| | | Chris Simcox's Life Arc Mirrors the Nativist Movement's Demise BY STEPHEN LEMONS  Chris Simcox cleans up well. Long ago, he ditched his scraggly redneck look — worn jeans, American-flag baseball cap, unshaven face (sometimes with half a cigar in his mouth), a pistol tucked down the front of his pants — for business attire (or at least a clean, collared shirt). On a sunny day in April 2009, dressed sharply in a gray suit with a starched, white collar and a gold silk tie, lapel sporting an American-flag pin, there was something boyish about him, despite the mustache, the new glasses, and the fact that he'd turned 48 the previous November. If you knew nothing about Simcox's past or the reactionary, anti-immigrant minuteman movement he became identified with, y... more >>
| | | | | | | | Sunnyslope's Fervor Records Matches Valley Artists with National TV Shows BY SERENE DOMINIC  One man installs a recording studio in a house or a storefront, starts an independent record label, signs a roster of artists, and — boom — a music factory is born. It's the stuff that fills whole display cases in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. With minor variations, you could be telling the story of Chess or Atlantic or A&M Records — any number of labels that came, saw, conque... more >> | | | | | | | | Asi es la Vida: An Ongoing Culinary Love Story in Phoenix BY LAURA HAHNEFELD  Así es la Vida is as much an ongoing love story as it is a charming spot for a gratifying culinary journey through the regions of Mexico. And like any good romantic yarn, Así es la Vida's starts with a twist of fate. Once upon a time, in the mid-1970s on the island of Cozumel, American tourist Judy Anderson met Moises Treves, a cook at a taco stand. Despite a language barrier, the... more >> | | | | | | Riddick's Back, But Vin Diesel's Charm Isn't BY AMY NICHOLSON  Richard B. Riddick — Dick to his friends, if he had any — is an intergalactic meathead who's glowered through three movies, two video games, and a cartoon. He's both the luckiest and unluckiest man alive: lucky because he's impossible to kill, unlucky because everyone keeps trying. In the opening, near-silent sequence of Riddick, the laconic sequel to 2004's overblown schlock opera Th... more >> | | | | | | | | A Devil Inside: Nearly Naked Theatre Takes on David Lindsay-Abaire BY JULIE PETERSON  Nearly Naked Theatre has a tendency to comb through the oeuvres of solid contemporary playwrights and bring us productions of their earliest works, some of which hold up better than others. If you appreciate writer David Lindsay-Abaire mostly from his comparatively serious, Pulitzer-winning Rabbit Hole, presented in Phoenix by Actors Theatre in 2009 and subsequently made into a Nicole Kidman film... more >> | | | | | | Chow Bella "Join our wine-tasting group," Pavle Milic offered as I was delivering wine to FnB, the the Old Town Scottsdale restaurant he runs with Charleen Badman. I was in. I am so out of practice, and I... Valley Fever The partying only seems to be increasing as the fall semester at Arizona State University goes on.Over three weekends, coinciding with the start of the semester at ASU, an alcohol task-force made... Up on the Sun Lil Wayne Celebrity Theatre September 3, 2013 (View the full slideshow.) Few critically acclaimed artists make critics reevaluate that acclaim as frequently as Lil Wayne. Not in the sense that s... Jackalope Ranch And now for something completely different. This week, downtown's favorite midcentury hotel, The Clarendon, is getting a makeover thanks to hotel art exhibition, Artel Phx. The premier pop-up a... Feathered Bastard The extent to which the media rolls over for Sheriff Joe Arpaio never ceases to astound. Take Joe's recent comments following an August 17 incident in the desert, where Glendale resident and... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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