When Grandma’s craft box is suddenly bringing back the sexy – or at least picking up an eclectic retro soundtrack – it stands to reason that we’d be intrigued. Enter Fall SMoCA Nights: “Stitched” – an evening of fashion inspired by modern craft culture and the exhibit “Radical Lace &…
If you were an NBA owner, what would you do after your squad was ousted from the divisional final three years in a row? Instead of making improvements, would you sit on your duff all summer and take the “there’s always next season” approach? If you’re Detroit Pistons’ head honcho…
The Sun Devils will be bowl-eligible at 6-6 if they win out. A tall order, given the way this season’s gone and that the final game of the regular season is at UofA in Tucson. Still, every journey begins with a single thrashing, and their Homecoming opponent are the hapless…
It took ’em 20-plus years, but hippie days are here again now that the legendary smoke-adelic duo of Cheech & Chong – a.k.a. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong – have reunited for their extended Light Up America (and Canada) Tour. Or, as Marin dubs it, “the Felimony Tour, his felony…
We recently heard that Barry Williams (Greg Brady) will portray The Professor in an upcoming touring version of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical. Sheesh. Now try to picture Richie, Potsie, Ralph Malph, and the Fonz belting out showtunes. Unfortunately, the stars of Happy Days – A New Musical aren’t the original…
There are two types of people: the kind who alphabetize their CDs and the kind who lose their CDs under the pile of Burger King wrappers and yellowing newspapers in their car’s backseat (bet you can guess which one we are). Whether you neatly fold your underwear or throw dirty…
If you check out the Phoenix Faerie Festival Web site, you’ll see that the fest’s fan base falls into four basic groups: little children chasing bubbles, supple guys in snug leotards, hot chicks with face paint, and potbellied bearded men sporting tiny wings. By Merlin’s beard, we fit right in!…
The renowned architect/sculptor and restless artistic soul is now dabbling in handmade jewelry, specifically contemporary necklaces, earrings, pendants, and belts. Sat., Nov. 15, 1-4 p.m., 2008…
The host of KMLE Country’s Dave Pratt in the Morning signs his new memoir, Dave Pratt, Behind the Mic: 30 Years in Radio. Proceeds from book sales benefit the American Cancer Society. Tue., Nov. 18, 7 p.m., 2008…
This may sound boring, but these sales friggin’ rock. Plus, you never know when you’re gonna need a Vactor truck (example pictured). On the block this year are a couple of city sweepers, two stakebed trucks, a forklift, a dump truck, and tons of other gently used (or not) City…
This may sound boring, but these sales friggin’ rock. Plus, you never know when you’re gonna need a Vactor truck (example pictured). On the block this year are a couple of city sweepers, two stakebed trucks, a forklift, a dump truck, and tons of other gently used (or not) City…
Bring your best Fonz, Ralph Malph, or Potsie homage down to Arnold’s, er, Gammage for this event in conjunction with the nationally touring production Happy Days — A New Musical. Meet outside the main entrance, outside the doors to the box office. The winners of the celebrity-judged affair will attend…
With all the disparate influences Sonorous has in its lexis, the percentages of what you’re going to get (and when) are always in flux, and this clashing of expectations constitutes the best moments on the group’s second CD, recorded “live” to tape during two successive nights at the Lost Leaf…
The Valley’s other badass-chick club hits the hardwood — and each other. Sat., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m., 2008…
Hollis Cantrell and his Artistic gang try to beat the old record of 416 tattoos in a 24-hour period. Sat., Nov. 15, noon, 2008…
The band was revolutionary. The film was revolutionary. You know what? Both still are. Bonus footage of the Beatles classic shows each night at 7. Fri., Nov. 14, 5 & 9 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 15, 5 & 9 p.m., 2008…
Luis Gonzalez, arguably the most popular Arizona Diamondback of all-time, signs autographs. Sat., Nov. 15, 1-2 p.m., 2008…
After surviving brain surgery, some Tony-winning composers might just take it easy. But as William Finn’s life flashed before his eyes in 1992, he saw unwritten songs longing to be given voice. “When I got home to my studio . . . I basically put my hand over the piano…
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…
So there you are, a couple of average Americans toodling along in Paris’ Alma Tunnel, when all friggin’ hell breaks loose in the form of the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed. What do you do? Well, since you’re average Americans, you probably seek therapy –…
“These are the people in your neighborhood/The people that you meet when you’re walking down the street/They’re the people that you meet each daaaay!” (Pardon us.) So goes the catchy Sesame Street ditty, a happy tune that could’ve easily been written for Conspire, the collectively owned and operated spot that…
Well, ain’t this a fine howdy-do? While ASU football, the mack daddy of Sun Devils athletics, has been getting its rump kicked up and down the Pacific Coast, the former 90-pound pipsqueak named ASU men’s basketball has been pondering a potential NCAA-tourney breakthrough year. And the path to March Madness…
