82: Carrie BloomstonCarrie Blooston is an abstract painter with a sharp focus on both her family and her business (a faux-finishing, ventian plaster and mural-painting company). These days the only things she really paints are murals for clients and almond butter on bread,and that’s just fine with her. She’s also recently…
Current and former staff at Adobe Mountain School in North Phoenix tell New Times the May 25 death of a boy in custody was a suicide — breaking a seven-year, suicide-free streak for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. And a former ADJC inmate who roomed briefly with the boy…
83: Michelle J. Martinez Michelle Martinez was born in Arizona, but escaped to wander the mountains and rivers of Maine and Colorado. She came home to raise her children close to “familia” and study for an MFA at Arizona State. She’s shown her work at eye lounge and Shemer Art…
84: Beatrice Moore Beatrice Moore moved to Phoenix in 1986. She found a studio in the warehouse district in 1987; founded Art Detour and Artlink in 1988-1989; created live/work space in the dark and dusty recesses of the old La Amapola Bar; and found a much loved feral, black and…
85: Dayvid LeMmon Formally trained in traditional black and white photography, Dayvid LeMmon is entirely self-taught in digital techniques. Growing up during photography’s transition from film to digital, he says, has provided him both a strong background and unique insight into his medium’s technical and artistic possibilities. He encodes references…
We promised we’d tell you, so here we are. Smeeks, at 14 W. Camelback Road, has finally received their much-awaited shipment of Silly Bandz! They’re barely unpacked, we’re told, but the load includes sea creatures, zoo animals, pet animals, rain forest, dinosaurs, rock bandz, princess, fantasy, western, basic shapes, and more…
Is it just us, or is something missing? Our jackalope needs a name. And what better time to name him/her than in conjunction with the opening of a very fitting art exhibition, “Re-Imagining the West,” at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art this Friday, June 11, from 7 to 9…
We are well aware that there’s a very fine line between collecting — and compulsive shopping. Whatever you want to call it, we’re there. So today we premiere “Collections,” a new occasional feature on Jackalope Ranch. And what better way to start than with a collection just begun within the walls of the…
We have more aprons, front-row seats and “A” spots in the signing line to give away, but this time we’re making it a little trickier. We won’t be drawing from a hat. Instead, the Chow Bella team will judge your prowess on some culinary turf familiar to Cat Cora and other…
More than 50 readers entered our Cat Cora contest, and we’ve held a drawing to choose three winners, who will each receive the following: *One Chow Bella apron. *Two front-row spots for Cora’s reading/cooking demonstration June 23 at Changing Hands. *Two spots in the “A” group to get Cora’s book…
Is it just us, or is something missing? Our jackalope needs a name. And what better time to name him/her than in conjunction with the opening of a very fitting art exhibition, “Re-Imagining the West,” at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art this Friday, June 11, from 7 to…
90: Betsy Schneider Betsy Schneider is a photo-based artist and educator whose work is collectedand exhibited internationally. A show of her work — including images of her then-young daughter nude — caused an uproar several years ago at a gallery in London. New Times wrote about it later, in conjunction…
Trial attorney Pat McGroder practices with the Phoenix law firm Gallagher and Kennedy. And he’s a heck of a snappy dresser.What are you wearing right now? Navy Blue double breasted Armani suit. What is the last item of clothing you bought? (answer after the jump)…
Stop the presses, people! It’s National Donut Day. (Or is it Doughnut? We always wonder.) With temperatures soaring in the Valley this weekend, you might want to stick a glazed donut on each butt cheek and look in the mirror before indulging. But if you don’t give a hoot, here…
92: Lisa Starry When we saw Lisa Starry’s dancers shaking what their mamas gave them like nobody’s business at the New Times 40th Anniversary Party last month, we knew we had to get her into our 100 Creatives list — and soon. This season will mark 11 years for Starry’s…
It took a while, but Scott Jacobson’s got some special piñatas for sale. By the Fourth of July, he says, he’ll also have John McCain and Sarah Palin, but for now you can beat the crap out of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Governor Jan Brewer.These are so cool, though, you might…
Click here to see what this week’s contest is — enter and win front row seating at Cat Cora’s Tempe reading June 23, a spot in the “A” group for her book signing, and a Chow Bella apron…
As the artsy sibling of our fellow Phoenix New Times blogs, we run into some of the coolest and most talented folks in town. Jackalope Ranch proudly presents “100 Creatives” in honor of Best of Phoenix, which is just a summer away. Expect it on newsstands and computer screens near…
When it opened in 2000, the Sandra Day O’Connor federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix was both heralded as a sign that the courthouse was regaining ground as a center of urban life, and hated as a “dirty glass greenhouse” — literally too airy to cool in the hot Arizona summer…
Here at Chow Bella, we’re weak in the knees at the thought of Cat Cora’s upcoming book signing at Changing Hands Bookstore, June 23. And we’ve got a friendly competiton to get you fired up. (Learn all about the contest after the jump.)…
Staff at Adobe Mountain School in Phoenix are reporting that the death of a youth yesterday was a suicide. And they wonder if the incident is tied to the “hush, hush” suicide earlier this month of a corrections officer from the same facility. The boy was found in his cell at…
