Unified Movement

4/1-4/2 East and West, past and future . . . Desert Dance Theatre and New York’s H.T. Chen & Dancers prance across cultural and spatial divides in Looking Back, Dancing Forward. The bridge has largely been one of incorporation. Think modern dance peppered with hints of classical Chinese dance and…

Reel Time

Sun 2/29 Face it — the invite to Sunday’s 76th Academy Awards wasn’t lost in the mail. So instead of spending a king’s ransom on Vera Wang couture or an Armani tux in hopes of sneaking in, better go with Plan B. The Oscar Night America Gala at the Ritz-Carlton…

Celt Classic

These aren’t your usual bunch of tossers. No, the muscular men and women who’ll descend on the Valley this weekend for the 40th Annual Highland Games won’t be heaving heavy objects just for the hell of it — they’ll be doing it for Gaelic guts ‘n’ glory, and maybe some…

Hare Situation

Greasy food and cheesy tchotchkes are staples of almost any Valley festival. But the Rathayatra Parade and Festival in Tempe on Saturday, February 14, promises something a bit different — a chance to touch the ethereal plane. Such spiritual transcendence comes by way of pulling a towering, 20-foot-high, crimson-domed, garland-anointed…

A Scar is born

Matthew “Scar” Haugen kneels in the middle of a wrestling ring preparing for battle. The gangly 20-year-old knots the laces of his dirty navy-blue sneakers and then gathers up several weapons. He grabs a battered kendo stick and throws it into an aluminum trashcan, along with several other tools of…

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​ ​It goes without saying that fuzz is gonna be hitting Valley streets en masse tonight, enforcing our states fearsome DUI laws and hunting down anyone who’s idiotic enough to get behind the wheel after a couple of drinks at local bars and clubs tonight. (It even brings to mind…