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Phoenix Mayor-Elect Greg Stanton and His Transition Team Assembling Mayor's Office Staff

​Phoenix Mayor-elect Greg Stanton has assembled a 24-person team of community and business leaders to help him put together a staff of policy advisers for the Mayor's Office.Stanton has tapped individuals from Phoenix's LGBT and minority communities with backgrounds in business, arts, education an ... More >>

Ted Decker's "Declaring Independence" Spotlights Unrepresented Artists

​Phoenix Mayor-elect Greg Stanton has assembled a 24-person team of community and business leaders to help him put together a staff of policy advisers for the Mayor's Office.Stanton has tapped individuals from Phoenix's LGBT and minority communities with backgrounds in business, arts, education an ... More >>

For Art's Sake

​Phoenix Mayor-elect Greg Stanton has assembled a 24-person team of community and business leaders to help him put together a staff of policy advisers for the Mayor's Office.Stanton has tapped individuals from Phoenix's LGBT and minority communities with backgrounds in business, arts, education an ... More >>

Tag, You're Art: Local Street Artists Are Tagging Over Murals and Calling It Art

​Phoenix Mayor-elect Greg Stanton has assembled a 24-person team of community and business leaders to help him put together a staff of policy advisers for the Mayor's Office.Stanton has tapped individuals from Phoenix's LGBT and minority communities with backgrounds in business, arts, education an ... More >>

Greg Esser and Brian Boner Speak About Collaboration at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fncll/145149313/Go team!​I realize that New Times blogs and writes an awful lot about Greg Esser, founder and Executive Director of Roosevelt Row, a non-profit 501(c)3 community development corporation that focuses on the arts and urban revitalization. And we spend man ... More >>

Westwind Studios Opens During Art Detour Weekend

"Mineral" by Margaret Leininger, one of the participating artists at the opening of Westwind Studios.​Yes, Art Detour 22 is upon us!I know, I know...already?This week, I'll be blogging my booty off about the art events that will bombard our downtown arts district this weekend. Today, we'll kick th ... More >>

"Wonderland" Opens Tonight During Free First Friday Reception

​ The art is hung, the floors are swept, and the touch-up paint has been applied. The "Phoenix as Wonderland: Art from New Times' Best of Phoenix 2009" exhibit is ready for its First Friday reception tonight. Here are some cool-as-all-get-out things you can expect to see:

Arty Girl: MonOrchid Arts Fete

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Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s Term Ends in 2012, but a Dastardly Plot Would Let Him Get Around That Limit

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Arty Girl: Colin Chillag at Pravus and Chaos Theory at Legend City Studios

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Has Phoenix Finally Arrived? Feel the Love

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Known for helping artists, Art One owner Kraig Foote now needs someone to help him

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The Bird covers the waterfront on Sheriff Arpaio’s racial profiling patrols and demands freedom for First Friday bohos

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Yes, it is possible to love the ubiquitous Phoenix strip mall

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Art Detour 2007 Listings

The low-down details on where to do what

Phoenix Rising?

A peek at the future cityscape

Hard Body

Liz Cohen's infiltrating the lowrider world — and calling it art

Single-File, Please!

No more Mr. Nice Gardeners: The feathered fiend on Mayor Phil's idiot stammerings after the big undocumented-workers' march

Tag Team

Retail Laboratory tests Roosevelt Row with graffiti hoax

T.G.I.F.

Is the party over?

Phoenix Has an Inferiority Complex

Or maybe you do

State of the Art

If you paint it, they will come. Then what?

Detour for Dummies

A user's guide

You Say You Wanna Resolution . . .

Well, you know, we all want to change careers

Around the Bloc

Downtown Phoenix gets a writers' collective

Art Scene

Four Phoenix exhibits to watch

Art Scene

Our take on four Valley art exhibits

State of the Art

The First Friday sun fries the flesh, while the art leaves spectators unimpressed

Visual Aid

Herberger boosts downtown arts scene

Big Scam Theory

Downtown Phoenix has always had its high points, but the Civic Center boondoggle isn't one of them

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Downtown Phoenix has always had its high points, but the Civic Center boondoggle isn't one of them

The Cool Index

Phoenix has always been hot. But can it ever be cool?

Operation Mickey Mouse

Could downtown Phoenix get more soulless? Yep! Check out Jerry Colangelo's secret plan.

Jerry's World

Jerry Colangelo and his pals have gobbled up the lion’s share of public development dollars. If downtown’s to be saved, City Hall’s got to share the wealth.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Jerry Colangelo and his pals have gobbled up the lion’s share of public development dollars. If downtown’s to be saved, City Hall’s got to share the wealth.

Creative Class Act

Richard Florida knows exactly what's wrong with Phoenix

The Price Is Right

High art, low cost

Art Attack

State law requiring some artists to be licensed and bonded may hinder up-and-coming talents

Best Power Couple

Cindy Dach and Greg Esser

Growing Pains

Downtown galleries are ushering in a new art age

Urban Menace, or Artistic Vision?

Imagination is blooming all over town as Phoenix works to turn public spaces into artistic escapes

Rogue Gallery

Edgy work, term limits and a distaste for rules frame Eye Lounge, downtown's newest art space

Artless Redesign

The 51 may soon become just another crappy little freeway

Life Is Sweat

Eye Lounge show explores the art of surviving summer in Phoenix