Happy February, also. Check out my Valentine-appropriate "Four Corners" column, in this month's issue of Phoenix Magazine, reviewing four solid date night options.
Showing posts with label CHINESE NEW YEAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHINESE NEW YEAR. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
PORCINE OF THE TIMES
Happy New Year everybody! Chinese, that is. Let's hope we all have a happy and prosperous Year of the Pig...
Happy February, also. Check out my Valentine-appropriate "Four Corners" column, in this month's issue of Phoenix Magazine, reviewing four solid date night options.
Happy February, also. Check out my Valentine-appropriate "Four Corners" column, in this month's issue of Phoenix Magazine, reviewing four solid date night options.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
MARKET SHARE
Check out Phoenix Magazine’s “Desert Digest” blog for my story about the nostalgia for the venerable Bashas’ supermarket at 7th Avenue
and Osborn in Phoenix,
open since 1956 but reportedly soon to close.
Happy Chinese New Year this Saturday! Welcome to the Year of
the Rooster. In its honor you can check out the January issue of Phoenix
Magazine...
...for my “Four Corners” column on neighborhood Chinese joints as well as
my review of Veggie
Village, a vegan/vegetarian
Asian restaurant.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
SHOW ME THE MONKEY
Happy New Year next Monday everybody! Chinese New Year, that is. This time
we ring in the Year of the Monkey, so…
Monster-of-the-Week: …the nod goes to the hideous (but wonderfully stop-motion-animated) “Sumatran Rat Monkey” who gets the zombie plague rolling in Peter Jackson’s 1992 shocker Dead Alive (aka Braindead)...
The creature also got a nice sort-of-cameo in Jackson’s version of King Kong.
Monster-of-the-Week: …the nod goes to the hideous (but wonderfully stop-motion-animated) “Sumatran Rat Monkey” who gets the zombie plague rolling in Peter Jackson’s 1992 shocker Dead Alive (aka Braindead)...
The creature also got a nice sort-of-cameo in Jackson’s version of King Kong.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
PETER THE GREAT
RIP to the wonderful Pete Seeger, passed on at 94.
One of my earliest memories was being in the back seat of a car in Newport, RI, and seeing a smiling guy get out of a car up ahead of us, and a wave to everyone, and being told that this was Pete Seeger. My parents were taking my folkie sister to the Folk Festival in Newport, and I was along for the ride. I also remember being taken to a Hubert Humphrey rally, so one or the other was the first famous person I can remember seeing. I’m told I also saw Bob Hope once when I was very small, but I have no memory of it. Maybe only the lefties stick in my mind.
On a more personal note, RIP also to bluegrass musician Kip Martin, my one-time step-nephew (though he was older than me) and unofficial extra older brother, passed on way too young yesterday.
Happy New Year tomorrow everybody! Chinese New Year, that is.
Farewell to the Year of the Snake, welcome to the Year of the Horse.
In honor of that noble beast, and also of The Kid, whose zodiacal sign is the Horse and who favors the Monster High series…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to a new character from Monster High—the Nightmare Horse belonging to Headless Headmistress Bloodgood (“daughter of the Headless Horseman!”).
One of my earliest memories was being in the back seat of a car in Newport, RI, and seeing a smiling guy get out of a car up ahead of us, and a wave to everyone, and being told that this was Pete Seeger. My parents were taking my folkie sister to the Folk Festival in Newport, and I was along for the ride. I also remember being taken to a Hubert Humphrey rally, so one or the other was the first famous person I can remember seeing. I’m told I also saw Bob Hope once when I was very small, but I have no memory of it. Maybe only the lefties stick in my mind.
On a more personal note, RIP also to bluegrass musician Kip Martin, my one-time step-nephew (though he was older than me) and unofficial extra older brother, passed on way too young yesterday.
Happy New Year tomorrow everybody! Chinese New Year, that is.
Farewell to the Year of the Snake, welcome to the Year of the Horse.
In honor of that noble beast, and also of The Kid, whose zodiacal sign is the Horse and who favors the Monster High series…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to a new character from Monster High—the Nightmare Horse belonging to Headless Headmistress Bloodgood (“daughter of the Headless Horseman!”).
Thursday, February 21, 2013
MIDGARD ACTION
With the Chinese New Year holiday festivities winding down this weekend, there’s still time for one more…
Monster-of-the-Week: …selection honoring the Year of the Snake. One friend suggested Thulsa Doom’s giant pet who runs afoul of Arnie in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian...
…or the snake with whom Arthur O’Connell has a candid chat in The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao…
Fine choices both, but they're edged out by another friend’s suggestion: the Midgard Serpent, aka Jormungand, the vast, world-encircling, tail-chasing reptile of Norse mythology, and for the god Thor, in his career as an angler, the perennial One That Got Away. Here’s the Middie in a painting by Henry Fuseli…
…and here’s the Marvel Comics version….
By the way, I’m hoping that this being The Year of the Snake bodes propitiously for the Arizona Diamondbacks…
Monster-of-the-Week: …selection honoring the Year of the Snake. One friend suggested Thulsa Doom’s giant pet who runs afoul of Arnie in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian...
…or the snake with whom Arthur O’Connell has a candid chat in The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao…
Fine choices both, but they're edged out by another friend’s suggestion: the Midgard Serpent, aka Jormungand, the vast, world-encircling, tail-chasing reptile of Norse mythology, and for the god Thor, in his career as an angler, the perennial One That Got Away. Here’s the Middie in a painting by Henry Fuseli…
…and here’s the Marvel Comics version….
Thursday, February 14, 2013
RATTLETALE
We’re still in the thick of Chinese New Year festivities ringing in the Year of the Snake, so…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to this gigantic rattler menacing the space travelers in this Aurora model kit tie-in with the ‘60s TV series Land of the Giants…
As far as I know, this scene never occurred in the two-season series, but the box art is pretty awesome.
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to this gigantic rattler menacing the space travelers in this Aurora model kit tie-in with the ‘60s TV series Land of the Giants…
As far as I know, this scene never occurred in the two-season series, but the box art is pretty awesome.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
TO SERPENT WITH LOVE
Happy Chinese New Year this Sunday!
It’s the Year of the Snake, so…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week the nod goes to the giant Skull Island snake that menaces Jessica Lange in the 1976 version of King Kong, before being easily dispatched by the title character. The huge reptile looks pretty lame in the movie itself…
…but quite marvelous in this John Berkey promotional art…
It’s the Year of the Snake, so…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week the nod goes to the giant Skull Island snake that menaces Jessica Lange in the 1976 version of King Kong, before being easily dispatched by the title character. The huge reptile looks pretty lame in the movie itself…
…but quite marvelous in this John Berkey promotional art…
Thursday, January 19, 2012
CLICK & DRAGON
Happy Chinese New Year next Monday!
You may have noticed that all the Monsters-of-the-Week so far this month have been dragons, so to continue our welcome to the Year of the Dragon...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's give the nod to one of my favorite movie dragons, this beauty...
...animated by Ray Harryhausen from one of my favorite movies, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. This beast, who guards the lair of the wizard Sokura, always struck me as having a sweetly canine manner; check the climactic scene here (spoilers!) & see if you agree.
You may have noticed that all the Monsters-of-the-Week so far this month have been dragons, so to continue our welcome to the Year of the Dragon...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's give the nod to one of my favorite movie dragons, this beauty...
...animated by Ray Harryhausen from one of my favorite movies, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. This beast, who guards the lair of the wizard Sokura, always struck me as having a sweetly canine manner; check the climactic scene here (spoilers!) & see if you agree.
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