the opening act for the PURSUIT...
If there's one maxim we believe, it's that musicians and other people in the biz-- like record-company bigwigs, deejays and retailers--are really frustrated critic. MICHAEL CORNELIUS BASSIST Housequake, Jodie Foster's Army, Junior Chemists, Zuwal (in alphabetical order) BAD BRAINS I Against I (SST, 1986). BAUHAUS Mask (Beggars Banquet, 1981). BEASTIE...
The London Bridge, hauled brick by brick to the Colorado River, put Lake Havasu City on the map. The rest, as any student of history's great real estate schemes will tell you, was pure salesmanship. From nothing, chain-saw czar Robert McCulloch (by erecting a totally incongruous tourist attraction) created something...
When they first hear it, folks with a high degree of prissiness in their blood tend to cringe and blink. "Bone Mama?" The term has the ring of a sordid nocturnal adventure down on Van Buren, or the chick who took on the frat house. It refers to deejay Mary...
AZMC '91: PLAYING FOR KEEPS Ahhh . . . there's nothing like a music conference. Musicians of every size, taste and hair style steal into town. Music-business people--everyone from writers and deejays to promoters and record-company executives--fly in and schmooze themselves silly. During the day, everyone drifts in and out...
