Somehow, the night just doesnt feel complete until the hot blonde in the "I ♥ Dick" tee shirt bends over, peels down the back of her jeans and asks the tuxedoed Richard Cheese, "Sign my ass?" It's 10 o'clock on a Friday night in Las Vegas -- actually, in nearby...
Top 10 selling CDs at Swell Records (414 South Mill Avenue in Tempe) for August 15 through 21: 1. Braille, Shades of Grey (Syntax) 2. Sasha, Involver (Global Underground) 3. Antedote, The Neato Project #1 (Neato Records) 4. Paul Oakenfold, Creamfields (Thrive) 5. Kid Krazzy, Punk Rock Disco (One World)...
Rocky Horror, eat your heart out. Or just leave it to the cult followers and cutups behind Broadway Bound and Gagged's shadowcast production of Cannibal! The Musical, set for Saturday, September 11, at Spectrum Mall. "If it's up to my doing," says Cannibal casting director Justin Reed, "it will be...
Isn't science remarkable? You can drop a laser beam on a silver disc and be musically transported back to some circa-1958 VA hall, slow dancing to the sound of a smoky-voiced gal accompanied only by her upright bass, some lonesome pedal steel and some minimal snare brushwork, all wrapped up...
There's a reason crime and punishment stories work best in an antiquated setting. Bloody jpegs of a crime scene can't match the romance of sepia-toned photos of outlaws staring blankly into an uncertain future. Even the preferred weaponry from the digital age, like an automatic weapon or a stun gun,...
Will Wilson: "Auto Immune Response" at the Heard Museum: How do you survive in a postapocalyptic world? According to Will Wilson, the key to survival lies in an understanding of the past. The Navajo photographer explores this, as well as the concepts of Native American identity and connection to the...
One of the most popular cats on the FM dial locally is Power 92.3's JX3, who keeps things fresh and fantabulous weeknights from 7 to 10 p.m. on the Valley's No. 1 hip-hop station. That is, there's always something different going down on his show, whether it's Suns stud Amaré...
Thursday 30 Acme Bar & Grill: DJR (all genres) Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40) Ain't Nobody's Bizness: DJ Tsunami (Top 40, hip-hop) Anderson's Fifth Estate: Piranha Room/Area 51 with DJ Jeremy (industrial/goth, electroclash) Axis/Radius: Ladies' Night with DJ MCB & Josh Royal (all genres) AZ...
October 31, 1977: Tonight was extremely strange. Janette and I went to the Sombrero Theater (which is way down on Seventh Street and Camelback, kind of a scary part of town) to see Phantom of the Paradise. Janette has seen Phantom 37 times! I've never known anyone who has seen...
Provided you somehow fight off a T-Day invasion by the extended family with the usual gourmet gorge-fest, relieving your ravenous relatives (not to mention snuffing out the usual psychodrama), you've still got yet another dilemma: They're clamoring for some post-gluttony goings-on. Forestall a potential family feud with a good old-fashioned...
Bedazzling in your Uncle Sam novelty hat and puffy-paint flag shirt, with nowhere to go? At least it's the Fourth of July this time -- and not your cousin's bat mitzvah. (Don't worry -- we've made the same mistake.) No need to waste your ingenious ensemble on homemade barbecues and...
10/15-10/17 The ladies are packing lightly for Have Tassels Will Travel, a play following the life of burlesque dancer Satan's Angel, The Devil's Mistress. The play, which runs from Friday, October 15, through Sunday, October 17, at The Trunk Space, 1506 Grand Avenue, features performances by several burlesque dancers and...
Lenny Aviles and his girlfriend Lulu Saldana slipped away from his mother's west Phoenix home on the early evening of June 23, 1999. The longtime couple wanted to shop at Sam's Club before Lulu went home to Rio Grande, Texas, the next day. Lenny stepped outside to tell his mother,...
Blink while you're walking down Mill Avenue and you'll probably miss the new Swell Records. Just doors down from Fatburger, with only printed paper to mark its place, the latest incarnation of Swell sits a block north from Swell Clothing. Enter and you'll see a post-industrial space with a few...
Used to be that when the triple digits rolled around, everyone raced indoors and stayed there 'til Halloween. Then, sometime in the mid-'80s, as legend has it, a Scottsdale dishwasher hosing down some scarcely used outdoor furniture on a blistering June afternoon noted that the spray from his nozzle had...
There's light pop music piped in through the ceiling speakers at Paradise Valley Mall, but Donny Lang never really hears it. "This particular mall has no music -- or it's so quiet and the ceiling's so high that I can never hear it," says Lang, 25, a part-time musician and...
Looking like a cross between Jet Li and the Hives' Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, pimped out like his bandmates in a regal purple tux and a Green Hornet-style black mask, and twisting and shaking as if Benny Hinn had just laid hands on him and filled him with the Spirit, Russell...
Although some would have you believe our local music scene is deader than Tony Randall, consider that two new bands have migrated here: Tramps and Thieves (from Detroit and Minneapolis) and After Any Accident (from Blacksburg, Virginia), an intense power trio that blends the smarty muso sound of math rock...
D.R. Wilke, with gray hair, wire-rimmed glasses and an ASU alumni tee shirt, and Paul Taylor, with short curly locks and a white Izod polo, grab a balcony table at the Gordon Biersch brewery nestled atop the Mill Avenue Starbucks and are quickly greeted by a young waiter clutching four...
Fri 10/1 You can get yourself clean and enjoy a good meal, but art at the YMCA? Sure enough, on Friday, October 1, the Lincoln Family Downtown YMCA, 350 North First Avenue, hosts its own First Friday event. Its Teen Center Art Gallery showcases paintings and murals by inner-city teenagers...
What's Selling Top 10 sellers at Swell Records (414 South Mill Avenue, Suite 120, Tempe) for April 30 through May 6: 1. Richard Humpty Vission, Big Floor Funk (System Recordings) 2. DJ Dan Mixed Live Ruby Skye, San Francisco (Moonshine Music) 3. Cut Throat Logic Mixed Tape (self-released) 4. Atllas...
5/13-6/25 Being the hard-core culture warriors we are, we've considered joining the annual pilgrimage of peculiars to Burning Man in Nevada. But roasting in 127 degrees at the late-August mecca of eccentricity is daunting. We're down with the bohemian spirit, but not a killer case of heatstroke. We're more than...
