The politician doesn't grow more human with age. In the end, he becomes a wharf rat. --Henry David Thoreau The governor spoke at the Republican party's annual meeting the other day. "The trouble with our prisons in Arizona is that we don't have the concept of arduous labor," J. Fife...
@day:around @mon:the globe @body:"World Class" Adventures Resume: Kids loved "visiting" all seven of the Earth's continents during "World Class! A Geographic Adventure in Art," a themed installation and hands-on workshop series that recently concluded at Arizona Museum for Youth, 35 North Robson in Mesa. The series was so popular, in...
MDRVRXP: see note below at "Art Films"MDNM @day:wednesday @mon:january @date2:26Martha Graham Dance Company: The most celebrated of all American dance companies observes the 100th birthday of its founder, late dance doyenne Graham, with a performance at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Gammage Auditorium, Mill and Apache in Tempe. It's also the...
@day:around @mon:the globe @body:"World Class" Adventures Resume: Kids loved "visiting" all seven of the Earth's continents during "World Class! A Geographic Adventure in Art," a themed installation and hands-on workshop series that recently concluded at Arizona Museum for Youth, 35 North Robson in Mesa. The series was so popular, in...
One inch could be all that decides whether Valley voters are willing to tax themselves for thirty years to build the country's most ambitious mass transit system. That inch--raising public suspicion Valley-wide--is how mapmakers for the Regional Public Transportation Authority show mile-wide "corridors" in which they want to build a...
I have never seen John Tower drunk. Am I the only American who can say that? Hell, even Earl de Berge saw Tower bombed on three occasions. De Berge wrote to Arizona's senior U.S. senator and premier real estate speculator, Dennis DeConcini, to say that he, Earl, had seen the...
There's nothing disturbing about ASU's Lyric Opera Theatre production of The Turn of the Screw. The cast performs competently. The costumes and set work to good advantage. The orchestral score is wonderful to follow. Honest, it's nothing to get alarmed about. But that's the scariest part--because this is supposed to...
When is a deal with the Phoenix City Council not a deal? Apparently when the public finds out about it. Bonnie Bartak, aide to Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, is unhappy New Times reported earlier this month that the city council had approved a deal with the owners of business properties...
As the debate has raged over the latest beast on the ASU campus, the looming lavenderish hulk of the new Fine Arts Complex, it's become clear that Tempe might be a difficult spot for a normal person to find somebody to like--seeing as how the available cliques harbor only lugheads...
The insurance industry and its allies in the GOP leadership could have won, if they just hadn't been so greedy. They could have come up with a bill to revamp Arizona's automobile insurance laws that would have satisfied enough Republicans--and maybe even a handful of Democrats--to get the necessary votes...
Got a problem with the bank or company holding the mortgage on your house? Don't count on Arizona's Banking Department to help you out. Alan and Barbara Woodruff found that out the hard way. They bought an $89,000 home in Phoenix four years ago and assumed the mortgage, but soon...
There's a story about the late Gilbert Cady, ASU's long-time finance wizard, that helps explain why the campus looks the way it does today. Rudy Turk, director of the University Art Museum, tells it: "Gilbert was a delightful guy, but he was very tight with a dollar. We were in...
"We don't want any niggers and Mexicans out here." Duane Pell didn't think he shocked easily. But then, he didn't think that being a politician meant he had to listen to crap like that. He remembers thinking, so that's why I'm getting so much grief from this neighborhood. I'm just...
Bill Boyle and Jeff Miller wheeled into one of South Phoenix's meanest neighborhoods looking to score cocaine. The friends--both white men--had snorted coke earlier that night at the office. Now, they wanted more, and they knew where to get it. Lino Josytewa had been hanging out that evening, December 21,...
Meatloaf rolled his wheelchair to the very edge of the stage. "We've got to get out of this trap before this decadence saps our wills!" he moaned. Astonished, I watched in helpless silence as the beefy singer stopped just short of plunging over the multicolored footlights and into my lap...
Yes, that's right. I've kept an intimate diary of the entire deal. As I look back through this journal of the Eighties, I see that more often than not my intuition has been pretty amazing. Also, through the years I've had the opportunity to hobnob with most of the so-called...
Had Trevor Rabin been alone when he headed down to L.A.'s Roxy recently to catch Steve Stevens in concert, the latter-day Yes guitarist probably would've gone unnoticed for the night. While Rabin is well-respected among serious six-string students, his long rocker's hair and boy-next-door looks don't exactly make him stand...
Lute Olson's arrogant smirk told all you had to know. Last Sunday's game against UCLA was proceeding according to plan. The Pac-10 tournament final was a blowout for Arizona. And so Olson, the basketball coach with the largest ego west of Bloomington, Indiana, was on his way to a soft...
The 2 Live Crew has snatched many headlines thanks to the banning of the group's sexplicit album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. And no doubt the rappers will create even more controversy by performing the unedited versions of their songs at the Celebrity Theatre on Saturday. But there's someone...
To local historians and preservationists, it's a valuable piece of Tempe's past making a last stand. To city officials, it's a hulking mass of decaying concrete, the cork blocking the city's plans to pour $440 million worth of sparkling development into the dry Salt River bed. At issue is the...
Admit it. Are you one of those people who equates dining on McDowell with free lunch at the Show Club? Is your McDowell eating experience confined to hot dogs at the coliseum during Suns games? Do you suffer from Fear of McDowell? If you said "yes~" to any of these...
Dick Jonas is a guitar-pickin' Vietnam War hero who says he still gets a kick out of putting on his blue air force suit. "You can call me a true-blue kind of guy," he says. "You can call me an old pilot who likes to have some fun every now...
