among the animals Sleepover at Wildlife World Zoo: The fourth annual chaperoned summer series kicks off this week. WWZ staff members escort kids in grades four through eight on a night hike through the zoo and teach them how to paint their own tee shirts. The fun starts at 7...
thursday august 22 Pam Tillis, Lorrie Morgan, and Carlene Carter: This might be called the "Family Tree Tour." Pam's dad is corn-pone crooner Mel Tillis, and Lorrie also has followed in the footsteps of her singin' pop, late Grand Ole Opry member George Morgan. Carlene, the least-known and -commercial member...
thursday september 26 "William Lesch: Painting With Light": Scottsdale Center for the Arts, in conjunction with its pricey opening-night gala featuring Gregory Hines on Saturday, September 28 (see the Dance listing), presents this exhibit of lovely, hyperrealistic, manipulated desert landscapes by Tucson photographer Lesch, whose forte is using "colored lights...
thursday august 29 Ronnie Dawson: The Texas hellbilly, self-proclaimed "Blond Bomber of the Monkey Beat," has been cutting sizzlin' sides since 1958--starting with "Action Packed" and "Rockin' Bones," both recorded under the alias Ronnie Dee. The latest disc from Dallas-born Dawson, Just Rockin' & Rollin', kicks pretty hard, too. Definitively...
boney voyage "Weinerville Live": Marc Weiner, creator and host of Nickelodeon's half-human/half-puppet show, has taken his absurdist invention on the road. Weiner and many of his creations--including Boney the Dinosaur, Dottie the Mayor and tough-guy Socko--make a pit stop at Celebrity Theatre, 440 North 32nd Street, on Saturday, August 10...
dino might Robosaurus: The auto-munching, true-life Transformer puts in an appearance at Phoenix Boys & Girls Herbert Kieckhefer Club, 548 West Southern, from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, June 21, as a prelude to its "performance" on Saturday, June 22, at the Ford Motor Company Jets Versus Funny Cars Extravaganza...
thursday september 5 Guv: The Emperor Strikes Back: Guv: The Musical, the Star Wars: A New Hope of Arizona musiopolitical revues and one of the Valley's biggest hits of the early '90s, has given way to this sequel by the original Guv collaborators: Candice St. Jacques Miles (book/lyrics), Bruce Miles...
safety first National Night Out 1996: Many Valley cities and neighborhoods will join the 13th annual nationwide commemoration of crime-busting and self-defense, which teaches kids and their families how to protect their property and their persons. The biggest local event is slated for 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, August 6,...
cold comfort Downtown Cooldown: The City of Tempe hosts this way-cool extravaganza, featuring a fresh fall of July snow, a parade starring Otto the Talking Police Car, interactive games, train rides, entertainment and more. It's slated for 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 27, centered on the intersection of Sixth...
slime wave Mighty Mud Mania XXI: The 1996 edition of this detergent-challenging festival is slated for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, July 19, at Chaparral Park, 5401 North Hayden in Scottsdale; registration precedes at 8. The main event is the "Original Mud Obstacle Course," in which children ages 7...
thursday august 15 Continental Indoor Soccer League All-Star Game: Phoenix and its on-hiatus CISL franchise, the Arizona Sandsharks, are hosts of this year's bash, the second annual. Tatu, Sandshark Donny Gaillard, Dale Ervine and other league stars are scheduled to take the field at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 15, at...
at the fair Kid Stuff at Maricopa County Fair: The fair continues through Sunday, May 5, and includes daily fun like midway rides and games, livestock and agriculture competitions and exhibitions, farm tours featuring a "maternity ward" of animal newborns, and vegetable-bowling and pickle-eating contests. For general information, see Pic...
New Times staff members once again swept the highest honors handed out by the Arizona Press Club. Staff writer John Dougherty was named the 1995 Virg Hill Journalist of the Year for the third time in four years. Kathleen Ingley of the Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette was first runner-up; New Times...
at the fair Kid Stuff at Maricopa County Fair: On Monday, April 29; Tuesday, April 30; and Wednesday, May 1, kids can buy magic tickets to this year's fair, which starts Thursday, April 25, and continues through Sunday, May 5. Called "Pay-One-Price" passes and priced at $19.95, they're good for...
The first band I ever went to see in the Valley was Dead Hot Workshop. I could relate to the name. It was last year, on a Friday night in mid-July. I had just moved here from Alaska and promptly discovered that hangovers are even worse when you are dehydrated...
Say You Ain't Slow, Joe So you're part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's public relations dream team and you want to make up for the inmates-burying-the-dead blunder. What do you do? Book the Crime Avenger and his new book, America's Toughest Sheriff, on a national television show where savvy guests trade...
strings attached "Musical Marionettes": Clotilde Otranto conducts Phoenix Symphony in this meshing of orchestral works and puppetry, the final entry in the ensemble's Family Concert Series. Puppeteers Bob and Judy Brown put string beings through their paces in sequences titled "Clown Alley," "Petting Zoo," "Fright Night" and "Future Tense," which...
thursday august 8 Jimmy Eat World: And the world--or, at least, our little corner of it--apparently likes the taste of Jimmy. "Flying off the shelves" may be an exaggeration regarding the status of the Valley alterna-pop band's major-label debut, Static Prevails (Capitol), but "moving briskly" seems fair; see the story...
thursday august 1 The Grapes of Wrath: Frank Galati won a Tony Award for his adaptation of John Steinbeck's landmark novel about the Joad family's flight from the Dust Bowl's devastation to the broken promise of golden California, land of milk, honey and barbarism. The Phoenix-based Actors Group presents Galati's...
thursday july 25 Smokin' Grooves Tour 1996: Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, comprising Rita and Bob Marley's kids Ziggy, Sharon, Cedella and Stephen, are first among equals on this fine bill, produced by Dan Aykroyd's House of Blues, the same entity responsible for the upcoming House of Blues Tour...
thursday july 18 Kim Abeles: The work of this talented Californian gives new meaning to the term "environmental art." Best known for her "smog" series--which utilizes man's pollutants to comment on mankind's folly--Abeles is also adept at assemblage, drawing and welding, and her creations are generally knockouts whether they're bite-size...
thursday july 11 Nico-Icon: Director Susanne Ofteringer's documentary tells tales on the late, Berlin-born Nico (real name: Christa Paffgen), model, actress, Teutonic chanteuse, Andy Warhol cohort, short-lived Velvet Undergrounder and, in the bitter end, a star-crossed junkie who embodied the Velvets' tune "Black Angel's Death Song." The unrated film's run...
