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| Digital Summer Coyote Hill Bar & Grill | Sat., November 22, 4:00pm | Glendale | |
Digital Summer are one of the few local bands that can book a headlining gig at the spacious Marquee Theatre and actually sell it out. The bands slick shtick of mid-to-late 90s hard-edged radio rock (a la Staind and Linkin Park) has garnered them hordes of fans in Phoenix. The... More >> |
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| Fall Demolition Derby Helzapoppin' Rodeo Arena | Sat., November 22, 6:00pm | Buckeye | |
A few weeks ago at the Arizona State Fair, we witnessed our first demolition derby. Our reaction? Uhhhh . . . what in the . . . ?
Needless to say, it was interesting in its redneck-friendliness, especially when folks went ape shit over the especially brutal-looking wallops of fast-moving... More >> |
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| Green Jellÿ The Sets | Sat., November 22, 7:00pm | Tempe | |
Green Jellÿ (pronounced Jell-O) is a low-budget, 217-member band that was hailed by Joey Ramone as the worst act ever to open up for the Ramones. Thats pretty much the point, as Green Jellÿ proudly bills itself as The Worlds Worst Band. Its a... More >> |
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| Illumination v2.0 Location TBA | Sat., November 22 | Central Phoenix | |
Heres a recipe for a seriously stellar night of entertainment: Take a half-dozen of Arizonas most imaginative visual artists, VJs, and filmmakers, and mix them liberally with eight or nine of the Valleys DJs, turntablists, and audio navigators. The result? An... More >> |
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| Ben Kenney Martini Ranch & Shaker Room | Sat., November 22, 6:00pm | Central Scottsdale | |
Luck, of the preparation-meets-opportunity type, has been on Ben Kenney's side for a long time. First off, Kenney's punk-tinged rock outfit Supergrub mingled in the Philly underground scene with 3 7000 9, a group of energetic shredders headed by firecracker frontwoman and British transplant... More >> |
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| The Big Pour Beer Festival HoHoKam Stadium | Sat., November 22 | Mesa | |
One will help you through a blind date. Five will make you forget the crappy economy. Drink 10 and that bucktoothed brunette at the bar starts looking like Eva Mendes. If your dream date has great head and a full body, check out Draft Magazines The Big Pour Beer Festival. Guests receive... More >> |
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| Travel Photos by Ken Ross SOCA Gallery & Vircille | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., November 13 until Sat., November 29 | Central Scottsdale | |
Whats on your bucket list of stuff to accomplish before you croak? Write a novel? Scuba on the Great Barrier Reef? Shower naked with Pamela Anderson? The goal of Scottsdale-based commercial photographer Ken Ross is to capture 101 countries by the time he reaches the... More >> |
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| A New Brain Soul Invictus Gallery & Cabaret | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 14 until Sun., November 30 | Central Phoenix | |
After surviving brain surgery, some Tony-winning composers might just take it easy. But as William Finn's life flashed before his eyes in 1992, he saw unwritten songs longing to be given voice. "When I got home to my studio . . . I basically put my hand over the piano and the songs came out,"... More >> |
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| Anon(ymous) Paul V. Galvin Playhouse |
Fri., November 21, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Tempe | |
ASU's theater department presents Naomi Iizuka's loose adaptation of The Odyssey. More >> |
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| Happy Days: A New Musical Gammage Auditorium |
Tue., November 18, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Tempe | |
We recently heard that Barry Williams (Greg Brady) will portray The Professor in an upcoming touring version of Gilligans Island: The Musical. Sheesh.
Now try to picture Richie, Potsie, Ralph Malph, and the Fonz belting out showtunes. Unfortunately, the stars of Happy Days A New... More >> |
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| "Star Trek: The Exhibition" Arizona Science Center |
Daily from Sun., November 16 until Wed., November 26 more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
Are you sitting down? Good. Are you sitting at the bridge of the Starship Enterprise? You can at "Star Trek: The Exhibition."
Boldly go through 12,500 square feet and explore actual sets, costumes, and props from all five Star Trek TV series and all 10 films. Purchase cool souvenir photos of... More >> |
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| The Mikado Symphony Hall |
Thu., November 20, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
Arizona Opera presents the timeless and charming Gilbert & Sullivan classic, starring mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as Katisha and baritone Neal Davies as Ko-Ko. More >> |
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| Ubu Roi Space 55 Theatre | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 13 until Sun., November 23 | Central Phoenix | |
Talk about nostalgia! Ubu Roi, which takes bows at Space 55 Theatre, was first produced in 1896.
