Four Peaks Brewing Company, 1340 East Eighth Street, Tempe, 480-303-9967. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Sunday, 1 to 11 p.m. In spring, the poet says, "a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love." But once spring turns to summer, just about everyone's...
Kona Grill, 7014 East Camelback (Scottsdale Fashion Square), Scottsdale, 480-429-1100. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to midnight; Dinner, Sunday, 5 to 10:30 p.m. Empires don't spring up overnight. Rome wasn't built in a day: It took centuries of...
The contracts were in the mail. And that was bad news for Phoenix officials and volunteers struggling to organize a massive downtown turn-of-the-century celebration that hopes to attract more than 100,000 revelers into the city's resurgent central core for an evening of partying, dancing, music and awe beneath an unprecedented...
thursday june 10 "I used to think that if you did an hour on TV, you couldn't go and do that same hour live. But I've learned the opposite is true. That's precisely the hour audiences want you to do. There's this feeling that if you did it on TV,...
thursday june 3 Bona fide show-biz legend Mickey Rooney plays the title role in The Wizard of Oz when a touring stage version of the L. Frank Baum tale comes to the Valley. Jo Anne Worley, the wild woman of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, plays that embodiment of Midwestern evil,...
Ethnic Flood Thank you so much for penning the poignant story on my interesting friend Pavle Milic ("To Serb With Love," Michael Lacey, June 3). His fragmented and diverse roots have sculpted him into a talented and passionate person, especially sensitive to the ethnocentric nature of Americans. His future writings...
All this millennium talk of recent days is nothing new to Al Stewart. His 1989 song "Last Days of the Century" pointed to the event better than 10 years ahead of time. The lyric to that song included many hallmarks of Stewart's writing style: literary, cinematic and historical elements that...
We keep hearing rumblings that Phoenix has emerged as a major metropolis. Some inhabitants even take pride in the smog they inhale, viewing it as confirmation that we're in the big leagues. But Phoenix still struggles to find its own identity and forfeit facsimile. Serving as one of many sketchbooks,...
Tom Sands is poised to open the floodgates. On June 2, the Salt River Project engineer will begin diverting water from a canal in Papago Park into Tempe's Town Lake, the centerpiece of the city's Rio Salado project. About 100 million gallons of water a day will cascade into the...
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...
