Phoenix Filmmaker Randy Murray: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 65. Randy Murray. For…

Tempe Artist Clarita Luli?: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 66. Clarita Lulić. Clarita…

Phoenix Writer Jake Friedman: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 67. Jake Friedman. For…

Phoenix Dancer Liliana Gomez: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 68. Liliana Gomez. Liliana…

Scottsdale Photographer Bucky Miller: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 69. Bucky Miller. Bucky…

Face Time

We learned a lot from frequently viewing the Jim Carrey movie The Mask as children. But the main takeaway? We all wear masks, metaphorically speaking. That’s a direct, quasi-deep quote from the film, spoken by Carrey’s much-needed therapist. Of course, Carrey wore a very literal mask (with ancient magic powers)…

Style Guide

Maybe you know the difference between a bell sleeve and a batwing, but your fashion knowledge most definitely doesn’t stand up to that of Dennita Sewell — even in stilettos.Lucky for Louboutin lovers and aspiring walking encyclopedias, Sewell, who serves as Phoenix Art Museum’s fashion curator, will serve up samples…

New Moves

Hate to break it to you, dancing queen, but you ain’t got nothing on the in-motion maniacs moving through Phoenix’s thriving dance scene. Truth hurts, we know. But you can move and shake vicariously through the many performers featured in beta, an evening of new choreography from some of the…

Peter Held to Retire as ASU Art Museum Ceramics Curator

UPDATE: ASU Art Museum has named Garth Johnson as Peter Held’s successor. ASU Art Museum announced on Wednesday, June 18, that longtime ceramics curator Peter Held will retire. Held has been with the museum for 11 years and has curated more than 100 exhibitions through the Ceramics Research Center, which…

Phoenix Artist Noelle Martinez: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 70. Noelle Martinez. Noelle…

Meet Phoenix Fashion Week’s 2014 Emerging Designers

Phoenix Fashion Week introduced its new class of emerging designers on Friday, June 13, at Toni & Guy Academy in Scottsdale. While there were more Arizona-based designers than ever before, most of the 14 businesses included in this year’s group of up-and-comers looked like they have a long way to…

Phoenix Digital Artist Devin Fleenor: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 71. Devin Fleenor. Devin…

Phoenix Performer Michelle Ponce: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 72. Michelle Ponce. Wake…

Jenny Slate and Gillian Robespierre on Obvious Child

Yes, Obvious Child is a romantic comedy. And, yes, it includes an abortion. But describing it as an “abortion rom-com” sells short what a thoughtful story director Gillian Robespierre has crafted. Jenny Slate portrays 20-something stand-up comedian Donna Stern, who was “dumped up with” and recently lost her job as…

Queen Creek Costume Designer Aurelie Flores: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 73. Aurelie Flores. Aurelie…

Phoenix Filmmaker Jon Jenkins: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 74. Jon Jenkins. Jon…

Now and Zen

Storytelling’s all the rage, and Space 55 is getting in on the action with the monthly event Storyline, during which “the themes of our lives intersect.” In collaboration with Lawn Gnome Publishing’s Aaron Hopkins-Johnson, the blackbox will host a pair of events featuring two yarn-spinners’ takes on June’s theme: Bad…

Phoenix Designer Cody Carpenter: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 75. Cody Carpenter. It’s…

Mesa Illustrator Carrie Leigh Hobson: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 76. Carrie Leigh Hobson…

Thomas Porter: 100 Phoenix Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 77. Thomas Porter. Knock…

Phoenix Designer Levi Christiansen: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 78. Levi Christiansen. Spare,…

Scottsdale Artist Lauren Strohacker: 100 Creatives

Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 79. Lauren Strohacker. You…