Attention all Martha Stewart wannabes: Put down your hot-glue guns and step away from your knitting needles. Your creative mojos are about to get a serious run for their money at the Phoenix Quilt, Craft, and Sewing Festival. The mothership of crafting inspiration touches down at the Arizona State Fairgrounds…

During the Industrial Age, some English brewers created ales by using ingredients like opium, strychnine, and Indian hemp. For another bizarre (but not so lethal) concoction, check out Captain Tripp’s Strange Brew Crew Comedy Gong Show. The good Captain (a.k.a. local comic Jeffrey Maikos) acts as your guide through the…

If the new Tarantino/Rodriguez co-lab didn’t sate your appetite for zombies and fiendish sex, or if you’re an exploitation-starved suburbanite, Phoenix’s own Midnite Movie Mamacita will serve up a steaming buffet of squeamish delights with her Grindhouse Redux. The twin shot of original 35mm turkeys includes the sleazy sex bomb…

Your lyrical arsenal is stocked and ready for action: You can name at least seven words that rhyme with “chillin’ ” and you’ve pretty much got the dictionary memorized (both Webster’s and Urban). You think you’ve got the mic skills to pay the bills, but do you have the balls…