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Spring Break Pool Party, Bugorama, and the Great American BBQ and Beer Festival Over the Weekend
Spring Break: Pool Party at Block 1949 in Tempe For those who prefer to make the most of Spring Break, the sun-drenched shenanigans continued Friday at the Pool Party at Block 1949. Spring Bugorama at Firebird International Raceway Sunday brought on plenty of black and blue arms thanks to the…
Interactive Watercolor Maps by Stamen
Welcome to the Morning Buzz, a catch-up on interesting happenings around the city and country and a quick guide to what (and who) to keep your eyes on. We’ll be here, first thing every weekday, to get you going. Here’s what’s buzzing this morning: You might recognize the watercolored grid above…
Scottsdale and Tempe Public Art Programs Activate Public and Vacant Space with IN FLUX
Tempe’s Mill Avenue and Scottsdale’s Marshall Way are about to get a second dose of public art eye candy. The second cycle of IN FLUX — a program that commissions, promotes and enables the installation of temporary art in and among vacant and active storefronts — is in full gear…
Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL) to Move Out of the Security Building in May
If you’ve never been up to the rooftop patio or the eighth floor balcony of the Security Building, at 234 N. Central Ave. in downtown Phoenix, these next few months might hold your last chance.The Phoenix Urban Research Lab, an arm of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts…
Six Calls for Phoenix Creatives
Summer’s around the corner, which means there’s plenty of time to get creative (and finish a few projects) before the heat sets in. Lucky you, there happen to be a handful of great opportunities for local artists to have their work displayed and recognized. From paintings to puppets, here are…
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Matt Moore’s “And the Land Grew Quiet” in this Week’s Issue of New Times
Matthew Moore grew up in Waddell, Arizona, on his family’s farm that’s been around since the 1920s. Much of the local artist’s work is influenced by the landscape he remembered from growing up and the changes to that landscape since his family began losing the land to development. Moore documents…
Family Trees
To create a vessel, a traditional woodturner must find a chunk of trunk, fasten it to a lathe, spin the piece, and quickly shape it with a series of gouges. This process has been practiced by many and mastered by few, including the Georgia-based Moulthrop family, which boasts three generations…
Dream Works
There’s a lot of noise coming from ASU’s Step Gallery. As the school year draws to a close, the smell of thesis shows (read: stress, anxiety, and kick ass artwork) is in the air. Shows there last a week, and if you’re smart, you’ll catch “Surreal Anarchy.” Featuring work from…
Is Mercury in Retrograde?
Now, we’re not big believers in signs and superstition, but the abundance of bizarre in our own town (of course) and nationwide had us wondering… What’s up with iPad apps for cats? Huff-able caffeine? The Executive Director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts allegedly defacing another artist’s work during…
Nokia’s Newly Patented Magnetic Tattoo: Because the Vibrate Setting Just Doesn’t Cut It
Ball, meet chain. A patent filed by cell phone company Nokia will soon enable your mobile device to send magnetic waves that would be received and felt through a “perceivable impulse” on the surface of your skin — all with the help of a handy tattoo…
The Best Butts in Baseball (Spring Training Edition)
As Spring Training continues throughout the Valley and kicks off the regular season, there are plenty of kickass line-ups — all up for the lookin’.In celebration, we’ve created our own fantasy team of players we wouldn’t mind seeing around town and on the field. We sifted through stats, filtered through…
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Announcing the 2012 Big Brain Finalists
Without further ado, we’re announcing the finalists for the 2012 Big Brain Awards. The award was created to recognize emerging local creatives, and for the past few weeks we’ve been narrowing the long list of submissions to 15 finalists in five categories. On April 7, from 7 to 11 p.m.,…
“Popular” Television Show Looking for Secretly Pregnant Women in Phoenix
Welcome to the Morning Buzz, a catch-up on interesting happenings around the city and country and a quick guide to what (and who) to keep your eyes on. We’ll be here, first thing every weekday, to get you going. Here’s what’s buzzing this morning: This week in supposedly popular television shows…
Executive Director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts Writes “Bullshit” on a Photograph by Tony Zeh
On the opening night of Eye Lounge’s annual fundraiser show, art community members mingled and snatched up small-scale works donated by local artists. The show’s an opportunity for the Eye Lounge to raise money, for collectors to snatch up pieces they recognize (each is signed by the artist on the…
The Snatchel Project: Knit a Uterus for a Congressman in Need
This week, the fight continues between women and their uterus-less congressmen, and if the creatives behind Government Free VJJ have anything to say about abortion and birth control legislation, it’s that congressmen everywhere could use a few uteri of their own. Government Free VJJ is encouraging women (and supportive men)…
We’re Doomed: The New iPad vs. HK53 Assault Rifle (Video)
It was only a matter of time before an angry gun-owner realized his recent splurge on the new iPad was in vain. Richard Ryan, from Sherman Oaks, California, might blame the increased weight, the limited availability, the poor wi-fi connection, or the release of games specifically designed for cats on…
The Five Worst Wedding Trends Found on Pinterest
Pinterest is a place for inspiration, procrastination, and marination on every detail in your future hopeful wedding. And as we approach the high season of nuptials and pending vows, we’d like to prepare you for the worst of the worst. With any luck, these trends that have been pinned, liked,…
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The Magic Margin and Lux Central Host the Third Phoenix Type-In
Time to dust off your keys and replace your ribbons — the third Phoenix Type-In is just around the corner. The meet-and-greet/show-and-tell is a chance for local typewriter geeks and enthusiasts to drool over each other’s machines and show off their latest tips and tricks. Fair warning: This event is…
iPad Games for Cats … Yeah, That Needed to Happen
Welcome to the Morning Buzz, a catch-up on interesting happenings around the city and country and a quick guide to what (and who) to keep your eyes on. We’ll be here, first thing every weekday, to get you going. Here’s what’s buzzing this morning: In the latest example of doomsday’s fast…
Art Detour 24: Sure, it Was Better Than Last Year, But Artlink Still Needs to Rethink Its Relevance After 24 Years
It was a humid, soggy weekend for Art Detour 24. And the weather was as unpredictable as the artwork. The weekend, officially organized by Downtown non-profit Artlink, is two days of studio tours and gallery openings (we’d argue that it should have included the night of Third Friday, but more…
Joe Pagac and Fred Tieken on Vermillion Studios
It’s about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we’re losing track of the times we’ve said, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their artists,…