New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 15, through Sunday, July 17. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Science with a Twist Whether you grew up watching Bill Nye the Science Guy or reading Carl Sagan, there’s no rule that science stops…
New Times picks the best events and things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 8, through Sunday, July 10. For more options, see our curated online calendar. Dan Schay New Works Festival Following Theater Works executive director Dan Schay’s unexpected death on April 7, the company’s board of trustees…
New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 1, through Sunday, July 3. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. “Caminos: My Story, Our Voices” Everyone has a story to tell. That is no less true of the Latinx and LGBTQ communities, but in…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26. For more events, see our curated calendar. “Breach: Log 16” During an artist residency aboard a restored 1840s whaling vessel in Mystic, Connecticut, Courtney M. Leonard made an intriguing discovery – the…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 20, through Thursday, June 23. For more events, see our curated calendar. Lisa Hanawalt Though it sounds like the grossest challenge ever, Hot Dog Taste Test is the second illustrated collection from cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt: a…
The mass shooting that took place last weekend at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando has left us truly devastated. Luckily, people are coming out in droves to lend a hand; finding different ways to help affected parties and communities. Last night, at fundraiser at BS West in Scottsdale raised more…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 13, through Thursday, June 16. For more events, see our curated calendar. Drink and Draw Move over dorks and dorkesses, there’s a new D&D in town. The First Draft Book Bar is hosting its first ever life-drawing…
New Times picks the best things to do in Phoenix from Monday, June 6, through Thursday, June 9. For more events, see our curated online calendar. “Pressing Impressions” The most sophisticated print we ever made involved carving a design onto a raw potato during grade school. And only our moms were…
New Times picks the best things to do in the Valley of the Sun this weekend, including opportunities to nerd out, watch an original opera debut, and visit Italy (well, sorta). For more events, see our curated online calendar. Phoenix Comicon The annual entertainment explosion that is Phoenix Comicon has star…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, May 27, through Sunday, May 29. For more options, see our online curated calendar of events. 9 Muses Think back to the Homeric epics studied (or Sparknote-d) in high school and you may remember that history’s longest-winded writer…
Hopefully, we are long past all of the silly chatter about vinyl being dead and no one caring about buying records anymore. At least around these parts, people can’t seem to get enough of the spinning platters. The massive crowds that flood local music stores on Record Store Day alone…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, May 23, to Thursday, May 26. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Swipe Right for Awesomeness Gone are the days of choosing a date under the harsh light of last call. Instead, we spend endless seconds…
New Times picks the best events in the Phoenix area from Monday, May 16, through Thursday, May 19. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. Game Night Suppose some smartypants decided to conduct a study aimed at determining the hierarchy of the days of the week, best to…
New Times picks the best things to do in the Phoenix area from Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 15. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Summer Opening Reception Forget the country western dance floor. When it comes to line dancing, street art is where it’s at. Consider the…
New Times’ monthly live reading series Bar Flies is back, this time, with a musical twist. The event happens underground and downtown at Valley Bar, but on occasion it rises above street level. This month is one of those times. The May 27 installment of the wordy shindig is headed…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, May 9, to Thursday, May 12. “(Un)certainty” Remember that time Senator John McCain decided he’d sing a little ditty about bombing Iran? So not helpful. Fortunately, it didn’t dissuade Iranian artist collective 2Niks Pictures from bringing their…
New Times picks the best thing to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, May 6, to Sunday, May 8. David Cross In the 1990s, before people were willing to offer up their firstborns for your HBO GO pass to peep the medieval soap opera Game of Thrones, the network boasted some…
David Cross is a man of many characters. From Arrested Development’s quirky Tobias Fünke, who suffered from a “never nude” condition that spurred him to be clad in cut-offs 24/7, to the redneck Ronnie Dobbs, introduced to the world on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show, Cross’ knack for embracing and emphasizing…
The recent hiring of Joseph Specter as Arizona Opera’s new general director isn’t the first time in this last year that Phoenix and Austin have shared organizational arts leaders. Last December, the former director of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Cory Baker, began a VP role at Austin’s…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from April 29 to May 1. Blue Galaxy The powerhouse duo of playwright Kim Porter and director Duane Daniels, which brought us 2011’s Munched, is generating significant buzz for the world première of Porter’s Blue Galaxy, with songs by Roger…
New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from April 25 through 29. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. Diamondbacks vs. Cardinals Baseball has many rules, most of them not having anything to do with actual gameplay: Don’t step on the pitcher’s mound. Never mention a…
New Times picks the best things to do in the Phoenix area from Monday, April 18, through Thursday, April 21. Crossfade LAB When the CALA Alliance and ASU Art Museum announced that they would team up with help from Casandra Hernandez, we knew that the Valley was in for some stellar…
