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...
On a Saturday sometime in the mid-'90s, the lives we were living -- and the lunches we had just eaten -- were erased forever. We were introduced to a couple of guys named Spike and Mike and the wonders of animation gone bad. Some days are a revelation, and any...
W.C. Fields didn't live long enough to see the modern incarnation of the wine bar, but he had some great thoughts on grapes and grub. "I cook with wine," he said. "Sometimes I even add it to the food." My favorite Fieldism: "Some weasel took the cork out of my...
Mill Avenue, TempeMill Avenue is the heart of downtown Tempe, and there’s no better place to see the pulse of living than this urban strip. Arizona State University brings college kids in proximity, but it’s also a popular spot for cruising and hanging out. The voyeur within us likes to sit back and watch the eclectic mix […]
Mill Avenue, TempeMill Avenue is the heart of downtown Tempe, and there’s no better place to see the pulse of living than this urban strip. Arizona State University brings college kids in proximity, but it’s also a popular spot for cruising and hanging out. The voyeur within us likes to sit back and watch the eclectic mix […]
Tempe BicycleJust the location warrants major bike-shop cachet. Three blocks from Mill Avenue and ASU, Tempe Bicycle sits in the midst of the Valley’s only bike-friendly and bike-conscious neighborhood. Add to that owners Bud and Yvonne Morrison’s 27 years in the bike business, and their longtime commitment to providing the widest selection of killer bikes and […]
Tempe BicycleJust the location warrants major bike-shop cachet. Three blocks from Mill Avenue and ASU, Tempe Bicycle sits in the midst of the Valley’s only bike-friendly and bike-conscious neighborhood. Add to that owners Bud and Yvonne Morrison’s 27 years in the bike business, and their longtime commitment to providing the widest selection of killer bikes and […]
Sail InnPoor hippies. Mill Avenue used to be a place where patchouli and sage were always in the air and the irie goodwill ran wild. Now, it would be a miracle to find so much as a drum circle that wasn’t broken up by the cops in five minutes. Fortunately for the city’s disgruntled Deadheads, dread […]
Sail InnPoor hippies. Mill Avenue used to be a place where patchouli and sage were always in the air and the irie goodwill ran wild. Now, it would be a miracle to find so much as a drum circle that wasn’t broken up by the cops in five minutes. Fortunately for the city’s disgruntled Deadheads, dread […]
The following is a select listing of concerts, balls, parties, dinners and other happenings around the Valley on New Year's Eve, Wednesday, December 31. Reservations are required in virtually all cases; be sure to ask whether price includes tax and tip. Happy New Year! Phoenix-West Valley Arizona Theatre Company Herberger...
You could be the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to the Dave Matthews Band concert at Cricket Pavilion on August 24. Count the number of silver 1800 bottles that appear in this Cinco de Mayo Guide and e-mail your guess to tickets@newtimes.com. Winners must be 21 or older...
The corporate big wheels are putting the screws to downtown Phoenix. Each twist brings us inexorably closer to obliterating a rare and fragile opportunity to create an urban center unique to our corner of the world. Anyone who thinks a corporate-dominated glitter mall with chain eateries and high-end housing isn't...
Un-PC Red light, green light: In the article "Geeks Gone Wild!" (Jimmy Magahern, August 14), I think the writer might have been somewhat overly sympathetic to the "geeks." So they were not watching the road, going through an intersection, when they were almost broadsided by a truck "running" a yellow...
"Dinnner" Companion The Spike presumes that most people who have been to Mill Avenue in Tempe have run into Dennnis (with three ns) Skolnick. This is the guy who calls himself the Mill Avenue Food Critic. For a small donation that allegedly goes to help the homeless or homeless cats...
12-19/-12/21 The Ninth Annual "Christmas at First" Dickens Festival closes the book on another holiday season this weekend, after festivalgoers devour the last of 30,000 holiday cookies, 20,000 cups of cider and 15,000 bags of popcorn. (More? They ask for more?)Though the indigence of Dickens' world may not be represented,...
