City of Tempe Parks and RecreationSculling calls to mind images of dear old Oxford across the pond, or even rowing upon the Charles River in Boston. Now you can join the sport of English gentry and New England Brahmins right here in the desert. Don’t let the artificial lake distract you. The City of Tempe offers classes in team rowing […]
City of Tempe Parks and RecreationSculling calls to mind images of dear old Oxford across the pond, or even rowing upon the Charles River in Boston. Now you can join the sport of English gentry and New England Brahmins right here in the desert. Don’t let the artificial lake distract you. The City of Tempe offers classes in team rowing […]
Sun Devil StadiumDespite all the complaining and groaning about Sun Devil Stadium generated primarily by the hapless Arizona Cardinals, the facility remains one of the finest football venues in the country. Yes, the toilets are old and concessions stands are limited, but for pure football fans, the proximity to the field and clean site lines can’t be […]
Sun Devil StadiumDespite all the complaining and groaning about Sun Devil Stadium generated primarily by the hapless Arizona Cardinals, the facility remains one of the finest football venues in the country. Yes, the toilets are old and concessions stands are limited, but for pure football fans, the proximity to the field and clean site lines can’t be […]
In Arizona, swine feeding, dead chicken handling, cheese making, emu slaughtering, minnow selling and manicuring are regulated industries with state-enforced rules, permits and inspectors to make sure these activities are performed responsibly. But the state doesn't care quite as much about responsible clitoris piercing. In Arizona, the burgeoning body modification...
On the first Friday night of every month, the art galleries in downtown Phoenix, big and small, as well as many artists' studios and temporary art spaces, open their doors to the now thousands of people who come through on self-guided tours. Since the mid-'90s, nonprofit volunteer organization Artlink has...
Michael Crow has arrived. The former executive vice provost and science policy expert from Columbia University is now Arizona State University's new president. Crow doesn't mind discussing his successes in stuffing Columbia's coffers (the college consistently ranked first or second among all U.S. universities in income from patent and license...
Celebrating life in the "Land of the Free" takes on a new meaning with all of the freebie (and almost-free) Independence Day events going on around the Valley. Just don't forget that in the "Home of the Brave," you can keep all 10 of your fingers and leave the blow-away...
The future is here -- at the Phoenix Art Museum, that is. "New Nomads," the latest exhibition in the Fashion Design Gallery, is not the usual collection of significant clothing from the past but rather a projection of what will be significant, an inspiring, cutting-edge display that illustrates how technology...
It's a sharp, almost violent drop leading to the back entrance of Beeloe's bar. Down a steep flight of concrete stairs just off Mill Avenue -- currently teeming with baggy-pantsed high schoolers out for some Friday night cruising -- past a silver-painted door, and you're inside the club. Inside, the...
Jeff Newton is looking for office space. Nothing fancy, just a table and chairs, a good desk lamp and a caramel double-shot latte waiting when he walks in the door. For the past four years — nearly every night since January, when he quit his waiter job at Olive Garden...
Years ago, when I lived in Dallas, one of the local bands threw a huge party for itself to celebrate its two-year anniversary. Keeping a band together for two years is a rare, extraordinary feat, its singer explained to me at the time. I remember being amused by his self-importance,...
There's only one serious drawback to being a musician: the musician's lifestyle. Sure, that sounds a bit like the old Thurston Howell III line about how the only problem with poverty is being poor, but in this case the issues go a little deeper than that. Most people get into...
Long Wong's is dead, even for a Monday. It's half past eight and the club's weekly acoustic showcase has started unusually early, smack in the void between happy hour and late night. While most of the assembled patrons are fixed to TV screens flashing returns from the evening's college basketball...
New Year's Eve will find some 150,000 revelers packed cheek-by-jowl along Mill Avenue and environs at the Tempe Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Block Party. Here are the Top 10 reasons to go.No. 10: It's big -- the "block" covers about 4 million square feet of downtown Tempe and Tempe Beach Park...
If you're dreaming of a white Christmas in Phoenix, maybe you'd better hit the snooze button. But if a bright Christmas will make up for any unfulfilled fantasies about precipitation, there are plenty of local light shows to give you a jolly holiday glow. Offering Yuletide eye candy and more...
The 110 famed lunchboxes sit neatly organized in a special collector's shrine in Robin Wilson's Mesa home -- just like the gold and platinum record awards the singer accumulated during his glory days with the Gin Blossoms, inarguably the most successful band Arizona produced in the '90s and the quintet...
Phoenix police officer Franklin Brown Jr. has returned to the scene of the crime."Right here is where it started," he says, standing on an isolated two-lane road at the city's southwest tip, on Lower Buckeye Road between 91st and 99th avenues. "This is where I got shot." Speaking in the...
McDuffy'sDon’t dismiss McDuffy’s just because it’s popular and smack dab in the weekend chaos that is Mill Avenue (next to the Bash on Ash). Be wary only if you have a phobia involving multiple TV screens. (McDuffy’s has 77 screens featuring every imaginable sports event on the planet.) The vibe is comfortable and festive, the […]
McDuffy'sDon’t dismiss McDuffy’s just because it’s popular and smack dab in the weekend chaos that is Mill Avenue (next to the Bash on Ash). Be wary only if you have a phobia involving multiple TV screens. (McDuffy’s has 77 screens featuring every imaginable sports event on the planet.) The vibe is comfortable and festive, the […]
Valley Art TheatreIt feels almost traitorous not to bestow this award on Harkins’ Camelview 5 in Scottsdale, which has pretty much single-handedly maintained what little independent and foreign film fare the Valley has to offer. But Dan Harkins has outdone himself with the Valley Art, a beautiful, modernized renovation of the spot where he claims to have […]
Valley Art TheatreIt feels almost traitorous not to bestow this award on Harkins’ Camelview 5 in Scottsdale, which has pretty much single-handedly maintained what little independent and foreign film fare the Valley has to offer. But Dan Harkins has outdone himself with the Valley Art, a beautiful, modernized renovation of the spot where he claims to have […]
