THURSDAY 24 Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Forbidden: DJ Domenica, DJ Hill, & DJ MJ (various) Club Red: The Blunt Club with P-Trix, Pickster One, DJ Element, Emerg McVay (hip-hop, breaks), Grand Pappy Nappe, Good O'Preecha, & Terrasaurus (dubstep) Crown Room: Crush Thursdays with DJ Gable...
University SquareIn recent years, developers by the dozen have sunk serious sums into Mill Avenue and downtown Tempe with the hope that ASU kids and other hipsters will spend their hours and (more importantly) their dollars at its ultra-corporate chain stores, restaurants, and nightspots. Too bad for them that the gnarliest place around these parts ain’t […]
XTRA CRISPY So the Bird was out for First Friday recently when it ran into Andrea Beesley-Brown, a.k.a. the Midnite Movie Mamacita, known for hosting splatter and grindhouse flicks at Chandler Cinemas, where she doubles as the operations manager. The perky New Zealander told this tweeter a wacky tale of...
Light-rail construction, deteriorating inflatable rubber dams, and a vice mayor named Hut. Tempe can sometimes lean to the frightening side. Now Mill Avenue ratchets up the scare factor even more with the third annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival. This year’s bill of fare includes retro classics such as...
THURSDAY 8 Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJs Brazilia, & Mara (various) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Forbidden: DJ Domenica, DJ Hill, & DJ MJ (various) Club Red: The Blunt Club with One Be Lo, DJ Expo, Pickster One, DJ Element, Emerg McVay (hip-hop, breaks)...
THURSDAY 3 Axis/Radius: Divine Ladies Night (Top 40, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones: Da Gutter Thursdays with DJ Soulman (hip-hop, Top 40) Cherry Lounge: DJ M2 (rock, '80s, old school, hip-hop) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, & guests (hip-hop, breaks) Crown...
"My Favorite Year" at the Mill Avenue Post Office: Mill Avenue is one of the best pedestrian-friendly streets in the Valley, especially if youre looking to rest your eyes on pretty things. Typically, those attractive things take the form of drunken young folk, but the display windows of the Post...
THURSDAY 20 Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones: Da Gutter Thursdays with DJ Soulman (hip-hop, Top 40) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, Dumperfoo, & guests (hip-hop, breaks) Crown Room: Crush Thursdays with DJ Gable (mash-ups, Top 40) Draft...
In Part One of this series last week, Paul Rubin described how Tempe police focused on two suspects in the aftermath of the murder of 20-year-old Kathleen Smith inside her condominium on October 5, 1984 ("If the Shoe Don't Fit . . . You Must Acquit"). One of the suspects...
THURSDAY 10 Axis/Radius: Divine Ladies Night (Top 40, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones: Da Gutter Thursdays with DJ Soulman (hip-hop, Top 40) Cherry Lounge: DJ M2 (rock, '80s, old school, hip-hop) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Kris Jah Fist, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay...
We won’t pretend to claim that ASU is the Harvard of the West. On the contrary, we wouldn’t be surprised if pulse-taking docs reside inside the school’s cavernous admission quarters. You fog the mirror, you’re in. Thus the need to dedicate additional wordage for the Mill Avenue Fall Crawl. Though...
TrailsWe hesitate to give this store an award because it’s popular enough, located just off Mill Avenue. Also, the chain does a fine job of promoting itself. But there’s a reason we’ve been shopping here ever since it was called “Happy Trails” (which was before the Roy Rogers people threatened to sue the company). It’s […]
THURSDAY 27 Axis/Radius: Divine Ladies Night (Top 40, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C's: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones: Da Gutter Thursdays with DJ Soulman (hip-hop, Top 40) Cherry Lounge: DJ M2 (rock, '80s, old school, hip-hop) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Ervin Arana, Pickster Uno, DJ...
Brand X StoreIt’s pretty easy for chicks when they want to sauce up the old wardrobe. The options for tops alone are endless. Tube top, halter top, tank top, spaghetti strap, empire waist — and so on. But for dudes, it’s button-up, collared or T. It’s no wonder that they rely on color, pattern and printed designs […]
As the waning days of 2007 tick away like Vicodins down the gullet of some rehab-bound starlet, so do your final chances of being bad. See, you've finally decided to cut the bullshit, buckle down, and stick to those troublesome New Year's resolutions you've blown off year after year. Which...
Med Fresh GrillChef Mustafa’s not telling. Tastes like eggplant? Sure, a little bit. Looks a tad like crushed tomato? Yeah, but looks can be deceiving. The spiciness must mean there are some chiles in there somewhere, right? Mustafa just smiles, and asks if you’d like another cup. It’s Chef Mustafa San’s secret sauce. Of which his fans […]
Club Mardi Gras & VooDoo LoungeWhile Long Wong’s may have gone to the great music scene in the sky after getting the bulldozer treatment a few years back, the spirit of the legendary Tempe rock ‘n’ roll bar lives on at Club Mardi Gras & VooDoo Lounge. Hang out at this raucous roadhouse in south Scottsdale and it’ll feel like […]
Reels & WheelsThere are several free, outdoor film series in the Valley every year, so why Reels & Wheels? Two things: 1) demo, 2) environment. Tempe, at least around ASU, is cool. It’s the only place in the Valley other than downtown Phoenix that has street people, which lends a certain urban savoir-faire to the area — […]
Insight BowlUntil December 29, 2006 — and the stupefying football game that put it on the map — the Insight was second-tier all the way. It started life as the Copper Bowl in Tucson in 1989, enduring a decade of lame, forgettable matches that even Old Pueblans couldn’t give a hang about. In 2000, the game […]
Kay's LoungeWe’ve been to a lot of bars and had some great food. Our personal all-time favorite snack was a batch of homemade pickled eggs the owner would bring to the bar in Beloit, Wisconsin — they were great with mustard. A close second were the Tater Tots at the long-gone original Long Wong’s on Mill […]
Paintings by Scooter LaForge at Antoine Proulx Design Studio: As far as turnoffs go, self-absorbed pretension is right up there with stained teeth and halitosis. And sadly, our own arts scene is rampant with artists who take themselves too seriously. But Scooter LaForge is the equivalent to teeth bleach and...
Tempe Town Lake/Indian Bend Wash bike path systemSometimes we feel our hackles rise while riding the mean streets of the Valley. We feel lucky the dumbass serial shooters missed us, since we make such a pretty target in our colorful spandex biking jerseys. But we figure we’re still bound to get creamed someday by a drunken legislator or some other idiot motorist. […]
