When choosing a Christmas-themed sweater, it’s pretty easy to decide on the right one: Make sure that it looks like a holiday parade barfed all over it. A cavalcade of delightfully hideous attire will be celebrated at the Ugly Sweater Christmas Party Friday, December 13.Practical Art is the home for…
Horrifying thought: Today’s kids might be more familiar with Kris Kardashian than Kris Kringle. Luckily, the AZ Cacophony Society is fighting reality television’s War on Christmas by invading Scottsdale en masse while dressed as that jolly old soul, Santa Claus, on Saturday, December 7.Santarchy has become a day of infamy…
Recall your favorite memories and it’s likely your fondness for them has grown over the years. Artist Amy Masters explores the idealizing blur of looking back in “Re-Threading History,” which is on display through Friday, December 6.Masters, a Kansas native, has worked extensively in fibers and has been featured in…
The tradeoff for being able to dress like it’s spring break year-round as the rest of the country shivers and sniffles is that we don’t get the kind of White Christmas that ol’ Bing sang about. If you’re still craving some holiday chill, the CitySkate skating rink in downtown Phoenix…
Cincinnati Bengals fans say “Who Dey” and New Orleans Saints fans opt for “Who Dat.” We’ll roll with “Who Day,” in honor of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, which will be commemorated with the 3D episode The Day of the Doctor on Monday, November 25.Full-on geek love for Doctor…
The 1987 action flick Predator has a lot going for it, but it’s definitely the best of the trio of films (including 1987’s The Running Man and 1997’s Batman & Robin) featuring the then-future state governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse “The Body” Ventura. Those beefy political-office-bound dudes lead a team…
You have to love any show that has to run a disclaimer for viewers to not try at home what they’re about to do. The next best thing to staging your own horribly unsafe DIY versions of the Mythbusters’ projects is to catch them live. Their Behind the Myths tour…
You might feel fine about the end of the world, but what if you’re one of the unlucky schlubs who survive? Your entertainment options go from 500 channels to watch to a roving band of post-apocalyptic vaudevillians, or so posits the play Dog Act, which hits Tempe on Saturday, November…
Judah Friedlander is the self-proclaimed World Champion and, to be fair to him, he has the T-shirt and trucker cap to prove it. The acclaimed stand-up comic brings his winning ways to Phoenix Thursday, November 14.Best known for portraying lunky comedy writer Frank Rossitano on NBC’s 30 Rock, Friedlander has…
It’s been well established that Doug Stanhope doesn’t shy away from any topic. The boundaryless comic’s wry stances on sex, drugs, drinking, death, and everything in between take no prisoners Wednesday, November 13, in downtown Phoenix.The man who’s called the Arizona border town of Bisbee home since 2005 often starts…
While the rise of the robots has yet to happen, it doesn’t mean that we can’t prime our hearts to belong to a number of mechanized potential overlords. A whole man-created army in waiting will be unleashed at the new exhibition “Robots and What Nots: A Space Boy Robot Show!,”…
Sometimes, words don’t suffice for creative and personal expression. Dustin Loehr’s been on a journey melding spoken word with tap dancing and his latest solo show, Footnotes of the Untellable Tale, debuts during Herberger Theater’s Lunch Time Theater Tuesday, November 5.Storytelling comes through words, movement, and sound to explore the…
“Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship,” an exhibition currently at the Phoenix Art Museum, makes clear how mutually influential their relationship was in forging new worlds in both art and literature. On Wednesday, October 30, PAM hosts a symposium centered around the reality of Solar’s and…
It’s hard to find anyone tackling taboo topics as smartly & sickeningly funny as Anthony Jeselnik. The stand-up comic and host of Comedy Central’s The Jeselnik Offensive goes for the jugular live October 19.Jeselnik has been on a roll since his no-holds-barred performance in the 2011 Comedy Central Roast of…
Hannibal Buress is a one-man-army of comedy; he’s hitting you from nearly every possible angle. Less than a month after visiting with Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, the prolific stand-up comic returns with his own Rural Legend tour Friday, October 11.The Chicago-born comedian has done it all, from writing for…
The worst: people declaring beliefs that perfectly aligns with feminist principles and then jettison responsibility with the tag line, “… but I don’t consider myself a feminist.” For the folks who aren’t afraid to celebrate the label, GRRL Fest beckons rebels with a cause this Saturday, October 12.October is Domestic…
Growing up, everyone enjoyed putting pencil or pen to paper to turn doodles into masterworks aimed for gallery walls or, at least, the refrigerator door. The world might have squeezed out your artistic aptitude, but you can get sketchy once again with the first class in the free Learn to…
Glen Guyett’s name might not ring a bell, but you’ll recognize his work if you’ve spent any time cruising through the Valley. As the preeminent mid-century sign designer of Phoenix, Guyett lit up the city with his neon creations. He and host Marshall Shore will present words and visuals during…
Modern horror movies, between gratuitous gore and vanishing boundaries, don’t have room for the campiness that made B-movies fun. Recapture the magic with the 25th anniversary screening of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Saturday, September 28.While Cassandra Peterson’s gothed up cleavage might have caught eyes first, it was her tongue-in-cheek…
Whether you have only a tiny kernel of a funny idea that wouldn’t add up to half a tweet or you have long, entertaining stories that need to be chopped up and polished, it’s time to shape up if you intend to be a soldier of hilarity. Comedy commandant Tony…
You might be in the groove of separating out your aluminum cans, but Paraguay’s Recycled Orchestra goes next level with instruments made from landfill trash. Dr. Daniel Piper will speak about the group during the “Musical Innovation and Social Change in Latin America” lecture at the Musical Instrument Museum Saturday,…
The Phoenix Mercury have clinched a spot in the WNBA Western Conference playoffs. Their matchup Friday, September 13, against San Antonio is a postseason launchpad, so raise the rafters for a distinct improvement over last year’s second worst record in the league.This season was already in turnaround mode with the…
