Beer o’clock at 2 a.m. At first, everyone went ape shit about that glorious extra hour to get hammered, but all that really happened was a collective reset of our partying clocks. Instead of showing up at 10 p.m., you now cruise in at 11. The next day, your lousy…
Last year, we cared a bunch when we heard that one of Van Buren’s last remaining vestiges of a nearly forgotten Phoenix, the circa-1939 Log Cabin Motel, had changed ownership and was in serious danger of being torn down. Then we read an impassioned four-page essay and photo/memorabilia piece in…
We’ll name three items and you say the first thing that comes to mind. Cowboy hat, the smell of manure, a clown. First traumatic birthday party? Uh, we were thinking “rodeo,” but we’ll accept it. How about fairy wings, body glitter, and ring pops? Successful educated guessers should check out…
Deviant sex just doesn’t shock like it used to. Madonna made the lesbian kiss passé, CSI episodes about necrophilia and “furry sex” raised the perversion bar — and who could forget Phoenix’s infamous Baby Man? Leave it to the Japanese to come up with something new. Yaoi (yah-oy), also called…
Rednecks like things that go pop! Just-opened beer cans. Guns. Fireworks. Funny cars jolting off the starter’s line with concussive force. Firebird International Raceway will transform such ’neck-friendly ear and eye candy, sans the guns, into one huge blowout during the Coors Light Summer Spectacular. Funny cars and jet cars…
Thanks to countless bumper stickers (and common sense), we know that skateboarding is not a crime. Between Tony Hawk video games and rappers Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell (a.k.a. Skateboard P), we dream of kick-pushing our days away. The national Go Skateboarding Day encourages just that, as the ’boarding industry hopes…
Live video shorts with no script, no real actors, and no plot. Sounds as palatable as Mike Myers in a thong, but according to Phoenix Neutrino Project director Mark Jordan, it’s pretty funny stuff. “The audience plays a role in the filming, like a home video where [they] live vicariously…
We try to throw good parties, but it’s always a last-minute dogshit-pickup and toilet-scrub thing, and the pizza rolls aren’t even thawed out. So don’t come to our parties. They bite. Somebody whose parties don’t suck is Raven Valdes, “the Valley’s leading social butterfly.” The professional party girl strikes again…
He was a defining figure in American public life, and that rarest of people: a local politician of whom we could be proud rather than ashamed. Senator Barry Goldwater’s impressive legacy is particularly resonant in an era in which American conservatism has rather a bad name, and his story, as…
Famed Valley architect Will Bruder — who designed the downtown library — will lecture about the building. There will also be music. Sat., June 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 2008…
Did you know that Ansel Adams ruined landscape photography? What say you? That’s right. Because the legendary shutterbug was so freaking good at what he did, our top three associations with contemporary landscape imagery are “yawn,” “ugh,” and “bo-ring.” However, there are diamonds in the rough like Barbara Bosworth, whose…
The ignominious tenure of the Bush Administration is limping toward its finale. That means it’s tell-all time. Already this spring, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has controversially dished in What Happened, and now former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias gives us In Justice: Inside the Scandal…
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s SMoCA Night affairs are hot when it’s cool and cool when it’s hot. This torrid-season entry’s ches tre, featuring live music by Peachcake, spins by DJ d’strick, a fire performance by Mali, wearable art by Castaneda, and fashions by Devani Weaver and Jes Switaj (pictured)…
Whacking little white balls around delicately manicured lawns has long been a staple of outdoor activity around town. However, there’s always been one teensy-weensy problem with the whole setup, and it’s spelled s-u-m-m-e-r. There’s nothing quite like dripping sweat so profusely that just holding onto the club becomes a chore…
Whacking little white balls around delicately manicured lawns has long been a staple of outdoor activity around town. However, there’s always been one teensy-weensy problem with the whole setup, and it’s spelled s-u-m-m-e-r. There’s nothing quite like dripping sweat so profusely that just holding onto the club becomes a chore…
What would you do for a cheap drink? Would you . . . uhhhh . . . actually, never mind. We don’t want to know your sicko ways. Instead, we’ll tell you how to score a buck off imports, top-shelf liquors, and premium spirits: Strip down to your skimpies during…
Dizzy Gillespie was a lot more than the chubby-cheeked trumpeter one sees plastered on old-school posters of jazz greats. With Charlie Parker at his side, Diz changed 1940s popular music with bebop, a rollicking brand of improvisation that pissed off white people because they couldn’t dance to it and further…
As a child, we always wanted to be a trapeze artist. Twisting in midair, zooming from wooden-handled swings, we would be from some wonderfully Slavic country, the seven of us. Well, the circus has grown up, too, and this shit is fresh. The 2008 edition of the Ringling Bros. and…
After a night of ego-tronic drinking, you wake up in a foreign bed, locking eyes with an unfamiliar woman. The beauty you followed home yesterday night was real cream, but this basement doppelgänger arouses nothing but your gag reflexes. Nevertheless, you suppress the urge to shit-n-bail (less mass, quicker flight)…
Since we live in a National League town on account of the Arizona Diamondbacks, we don’t pay a lot of heed to those designated hitter-using American Leaguers. So when we checked out the current 40-man roster for the Oakland Athletics, we were like (to quote Major League), “Who are these…
The Arizona Rattlers did it. Somehow, they may good on their preseason promise to make the playoffs or else all season ticket holders would get back their scrilla. Now, with a postseason berth locked up, their final regular season game against the Utah Blaze means nothing, right? Wrong. You see,…
Readers will lecture and discuss topics relating to American Slavery during the the 11th annual Emancipation Marathon at eye lounge. Sat., June 21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 2008…
