Performance Art

The Dark Side

The Dark Side

RAW Talent

Dirty Beaches Talks Film, Hip-Hop, Home, and Performance Art

​ Dirty Beaches is the work of Alex Zhang Hungtai, a 30-year-old born in Taiwan before spending time in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, China, and, currently, Montreal. To call Dirty Beaches a band would be a misnomer. What Zhang Hungtai does is more akin to performance art, with live performance ... More >>

Say What?

​ Dirty Beaches is the work of Alex Zhang Hungtai, a 30-year-old born in Taiwan before spending time in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, China, and, currently, Montreal. To call Dirty Beaches a band would be a misnomer. What Zhang Hungtai does is more akin to performance art, with live performance ... More >>

Bare Market

Phoenix’s oldest gallery keeps things edgy

Michelle Burchfield, What Are You Eating?

Michelle Burchfield​Michelle BurchfieldThe actress, writer and performance artist is a cast member of First Friday Night Live, which goes down Friday, October 1 at 11 p.m. at The Firehouse and on ustream. She's also appearing in Show & Tell: Performance Art at Sweets & Beats during the ... More >>

Red District

Take a First Friday tour with Valley artists

Monsters, Inc.

Catch a local standby at an intimate joint

F.A.R.T. Fest

Catch a local standby at an intimate joint

Put Up Your Faux Dukes

Low-budget wrestling circuit debuts in CenPho

Pleasure Factory

Warhol-inspired bash encourages coloring outside the lines

Legend of the Fall

Annual grab bag brings out-of-the-box thinking to First Friday

Hall of Femme

Michelle Tea’s queer-core tour makes a pit stop at Trunk

Bombast Squad

Chicano activist breaks out the uncomfortable truths

Jitter Bugs

Poets and writers speak up at local coffee joint

Feud for Thought

Old Avery/Reich spat highlights Trunk show

The Gospel According to Paisley

Christian p-artist offers “notorious” carols and other holiday fun

Have Yourself a Nasty Little Xmas

Performance artists run out of ill will after 23 years

Claydreamers

Next-gen ceramicists break the mold

Grand Slam

A loving tribute to a rat bastard

J.D. Samson

A loving tribute to a rat bastard

The Kills

No Wow
(RCA)

Grand Trunk

Artists get a new outpost

Art for Pete's Sake

The downtown arts scene is thriving. And Peter Petrisko is stifling a yawn.

Robot Wars

A thriving Arizona break-dancing culture rediscovers the state's grandmasters of boogaloo

Counter Espionage

Fresh from the fast-food trenches, Laurie Anderson serves up stories about work, service and the meaning of it all

Best Place to See Art and Meet Him, Too

Phoenix Art Museum's After Hours
1625 North Central
602-257-1880

Titan of Trash

Phoenix Art Museum's After Hours
1625 North Central
602-257-1880

The Thrash, the Techno and the Metal

A three-band bill at the Mason Jar tries to define the parameters of "industrial" (good luck)