While the big Snakes are away, the little snakes keep ball-yard withdrawal at bay. The junior serpents are the Arizona Diamondbacks’ AAA farm teamers, the Tucson Sidewinders, who play just down the road a piece at Tucson Electric Park. Beginning at 7 Monday, June 9, the Sidewinders host the Sacramento…
Listen, fashion doesn’t escape us. We know what it is to wear a dress without it wearing us. But there’s stylishly walking around in clothes and then there’s owning them, and not too many people on the planet can represent like Tatiana Sorokko. The Russian supermodel and high-society minx is…
The noise doctors of the high strata – Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of Portland-based indie-rock band The Helio Sequence – have set out to roam the nation on a pan-sonic odyssey. Their craft involves a pair of reengineered vocal chords, a masochistic drum set, a keyboard, synthesizers, and guitars…
All the idiosyncratic jangling, clattering carnival-esque swooning, and arch melodrama suggests Tom Waits Malkoviched into David Bowie’s body. Frontman Carey Mercer’s vocals manifest the shrill, anxious delivery of glam Bowie much like Dan Bejar, whom Frog Eyes has backed and with whom Mercer and Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug created the…
Deemed “the Godfather of Goth,” Peter Murphy built the paradigm for surly, baritone-voiced broodfests. When the English singer broke through the London gloom-tune scene in the late ’70s with his seminal band, Bauhaus, he already had the high-cut cheekbones and deep voice of David Bowie, along with the androgynous costumes…
We have nothing against one-hit wonders, except the ones who don’t realize the jig is up. Take the ’90s band Dread Zeppelin – please! The group’s brilliant come-on lasted about five minutes. Some 15 years later, Tortelvis and crew are still delivering the same peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich punchline. Sad. The one-hit wonderdom…
Just because we ain’t got the Great Smoky Mountains and fields of Kentucky bluegrass in this here desert don’t mean we ain’t got folks playing a bunch of acoustic stringed instruments and singing a high-lonesome sound. On the contrary, there’s plenty o’ places in town to play/hear bluegrass music. The…
Everyone knows the rock ’n’ roll origin story: Enterprising white dudes mine black music (rhythm and blues in particular) for profit. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were two such fellows. The remarkable string of hits they produced for The Coasters, The Drifters, and Elvis opened the ears of disaffected teenagers…
The winner of this best-of-three series between ASU and Fresno States earns a date in Omaha for the College World Series. Sat., June 7, 6 p.m.; Sun., June 8, 7 p.m.; Mon., June 9, 4 p.m., 2008…
By Jonathan McNamara Will there be a wedding at the end of Sex and the City: The Movie? That seemed to be the question floating around Biltmore Fashion Park on May 29, 2008 as hundreds of Sex and the City fans dined on catered food and sipped hot pink cosmopolitans…
By Jonathan McNamara Hot dog! It’s already the weekend! Consider that Memorial Day cookout a warm-up for this weekend’s premier sporting event: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier at Arizona Mills Mall. If you think you’ve got what it takes to eat and compete, show up to Nathan’s on Saturday…
By Joseph Golfen A high school aptitude test told him to be social worker or a doctor, suggesting that Lance Fung’s belief in collaboration and social equality made him an ideal fit for a job helping people. Who knew it would lead him to build a museum out of ice?…
Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve already seen that gown winging its way around the Web. Given the Sex and the City vibe, some fans might be more interested in whether the frock —…
CANNES, France — The competition for the Palme d’Or is ongoing as I write, yet the red carpet has been rolled up as you read. You will know, as I can’t, whether my comrade journalists agree that the second-week story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh’s two-part…
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that “strenuous indoor exercise” does not top anyone’s summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a video game. Me? I’ll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii…
I made some new friends the other day, and they live in Verrado. I’d always wanted to know someone who owned a home in this peculiar development — way the hell out in Buckeye, where each house is a replica of an old home — so I would have an…
If I were the sitter for the portrait Martha, I’d hate John Dawson. Martha is one of the most compelling paintings showing at the Mesa Contemporary Arts exhibition “Dawson: Thirty Years.” And she looks like hell. Dawson’s portraits have a no-mercy, take-no-prisoners attitude. But it’s within these harsh paintings that…
Now the games really count. The third-ranked Arizona State University baseball team will host a four-team regional beginning Friday. Other teams coming to Tempe are nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, and Stony Brook. For game matchups, visit www.thesundevils.com. Fri., May 30, 2 & 7 p.m.; Sat., May 31, 2 & 7 p.m.;…
If you haven’t kept up with Sammy Hagar since his rockin’ “I Can’t Drive 55” days, you might find yourself alternately shocked, horrified, and amused by Hagar’s recent plunge into country music. Then again, the public had more or less the same reaction in 1985 when Hagar was announced as…
When it comes to musical taste, the great swath of modern hipster culture often fractures into two camps: fans of the whimsical and fans of the seriously nerdy. The bands Annuals and 65daysofstatic should briefly unite the sects tonight, when they headline separate shows at Modified Arts. “[The bands are]…
Scottsdale fashion is high. Phoenix couture is low and funky and cool – an unlikely mix of street/eclectic, hobo/boho, and mid-century moderne. One of our favorite purveyors of the anti-runway aesthetic is Rachel Richards’ Bunky Boutique, which flaunts the work of indie and national labels such as Kidrobot, Angela Johnson,…
Pop quiz, hot shot: How many hot dogs do you think you could eat in 12 minutes? Four? Maybe five if you pushed it? You’re gonna have to wolf down a few dozen more than that if you wanna stand a chance during the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot…
