10 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from Friday, August 26, through Sunday, August 28. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. Pageant As society approaches a normal attitude about gay people, female impersonation, and drag (which don’t require homosexuality but definitely brunch with it) continue…

7 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, August 22, through Thursday, August 25. For more events, see our curated online calendar.  Meet Me Downtown Need a little Monday motivation? Get moving with Meet Me Downtown, a free weekly social walk courtesy of Blue Cross…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, August 19, from Sunday, August 21. For more events, see our curated calendar.  “Hare” Everything for sale at Practical Art is handmade by artists and is useful, though you might not be able to bring yourself to use…

5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times pick the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, August 15, through Thursday, August 18. For more events, see our curated online calendar.  Diamondbacks vs. Mets By all accounts, the Arizona Diamondbacks should be better. Beleaguered by injuries, underachieving pitchers, and an abysmal home record, the boys…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, August 12, through Sunday, August 14. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Tattoo Pool Party Hell City is getting a little wet and wild with its Tattoo Pool Party — and the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired…

5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, August 8, through Thursday, August 11. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Land of a Thousand Dances You’ve heard of the British boy band the Beatles, who hailed from Liverpool and made waves in the early…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, August 5, though Sunday, August 7. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Game On Expo If Pokémon Go leads you in the direction of Mesa Convention Center this weekend, it’s not a fluke: The second annual…

7 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, August 1, through Thursday, August 4. For more events, see our curated online calendar.  Mahalo Mondays We don’t live near the ocean, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some beach vibes in the middle of the desert…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 29, through Sunday, July 31. For more events, see our curated online calendar.  Untidy Secrets Storytelling When it comes to the next installment of Untidy Secrets Storytelling, think less Mulder and Scully and more out-of-this-world real…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best things to do from Monday, July 25, through Thursday, July 28. For more events, see our curated online calendar.  “A Group Effort” It’s tough to find exhibitions featuring works by more than 50 artists outside museum walls or the art-festival circuit. But “A Group Effort,” a…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 22, through Sunday, July 24. “Water” Using fine-art aerial photographs taken around the globe, Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky raises questions about humanity’s relationship to water. Forty of his large-scale color prints are part of an exhibition…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 15, through Sunday, July 17. For more events, see our curated online calendar.  Science with a Twist Whether you grew up watching Bill Nye the Science Guy or reading Carl Sagan, there’s no rule that science stops…

10 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best events and things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 8, through Sunday, July 10. For more options, see our curated online calendar. Dan Schay New Works Festival Following Theater Works executive director Dan Schay’s unexpected death on April 7, the company’s board of trustees…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 1, through Sunday, July 3. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. “Caminos: My Story, Our Voices” Everyone has a story to tell. That is no less true of the Latinx and LGBTQ communities, but in…

Here Are the Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best events and things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 27, through Thursday, June 30. Myrlin Hepworth Picasso used a paintbrush, but spoken word artist Myrlin Hepworth uses spit poetry to make his point. He’ll perform “Eulogy in Blue,” a new body of work…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26. For more events, see our curated calendar.  “Breach: Log 16” During an artist residency aboard a restored 1840s whaling vessel in Mystic, Connecticut, Courtney M. Leonard made an intriguing discovery – the…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 20, through Thursday, June 23. For more events, see our curated calendar.  Lisa Hanawalt Though it sounds like the grossest challenge ever, Hot Dog Taste Test is the second illustrated collection from cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt: a…

9 Best Things to Do This Week in Metro Phoenix

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 13, through Thursday, June 16. For more events, see our curated calendar.  Drink and Draw Move over dorks and dorkesses, there’s a new D&D in town. The First Draft Book Bar is hosting its first ever life-drawing…

10 Best Things to Do This Weekend in Metro Phoenix

New Times picks the best things to do in the Valley from Friday, June 10, through Sunday, June 12. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Avenue Q It’s Q time again! Avenue Q has become Phoenix Theatre’s equivalent of A Christmas Carol. The musical’s a wonderful twofer of giving…