Kathleen Vanesian

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Tutu Much

Top Five Phoenix Food Stories of the Week

Every week, there's a cornucopia of Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you're like most people, you probably just don't have the time to get to all of it. It's kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won't all fit in your mouth ... or in this ca ... More >>

Bob Carey on Art, Photography, and “The Tutu Project”

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 29, 2012

Cafe: Sekong By Night

​Lord knows Phoenix has various varieties of Mexican comida in spades. Need an Asian cuisine fix? We've got that too. Sushi? Check. BBQ? You know it. Pizza? Some would say we have the best in the country. Yet there's one thing we really haven't had until now: Cambodian food. Sekong By Night, ... More >>

Sam Fox's New Restaurant Gets Even More Arrogant with their Meat

Uberculture via Flickr Can this help Arizona crawl out of the red? ​The Arrogant Butcher publicity machine is at it again. When the Sam Fox eatery first opened at downtown's CityScape in mid-February of this year, the place was flooded with VIP parties that made it look like the most popula ... More >>

Cafe: The Arrogant Butcher

​CityScape is a double-edged sword. Sure, we're stoked there's a bit more to do and see and eat downtown, but a lot of these joints aren't exactly destinations worth a drive from Tempe or Scottsdale. Enter Sam Fox's latest eatery The Arrogant Butcher. Is the latest Fox concept restaurant worth ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: Trifle

Jonathan McNamara Kathleen Vanesian's Girl Scout Trefoil Trifle​ Got some Girl Scout cookies sitting around? So did we. Hence, the Trefoil Cookie Showdown. There's something perverse, or at least ironic, in combining Girl Scout cookies and liquor.  So I did it. Instead of using lemon p ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 21, 2010

Eating Through Downtown Mesa at Il Vinaio, De La Cruz Bistro, Mangos Mexican Cafe, and More

Introducing The Duce

Kathleen Vanesian Just a corner of The Duce. See more shots in our slide show. ​Get ready for The Duce, an innovative food and shopping experience set in a once crusty downtown warehouse in Phoenix's now defunct produce district. (Latest word is that it's set to open in April.) Ba ... More >>

People's Biennial Slated for SMoCA Raises Hackles of Local Artists and Curators

Kathleen VanesianCould this be a contender for SMoCA's upcoming "People's Biennial"?​ The art community grapevine in this Valley is about three inches long, so it didn't take much time for me to get calls concerning a recent, very heated panel discussion at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary A ... More >>

Art Detour 22 Features Lee Hazel and Brian Boner at MonOrchid and Bob Carey at Bokeh Gallery

"Flock" by Brian Boner.​ Nice painting, eh? You can see others like it this weekend during Artlink's annual (and totally blog-worthy) Art Detour 22.Brian Boner and Lee Hazel present "The New, Old World" at MonOrchid. And, in the same building, Bokeh Gallery will continue to show its fabulous "Ball ... More >>

ASU Art Museum Opens "Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures" Both Literally and Figuratively with Postcommodity Installation

Friday night was not your typical art opening at ASU Art Museum's Ceramics Research Center - no gallery goers milling about, gawking at art objects carefully mounted on vitrine-capped pedestals spaced strategically throughout a pristine gallery space. No, this was literally an opening celebrating ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 2, 2009

Rose Johnson's Memorial at Icehouse a Somber Send-Off

For all the talk of Rose Johnson's good-bye fete at the Icehouse being a celebration rather than a memorial, the emotional climate at Saturday night's send-off was more somber than sunny, as hundreds of people gathered to honor the former Phoenix artist. The Icehouse proved to be a particularly fit ... More >>

New Times Wins Arizona Press Club Awards

Make a Day of "Bubble Fountain," "Seriously Funny" and "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" in Scottsdale

I've got to hand it to Scottsdale Public Art. Recently, they've been cleverly using every square inch of uninhabited space in Scottsdale for temporary public art installations created by local Valley creatives. That includes a series of installations SPA has labeled "Bell'e Art" mounted in the mo ... More >>

"Handmade Nation" at Modified Arts Crafty Antidote to "Prozac Nation"

While some of us race to the SSRIs for serenity, others of us have decided that taking up a craft for comfort and creative expression is the way to go. Actually, some of us, like me, for instance, do both for balance. Blame it on either early 60's back-to-nature hippie culture or maybe Martha Ste ... More >>

Arty Girl: "Her Secret is Patience" public art piece by Janet Echelman is complete!

There it is!I am so excited for this one...I thought that after Kathleen Vanesian wrote about Echelman and I blogged about her a couple times, I might be a little Echelman'ed out.But I buzzed down to the Downtown Civic Space last night, right around sunset, and was totally blown away. The sculpture ... More >>

Martha Mary Throws Street Party for ASU Art Museum

Hot dogs, cold beer, hot tunes and cool art - I can't think of a better way to drift through a mellow April afternoon than eating grilled pups, chewing the fat with AZ artists and raising money for a future exhibition already in the works at ASU Art Museum. Martha Mary, a group formed by artist/ ... More >>

Arty Girl: Watch Echelman Public Art Construction Live!

Get ready to read the shortest blog ever...Well, waddya know? The net to Janet Echelman's public art sculpture "Her Secret Is Patience" is going up today!You can watch it happen live here. Also, read writer Kathleen Vanesian's article about the sculpture here.Fun!

Statue of Sleeping Mexican First Covered in New Times Offends, Then Disintegrates

Who could possibly think it'd be a good idea to build an over-sized statue of a stereotypical, sombrero-wearin' lazy Mexican out of sand and put it in the middle of the desert? The far-out cats at Arizona State University's Future Arts Research, that's who. As New Times ... More >>

Light-Rail Art Stops

Karolina Sussland Comes Up with a Mathematical Equation for Goodness

I won't even pretend to understand exactly what artist Karolina Sussland is doing in "Goodness...in Progress," a one-day-only showing of Sussland's latest artistic foray mounted on Saturday at Figarelli Galleries Back Room in Scottsdale's Cattletrack artists' compound. In fact, I am so mathematica ... More >>

"Sue Chenoweth: Predator and Prey" Takes No Prisoners at Bragg's Pie Factory

Letters from the issue of Thursday, February 14, 2008

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Our critics survey the local art scene

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Rural-Metro employees are right to feel burned

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