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Human Behavior @ Trunk Space

Tucson's Human Behavior is in the business of making you feel more uncomfortable while a banjo is playing than you're typically accustomed to feeling. All the elements are there for a typical banjo experience — close harmonies, light drumming, restrained, quiet peaks. You could assemble a folk-pop crossover band with...
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One-Woman Play A Good Death This Weekend Only at ASU Tempe

Arizona State University's Hugh Downs School of Human Communication is a milieu where, among other things, a lot of fascinating public performances happen. Way beyond what you might remember from your own college days, when it's possible you even made fun of communications majors. (We all eventually learned that human...
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Top 5 Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

Do you have a Halloween costume yet? Okay, okay. Do you have two Halloween costumes yet? Just keep your audience in mind if you plan on starting the evening handing Krackel bars to seven-year-olds and ending it dancing with somebody who's also wearing an Anthony Weiner costume. (View our complete...
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10 Best Burgers in Metro Phoenix

We have to hand it to the burger. Though it is, in theory, a sandwich, this meat monument has managed to become a culinary category all its own with patty spin-offs such as veggie, lamb, turkey, and bison, plus the seemingly endless combination of toppings ranging from the classic (lettuce,...
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This Band’s Wikipedia Page Is Somehow Longer Than The Who’s

I was having a perfectly enjoyable lunch: a turkey and avocado sandwich on a croissant with a jumbo, ice-filed Arnold Palmer (Arnold Palmers for all my friends!), and John Prine and Iris DeMent singing "In Spite of Ourselves" mainlined into my head. That was when my friend The Tortuga sent...
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Anonymous Prepared to Protest at Phoenix VA Hospital

People associated with Anonymous, the collective of Internet activists, are still seeking justice for 2-year-old Savannah Cross, who was killed in brutal fashion last year.The activists already have been bringing attention to the fact that charges have been dropped -- for now, at least -- against Savannah's alleged killers, who...
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Shoppers in High Heels Make Better Choices, Study Shows

To splurge or not to splurge. While others might urge you to sleep on a big purchase, researchers at Brigham Young University are encouraging you stand on it -- preferably with one leg. In a new study featured in the most recent issue of the Journal of Marketing Research, authors...
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Blackjack @ The Pressroom

Sam Groove isn't much of a gambler. However, the local DJ and nightlife promoter knows a thing to two about playing the odds, raising the stakes, and cleaning up big. For proof, just look at the success that Groove and the other EDM aficionados behind Hades Entertainment have had with...
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14 Local Bands/Artists You Need to Hear in 2014

It's 2014 and high time you got some new music into your playlist — seriously. It'll help that Phoenix's music scene has plenty of fresh jams and brand-new tunes to offer, as there's an overflow of gifted and prolific musicians cranking out sounds. Since many local acts will make waves,...
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Ziggy Zag

"When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band,” David Bowie laments.The line, from "Ziggy Stardust," captures the dichotomy between the man behind the music and the “man” who was a direct result of it. Bowie’s Ziggy, an alien messiah, comes to earth to warn...
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Ask a Mexican on the Prison Problem and Mexican Pantry Staples

With the current state and federal prison system spitting out even harder criminals due to overcrowding and gang activity allowed to a certain degree by the "system," while considering the small percentage of inmates who actually make it out and live a positive life, why are some legislators, government officials,...
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Five Great Summer Movies You Might Have Missed (And Can Still Catch!)

As another summer movie season characterized by cynicism and excess draws to a close, there are few activities less valuable or interesting than complaining about it. The blockbusters arrived, flattened cities, vomited effects, deafened with explosions, made money, didn't make enough money, pleased populist critics, displeased elitist critics, and finally...