Sat 7/17 Now that he’s pimped his own ride, Robert Aguilar will be rollin’ with his homies from Mystical Car Club to the first Car & Music Show at Audio Express, 6710 West Camelback, on Saturday, July 17. After touring his custom 2000 Chevy Silverado (pictured) to 25 car shows…
7/2-8/6 Since we were mere babes, we’ve tentatively unwrapped each chocolate bar, hoping that famed golden ticket was inside. Alas, we’ve been left only with empty pockets and stern lectures from our dentist. Regardless, we’ll enjoy reliving our cavity-filled childhood at the production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,…
7/2-7/4 With its stable of Gold Glovers, home run kings and future Hall of Famers mired in a disastrous season, the Arizona Diamondbacks are (to borrow from Soundgarden) looking California but feeling Minnesota these days. So it’s most apropos that the cellar-dwelling D-Backs take on the Twins — those of…
7/1-7/31 The folks at downtown’s Trunk Space Gallery are mining comic value — in the most literal sense. A portion of proceeds from “POW! Comic Book & Sequential Art” — a monthlong exhibition and sale opening Friday, July 2 — benefits the ACTOR Comic Fund, a nonprofit aiding comic book…
Depending on whom you ask — and where you direct your Web browser — Bob Saget is God (www.bobsagetisgod.com), or Bob Saget is Satan (maddox.xmission.com/saget.html). “There’s some pretty frightening Internet stuff about me,” Saget says, aware of the religious wars being waged in his name. The actor and comedian –…
7/2-7/4 When an artist is touted as “revolutionary,” it means one of two things. Either “I do extraordinarily odd things, call it ‘art,’ and yuppies eat it out of my hand.” Or “I do extraordinarily odd things, it’s actually creative, and yuppies just don’t get it.” Artist Vic Void falls…
6/24-6/27 Games children play often have very grown-up connotations. Playing “doctor” is an easy way for kindergartners to cop a feel, and, apparently, puppetry is a way for grown-ups to play with dolls. From Thursday, June 24, through Sunday, June 27, “Puppets for Everyone: The Pacific Southwest Regional Puppet Festival”…
THU 24 Scoring points with the girly girls in the crowd, the Phoenix Mercury invite local ladies to America West Arena, 201 East Jefferson, for a Girls Night Out this Thursday, June 24. While the team puts the heat on the New York Liberty, we’ll keep our cool with 10-minute…
Thu 6/17 Sure, New York strip is plenty tasty, as is Omaha steak. But ladies with a taste for beefcake of a foreign flavor best tie on the drool bib. The Thunder From Down Under — Australia’s world-famous male revue — gets local juices flowing this Thursday, June 17. The…
Fri 6/18 Being funny on cue is kind of like peeing on command. You gotta have it in you. Improv master Colin Mochrie’s got it. “Because it’s basically my only skill, I find it fairly simple,” says Mochrie (foreground), best known as the guy constantly ridiculed for his nationality (Canadian)…
THU 17 Some like it hot, but we’re bound to lose our cool — swilling Mylanta martinis in the corner — at “Spicy: Summer SMoCA Nights” this Thursday, June 17. Club culture and high culture collide in a “high-energy evening of cutting-edge style and entertainment” at the Scottsdale Museum of…
Les Du Mouchel is not used to standing still. He’s been mimicking the moves of Michael Jackson since age 3 and has shaken his money maker — literally — as a resident dancer at Axis/Radius, CBNC, Sanctuary and Club Bash. But these days, the 22-year-old is stuck at a standstill…
For many teenagers, high school is an exercise in blending in. Francesco Caban directed his energies elsewhere. He joined the dance program at Arcadia High, then the cheer squad — both times, the only boy. Caban says he endured a lot of name-calling. Once his classmates saw his intensity and…
Technique is Jessica Jesse Jackson’s strong suit — a rare trait in hip-hop. She hammers out each move with cool precision. The 27-year-old, who joined Nebellen in February, has had plenty of practice: dance lessons, gymnastics training, cheer competitions on ESPN . . . even a gig at Disneyland, dancing…
Antonio Berumen spends most of his rehearsal time upside down, spinning and bouncing and bending his body into various positions — all of which appear equally painful. His fiercest skill: hopping on his right hand. His record: 75 consecutive hops. In April, Japan’s Nippon TV network flew the 22-year-old b-boy…
The central Phoenix dance studio has all the charm of a prison cell — with ugly curtains — but it pulses with sex and sass and sweat. Bass shakes the floor as Ellen Rath takes the lead, pounding out a routine to Missy Elliott’s “Pass That Dutch.” Their tight bodies…
Thu 3 Poor Char’s already has the blues, and the Bad News just keeps on a-comin’. The Bad News Blues Band maintains its weekly gig at “The House That Blues Built” on Thursday, June 3. The Tucson band claims to be “internationally acclaimed,” and recent developments indicate that it just…
One man’s trash is another man’s self-published magazine, Simon & Schuster book deal, 126-city tour and guest spot on Letterman. Davy Rothbart has taken the pick of the nation’s litter — collected from parking lots, buses, waiting rooms and recycling bins — and assembled it into the phenomenon of the…
Thu 13 Mindless entertainment has its place (and this summer, it drives a pink pickup cross-country with Nicole Richie), but folks looking for thoughtful theater can wrap their minds around A New Brain, which heads into its final weekend at Theater Works. William Finn’s semiautobiographical musical — enjoying its Arizona…
Sat 5/8 The heart of rock ‘n’ roll is still beating. Feel the love this Saturday, May 8, when the third annual “Music for a Cure” resonates with sound (13 local bands on three stages) and vision (all proceeds benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation). Sharing the benefit…
Mon 5/10 In the grand tradition of twosomes taming the open road (Thelma and Louise, Bill and Ted, Kermit and Fozzie), Rosella North and Eva Duvall are bound for the big screen. In 1941, the friends hopped a Harley and rode from Detroit to Venezuela, a ballsy move even by…
Thursday, May 6 Catch a commando performance of Steve Martin’s naughty new play. A young housewife endures a brief encounter with notoriety in The Underpants, Martin’s spin on Carl Sternheim’s 1911 comedy. Thanks to an elastic breakdown, Louise’s panties plummet to her ankles during a parade for the Kaiser. The…
