Thanks to Eat Pray Love, leaving it all to travel somewhere exotic is not exactly rooted in betterment-to-society purposes, especially when considering Jonathan Brandstein’s 2005 adventure. For the Los Angeles-based photographer, it all began that summer when he peeped a documentary... More >>

​By now you've probably heard the dozens of promos that KUPD has been running daily for the free Smashing Pumpkins concert they're putting this coming Thursday night. Billy Corgan and his crew are making a swing through the Valley (guess they're not down with Zack de la Rocha and the... More >>

It’s summer, obviously, and barely anything sounds good to drink. Not chilled wine, totally false on beer, and definitely negatory on the whiskey flask that’s hibernating in a sports-coat pocket. The only thing that sounds appetizing is a chilled martini, but that’s serious... More >>

This family-friendly jaunt winds along the Gila River. More >>

With real unemployment hovering near 20 percent, there is nothing in sports more accessible to the common fan than the last game of the NFL preseason. While the established stars don baseball caps and feign interest, the men on the field know that one big play or horrible mistake could be the... More >>

See this Coen Brothers classic on the big screen. More >>

Early buzz on scenic designer Robert Kovach’s set for Noises Off, which launches Phoenix Theatre’s 90th season, is that the set is a real stunner. And it needs to be -- because the set in Michael Frayn’s play-within-a-play is a principal character, just as important as the... More >>

Joan Waters is inspired by Phoenix, her home for more than 20 years. Originally from England, she studied African art at the University of Maryland, and lived in that state for many years. But it’s the klieg-like lighting and the vast openness of the desert that informed Waters’... More >>

DoPho artist Morgan McNally exhibits mixed-media sculptures that features "abstract interpretations of home and the inherent emotions of the journey to find your place in the world." More >>

Painter Carol Francine Swagel used to spend a lot of time at Lake Pleasant water-skiing with her family. She’s not sure what the lake looks like now, but nature, loss, and memory have propelled her to create the works in “Metamorphosis: New Paintings by Carol Francine Swagel” at... More >>

Some say baseball is a dying sport. Too much strategery, say its pinheaded critics, too few highlights à la the NFL and NBA. You wouldn’t know it by standing at the intersection of Van Buren and Galvin on one of those glorious March days when the Oakland A’s are hosting a... More >>

Weeks after the Tempe Town Lake dam burst, locals still bitched about the fishy smell. Boo-hoo. Remember Hurricane Katrina? See photos of Katrina’s aftermath and read poems based on twelve survivor interviews at “When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina." The show is based... More >>

Oh, joy. “Cézanne and American Modernism” opens today for a three-month run at one of Phoenix’s largest museums. It will feature (yawn) a Frenchie’s paintings that are all pretty and abstract in a style that’s pre-Picasso and post-Monet. Wait a minute. Actually,... More >>

California artist Mark Zillman exhibits trippy road-trip paintings at Phoenix Airport Museum, Terminal 2. More >>

Instead of merely being a thuggish, dunderheaded megalomaniac, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has also been a harbinger of the future: At press time, SB 1070 was days from being enacted and has prompted other states to take similar measures. It’s a really dumb vision of the future that... More >>

The rare objects in America that've endured since the 17th century tend toward breadbox-size, fragile, and amazing . . . just like the oldest pieces in “Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the ASU Art Museum,” the first exhibition of several dozen prints usually housed in the... More >>

It seems likely that Andy Warhol wouldn’t have loved being on a double bill with another artist. But one can imagine that he’d at least mutter appreciatively about having his art displayed alongside the work of the late Fritz Scholder, one of the most renowned Native American artists... More >>

Her paintings draw on art history and what she calls “all things formal.” Each line she’s drawn or brushstroke she’s made, she says, is completely subconscious. She wants, as she wrote in a recent artist’s statement, “to remember things without language and explore... More >>

Blacksmithing careers went out of fashion with swordfights to the death and horse-drawn carriages. But four local artists revived the tradition by hammering, piercing, and welding metal into exotic sculptures for the “Urban Metal” exhibit, on display through November 18 in the windows... More >>

Traffic is something Phoenicians battle every day. Some deal by listening to classical tunes in the frigid air of their Beamers. Others “go green” -- and turn red from heatstroke -- by biking. The unfortunates swelter in their classic VW Bugs, wishing for sweet, sweet death. With... More >>

Weeks after the Tempe Town Lake dam burst, locals still bitched about the fishy smell. Boo-hoo. Remember Hurricane Katrina? See photos of Katrina’s aftermath and read poems based on twelve survivor interviews at “When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina." The show is based... More >>

You love art exhibitions. Your man, on the other hand, thinks that crap is for sissies. No problem. Tempe Center for the Arts has you covered with its latest show “Cars and Guitars.” As you enjoy the aesthetics of guitar design and the artistry of low-rider restoration, your dude will... More >>

Elizabeth Quintanilla (a.k.a. DJ Alkemé) prefers her jams to be sexy and slow. We're talking seductive joints like Sade's "The Moon and the Sky," John Legend's "No Other Love," or even Estelle's "Come Over." The kind of torrid tracks that provide a sultry slow burn and are sure to heat... More >>

Nowadays, we're lucky when we go to a show and the musicians are the only performers in the room. Between people texting, tweeting, and making (and taking!) calls, almost every electronic device in the vicinity is putting on a show of its own. That's one reason why we find the Acoustic Open... More >>

It’s not only a new year, but also a new decade to boot, so the hip-hop heroes running the Blunt Club decided it was high time for a new start. After spending the last couple years rocking both microphones and turntables at the Red Owl, they’re re-launching the long-running weekly at... More >>