As my colleague Booze Pig can attest, there's no shortage of little hole-in-the-wall joints to grab a cold Bud in this simmering city of ours. But a glass of wine? Not quite as easy. I'm not talking about a too-warm pour of two-day-old cheap stuff from the corner dive, nor...
The glass glows dull red, like a campfire ember, above the gas torch. The young artist, sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a metal top, works with confident, quick motions, creating a tube by fusing white glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite...
Is all that gallery hopping making you hungry — and thirsty — yet? Be sure to check out The Roosevelt, one of downtown's newest drinking and dining destinations. Barely two months old, it's already a popular watering hole with local artists and other creative types, who line up at the...
Green Day is coming, and we ain't talking about the punk band, brah. Nope, it's the annual alcoholic extravaganza known as St. Patrick's Day, where liquor and leprechauns collide in one clamorous Celtic craic. Everyone can have a wee bit of Irish in them, especially after pounding a few pints...
Green Day is coming, and we ain't talking about the punk band, brah. Nope, it's the annual alcoholic extravaganva known as St. Patrick's Day, where liquor and leprechauns collide in one clamorous Celtic craic. Everyone can have a wee bit of Irish in them, especially after pounding a few pints...
MySpace. CrySpace. A place for friends. A place for nauseating self-indulgence. Whether you love or loathe the online meeting and sharing place, there are sure signs of addiction: Obsessing over the "About Me" statement. Sending butt-hurt e-mails when you aren't on somebody's top friends list. Staying up all night dolling...
Given P-Town's proximity to Mexico, we Phoenicians pretty much experience Latino culture in one form or another nearly 365 days a year. But things are really gonna get amped up from Friday, May 4, to Sunday, May 6, as the PHX is fixing to host some serious Cinco de Mayo...
Given P-Town's proximity to Mexico, we Phoenicians pretty much experience Latino culture in one form or another nearly 365 days a year. But things are really gonna get amped up from Friday, May 4, to Sunday, May 6, as the PHX is fixing to host some serious Cinco de Mayo...
"All music shows are better with booze," according to Josh Preston, lead vocalist and guitarist of local band A Few Random Drunks. True to its name, the group formed out of "four men who accidentally stumbled into each other" over brewskis, and their shows are all about bonding over beer...
Sonora BrewhouseWhenever we get that little desert tickle in the back of our throats, we do what the po-po do: Park it next to Sonora Brewhouse and amble inside for a pint or three of one of Sonora’s locally produced brew-ha-has. Not that we’re saying the Phoenix PD drink on the job, but it just so […]
If anyone should have an easy time opening a business in a cool old building downtown, it's Matt Pool. After all, Pool got his start managing Bar Bianco for his sister, Susan, and her partner, Chris Bianco, in an old house (the neoclassical Thomas House, built in 1909, to be...
Why do Mexicans forget about great beers like Tecate, Negra Modelo, and Bohemia and start drinking swill like Bud Light when they come to the United States? I always remember John Steinbeck's immortal line — "Ah, Bohemia beer and the Pyramid of the Sun; entire civilizations have created less" —...
Listen up, P-Town peeps. When it comes to holidays, Halloween is the shizzle. What other day on the calendar allows you to transform yourself into a pimp, priest, or politician without getting glares from onlookers? Back during your juvie delinquent days, you spent most of the year agonizing over which...
Art Detour is an annual event sponsored by artlink inc. The following venues are not all "official" participants in the event, so they may not be included in artlink's promotional materials. The purpose of this guide is to list as many of the art, music, shopping and dining opportunities downtown...
Pink Taco is to Mexican grub what the House of Blues is to soul food, or P.F. Chang's is to Chinese. Each of these spots doles out eats for yupper middle-class, gringo palates. So if you're expecting either a gourmet meal or an authentic ethnic dining experience when you go...
¡Odelay! Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, so you'd better dust off your sombrero and bust out your rusty knowledge of Spanglish, because there are plenty of phat fetes going down in P-town from Thursday, May 4, through Sunday, May 7. Wanna celebrate Latino culture? You're in the...
¡Odelay! Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner, so you'd better dust off your sombrero and bust out your rusty knowledge of Spanglish, because there are plenty of phat fetes going down in P-town from Wednesday, May 3, through Sunday, May 7. Wanna celebrate Latino culture? You're in the...
It's safe to say that St. Patrick's Day is a big-time bash in the Valley. For those of Irish descent, it's a time for taking pride in your heritage and honoring the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. For everyone else, though, it's yet another day for getting soused and...
It's safe to say that St. Patrick's Day is a big-time bash in the Valley. For those of Irish descent, it's a time for taking pride in your heritage and honoring the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. For everyone else, though, it's yet another day for getting soused and...
The classic rock jams filtering through the stereo system at the Yard House in Desert Ridge are hand-picked at the corp's Irvine HQ by none other than The Founder himself, Steele Platt, whom I imagine as a dead ringer for The Architect in The Matrix Reloaded. Dressed in white, with...
Would it trouble you terribly if I told you that I'm guilty of murder? The murder of a strapping, dark-haired chap, whom I'd only just met in Chandler? The homicide would cause me more grief had it not been so much bloody fun. Oh, I know I'll suffer in the...
12/11-3/12If the photographers whose work will be displayed at Phoenix Art Museum's new exhibition "Keeping Shadows" were a baseball team, they'd be the 1927 Yankees. The all-star lineup includes Margaret Bourke-White, Walker Evans, Imogen Cunningham, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Timothy O'Sullivan, Lewis Carroll, Henri Le Secq, Julia Margaret...
