Tie The Knot

Arizona’s official state neckwear is making a loud comeback. The bolo tie, a signature Western accessory, gained popularity in the 1940s as a personalized neck piece for men and was worn by Western icons including Cisco Kid, Hopalong Cassidy, and Roy Rogers. Bolo ties were also known for exhibiting a…

Drive-By Truckers

Start your engines — Scottsdale’s Colores Gallery opens its doors this month to a new exhibition that’s bound to make any vintage and classic car fiend drool. “Vintage Cars and Country Classics” celebrates classic Cadillacs and Buicks, model trucks, and vintage beatuies by Connie Townsend, Bill Colt, Stephen Morath, and…

Words Up

Three years after local poets Ricquia Ross, Anthony Haskins, Lisa Glenn, and Harold Branch III joined forces to create a performance group and recurring open mic event called HomeBase, they’re welcoming the public to a special anniversary show on Sunday, January 15, over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. The night,…

Making Terrariums with The GROWop’s Kenny Barrett and Joshua Hahn

Kenny Barrett’s no stranger to dirt and a few plants. The local creative and one of the founders of the Roosevelt Growhouse and the GROWop in downtown Phoenix spends most of his time tending to the boutique/urban garden’s produce and managing Valley of the Sunflowers, the two-acre lot-revitalization project across the…

AXE Body Spray for Women: Yeah, That Needed to Happen.

Perhaps the brain trust behind AXE didn’t get the memo from every girl and woman — detailing the pounding headaches, temporary losses in vision, and great punchlines that come with every bottle of their men’s body spray — it decided, instead, to give the opposite sex a taste of the party…

Downtown’s First Friday (Jan. 6)

Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We’re here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide — an evolving guide to art walks around town. From time to time, we’ll introduce some of our favorite spots and…

Arcadia High School Responds to Racist Video

In response to the video reposted to YouTube last night that included two girls spewing their long, racist diatribe about immigration and SB1070,  Dr. Anne-Marie Woolsey, principal of Scottsdale Unified School District’s Arcadia High School released the following statement to students and parents this morning:Hello Titan Community:As you probably know, Arcadia High…

Phoenix Suns Announce Another Lineup of Dancers — Seniors

The Phoenix Suns announced yesterday that they would welcome a group of “high energy” youngsters to their entertainment crew, and today they announced their double whammy — seniors. Dance Fusion, a group of 15 women ages 42 to 73 (who are self-described seniors), will also perform for Suns fans on Friday…

yes–butno: An Anti-Assumption Project

es-butno. The collection, which she writes was “created break assumptions and stereotypes that everyone makes about various cultures, genders, sexualities, etc.,” takes submissions from readers around the country in a “yes — but no” format. She simply puts the words into a template and distributes. …

Arizona Girls Record Racist YouTube Rant about Immigration (NSFW)

In the latest, grossest example of (lacking human dignity and) not anticipating social media backlash after releasing a long-winded, hateful tirade to millions of viewers on the internet, comes a group of Arizona girls who decided to get together to talk about “Mexican immigration” and the “new Arizona law that…