THU 24 Scoring points with the girly girls in the crowd, the Phoenix Mercury invite local ladies to America West Arena, 201 East Jefferson, for a Girls Night Out this Thursday, June 24. While the team puts the heat on the New York Liberty, we'll keep our cool with 10-minute...
CLUBS ACME Roadhouse: In its original Scottsdale location, ACME catered to Harley-Davidson weekend warriors. In its new Tempe incarnation, it entertains the college set with dancing and, on Sundays, local rock bands. Dance space is at a minimum, but there's plenty of room for other social rites. Sun: Live music...
Thursday, February 26 Three intertwining stories of terminally ill patients and their loved ones make up the compelling drama of The Shadowbox, presented by Phoenix College Thursday, February 26, through Saturday, February 28. "Even though the setting is a hospice of sorts, the play is neither morbid nor melancholy, but...
Thu 10 Let your soul glow on Thursday, June 10, as The Chi-Lites, The Stylistics, Cuba Gooding Sr. and Harold Melvin's Blue Notes take the Dodge Theatre stage, 400 West Washington, for the Super '70s Soul Jam. The big 'fros, polyester jump suits, and steamed funk of the blaxploitation era...
I'm all alone in the 'Zona this Saturday night. Jett's jetted off to NYC for a little vay-cay, leaving me by my lonesome in P-town. (Sigh.) Never thought I'd admit to missing 116 pounds of bitchy lipsticker, but I reckon I do. Thought I'd stay home, sip Hennessy, and play...
Whenever St. Valentine's Day draws near, my thoughts turn to cod. True, there initially may seem nothing so unromantic as the humble Gadus morhua, which spends its life swimming along the ocean floor, mandibles agape, devouring anything in its path. Fishermen have even been known to slit open these vacuum...
Live music in downtown Tempe doesn't get much better than a Phunk Junkeez show at the Bash on Ash. But after one last performance December 27, the veteran rap-rock fusion band will be scrambling for a new place to play. The Bash on Ash, the 600-person-capacity downtown Tempe club that...
Thursday, April 29 Shakespeare scholars love this labor lost. Touted as the Bard's great lost -- and possibly last -- drama, Cardenio surfaces this weekend at the Tempe Performing Arts Center. The Southwest Shakespeare Company makes something old new again, presenting the Southwestern première of the work, also known as...
CLUBS ACME Roadhouse: In its original Scottsdale location, ACME catered to Harley-Davidson weekend warriors. In its new Tempe incarnation, it entertains the college set with dancing and, on Saturdays, local rock bands. Dance space is at a minimum, but there's plenty of room for other social rites. Sun: Live music...
Jesus raps a bit like Tupac. Not in the content of his lyrics, of course -- he devotes his rhymes to condemning the vices of thug life, unlike 'Pac, who lived and died by them. But his delivery is definitely West Coast, his meter precise and masculine like a gangster...
Thursday, April 8 Thanks to a big phat deal with rapper Bubba Sparxxx, the Yonder Mountain String Band is reaching an entirely new audience. Sparxxx's track "Comin Round" sends a shout out to the Colorado jamgrass band, sampling its 2001 tune "To See You Coming 'round the Bend." YMSB comes...
Shane Saunders tugs the brim of his baseball cap, pulling it down tighter over his short red hair, and stares out over the row of turbocharged Corvettes, Vipers and F-body Camaros parked behind the high-performance tuning shop where he works. "Nobody I know says they're racing tonight," he says, shaking...
Polygamy Is Fundamental Financial planning: Far as I can tell, John Dougherty has done it again; provided clear information regarding the situation in Colorado City/Hildale ("Double Exposure," December 25). As a resident of Lake Havasu City/Mohave County, we have strong feelings regarding the lawless activities of the fundamentalists. Most of...
It's no secret that nostalgia is a powerful reason rock 'n' roll has so much influence on its fans -- you remember the hand-me-down, 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra you were riding in, who was driving and what you were smoking the first time you heard Sabbath's "Paranoid." You always will...
First, it was closing. Then it wasn't. And now no one is sure what will happen. For 15 years, seven days a week, Long Wong's on Mill has been a rock 'n' roll institution. But these are confusing times. Two weeks ago, the club's owners told me Wong's was dead,...
Nothing screams "nothing new" quite like a "Battle of the Bands" contest. It's not so much the groups themselves competing for cash or valuable prizes or beer sponsorship that inspire yawns so much as the non-delivery of a real blood-drawing battle. What's so special about bands performing the same sets...
3/1-3/7 Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick -- the oldest American man ever to finish among the top four men's tennis players in the world, and the youngest American man ever to finish number one -- are coming to volley in the Valley this week. But forget about Andre versus Andy...
Fri 12/5 "I'm sure a lot of people used to fantasize about Cris [Kirkwood] or [Derrick] Bostrom as a woman, so no, I don't think it'll be a stark departure," Curt Kirkwood says of his former Meat Puppets bandmates, comparing his new project with singer/guitarist Lisa Newmyer to the local...
Picture This Holding him in contempt: I read the article on Jerry Colangelo and his effort to build downtown ("Operation Mickey Mouse," John Dougherty, November 20). One very disturbing element is the outright contempt for Mr. Colangelo. Please, people, for once set your bruised ego aside and realize that, while...
Thursday, March 4 Widespread panic? A little less so after this Thursday, March 4, when "panic!," the Valley's original weekly Brit pop/indie dance night, clears the way for a new order. Rocking Anderson's Fifth Estate every Thursday for four years, the event quickly outgrew the club's Elbow Room and --...
The following is a select listing of music, restaurant and bar activities planned at various Valley venues on Wednesday, March 17, unless otherwise stated. Call the telephone numbers listed for details. Special Events Family Fun Night, March 12 Fountain of Life International 1055 E. Hearn Rd. No cover. Entertainment by...
Say you want to break into the urban clothing market. It probably won't occur to you to slap stickers on garbage cans, call it "Trashcan Advertising" and invent your very own marketing campaign. But that's exactly how a 25-year-old from north Phoenix has taken his clothing label, Soldierleisure, from the...
