Sandra Solares doesn’t just make movies, she helps create masterpieces. Over the past two decades, the Mexican-born producer has been behind a host of Hispanic-oriented art house flicks that have won over audiences and earned rave reviews, including La Ley de Herodes and Y Tu Mamá También. Both movies were…
No one ever thought it would be them. Truth be told, when sports pundits were making their forecasts before the beginning of this year’s baseball season, the Arizona Diamondbacks were expected to finish dead last in their division. To the surprise of many, however, such predictions proved to be dead…
If ever there were a soundtrack to Scottsdale, then Top 40 is it. For instance, step into the dazzling danceterias populating Old Town’s nightlife district on an average weekend night and you’re likely to hear such overplayed Billboard hits as Beyonce’s “Best Thing I Never Had,” or Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop”…
The streets and sidewalks of the Valley will once again be the site of costumed conflict as pseudo-superheroes wage an all-out war against one another in public. The urban pranksters and mischief-makers of Arizona Cacophony Society recently announced the date for this year’s version of their yearly Epic Super Hero…
Attention night owls and science fiends: a new arts/performance venue in downtown Phoenix may soon be entertaining you all under one roof. Funny World, housed in a ramshackle residence at 12th and Madison streets, is owned by Phoenix resident Donald Roth, who goes by the nom de guerre “Space Alien…
If the Arizona Diamondbacks have any hope of surviving the upcoming postseason, they’re got to be firing on all cylinders. That includes displaying the sort of stellar pitching that got them to the playoffs in the first place, and not the poor performance put on by Daniel Hudson on Monday night…
Bruce Campbell may (or may not) approve of Jeremiah Gratza’s new nightlife event Boomstick. A few weeks ago, the hipster scenester/indie concert promoter tweeted at the cult movie star and asked his permission to use the phrase “boomstick,” which Campbell used to describe a shotgun in the Evil Dead sequel Army…
A triumphant energy filled Chase Field this past weekend as the Arizona Diamondbacks swept the San Francisco Giants and won the National League West championship in the process. The D-Backs were in a mood to party all weekend as they crushed the playoff dreams of the defending World Series champions…
It’s official: The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to the playoffs. Kirk Gibson’s squad grabbed ahold of the National League West crown tonight after a hard-fought 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field. And, in what has become the norm for Arizona this season, it was a come-from-behind…
We’ve got both good and bad news to report about downtown Phoenix’s gallery scene. The bad news: Bloom Gallery Boutique and Of The Earth closed their gallery spaces in Roosevelt Row. The good news: Two of the artists from Bloom will open a new boutique and art space in the building that served…
Attention all fair-weather sports fans, Johnny-come-latelys, and bandwagon riders: Arizona Diamondbacks playoff tickets are up for sale starting tomorrow morning. Even though you probably didn’t start following the team until they began dominating their division in June, now’s your chance to be in the house when this year’s astounding D-Backs…
Daniel Zana’s documentary The Vinyl Frontier is one helluva toy story. The neophyte filmmaker spent almost two years creating this epic documentary, which screens at FilmBar on Monday evening and is devoted to the madness and mania behind the designer toy craze…
Although Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn’t resemble the mythological god Hades in the slightest, local artist David Bradley thinks they’re more alike than you know. Both share a penchant for pooches and dastardly trickery, he explains, as well as similar job responsibilities. “Hades presided over souls in torment and I think…
JahMek Selecta has never met a Jamaican-inspired beat he didn’t like. For the better part of two decades now, the dreadlock-wearing DJ has unleashed cratefulls of irie electonic anthems over the amplifiers of clubs across the Valley, shaking both windows and dental work with dub, reggae, and dancehall tracks aplenty…
There’s plenty of comedic talent that flows through the veins of the Wayans family. Elder brothers Keenan Ivory and Damon helped revolutionize sketch comedy (and gave Saturday Night Live a run for its funny money) when they launched In Living Color in the 1990s. Younger brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans…
Comedian Daniel Tosh apparently had a wild and memorable time during his visit to Tempe and Arizona State University last week. The ASU-centric episode of Tosh.0 aired last night on Comedy Central documenting his recent “Campus Invasion Tour” and was filled with some pretty funny bits. Over the course of…
Looks like its game over for Cade Gallery, at least for the foreseeable future. According to its proprietors, the downtown Phoenix arcade and art space has closed up shop after seven months in business. Co-owners Weston Henry and Nathan Ross, who opened Cade inside the old OP-tic building at Fourth and McKinley…
Though they spent years in the comedy shadows of older brothers Keenen and Damon, the younger duo of Shawn and Marlon Wayans (there’s ten Wayans siblings in all, in case you’re keeping count) have stuck together as a duo, writing and performing on TV’s The Wayans Brothers and in films…
Don’t panic, Arizona Diamondbacks fans! The D-Backs may have been beaten by the San Diego Padres twice over the weekend, but they aren’t anywhere close to staging a late-season collapse (ala the New York Mets) anytime soon. The D-Backs suffered back-to-back losses against San Diego on Friday and Saturday, which…
Thomy Hoefer digs wearing Supra Skytops and skinny jeans, hanging out at Sticky Fingers on Fridays (where he DJs as Prince $$), and shopping online via sites like PLNDR and Karmaloop. You can call him stylish, or up with the latest trends — just don’t call him a hipster. The…
October’s First Friday art walk is going to be full of eye candy. In addition to new exhibitions and openings of new art spaces on Roosevelt Row and Grand Avenue, next month’s edition of the event will feature the long-awaited return of eye-popping skateboarding stunts to Roosevelt Row. Red Bull will…
Gerardo Parra might be a hero to the Arizona Diamondbacks faithful at Chase Field, but at Chavez Ravine he was pretty much public enemy number one last night. Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers treated the D-Backs outfielder to a chorus of boos while their team defeated Arizona 3-2 on…
