Sara Cochran has accepted the position of associate director at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, according to a release from SMoCA. Cochran left her position as modern and contemporary art curator at Phoenix Art Museum in November 2013. Prior to that, she was assistant curator at Los Angeles County Museum…
They were golden. They were globe-y. What can we say? Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 71st annual Golden Globes Sunday night, and it was a weird, hilarious, tipsy (for some), and beautiful mess. The co-hosts were on-point both dress-wise and joke-wise (that supermodel vagina joke was tops), Julia…
Better call a doctor, ’cause you’re gonna be in stitches. Or, wait, no. You’ll need stitches from the doctor because… because of side-splitting laughter. There we go. For all that to happen and for some well-constructed jokes from folks who know what they’re doing, head to the Phoenix Improv Festival…
Sometimes it’s near-impossible to separate actors, writers, and personalities from shows or movies When we think of Janeane Garofalo, we think of Heather Mooney, her totally badass character in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. She’s a chain-smoking outcast who dresses in head-to-toe black, takes no shit, and has a…
If during movies you find yourself rooting for the replicants of the world, instead of the Rick Deckards, there’s a fair chance you’ll make friends at DarkCon. The annual Arizona-based sci-fi and fantasy convention puts a grittier spin on the typical super-hero-laden pop culture powwow.This year, the ‘con is geared…
Audubon Arizona is looking for owl-loving creatives to illustrate a few posters. Who? You…
Comedian Sasheer Zamata will join Saturday Night Live this month as the show’s newest featured player, making her the show’s first black female cast member since 2007. Her midseason addition follows SNL’s search for a black woman to join the cast this winter. The long-running show came under fire after…
Say goodbye to your little blazer because winter’s almost over. Replacing the atrocious Muppet coats and slouchy pants of your cold-weather wardrobe are a new batch of totally repulsive fashion options that are set to trend this spring. Here’s what not to wear…
Steven Tepper was named the dean of Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, according to a recent announcement from ASU. Tepper will leave his position as associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and associate professor of sociology at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt…
Did you resolve to up your IQ this year? Lucky you, the Valley’s home to plenty of brainiacs who host lectures year-round. Here’s a sampling of some of the coolest-sounding talks going down in metro Phoenix this month. “Along Old Route 66” John Craft, a professor at ASU’s Cronkite school,…
If photography leaves you wanting more, but you enjoy images in a gallery setting, perhaps one of the latest exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum will pique your visual interest. “See, Hear, Feel” features black and white works from camera wielders Debra Bloomfield and Christopher Churchill. Each artist soundracks their own…
Though her minimalist installations speak volumes (audio tracks are involved in some cases), artist Julianne Swartz will discuss her playful, interactive works during a talk. Swartz’s exhibition “How Deep Is Your” is featured at the museum through Sunday, January 26, and features pieces that ask their viewers to engage with…
THE BEST THINGS I SAW | By Becky Bartkowski 2013, it’s been real — and really, really busy. That was especially true when trying to take in as much art, culture, comedy, architecture, and anything else I could get my eyes on this past year in Phoenix. In no particular…
Sure, 2013 had a boatload of good movies. But 2014 looks like it’s off to a promising cinematic start. Here are five flicks to see this January. Her Joaquin Phoenix stars in Spike Jonze’s Her, which is about Theodore Twombly, a lonely soon-to-be divorced man who falls in love with…
Bust out the ol’ glue gun and prepare to have inexplicable amounts of glitter on you for weeks. Be Crafty is coming to town. The Minneapolis-based crafting duo of Amanda Rydell and Jessica Kesterson announced plans to bring their handmade ways to Tempe in March 2014 for a one-day-only workshop…
2013, it’s been real — and really, really busy. That was especially true when trying to take in as much art, culture, comedy, architecture, and anything else I could get my eyes on this past year in Phoenix. In no particular order, here are the best things I saw. Topia…
2013 was full of stellar television. Here’s a look back at the 10 best shows that aired over the past year…
Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays — in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. I am a Midwestern transplant in a southern elementary school. I am 7. It’s nearing Christmas, and I have a school…
It takes a talented photographer to capture a landscape that engages its viewer. But longtime Arizona resident Mark Klett, a geographer-turned-fine artist, has captured beautiful and baffling images over the past three decades. Klett works in both color and black-and-white images, creating eerie stills and collages that reveal a sprawling…
When Andy Dick’s Damien Santa decides to wage war against Hannukah-celebrating Jews and Kwanzaa-observing African-Americans, the fate of the non-Gentiles is put in the hands of detective Mordechai Jefferson Carver (a.k.a. the main character in Jonathan Kesselman’s The Hebrew Hammer). Described as part man, part street, and 100 percent kosher,…
Take a good look. Illustrator Kelsey Dake and Moscot have teamed up for a holiday trunk show at Biltmore UNION’s glasses boutique, Framed Ewe, on Thursday, December 19, that’ll be worth a double-take…
Shine, our annual pocket guide to all things Scottsdale, is out. And this year, local artist Luster Kaboom is taking readers on an illustrated ride through the city’s best spots for food, drink, art, and entertainment. Here, in no particular order, are five of our favorite public works of art…
