Lalo Cota

Ex-Kai Chef Michael O'Dowd Opens Renegade by Mod in Scottsdale This Friday

Even if you've never heard of chef Michael O'Dowd, you've most certainly heard of Kai, the AAA five-diamond and Forbes Travel Guide five-star restaurant that O'Dowd, during his 10-year reign at the culinary destination, put on the map. See also: - New Breakfast Spot, Snooze AM Eatery, Coming to Cen ... More >>

Game Changers

Top Five New Years Eve Parties in Metro Phoenix

If it ain't one apocalypse, it's another, right? First December 21 rolls on by with nary an earthquake or a giant dragon emerging from the sky and burning us all to death with his flaming volcano mouth, and now we're perched on the edge of the dreaded fiscal cliff. But chances are things will proba ... More >>

Maybe 2013 Will Be Better @ The Compound

Feathered Fare

Defaced Mural on Roosevelt Row Causes Public Art Debate

Top Five Halloween Night Shows

Don't let the fact that Halloween falls on a Wednesday night deter you from going out and painting the town (blood) red. Groan. Okay, we know that was bad, but really -- Wednesday night in greater Phoenix promises sonic thrills out of the ordinary. Read on for our favorite picks, including some stel ... More >>

Halloween Guide 2012: Fright Nights

Halloween Guide 2012

New Times' Staff Writers and Designers Receive Top Honors from Arizona Press Club, Including for Investigative Reporting, Immigration Coverage and Cover Illustrations

Phoenix New Times won 30 journalism awards, including first-place awards for investigative reporting, immigration coverage, news and opinion blogging and design, from the Arizona Press Club on Saturday night. Staff writer Paul Rubin received a first place Don Bolles Award for Investigative Reportin ... More >>

Latin Royal @ The Monarch Theatre

PR's Newest Rhetorical Twist: Advertisements Become "Murals"

Art

10 Favorite Street Art Sightings in Phoenix

​Street art is (thankfully) on the rise in Phoenix. In the past few years, we've seen hearts pasted, mural projects started, huge dripping landscapes painted, and stencils galore mark the sidewalks and corners of the city. There's a beauty in artwork that's painted, pasted, stenciled onto the st ... More >>

Downtown's First Friday (Feb. 3)

Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We're here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide -- an evolving guide to art walks around town. From time to time, we'll introduce some of our favorite spots and dish out some i ... More >>

Three Amigos

Por Vida Gallery Opens with "KAPER: 30 Years of Big Bad Red" (VIDEO)

When artists and longtime friends Pablo Luna, Thomas "Breeze" Marcus, and Lalo Cota signed a one-year lease for Por Vida, a soon-to-be-gallery on 16th Street, we knew (even more) creative energy was headed to the neighborhood. Cota says the three decided to open their own space to host more sol ... More >>

GreenHaus Gallery Boutique to Open in Iconic Space on Roosevelt Row

​The noise isn't coming from the boombox.The clanking, sanding, and chatter heard near Third Street and Roosevelt Road in downtown Phoenix is coming from behind the plywood that's covered the entrance of what used to be a drag bar (and, for a short time, Phil Gordon's reelection campaign headquart ... More >>

10 Favorite Galleries in Metro Phoenix

​There are plenty of reasons to check out local artwork beyond it being one of the designated "days" our community has become so fond of. First Friday, Third Friday, Final Friday, Third Thursday, Second Saturday -- just leave the house already. Dozens of great places open their doors to cool ... More >>

When the Sun Goes Down, Valley Nightlife Lights Up

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend

​It's almost 2012, and if you're on board with all the Mayan-end-of-the-world business that slates next December as the end of days then this weekend will serve as your last chance to celebrate a new year. Instead of losing yourself in the abyss of an existential crisis, here are five fun ways to ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2011: What to Do and Where to Go on the Last Night of the Year

Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza to Open Barrio Queen Tequileria Before Year's End: Here's a Sneak Peek

Barrio Queen's decor (still being completed) comes courtesy of Esparza herself.​Since she announced her two new restaurant concepts in June -- the "Euro-Mexican" restaurant called Silvana and the more casual Barrio Queen Tequileria -- the chef and owner of Barrio Café, Silvana Salcido Esparza ... More >>

