Email Author Becky Bartkowski

2013 Stories by Becky Bartkowski

• The Chosen Ones

  published February 7, 2013

  With 11 films selected from around the world, three movie theaters, and plenty of popcorn, the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival is on.... More >>

• Cape Story

  published February 7, 2013

  Considering we blocked out a recent Tuesday and devoted it entirely to the superheros edition of PBS' Pioneers of Television, we're not in any... More >>

• Genius Bar

  published February 7, 2013

  For us who delight in the absurd, there is never enough Steve Martin to go around – no matter how many bluegrass records and TV cameos he... More >>

• Isn't She Lovely

  published January 31, 2013

  If beauty’s only skin deep, then being a model can’t be all the globe-trotting, Tyra Banks-funded fun it’s cracked up to be.... More >>

• Origin Story

  published January 31, 2013

  To those who were amped over FOX rebooting In Living Color in 2013, we are sorry to report that your dreams of drooling over a new crop... More >>

• Equestrian Order

  published January 31, 2013

  When reading that the equine “actors” in the stage production of War Horse were puppets, we imagined Muppet-looking... More >>

• Down With The Sickness

  published January 24, 2013

  How to Survive a Plague is a must-see documentary. Don't take our word for it. The powerful film has already won a slew of accolades and... More >>

• Getting Warmer

  published January 24, 2013

  We aren't exactly meteorology fanatics. The closest we get to weather-related science is browsing through the usually sunny icons of our iPhone... More >>

• Radio Days

  published January 17, 2013

  If you smell the cornflakes (or hot dogs or whatever) and look around (you know, figuratively) for Garrison Keillor and company on your radio... More >>

• 1920s Fashion Shows a Leap Forward at Phoenix Art Museum

  published January 10, 2013

  The 1920s made a whole lot of noise. On the precipice of the Great Depression, the decade made its mark on American history with glamorous... More >>

• Season Finale

  published January 10, 2013

  If you're still not ready to trade in the holiday ho-ho-hos for a 9-to-five time card, there's the tiniest beam of light left at the near-end... More >>

• Cold Case

  published January 10, 2013

  Bemoaning the state of the Disney princess is about as convincing as pretending you didn't love Tangled -- i.e., you are full of it,... More >>

• Royal Affairs

  published January 10, 2013

  Too often discussions of history revolve around the prettiest, richest, and Frenchest. Case in point: Marie Antoinette gets a helluva lot more... More >>

• Star Stories

  published January 3, 2013

  Hollywood and scandal go together like Lindsay Lohan and legal woes. One half without the other feels incomplete, and it garners much less... More >>

• Rock Steady

  published January 3, 2013

  Many have sought the bounty of gold rumored to be hidden in a mine at Lost Dutchman State Park, but the treasure never has turned up. Folks who... More >>

• Heel Love

  published January 3, 2013

  Famously shoe-obsessed and unlucky in love, Sex and The City character Carrie Bradshaw mused that she would end up a most literal old... More >>