There’s tons of stuff going down this weekend in connection with the annual Art Detour in downtown Phoenix (just check out our special insert in this issue). With three big days of artistic shenanigans, by the time Sunday, March 4, rolls around, you’re gonna want some place to cool your…
Soul Invictus Cabaret, 1022 Grand Avenue, hosts two nights of gender-bending entertainment featuring the showing of six different queer-friendly short films. The lineup on Friday, March 2, includes Season of the Troll, Taco Chick and Salsa Girl, and Nightmare on Castro Street, with music by all-girl punkers The Pubes; while…
Standing in the vacant lot beside Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt, this plywood wall created by (from left in photo) students Marcial White, Jordan Womack, and Ben Hyde, provides attendees with a chance to pick up some spray paint and create “live art chaos” alongside experienced graf workers in a…
With his longstanding liquor-license problems straightened out, Brickhouse Theatre owner Roger Belfiore is planning some phat festivities for Friday, March 2, at his joint, located at 1 East Jackson Street. B-boy dance competitions kick things off at 3 p.m., followed by live graf work from Adam “Dumperfoo” Dumper (pictured) and…
Like the Wallace and Ladmo Show on mescaline, Uncle Sku’s Clubhouse is a whacked-out kids’ show of comedy and music shenanigans featuring Sku “T-Bone” Hadley, Rusty the Kid, Mr. Jangles the Chain-Smoking Puppet, and Maestro “Can Do” Andrew. The latest episode, on Friday, March 2, at the Trunk Space, 1506…
Indigo Verton offers some freaky fun at The Red Door, 1229 Grand Avenue, with her “Absurdism” extravaganza. In addition to Charles Sanderson’s painting oddities, there’ll be “interactive installation art” (including bags of wine hanging from the ceiling) and absurdist entertainment all weekend, with a smorgasbord of sideshow acts, “chin puppetry,”…
Mommy and Daddy? We’ve been really good lately, so can we go on a field trip with our bestest buddies to the Kindergarten Rave on Saturday, February 24? Don’t worry, there’ll be supervision from growned-ups, like our two special hippy-hoppy friends, Grand Buffet from Pittsburgh (who’ll be performing), and we’ll…
Don’t get us wrong: We’re definitely down with all the old-school jams getting dropped during the off-the-chain hip-hop history lesson known as Take Me Back Tuesdays at Stray Cat Bar & Grill, 2433 East University Drive in Tempe. But let’s face it — the weekly DJ night is something of…
Good evening, ladies and gents; this is your captain, DJ M2, speaking from the record deck. I’d like to welcome you aboard Club Vibe, 3031 East Indian School Road, for Sound Trip, where tonight (and every Friday at 9 p.m.), I’ll be piloting y’all on a fantastic voyage through the…
Oi! If you’re a hepcat scooter kid looking for somewhere to take your Vespa, head for the George & Dragon English Restaurant and Pub, 4240 North Central Avenue, on Wednesday, February 7, when local DJ impresario William Fucking Reed debuts his newest dance night, Style Council. Every hump day, Reed…
Free time has got to be the eternal enemy of local DJ impresario Hyder. When the turntable trickster isn’t spinning at The Blunt Club on Thursdays at Hollywood Alley, he’s working the wax at Shimmy Mondays at Trax, hooking up with the scenesters of the Abstract Workshop, or teaching beat…
If you’ve ever wanted to amass a ginormous record collection (à la John Cusack in High Fidelity), but don’t know where to start, peep the advice of Steve Jansen, New Times’ resident record nerd, on journeying into the vinyl frontier. Q: How do you create a collection? A: Get stuff…
Right now, vino is pretty damn keen-o. Never before has wine enjoyed the prominence and popularity it does now, whether being imbibed by scenesters, serving as a social lubricant at fancy fetes, or getting lauded in flicks like Sideways. So it’s probably a good idea your uncultured ass knew about…
If you were hankering for many happy returns in 2007, looks like you’re gonna get your wish, bub. Namely, the dope drum ‘n’ bass DJs of Essential Wednesdays, who were dumped from their longtime weekly gig at Sky Lounge late last year, are making a comeback with Liquid Heat on…
Some things are just awesome together: chocolate and peanut butter, Britney Spears and drunken rampages, trance music and belly dancing. Local DJ collective Overmind Works serves up the latter in spades at its monthly laid-back dance spectacular Aura, which goes down at belly dancing joint the Mystic Jewell Studio, 524…
“Dude, I got the awesomest idea for our rave on Saturday, January 6!” “What?” “We should call it Yoshi’s Island.” “Don’tcha think that’s kinda ghey?” “Naw, everyone played Super Mario Bros. back in the day and will dig it. We can call our drum ‘n’ bass stage ‘Bowser’s Dungeon’ and…
Aspirin? Check. Killer threads? Solid. Bail money? Sho’nuff. Sounds like you’re fully locked and loaded to get your New Year’s Eve freak on, except you need some off-the-chain parties and places to peep. Fear not, funky Phoenicians, because we’ve got the lowdown on all the hoedowns going down around the…
Y’all might be going to some fancy-ass party or hipster hootenanny on Sunday, December 31, but as for us, we’re going to Hell. More specifically, Club Hell’s nocturnal New Year’s Eve affair known as Hell’s Bells. The freaky fetishists, disturbing divas, and other assorted creatures of the night scene who…
Tom VandenAvond embodies everything that makes alt-country awesome. He’s got a surly, drank-too-much-last-night-and-now-I-gotta-perform attitude, a killer take-no-shit slogan (“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas”), and even an authentic trucker cap (no Hot Topic poseury here). One can hear wisps of such late greats as…
Imitation is most definitely the sincerest form of flattery. For a perfect example, look no further than local ska group The 2 Tone Lizard Kings. The eight-member outfit, which has been a regular at joints like Alice Cooper’stown, covers a slew of ska classics in its raucous repertoire, including throwbacks…
Aspirin? Check. Killer threads? Solid. Bail money? Sho’nuff. Sounds like you’re fully locked and loaded to get your New Year’s Eve freak on, except you need some off-the-chain parties and places to peep. Fear not, funky Phoenicians, because we’ve got the lowdown on all the hoedowns going down around the…
