Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest -- our top five must-see shows this week.
Phoenix Art Museum cues up colorful shindig
Alopecia
(Anticon)
Late musician's minimal legacy lives on
Sound of Silver
(DFA/Capitol Records)
Black Aria II
(Megaforce)
Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna
Probing America's passion for war
Contemporary sampler platter
Undertow relishes in the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family
Angelina Jolie stars in Taking Lives, but the filmmakers are the real boobs
Streep, Moore and Kidman reveal that it's sad to be sad
Taking a look at some of the best music literature from the past few months
Multilayered, ever-flowing music is anything but minimal
No longer an enfant terrible, composer Terry Riley continues to astound and amaze
Quartet to accompany showing of Dracula
Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse
In Errol Morris' Mr. Death docu, it's all in the execution
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson once again shatter the bounds of musical theater with the digital opera Monsters of Grace
Hum may be the toast of Champaign, but success hasn't made the band space out
In Buddha-themed Kundun, Martin Scorsese gets all mystic-eyed
Errol Morris does a job on American work-force eccentrics
All in the Timing knows its pace
