Tempe Music Festival takes the stage this weekend
Students and Valley residents alike are expected to pack this year’s Circle K Tempe Music Festival at Tempe Beach Park, especially with headliners Fergie and My Chemical Romance.
“This event is getting bigger and bigger every year, and now it’s partnered with ASU for a huge Friday night part of the event,” said Alison Bailin, public relations manager for the Tempe Music Festival.
The sixth annual Tempe Music Festival, Arizona’s largest music festival, is Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29.
“[The Tempe Music Festival] over the past five years has been getting more and more regional and national attention as a respected music festival,” Bailin said. “It only takes five years for any event to really say, ‘All right, we’re here, we’re here to stay, this is our roots, and this is a culture we are creating.’ “
Friday night is student night, and My Chemical Romance and Puddle of Mudd will perform. Fergie will headline Saturday night.
Amy Folden, a business management sophomore, said the headliners are completely opposite.
My Chemical Romance has more of a punk style, while Fergie’s songs are playful and upbeat, Folden said.
Half of the 25,000 people who came to the Tempe Music Festival last year were students, Bailin said.
Last year, Bailin said that they went to ASU organizations and asked students which bands they wanted to see this year. The most popular requests among students were My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy.Then, after deciding what acts they could afford and who the people wanted, they looked at the bands’ schedules to see if they were available to come, Bailin said.
This year, “we’re going to blow it out of the water,” Bailin said. “We’re going to make this year bigger and better than any we’ve had in the past, and [we] did, [we] got Fergie,” she said.
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I should never have taken this job at the reddit daycare center.
I go to school in the Bronx. Today, a man, obviously down on his luck, asked me if I’d help him buy some dinner for him and his wife. I could tell he only wanted the dinner, so I let him come with me to buy groceries on 187th street. He picked out some rice, kool-aid, canned tuna, and some bread. As he was ringing out his stuff, I slipped him the money to pay. He instead said “Uhh… I think I’m going to get cheaper food somewhere else”, and bolted out the door, with $15 of my hard earned dollars (I’m a college kid too, beer money doesn’t come easily).Its things like that that make you not want to help the poor and downtrodden. I’m still seething at how he played me like that. Hell, he could be spending that $15 on food, but I highly doubt it.
So it’s your opinion that it’s the victim’s fault they were mugged and murdered?
… than crime …
Great story. This is the sort of person Jesus was like.Luke 6:29-30 If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.permalinkblindmonk (7 children) [+]blindmonk 22 points 11 hours ago [-]Yeah, but he got nailed to a cross for it.
It depends where you live. If you live in Iraq you have a legitimate fear of getting blown up. If you live in a large city in the US you have a legitimate fear of getting beaten up/stabbed/shot/mugged/etc. Now it seems that people in generally safe suburban areas tend to exaggerate the risk they live in each day.
The thing here though is that it is a 2-way street. All credit to Diaz for doing the right thing and treating the teen right but the teen also had an open mind and was willing to accept the goodness done unto him. Someone else might have killed Diaz for even opening his mouth. Regardless…great story! I aim to be more like Diaz.
An eye for an eye works the other way around too. If everyone was a pushover we would all sit around wearing each other’s coats, and damnit, my coat is nicer.
Hear hear!
It’s probably not the sort of thing one should try unless one genuinely feels compassionate rather than angry. If there’s a hint of sarcasm or a patronizing tone when you do this, the whole effect is lost.
we should meet, i will bring my knife - i expect dinner, a movie and a bit of tea and cake.no buggering, please.
Heh, you guys ar — PORN!
I lived in NYC during the supposedly ultra-dangerous 70s and 80s, and spent a lot of time out alone, often leaving for work at 3 am from my home in Fort Greene, which was not yet gentrified — yet despite being a short female, I was only acosted once. I yelled at the muggers that this was MY block, and told them to get away or I’d beat them senseless, and the sheer force of my reaction made them back off. I ran outside to intervene in two other situations where a woman was screaming for help as her BF beat her, and again, the surprise of being threatened by an apparently crazy woman slowed things down long enough for the cops to arrive (in one case, the beater WAS a cop). But that’s a total of only three incidents in almost 20 years. And in defense of NYC drivers, it’s the out-of-towners who can’t handle the very tight space between vehicles, and who don’t know the norms of behavior in traffic, who cause the trouble.Jersey drivers are the absolute worst.
Heard that on NPR this morning. Great story.
The first time I went to New York was December 2001. We were walking back from dinner with family friends, and a hobo popped out from behind a building and stabbed me in the forearm with half a wine bottle. We were right by that big public library.