Editor’s note: In honor of the 10-year anniversary of The Sail Inn’s closure, here’s a look back at an oral history we ran in 2014. When Gina Lombardi opened The Sail Inn in 1990, neither she nor her ...

When The Sail Inn closes on Sunday evening after the final night of its three-day Farewell Festival, it will mark the end of an era — not just for the bar itself, but also for the Tempe music scene. A ...

The Sail Inn is a dive bar, but it's a dive bar with the best outdoor stage in Tempe. And the booking, well, owner Gina Lombardi did most of it herself. Without her, Tempe bands wouldn't have the ...

Brian Moss, wearing inline skates, stood at the jukebox in the Sail Inn, flipping through songs by Phish and the Grateful Dead. It was 2004, and Moss was new to Arizona. He rolled out the back doors ...

Hello all - no, Joe has not become a blond woman over spring break. I am the woman behind the man in this publication, the assistant as it were. And I am invading Cup o' Joe this week. Why? Well, in ...