Email Author Becky Bartkowski

2012 Stories by Becky Bartkowski

• Marriage Act

  published October 11, 2012

  Not many an opera (that we know of, at least) is set in the high hills of Scotland, but Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor takes the... More >>

• Borderline Disorder

  published September 27, 2012

  In the hotbed that is Arizona politics, there's always something new to protest. Recently, the "papers please" portion of Senate Bill 1070 was... More >>

• Royal Pains

  published September 27, 2012

  The French rep for being snooty snobs is not entirely unfounded. In the world of high-end couturiers, Parisian designers have always held an... More >>

• Date Night

  published September 20, 2012

  Comedian Mike Birbiglia has told his tale of sleepwalking all the way through a La Quinta second-story window on This American Life, as... More >>

• For The Rest Of Us

  published September 20, 2012

  Jerry Seinfeld has so irreversibly permeated pop culture with his affection for life's "nothing" moments and mimicable intonations that it's... More >>

• Gilded Rage

  published September 20, 2012

  Although Baz Luhrmann's highly anticipated film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carrie Mulligan, was... More >>

• Market to Market

  published September 13, 2012

  The Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market was born from a garage and estate sale hunter’s mentality shared by three girlfriends -- Lindsey... More >>

• Fight And Flight

  published September 13, 2012

  If anything, Ishmael Beah's life has revolved around luck – good and bad. Born in Sierra Leone, he was separated from his family when... More >>

• Fall For It

  published September 6, 2012

  This year’s September issue of Vogue weighs in at a whopping 4 pounds 10 ounces thanks to its 916 pages of fall fashion -- 658 of... More >>

• Throne for a Loop

  published September 6, 2012

  Southwest Shakespeare Company opening this season of performances with one of the Bard's earliest comedic works, Love’s Labour’s... More >>

• Rebel Yell

  published September 6, 2012

  To find traces and embraces of teenage rebellion, the easiest in is through music. Since teens rose to cultural and societal relevance with... More >>

• Drawn From Memory

  published September 6, 2012

  Through her series of Prismacolor pencil portraits for “Oh, The Faces I Know,” artist Jamie Pettis explores who she has been, is,... More >>

• Hell on Wheels

  published August 30, 2012

  If Jerry Seinfeld's new web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee has inspired you to learn a little more about the world of car... More >>

• Foreign Exchange

  published August 30, 2012

  While Hispanic Heritage Month officially won't start until Saturday, September 15, Phoenix Art Museum's film festival Cine Latino will get a... More >>

• Renew Girl

  published August 30, 2012

  Fashion designer Tiffe Fermaint always brings a certain edgy glamour to her work, whether it's a sartorially savvy lush white coat or a... More >>

• Pet Peeve

  published August 30, 2012

  Comedian Bernadette Pauley’s online shop includes one item. It’s a white women's T-shirt that reads, “If you don’t... More >>

• Get Bent

  published August 30, 2012

  A recent study from Spain’s Granada University revealed that after an intense workout downing a few beers results in better rehydration... More >>

• Frankly, My Dear

  published August 23, 2012

  The work of Lisa Frank has had a special place in the backpacks and hearts of schoolgirls over the past few decades. Frank’s neon... More >>

• Battle of the Sexes

  published August 23, 2012

  Nowhere is androgyny more embraced than in the world of fashion. Models like Agyness Deyn and Freja Beha and their boyish, lanky bodies and... More >>

• Good Jeans

  published August 16, 2012

  Ask any woman what is her least favorite clothing item to shop for, and, we'd bet that 90-some-percent of the time, the answer is resolutely:... More >>

• Double Team

  published August 16, 2012

  Valley artist favorites Mayme Kratz and Melinda Bergman will discuss their works on display in SMoCA's summer exhibition "Significant Forms,"... More >>

• Script-Wrecked

  published August 16, 2012

  If you're of the opinion that reality TV is nothing but garbage that's poisoning the already-rotting minds of lazy couch potatoes, then it's... More >>

• Stay Bold

  published August 16, 2012

  "I can't change," exasperatedly says Tracy Jordan, Tracy Morgan's self-parody character on 30 Rock. "I'm like a chameleon -- always a lizard."... More >>

• The Odd Couple

  published August 9, 2012

  To write America, You Sexy Bitch, conservative bombshell Meghan McCain and liberal goof-off Michael Ian Black traveled around the country for a... More >>

• Show Time

  published August 9, 2012

  With the abundance of TV channels on the ever-expanding dial, it’s no surprise that plenty of fledgling sitcoms don’t make a bleep... More >>