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Illumination v2.0

Here's a recipe for a seriously stellar night of entertainment: Take a half-dozen of Arizona's most imaginative visual artists, VJs, and filmmakers, and mix them liberally with eight or nine of the Valley's DJs, turntablists, and "audio navigators." The result? An all-night extravaganza titled Illumination v2.0, which goes down on...
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Kansas City American Idol Auditions Have Good, Bad and Ugly

Tears, screaming and screeches - oh my! Wednesday's American Idol auditions, which were held in Kansas City, home of last season's Idol winner David Cook, had all of these things along with dozens of snarky comments from judge Simon Cowell.While one of our favorite moments took place in the beginning...
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Heirloom Seeds for Your Favorite Locavore

One of the most compelling articles I've read in the past year was the indepth Vanity Fair piece about Monsanto's genetically modified plant seeds. Scary stuff, indeed. Around the same time, I read Barbara Kingsolver's fascinating book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, about her family's year-long commitment to truly living off the...
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Phoenix’s Latino Rockabilly Set Turns the Beat Around

On a small corner stage at Chopper John's, Marco Polo's getting ready to perform with his Mexican psychobilly trio, Curse of the Pink Hearse. Most of the patrons at this biker bar on east Indian School Road in Phoenix are white, blue collar 30-somethings kicking off a late-winter weekend with...
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Scottsdale’s Scott MacIntyre Blindingly Good On ‘Idol’

So, it'd be easy to reduce blind singer Scott MacIntyre to a series of puns about his visual impairment (read: the title of his post). Lots of other bloggers refer to him as Blind Guy, and he's actually got a good sense of self-deprication about the whole thing, so we...
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Bloc Party

Transitioning from over-hyped buzz generator to perpetual powerhouse ain't easy, even for figures as charismatic as the men of Bloc Party, and the strain shows on Intimacy, the Brits' third LP. "Ares" is the sound of a band trying too hard, albeit with assists from some pretty interesting elements: screaming...
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Slideshow: McCain at the Arizona Biltmore

By Jonathan McNamara For John McCain, the campaign trail ended at the Arizona Biltmore, where supporters mingled with news crews as election results poured in. See more shots from McCain's campaign closer at the Biltmore in our slideshow...
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On César Chávez and Kicking Your Pinche Estupido Ass

What is it with César Chávez? Recently in Dallas, we've gone through three attempts to name streets after Mr. Chávez. In one instance, the plan was to remove the name of two brothers who were city founders from a street named after them and rename the street César Chávez Avenue...
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Bloc Heads

Transitioning from overhyped buzz generator to perpetual powerhouse ain't easy, even for figures as charismatic as the Bloc Party men, and the strain shows on the Brits' third LP. "Ares" is the sound of a band trying too hard, albeit with assists from some pretty interesting elements: screaming sirens, kinetic...
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Civic Engagement and Revitalization in Garfield Screening and Reception

If its name makes this short documentary sound like a how-a-bill-becomes-a-law school project, well, bingo. Still, word is the work is more engaging than its title lets on, and downtownies in particular should be interested in the end result of the two-year study of Phoenix's Garfield Historic District by ASU...
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I Stopped Eating Meat

It's easy being "green" in Phoenix, from xeriscaping and carrying chic reusable grocery bags to giving up meat for good. After I had tipped the scales at almost 400 pounds and admitted to a massive daily intake of soda, cigarettes, and fast food, the physician wasn't pleased. "If you don't make...
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I Quit Lying

I've always had a love-hate relationship with truth. As an only child with a vivid imagination, lying came easy. By junior high, I was an expert forger, using carbon paper and an old typewriter to change report card grades and signing permission slips as if they were faux Van Goghs...
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Eric Wareheim: Awesome Videos, Great Job!

In anticipation of the upcoming live comedy show this Sunday at the Marquee Theatre featuring Adult Swim goofballs Tim & Eric, I feel I must bring to light the magnificent music video directing skills of Eric Wareheim (the nice young fellow on the right).  Wareheim is the more musically inclined...
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The Aquabats

With their golden-age comic book costumes, silly supervillains, and absurd song titles, The Aquabats are punk rawk's answer to GWAR. Only instead of promising the destruction of the known universe through copious bodily fluids, the 'Bats are out to protect it. The superhero rock brigade got its start in 1994...
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Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Wins; Other Propositions Don’t Fare as Well

By Ray Stern The wedding's off. Arizona voters have approved Proposition 102, which bans same-sex marriages and amends the state constitution to make it more difficult for supporters of gay marriages to change the law in the future. Nearly 92 percent of statewide precincts have reported results, and the proposition...