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(07/11/06 12:00am)
My girlfriend works at a group home for teenage girls, and the weekend before July 4th, two of the girls she works with were scheduled to be baptized in a Baptist church in downtown Phoenix. Partially because I wanted to meet the girls I've heard so much about and partially because I've been slacking on church attendance myself, I decided to accompany her to the big city that Sunday morning.
(06/15/06 12:00am)
We love to have villains in the United States. Seriously, name one classic action or science fiction movie that doesn't have a sinister figure lurking in the shadows, making the audience gasp until his death brings about the turning of the tide, the triumph of the hero and the end of the battle.
(04/27/06 12:00am)
This Saturday, an estimated 30,000 citizens across America won't be sleeping at home in their usual beds -- not because they went home with someone from the bar, but because they are showing solidarity with the child victims of a war in Africa.
(04/27/06 12:00am)
Last week in Northern England, a man was held for questioning after singing along to a song in a taxicab on the way to an airport.
(04/27/06 12:00am)
Our apologies to all the deserving local artists out there -- this week, SPM had the opportunity to talk with one of the most dynamic and divisive artists in modern American music. Devendra Banhart has emerged at the forefront of the recent upsurge in neo-folk music, and his albums feature everything from experimental jams to simple ballads, complimented by Banhart's wavering singing. The excerpts below are from one of the most interesting interviews this journalist has ever encountered (not included: Banhart's thoughts on the secrets of the Grateful Dead, corn on the cob, and the geographical intimacy gained from life on the road).
(04/20/06 12:00am)
I had kind of a prejudice against acoustic music when I was a kid - acoustic guitars called to mind a monochromatic spectrum of performers singing ballads about life in the country, feminists singing about the cruel oppression of middle-class existence, or, worse, overwrought, angst-ridden twenty-somethings singing quasi-poetic lyrics about former girlfriends to crowds of screaming pre-teen girls.
(04/20/06 12:00am)
As hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered in downtown Phoenix in mid-April to voice their dissatisfaction with anti-immigration legislation, two former ASU students were quietly continuing their own form of protest 30 miles southwest of Tucson.
(04/13/06 12:00am)
Imagine you're sitting in class, minding your own business, when you're suddenly struck by an aneurism, or something similarly fatal.
(04/13/06 12:00am)
Scott Allen
(04/13/06 12:00am)
I write the following at the risk of sounding prudish or oppressive: I think the focus on sexuality in the way we dance falls tragically short of what dance could be.
(04/13/06 12:00am)
Since they started playing together as Andrew Jackson Jihad, bassist Ben Gallaty and vocalist/guitarist Sean Bonnette have played an uncountable number of shows -- on stages, in basements and across the Western half of the United States.
(04/12/06 12:00am)
Ah, spring is in the air! And aside from the debilitating flu that seems to be having its way with many tired students across campus (present company not excluded), many new beginnings are afoot.
(04/06/06 12:00am)
The first time I saw the folk-punk (yes, it exists) band Against Me! headline a concert was on a brutally humid and scorching summer day three and a half years ago in our mutual home state of Florida. They played a small venue that also functioned as a pizza parlor. The show doubled as a rally for the Green Party.
(04/05/06 12:00am)
In the past decade or so, the Republican Party has been able to take a stronghold on the "moral indignation" card. Whether the issue is abortion or gay marriage, the Grand Old Party always stands firmly on a high horse of their idea of virtue; they paint themselves as the last bastion of traditional American values in American culture.
(03/30/06 12:00am)
I can distinctly remember the moment I realized why Johnny Cash's music has achieved the rare quality of timelessness in American pop culture. It was winter break my freshman year, and I was in my best friend's '89 Cadillac, racing down a tree-lined highway in Florida.
(03/29/06 12:00am)
This column is about Iraq, but it isn't about withdrawal, or about how the issue is dividing our country, or about the justifications for our occupation or invasion. It has been three years since our country sent our friends, brothers, fathers, sisters, mothers, sons and daughters to Iraq. You've probably already got a pretty well-developed opinion on all of the issues currently being debated in the press.
(03/23/06 12:00am)
If a paint brush were a musical instrument, what would your favorite painting sound like?
(03/23/06 12:00am)
Sometimes, when I consider the sheer number of songs that exist (even within my own record collection), I start to wonder about the first man or woman to play an instrument. What possessed them to do it? Was it a hot date or a lucky day on the hunt?
(03/23/06 12:00am)
Kickball
(03/22/06 12:00am)
In social situations, it's hard to find a line to walk on that's thinner than the one that applies to the appropriateness of jokes based on social groups. And it's hard to find a silence more awkward than when one person tells a joke that everyone else finds ignorant or disgusting.