Championed by theater fans as the play that launched the absurdist tradition, Ubu Roi (King Ubu) was penned by French writer Alfred Jarry. The author likely considered his career finished when a... More >> |
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| "Alice's Restaurant" Lords of Art Town Studio and Gallery |
Fri., November 21, 6:00pm-10:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
The artistic salute to the Arlo Guthrie anthem features symbolically appropriate works by Bill Bailey, Jon White, Todd Olsen, and Richard Lee, plus "Blue Plate Special" glassworks created by member artists at Phoenix Center for the Arts. (Pictured: a detail from Jon White's Odi et Amo.) More >> |
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| "Andrew Brandou + The Art Dorks" Perihelion Arts | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., November 7 until Sun., November 30 | Central Phoenix | |
New parents who say theyd love their kid to grow up to be the next Picasso obviously werent paying attention during their high school years. Football players get hot-cheerleader girlfriends and college scholarships. Scrawny art geeks get their heads stuck in toilets. Some go... More >> |
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| "Chihuly: The Nature of Glass" Desert Botanical Garden | Daily from Sat., November 22 until Sun., May 31 | East Phoenix | |
Three things that define an Arizona native: an uncanny immunity to nosebleeds in dry weather, a healthy drinking habit birthed at age 14, and the mandatory elementary school field trip to Desert Botanical Garden. We may have thought the Garden was lame as children, but one look at the menacing... More >> |
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| "Eastern Promise: Contemporary Art From China" Lisa Sette Gallery | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 7 until Sat., January 3 | Central Scottsdale | |
Is the apocryphal saying "May you live in interesting times" really intended as a curse? We haven't experienced any times that weren't "interesting" and that's a blessing and a curse. While humanity chases peace, prosperity, and brotherhood, the nasty opposite conditions always pop up... More >> |
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| "Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" Phoenix Art Museum | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 15 until Sun., February 8 | Central Phoenix | |
There are so many things we still dont understand: cancer, death, the popularity of Dancing With the Stars.
When 19th-century artist Elihu Vedder lost two children and then fathered two more, he found his answers in the Rubáiyát, a collection of medieval Persian poetry... More >> |
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| F.A.R.Xchange 1: The Desert Between Us various locations |
Thu., November 20 more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
The three-day, ASU-sponsored event features free lectures, films, and performances examining "the various metaphorical meanings surrounding, shrouding and illuminating the desert as a site for meditation, activation, and exchange." Participating venues include Tempe's Valley Art Theatre and... More >> |
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| IHBA Coors Light World Finals Firebird International Raceway |
Thu., November 20 more dates/times |
Chandler | |
Hot, fast boats. Now, what else did you need to know? More >> |
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| Oil Painting Class with Suzanne Falk Scottsdale Artists' School | Every week Saturday from Sat., October 4 until Sat., November 22, 1:00pm-4:00pm | Central Scottsdale | |
Local photorealist painter Suzanne Falk will teach participants all you need to know to become a beginning oil painter, from creating a color grid to special effects. More >> |
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| "Order & Chaos" Shemer Art Center & Museum | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., November 18 until Wed., December 17 | East Phoenix | |
There are two types of people: the kind who alphabetize their CDs and the kind who lose their CDs under the pile of Burger King wrappers and yellowing newspapers in their cars backseat (bet you can guess which one we are). Whether you neatly fold your underwear or throw dirty clothes on... More >> |
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| Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trail Blazers U.S. Airways Center |
Sat., November 1, 7:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
However well they might do this year, Your Sunnies are a team on an inevitable decline. Portland is either the NBA's team of tomorrow or its biggest bust, and which way the Blazers go depends on the bum foot of presumed superstar Greg Oden (pictured), the big-upside center who's played only a... More >> |
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| Teatro Caliente PHiX |
Fri., November 21 more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
Theres nowhere quite like the Southwest, or Phoenix, so where better than the PHX and its namesake art gallery (PHiX) for a two-day festival of transcultural performances exploring the desert and our place in it? The name of the fest is ¡Teatro Caliente!, and the sixth annual... More >> |
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| M. Butterfly Phoenix Theatre's Little Theatre |
Thu., November 20, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
Damon Dering directed Nearly Naked Theatre's take on David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning drama about the diplomat who trades state secrets for the love of a good . . . man? More >> |
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