SPM writer Anthony Sandoval became a zombie for a day while playing an extra in a horror flick. Get spooked as you read about his transformation from the living to the living dead, all for eight seconds of screen time.
SPM writer Shanna Wester's life was temporarily turned upside down by creepy, crawly bed bugs. Read about her fight with the invading buggers and learn more about the bugs that go bump in the night.
SPM's Anthony Sandoval spent a night with the Screaming Females, a small rock band from a small town with a small frontwoman whose indie punk sound is anything from small.
It was a Friday in August, and I was at a rodeo in Payson. The next night, I’d be at a themed rave in Warehouseville, Phoenix. I could make up some philosophical excuse — some deep, rhetorical explanation for why I chose to do these things, but really I just wanted to say, “I’m going to a rodeo and a rave this weekend.”
It’s Thursday night in downtown Tempe. The weekend has begun for many students at ASU, and the bars up and down Mill Avenue are opening their doors to accept the night’s first patrons. Soon, the alcohol will begin to flow, and there will be revelry. But one block away, in the balmy lobby of a small church, close to 100 people are taking part in this night’s meeting of “The Doctor’s Nightmare,” a speaker-based gathering of young people and an offshoot of Alcoholics Anonymous.
My nipples hurt. It’s been two weeks since I began training for this year’s P.F Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon in Phoenix, and at five miles into a six-mile training run the rubbing of my cotton shirt against my bare chest is causing some major chafing. The training regimens I found online never told [...]
The ASU football game. It is the one cultural aspect I have managed to avoid since enrolling in ASU. I have been to a few high school games, but I spent my time at those gossiping and avoiding peers. I was honestly a little proud of not having been to an ASU football game, but for the first game of this season, ASU v. Idaho State, I finally gave in.
