It's 2:00 in the afternoon and Leah Miller's still a bit groggy. In all fairness, the Zone's late-night DJ has a good excuse for her mild case of lethargy. Her graveyard shift at the station means she doesn't get home until six in the morning, and she's rarely asleep before...
thursday july 22 Jazz sax man Gato Barbieri honks away, touring behind his Columbia Jazz CD Che Corazon, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 22, at the Red River Music Hall, Mill and Washington in Tempe. See the story on page 104. Tickets are $28.50. 602-829-6779 (Red River), 480-503-5555 (Dillard's). A...
Attention, online shoppers! Welcome to eBay, your one-stop shopping headquarters for everything you never knew you needed. An international flea market to some, a global Dumpster to others, this behavioral-research head-scratcher has produced some of the wackiest human-interest stories of the year. In recent months, Internet shopaholics have vicariously thrilled...
When grown-ups talk about their childhood summers, however fondly they speak of baseball games or camping or trips to amusement parks, no nostalgia of this sort usually seems able to compete with their memories of moviegoing. Not much beats hanging out in a movie theater during the hot months, getting...
thursday april 15 Lanford Wilson's influential play Balm in Gilead, set in the bustle of a Lower East Side coffee shop among, in the author's words, "the riffraff, the bums, the petty thieves, the scum, the lost, the desperate, the dispossessed, the cool," is presented by the Arizona State University...
The most frequently repeated joke about the '60s was that if you could remember it, you weren't there. Along those lines, the morning after the overwhelming spectacle that was the New Times Music Awards Showcase, the hazy cloud of amnesia that fills my head might be my only solid proof...
Gummer of Love This letter is to thank New Times and Paul Rubin for finally printing the true story about my daughter, Lorraine De Jongh Gamble, and her husband, Edward Gamble ("Olden Opportunity," March 4). Previously, much of what was mentioned concerning them was trash, based solely upon sensationalism. No...
In a day and age where most bands are eager to take the quickest shortcut to commercial success, the Mob 40's are a refreshing change of pace. While discussing their brief but eventful history in the back room of Long Wong's, the group members never broach subjects like major-label conglomeration,...
Through binoculars at night, the corner of Ninth Avenue and Madison Street is a murky scene of people milling in the dark. Yet the few lights in the area radiate just enough to see that the street's after-hours crowd of about 100 homeless men and women is beginning to stir...
Alice Does Live Here For the record, I would like to comment on your article regarding Alice Cooper'stown ("Go Ask Alice," Gilbert Garcia) in the April 29 issue of New Times. As the founder of Evening Star Productions, and producing concerts here for 25 years, I have been fortunate enough...
It's Saturday afternoon in downtown Tempe. The Coffee Plantation's patio off Sixth Street and Mill is warmed by a late winter sun that slow roasts the usual blend of slackers, hackers and idle overachievers. A four-piece band is tucked off in a corner of the courtyard. The music, a bouncy,...
I don't wish ill on the clerk to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, but it's a good thing she was sick on June 15. That was the day the Board of Supervisors met in a hastily called "special study session" to discuss the media melee over their plan to...
Thursday May 27 To Jeff Dunham's usual repertory company--fuzzy "Woozle" Peanut, crotchety old-timer Walter and pepper-on-a-stick Jose Jalapeno--the comedian and ventriloquist has added two new characters: Larry, who's all a-jitter over the Y2K problem, and Bubba, a bucktoothed, freckle-faced rustic type. The lot of them takes the stage at 8...
MODERN ROCK: 1. LES PAYNE PRODUCT This high-concept dynamic duo--born of a much reviled alt-rock quartet called Crime Dog--occupies a musical space all its own: You could call it minimalist garage funk-pop. Behind their sense of the absurd and fashion unpredictability, though, guitarist James Karnes and drummer Chris Pomerenke are...
thursday may 13 Athens, Georgia-based instrumental-surf-rockabilly-pop-punk blend The Woggles, touring in support of their Telstar Records CD Wailin' With the Woggles, hit the Valley on Thursday, May 13, at Mustang Sally's, 1212 East Apache in Tempe. Doors open at 9 p.m.; the 21-and-over show starts at 10. Erector Set, and...
Milking MLK Day Sometimes, but not often, it's possible to believe that Phoenix really is a major American city with character and class. The Flash was reminded of that while sitting in the audience last Friday night at the city's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. For 12 years, the...
"Woo-hoo, the Cards are in the playoffs, Jack," yelped the red-nosed gent whose thick, round head sported a white hardhat with a snake glued to its top. He wore an Arizona Cardinals jersey with the number 16 pulled tightly over a belly that looked like it was stuffed with a...
thursday april 22 Standup guy Joe Rogan, best known as the gadget master on TV's NewsRadio, takes the stage at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 22; 8 and 10 p.m. Friday, April 23; 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday, April 24; and 8 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at the Tempe Improv Comedy...
thursday april 29 Seventeen of the Valley's top harp-blowers--Bill Tarsha, Dave Trippy, Roy Pinn, The Root Doctor, Mississippi Catfish, Bill Frain, Gypsy, Mark "Moose" Mallet, Dave Tank Taylor, George Pappas, Diana Lee, Big Nick, Dwight Miles, Harmonica Mark, Sarge Lintecum, Larry Dee and venue honcho Bob Corritore--take the stage for...
Officer Scott Masino began CPR even though he knew his friend was dead. Masino tried in vain to push breath into the chest of fellow cop Marc Atkinson, to get his heart to beat after it had been stopped by the gunshots. Atkinson was killed in an ambush on March...
As a kid, I went through a very brief infatuation with the clarinet after watching The Benny Goodman Story on TV with my dad. All these years later, it's as clear to me as the horn-rims on Steve Allen's ugly mug that this film was a ludicrously romanticized bio-pic typical...
Ronald Roe is a wife-swapper. The 31-year-old psychiatric case worker for a Valley hospital enjoys, on frequent occasion, watching his wife copulate with other men. And Ronald's wife, a software engineer, fondly encourages him to have sex with other men's wives, usually while she's in the same room, having sex...