Pablo Luna, Thomas "Breeze" Marcus, and Lalo Cota to Open Por Vida Gallery on 16th Street

​Come February, 16th Street is going to have another sweet spot for local artwork.The arts district, often noted for its growing mural project that kicked off last year, saw a fresh coat of paint on the corner of 16th Street and Windsor Avenue late last week. Local (and now national and internatio ... More >>

Tempe's Open Source Project Slated to Close at the End of December

Almost a year after local artist ​Ryan Gentry and entrepreneur Michael Witham launched Open Source Project in Tempe, Witham says the future's looking dim. The two opened the coffee shop/music venue/collaborative art space on University Drive after meeting at an art show and envisioning a  ... More >>

See Barrio Cafe's Silvana Salcido Esparza's Home On the Evans Churchill Interesting Interiors Tour This Saturday

Silvana Salcido Esparza​Looking for a way to walk off all those eats from the Phoenix Food Truck Festival? Why not peek into some cool spaces nearby courtesy of the First Annual Evans Churchill Interesting Interiors Tour -- after all, the home of Valley legend and Barrio Cafe chef and owner Si ... More >>

American Graffiti

Friday at Devoured: Palette to Palate

Roasted Corn Cocktail and Shrimp Ceviche from the Barrio Cafe​To kick off this year's Devoured PHX Culinary Classic the Phoenix Art Musuem hosted Palette to Palate, a pairing of chefs, artists, and spirits, in the great hall of the museum for a crowd willing to spring for the $45 (plus fees) ... More >>

Dec. 9 In Blogs: McCain, Winter Fashion, 2 Tone Lizard Kings, St. Francis, and the Hells Angels

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

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

Have a Wall

Graf artists go indoors

Steam Crow Food Prints on Display at SideBar

​I love SideBar as a place to grab an excellent cocktail and hang out listening to DJs who still sling vinyl (quel throwback!), but I also adore the rotating monthly art shows there. A few months back, they had a series of killer Lalo Cota art, and now there's a collection of super-fun and fu ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Jersey Shore Parties, Pin-up Girls, T-Pain, and More

www.mtv.comGet a fake bake like Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick at Sandbar's Jersey Shore party tonight.​Colorful doesn't even begin to describe the eclectic array of inexpensive events on tap for this weekend. There's a candy-themed dance party at Afterlife that's guaranteed to satisfy your sweet to ... More >>

Nice Racks

New Times’ artsy brainchild opens First Friday

Arty Girl: Green Streets, In the Yard, Stylos and Spanish Market

By Joe Lanman on flickr Creative CommonsYou're going to need something bigger than that.​I did my fair share of being out and about these past two weeks, soaking up the Nick Cave lecture at SMoCA, making a jaunt to First Friday and hitting the Canalscape opening at ASU Art Museum (among other even ... More >>

Arty Girl: Monsters of Folk Mural...No Thanks

Ok, just a warning: I'm going to be mean in this blog. But I assert that anything I say here does not hold a candle to the suffering I feel everyday on my way to work, when I've had to take in a begrudging eyeful of the Monsters of Folk Tour mural.The Monsters of Folk Mural by Joe Pagac.​Yeah, I ... More >>

Smooth Criminal: Urban Artist DOSE Takes Graffiti from the Street to the Museum and Beyond

"Back to School: New School for the Arts Benefit Exhibition" Opening Reception

"Back to School: New School for the Arts Benefit Exhibition"

The Five Underground New Year's Eve Bashes No One's Told You About

Check out the Drunken Immortals at tonight's "Maybe 2009 Will Be Better" event in Tempe. The biggest party night of the entire calendar (a.k.a. New Year's Eve) is upon us. Anywhere and everywhere you go tonight is bound to have some kind of shindig going on. Scottsdale will have the swankiness g ... More >>

Toy Polloi

Meet the Mr. Potato Head of the new millennium

Art Scene

Current shows, installations, and exhibitions

Art Detour 2007 Listings

The low-down details on where to do what

DJ Radar

Feel the steel

Let's Get the Party Started

First Friday's "after" hours

The Man Show

Nude and improved

Say It, Don't Spray It

In "Quixotic," graffiti artists tilt at the windmills of legitimacy

Spray Painter

Graffiti artist shows off traditional forms in 'Lalo Land'