“Mill Ave Inc.” is a documentary that essentially started when Nicholas Holthaus (known by most as Nico) started taking video footage of bands and venues in the mid-late 90s, when it became apparent that a lot of venues along the legendary Mill Avenue would be closing its doors due to… a lot of things. Take your pick: corporate muscling, community apathy, myopic planning, copycatting, smoking bans, increased conservative prevalence, ASU’s techno-corporate expansion… It seems there was not one singular cause for the disintegration of Mill’s culture and liveliness that people everywhere had come to enjoy. Or was there?
“Mill Ave Inc.” combines archival footage of the indie, punk, and folk scene at clubs on Mill with interviews that include Stinkweeds owner Kimber Lanning, Tempe folk singer Walt Richardson, Sun Club owner and musician Hans Olson, Gin Blossoms’ Robin Wilson and members of Flathead, Dead Hot Workshop, and Gloritone. Together with scene-sters, politicians and the club owners, they tell the real story of how a great local entertainment hub became “Mill Avenue Inc.” [Note: To read the New Times movie review, click here.]
- Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- Time: 8 p.m. (doors at 7:45)
- Place: Modified Arts, 407 E. Roosevelt St., Phoenix
- Admission: $6 cash only
Downtown Voices Coalition 