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A retrospective of Tempe's most iconic music venues, bars and nightclubs over the decades, including Long Wong’s, The Sun Club, Gibson’s and Hollywood Alley.

How to celebrate the biggest drinking and partying night of the year, as well as on T-Day itself.

The sun descends in Tempe, and an unseasonal cold wind gusts through the grassy park and into our bones. The western edges of nearby glassy...

Lawrence Zubias battle with addiction and strained relationship with his brother make "Pistoleros: Death, Drugs and Rock n Roll" a powerful film.

Phoenix local music picks for April: Decker Vort-I-Fest, International Pop Overthrow, Sacred Reich, Dead Rabbitts, Alice Cooper, Las Calakas and more.

Is there an Arizona sound? Arizonans have done everything from cowboy songs to "Funky Broadway," Alice Cooper, Stevie Nicks, Mega Ran and "The Middle."

Melted underwear. Cookies baking on car hoods. Exploding radiators. A look back at June 26, 1990, the hottest day in Phoenix history, told by those who lived through it.

View Comments It’s stylish, and it’s trendy. People want to eat and party in downtown Phoenix and work and live there too. But in the not-so-distant past, this high-rise landscape had a far different vibe. Thirty years ago, the business district rolled up its sidewalks after 5 p.m. Weekends were equally quiet. The few signs of life were the occasional happy hour celebrants at Tom’s Tavern, visiting conventioneers and patrons of the Herberger Theater, the Phoenix Symphony or the Phoenix S...

All throughout 2020 — since March, anyway — a song rattled around in my head: "People Who Died," by the Jim Carroll Band. It was a minor hit in the early 1980s; maybe you know it. Carroll, the punk-poet author of The Basketball Diaries, wrote it as a sort of tribute to friends he knew who died before their time. Some of them met wild ends: a guy killed by bikers, a woman who jumped in front of a subway train. Others left Earth via less dramatic but nevertheless heartbreaking routes. My fav...

Remembering Lawrence Zubia of Pistoleros, an Arizona music legend Ed Masley, Arizona Republic Lawrence Zubia, the charismatic frontman whose voice and presence helped make Pistoleros major players on the Mill Avenue scene that made Tempe a musical hotbed in the 90s, died the morning of Saturday, Dec. 19. Zubia, 56, was taken to the hospital Friday afternoon with pneumonia.  As Mark Zubia, the brother with whom hed written songs since they were teens, explained, "Hed been reco...