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Jose Cuervo Tequila “Gladiator Games” Coming to Tempe

Wanna be a "tequila legend" without passing out, starting a fight, or throwing up on yourself? The Jose Cuervo tequila company is coming to Tempe next week to give you that chance.In what the folks at Cuervo are calling "Cuervo Games 2010," the company will give Valley residents a chance...
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Greeley Estates Cuts Out the Pop Vocals for New Record

Phoenix-based Greeley Estates have long been one of the Valley's most prominent post-hardcore acts. Their last album, Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East, earned the band glowing reviews from sites like Absolute Punk, and the band's participation in the Vans Warped Tour helped them garner a national...
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RnR Has Eye Candy for Dessert, But the Main Course Is a Letdown

With two-month-old RnR, the folks responsible for a major part of Scottsdale's notorious club scene have made a grand entrance into the neighborhood's dining mix, and in many ways, the restaurant is much as you'd imagine it. Like Axis-Radius, Myst, and Suede — the long-running, perennially packed nightlife staples owned...
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The Cool Kids: Tacklebox

Artist: The Cool KidsTitle: TackleboxRelease date: May 31Label: Chocolate RecordingsNoted hip-hop fan (and New Times music editor) Martin Cizmar knows I'm lukewarm when it comes to the genre, so he's always on the lookout for hip-hop that I'll dig. Not sure what it is about The Cool Kids that he...
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Club Candids at Sucker Punch Sally’s

Generally, the thought of a "night out" on Mill Avenue gives us a sickening feeling normally reserved for positive lab test results or finding half of a roach in our food, but after checking out Sucker Punch Sally's bar/diner on Friday night, we're thrilled to have found a new douche-free...
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Joe the Plumber Says His Life Ruined by John McCain

Joe the Plumber, a.k.a. Samuel Wurzelbacher, the "everyman" campaign tool from John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, says the notoriety he's received as a result of McCain has ruined his life."I don't owe him shit. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it," Joe the Plumber tells...
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From Vinery 214 to Bambino Bistro to LaBella Bistro . . .

In less than a year, chef-owner Leonard Jay's Roosevelt Row restaurant has undergone three name changes. What started last April as Vinery 214 morphed into Bambino Bistro by the end of the year. I'd recently heard that it shut down -- which, based on last month's gnarly inspection report, wouldn't...
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Russell Pearce’s Police State Bill Passes MAPS Committee (Again); All Persons in Arizona Could Be Required To Prove They Are Not Illegal

State Senator Russell Pearce's police state bill, SB 1070, passed the House Military Affairs and Public Safety committee again today, after a three hour session of testimony, with state Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the Assistant House Democratic Leader, taking the lead on peppering Pearce, and others speaking for and against the bill, with...