Use quotes to search for a phrase or name: "toy story", or "brooklyn bridge".

Article

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

THURSDAY 7 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) The 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, & more (hip-hop, reggae, breaks,...
Article

St. Patrick’s Day Guide

The word on the street is that Phoenix is gonna be going green, but it's got nothing to do with Al Gore. It's because the groovy Gaelic get-down known as St. Patrick's Day is about to strike the PHX, with everyone in Apache Junction to Avondale getting their Irish on...
Article

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

THURSDAY 14 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) The 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 DJ Rhettmatic, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, Dumperfoo, & more (hip-hop,...
Article

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

THURSDAY 6 Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, 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 Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay,...
Article

Strolling the Strip

This week, Club Candids decided to hit Mill Avenue and jump into whatever club seemed most promising. Turns out, the old standby Fat Tuesday was totally rockin' on Saturday, July 14. (Click here for more photos.) Having never been there before, we'd had the impression that it was for the...
Article

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

THURSDAY 31 27th Avenue Bar & Grill: DJ Tranzo (hip-hop, Top 40) 944 Super Village: DJ Vice, & DJ Reach (various) Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top Big Fish: DJ Seduce (hip-hop, soul) The Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C's: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones:...
Article

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

THURSDAY 17 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top  40, rock, dance) Big Fish: Drunk Ass Thursday with DJ Kocky, & MC One (Top 40, hip-hop) The 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...
Article

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

THURSDAY 24 Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) The 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 Forbidden: DJ Jeremy...
Article

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

THURSDAY 27 27th Avenue Bar & Grill: DJ Turtle­waxxx (hip-hop, old school, ­Latin groove) Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Big Fish Pub: DJ Kocky (club music, underground hip-hop) The Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C's: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Vibe:...
Article

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

THURSDAY 13 27th Avenue Bar & Grill: DJ Turtlewaxxx (hip-hop, old school, Latin groove) Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Baja Tilly's: DJ Adrian (old school, R&B, cumbia, reggaeton) Big Fish Pub: DJs Annalyze, Cake & Booty, Diosa, ill-legal?, & more (various) Bikini Lounge: Sophisticated Boom Boom...
Article

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

THURSDAY 20 27th Avenue Bar & Grill: DJ Turtlewaxxx (hip-hop, old school, Latin groove) Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Big Fish Pub: DJ Kocky (club music, underground hip-hop) Bikini Lounge: Sophisticated Boom Boom with DJ HFE (rockabilly, surf, jazz, classic country, indie, obscuro, R&B) The Blooze...
Article

Icy Core of Jupiter

Greetings, Earth humans, and welcome to the future. Your tour guide today will be Icy Core of Jupiter, a band so confident about its futuristic origin that it even wrote a song about the subject ("I'm From the Future"). The most accurate categorization of Icy Core's music would have to...
Article

End of an era: Michael’s at the Citadel closes

High hopes: Chef Michael DeMaria and business partner Brandon Maxwell at the future site of two new restaurants So it was true after all. A month ago, I'd gotten word that chef Michael DeMaria would be closing Michael's at the Citadel to make way for a new restaurant venture. When...
Article

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Thursday 15 Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (hip-hop, rock, dance) Baja Tilly's: DJ Adrian (old school, R&B, cumbia, reggaeton) Big Fish Pub: Chronik Frequency Thursdays with the Hazardous Crew feat. DJ Ladykilla, DJ Papi Cholo, DJ Spawn, Kyle Wise, AWOL, & Dmok (techno, breaks, electro, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass) Bikini Lounge: Sophisticated...
Article

East Infection

The proprietors of Olive Branch Mediterranean Restaurant figured that good Middle Eastern eats, a hookah lounge, a full bar, and belly dancers weren’t enough to create an authentic and worldly experience, so they added other global flavors to their entertainment palette, including knock-your-socks-off DJs spinning world sounds of Africa, India,...
Article

X Marks the Spot

Of course, we love the club life, but after so many weeks of hitting bar after bar, we needed a change of scenery. We found it on Friday, April 13, at Brand X Store, where local artists Disposable Hero, Family Soda, Mad One, and Fixer showcased their goods, spun some...
Article

Milling Around

Even if the night hadn't ended with whip-its and Adult Mad-Libs, my recent Saturday night excursion onto Mill Avenue in Tempe would still be among my most fun forays into Valley nightlife ever. It was a pleasant surprise, because I don't usually hang out on Mill, the main drag in...
Article

The little restaurant that could

Restaurant Mexico deserves a sweet trophy for marathon-worthy endurance. It was one of a handful of popular downtown Tempe restaurants that got the boot when developers decided to demolish their old digs at University and Forest. And while it wasn't the first time the business has picked up and moved...
Article

Turkish Delight

It's a total pain to get anywhere in Tempe, especially when you're hungry. More and more over the past few months, I've found myself avoiding restaurants I've frequented for years, unless I could stop by at an off time, or think of a clever route around the mess caused by...
Article

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 12, 2007

SHOP TALK Greenes odyssey: Great story on Sam Greene's big adventure ("The Wheel World," Michele Laudig, July 5). The fact that he worked for 20 years with no luck (well, he made $200 from his writing) makes his recent success with American Body Shop so much more appealing. It's not...
Article

The Bong Show

The glass glows dull red, like a campfire ember, above the gas torch. The young artist, sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a metal top, works with confident, quick motions, creating a tube by fusing white glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite...
Article

A Case of the Tuesdays

When they aren't busy letting loose in Black Rock City, local Burning Man freaks DJ Kodama and Chromatest J. Pantsmaker (a.k.a. the Salacious BeatSlingers) have been giving Valley hepcats a reason to stay out late on a school night with their weekly gig, A Case of the Tuesdays. Consider them...