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July 15 In Blogs: Jan Brewer, Pac-Man, Tortas, and Swine Flu

By Jonathan McNamaraJuly 15, 2009
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Jan Brewer Bans Abortion (for a Day), Democrats Should Consider Hara-kiri Up on the Sun:...
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Swine Flu Arizona — Nothing Yet Reported in State or Sonora, Mexico

By Ray SternApril 28, 2009
The swine flu situation in Arizona hasn't changed much since yesterday's post, except for a stockpiling of antiviral medications.Officials are telling Tucson media that Arizona still hasn't reported any cases, and neither has the Mexican state that borders us, Sonora. Nobody's been detained at the international border. Governor Jan Brewer...
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Culture Shock

By Saby Reyes-KulkarniMay 10, 2007
"I haven't seen a band with that much intensity in a long time." That's what Korn frontman Jonathan Davis had to say last summer about his Family Values tourmates Dir en grey, a versatile quasi-metal Japanese band that has met with baffling success in Europe and, more recently, the United...
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’06 Pandemic Poll – the average listener installment

By Brendan KelleyDecember 19, 2006
Since this Pandemic Poll thing is meant to be democratic, we even let your ordinary average music fan throw in their two cents about what transpired in 2006. This submission is from a guy named Joe Soares, and I have to say, he's pretty goddamn correct about what's overrated in...
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’06 Pandemic Poll – Tyler King installment

By Brendan KelleyDecember 12, 2006
Tyler King's been an institution in the hardcore scene for years, with a background (as you'll read later in his Pandemic Poll results) booking matinee acts at CBGB's. Lately you can catch him behind the bar at the Stray Cat in Tempe when he's not booking acts like Witchcraft around...
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’06 Pandemic Poll – Psyko Steve’s edition

By Brendan KelleyDecember 11, 2006
Local manager and impresario Psyko Steve has spent much of the last year touring and managing DeSole, and is currently managing the Stilletto Formal. He got creative with his Top 5 list for the Pandemic Poll (it's open for interpretation like that) and sent over his list of the top...
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2006 Ear Infection Pandemic Poll

By Brendan KelleyDecember 4, 2006
Throwdown on the Interweb; Ear Infection's in Your Corner Seems a little pissing match has erupted on the interweb in the masturbatory little world of music criticism, between my own company and sister paper Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll and Gawker media's too-cool-for-school Idolator music blog. The...
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’06 Pandemic Poll – AZPX SkateRock installment

By Brendan KelleyDecember 14, 2006
Rob Locker of local skateboard/record label/promotion company AZPX does what many folks only wish they could do - release records by great local artists past and present like Junior Achievement and the Smoky Mountain Skullbusters and throw shows by skate rock greats like JFA. Here's what Locker has to say...
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’06 Pandemic Poll – William Fucking Reed installment

By Brendan KelleyDecember 13, 2006
Today's edition of the 2006 invite-only Pandemic Poll of local artists and music scene players features the inimitable William Fucking Reed, who carries with him a list of impressive credits: DJ/promoter for both Shake! at the Rogue and Pretty Vacant at Anderson's Fifth Estate, radio DJ for the Last Broadcast...
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’06 Pandemic Poll; the So Much Silence edition

By Brendan KelleyDecember 8, 2006
So Much Silence is an awesome little music/mp3 blog run by a guy named Kevin Murphy, who seems to have pretty goddamn good taste in music. He also does some pretty nifty shit, like putting together a mix of the "Essential Q-Tip Mix," side A of which he posted today...
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’06 Pandemic Poll, the Brodie Fucking Hubbard edition

By Brendan KelleyDecember 8, 2006
Brodie's a fave of singer/songwriter fans from around the 'Nix, and many of us are sad to hear he's leaving town, headed back to Cali. He's leaving in style though, with a "celebrity" roast next Saturday, the 16th, at Trunk Space appropriately entitled Fuck You, Brodie Hubbard. Here's his submission...
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Undefeated

By Brendan KelleyDecember 28, 2006
Luke & Danny of North Side Kings I spent last night listening to the punk rock go down at BANNED in Tempe!, listening to DJ's Alvin, Nate Dogg and Cro-Mag throw down the dope shit at the Stray Cat (which you'll be able to read more about in my column...
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And It Begins…

By Brendan KelleyDecember 5, 2006
Hella props to Lawrence for fashioning the Pandemic logo, which is making its debut in this post. If you didn't hear already, I've asked a plethora of local artists, promoters, and playaz to submit their various Top 5 lists. This is the debut of the returns. If you think you...
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President Tofu

By Michael LaceyApril 29, 2004
Haven't you always wondered what Ralph Nader groupies look like? I have. Nader's a sort of celebrity in the way that tofu's a sort of food, and in these effervescent days of cable exposure, all politicians -- even a serial scold -- are national personalities. The best-kept political secret is...
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Quilty Pleasures

By Quetta CarpenterOctober 9, 2003
"These pieces -- well, they're kind of strange," laughs choreographer and former Arizona State University dance teacher Marion Kirk Jones. "But don't put that in the article." By "strange," Jones means diverse works ranging from Arachne, about the weaver who dared to challenge Athena and was turned into a spider...
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Eyes Wide Open

By Brendan Joel KelleySeptember 25, 2003
Phoenix Body Positive, an HIV and AIDS research and resource center, is presenting "HIV Through the Eyes of Parents," an art exhibition of collaborative pieces by artists and family members affected by HIV and AIDS. It opens at downtown's APS Gallery on Monday, September 29. For the project, which Body...
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Traveling Companions

By Michael LaceyDecember 27, 2001
Machine-gun nests manned by teenage Indians in Mexico's army confront the eco-tourist intent on whale watching in today's Baja. The soldiers are there to search you and your sports utility vehicle for drugs. In Canada, interdiction dogs sniff for, of all things, pirated abalone. You may yearn for what Henry...
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Loss Leader

By Kathleen VanesianNovember 2, 2000
Rotting bodies, leering skulls, flickering candles, droopy roses -- not one of these creaky, well-worn symbols for death and the passage of time makes an appearance in "Memento Mori," the latest national juried exhibition organized by Mesa Contemporary Arts. Formerly operating under the name of Galeria Mesa, Mesa Contemporary Arts...