Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend

This weekend’s packed with First Friday shows, Fringe Festival performances, Phoenix Film Festival screenings, Final Four matches and Spring Training innings. What, you still need something to do? Let us help.​Arts and Flowers @ Phoenix Art MuseumAs any fan of Lady GaGa can attest, impressive dresses can be made outta anything…

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

THURSDAY 31 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage, & DJ Android (Top 40, dance) Afterlife: Thumpin Thurzdays (various) AZ/88: Josh One (rare groove, urban funk) Bar Smith: Splash Thursday (reggae, dancehall, Top 40, house) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ Mendez (various) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop, Top 40) BS West:…

Double Visions

Although renowned egghead Carl Jung may have been something of a bore and blowhard (and quite possibly a Nazi sympathizer), his contributions to modern psychology are unquestionable. Chief among them is the notion of mankind’s dual nature. For those of you who slept through Psych 101, here’s the skinny: Within…

Glow Job

Hiking Piestewa Peak under the cover of darkness can be a bit of a precarious prospect. Just ask any tenderfoot hiker who’s forgotten their lantern and gone from tromping about the trails at night to starring on the evening newscast with a single, clumsy step. Luckily, the participants in this…

Board to Death

Skaters can be a rather competitive lot. Spend more than five minutes at any of the Valley’s skateboarding shops or outdoor parks and you’re bound to hear numerous taunts between teenagers who swear their tricks are the sickest around. It’s put up or shut up time for these board-riding braggarts…

Wolfgang Gartner @ Marquee Theatre

Trendy dance music genres tend to come and go (anyone remember B’More?), but electro-house seems to have stood the test of time, particularly in the clubs and danceterias of the Valley. One of the latest burgeoning talents helping keep the genre alive is Wolfgang Gartner. The Grammy-nominated DJ/producer’s funky and…

Vicious Cycles

If motorcycling were considered a religion — which, according to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it is — then North Scottsdale will become an absolute Mecca over the next week or so. Thousands of hawg-heads, weekend warriors, and easy riders will mount their hardtails and converge on Westworld,…

Club Candids: El Hefe’s Grand Opening Weekend

If there’s one thing that Scottsdale excels at, it’s excess. To wit: Even though Old Town’s nightlife district already is populated by plenty of Mexican-inspired drinkeries (Dos Gringos, Loco Patron, Salty Senorita, et al.), why not add one more to the mix? Enter El Jefe, the tony taco and tequila…

How to Get Ready for the Apocalypse

If all the 2012 alarmists are to be believed, there are only 636 days left until Armageddon begins, er, ends. As any apocalyptic believer will likely tell you, the Mayan’s Long Count calendar ends on December 21 of next year, which many individuals believe will be the last hurrah for…

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

THURSDAY 24 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage, & DJ Android (Top 40) AZ/88: Josh One (rare groove, urban funk) Bar Smith: Splash Thursday (reggae, dancehall, Top 40, house) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ Mendez (retro) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop,…

The Dork Side

Childhood and adolescence are absolutely overloaded with watershed moments: Your first kiss, the inevitable “birds and the bees” discussion with the ‘rents, and, of course, the first time you watch Star Wars. For local artist Nathan Nelson Ross, the pimpest moment of pre-adolescence came when he first saw the words,…

Fuse Fridays @ 910 Live

Just like Charlie Sheen’s career, the residents of Fuse Fridays will never say die. They’ve endured both lineup changes and venue changes and are still coming back for more. Led by DJ Mara and Disko Da, the Fuse crew will make their re-debut on Friday, March 25, at their new…

Bradford Whicker’s Beer Museum

fter finishing an ice-cold can of brew, standard operating procedure for most beer drinkers usually involves tossing it away, either over your shoulder or into the trash. (Of course, it you’re a manly man, it might also mean crushing that bad boy while unleashing an thunderous belch for added effect)…