Beer, weed, girlies and greed. That's what little Phunk Junkeez are made of. In five years, the locally grown punk-hop act has graduated from a series of infamous break-and-enter warehouse concerts to touring the nation on corporate money. "Trauma/Interscope treats us great," says the PJ rapper Soulman in a phone...
Hey, I've always said that good things come in pairs, right? So I was wrong. I went to the recent grand opening (oy--finally!) of the Valley's third Hooters restaurant. Or is it a sports bar? Or maybe just a place where a man can relax with his buddies, down a...
In a pop perfect world, there would be some deep, cosmic rationale behind every band name. In reality, knowing that Buffalo Springfield is a brand of lawn mower doesn't yield much in the way of brilliant insight. Since most of the really cool titles--like the Temptations and the Heartbreakers--have already...
Thank God for Deepak Chopra. If it wasn't for that Svengali of self-help, I'd have the mental acuity of an ether addict right now. My tally for the weekend: 12 bands, one rave, and a nerve-jangling run-in with the cops. It's a few hours 'til twilight on Monday morning, and...
thursday november 2 Arizona State Fair: The annual corn-dog carnival continues daily, through Sunday, at the fairgrounds, bounded by McDowell Road and Encanto Boulevard between 17th and 19th avenues. Along with the usual attractions--midway rides and games, livestock and agricultural exhibits, etc.--this year's fair features Thunder Lagoon, a manmade "rain...
Learning Curb As an ex-homeless Grapevine vendor, I want to thank those people responsible for such papers on the streets today ("Median Income," Marc Ramirez, October 12). Lest we forget, a person who is homeless and surviving on the streets is still a human being--a fact that will be with...
It is a showdown the likes of which Arizona has probably never seen. The two teams have been hand-picked, with money seemingly no object, from the cream of the Valley crop. The rosters read like a Who's Who of Arizona business hotshots--engineers, lobbyists, public relations flacks. Consultants of every stripe,...
thursday october 26 Arizona State Fair: The annual corn-dog carnival continues daily, through November 5, at the fairgrounds, bounded by McDowell Road and Encanto Boulevard between 17th and 19th avenues. Along with the usual attractions--midway rides and games, livestock and agricultural exhibits, etc.--this year's fair features Thunder Lagoon, a manmade...
Info:Category:Calendar Edition:Print 10/19/1995 Pic Hits for the week By Clay McNear thursday october 19 Arizona State Fair: The annual corn-dog carnival opens Thursday and continues through November 5 at the fairgrounds, bounded by McDowell Road and Encanto Boulevard between 17th and 19th avenues. Along with the usual attractions--midway rides and...
This Is Your Fife Regarding that Fife Symington fellow ("Paying the Piper," John Dougherty, October 5). . . . Tro da bum out! Robert H. Stone Phoenix Hey! Just think if the governor ended up in Joe Arpaio's jail! He would have to eat all that baloney he's been feeding...
thursday october 12 Chandler Doo Dah Days Festival and Super Duper Doo Dah Parade: It does the heart good to see a municipality unfetter the bun and let its hair down once in a while. City of Chandler's annual oddball hoe-down is something akin to a fright wig. The second...
Happy birthday, dear Ballroom. Happy birthday to you. Now that that's out of the way, I have a question: What the hell do so many people have against Electric Ballroom? In the ten weeks I've had to acclimate to the Valley music scene, I've heard no club or club owners...
thursday february 1 Parada del Sol Rodeo: Scottsdale's annual Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association-sanctioned roundup is one of the world's best, attracting many of the top ropers and riders in the field. Performances are at 1 p.m. Thursday, 1 and 7 p.m. Friday, 1 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m...
thursday january 18 Das Rheingold: The first act in Wagner's tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen, isn't over 'til the vicious dwarf sings. Arizona Opera continues its season with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Symphony Hall, 225 East Adams. All shows are sung in...
Poet, painter, actress, gangland den mother-perpetual publicity hound LIZ RENAY may well be the most colorful character ever to emerge from Mesa. In and out of the Valley since she won a 1949 beauty pageant sponsored by a national bra manufacturer, Renay began piling up headlines when she was grilled...
hello doll Barbie Blowout: In conjunction with the opening of the Health 'n' Home store at Arrowhead Towne Center, 75th Avenue and Bell Road in Peoria, Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll, makes a personal appearance and autographs her popular creations from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday. A limited...
thursday november 9 Bob Dylan: The living legend, who was mumbling brilliantly while R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe was still in knickers, performs on Thursday at Symphony Hall, 225 East Adams; see Coda on page 106. Ian Moore Band shares the bill. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $26.50 and $30.50, available...
thursday january 11 "Fred Harvey's Southwest": Heard Museum Guild's annual lecture series continues through February 8. The facility's director, Martin Sullivan, lectures on "The Harvey Era: Trains, Tourists and Transformations in American Life" at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Rayna Green, director of the American Indian program at the National Museum of...
thursday january 4 Little Shop of Horrors: Arizona Theatre Company continues its season with the dark and delicious musical about lovelorn Seymour Krelbourne and the voracious plant named Audrey II. Based on Roger Corman's 1960 film, the play was penned by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. This week's performances are...
thursday december 28 Circus Flora: Led by Daniel Balding, formerly of France's Cirque Medrano and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, this low-tech, high-reward family circus was named after, and built around, an orphaned African elephant (who was herself named after a character in Jean deBrunhoff's Babar books). This year's...
thursday december 21 The Phantom of the Opera: Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, based on the novel by Gaston LeRoux, stars Rick Hilsabeck as the title spook, aspiteful composer who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House and loves young soprano Christine (Sarah Pfisterer). Broadway vet Harold Prince directed the...
After 1 in the morning on May 1, as the off-duty police officers moonlighting as security guards cleared the parking lot of the Roxy, as 100 or so mostly black youths filed out of the club, there was a fluttering of automatic gunfire and a squeal of tires. When the...
