Join + Cast Releases its Guide to Phoenix Art at A.E. England Gallery

Join + Cast: A Field Guide to Contemporary Art in Phoenix has been a labor of love for the past year-and-a-half for co-creators (and local artists) Jennifer Campbell and Catherine Akins. The book features maps and information for many urban galleries in the Greater Phoenix area, interviews and profiles of local artists, a Do-It-Yourself section, and…

The Rise Project Pop-Up Shop/Gallery Opens Tonight in Downtown Phoenix

The folks behind Perihelion Arts gallery in downtown Phoenix are on summer vacation, but their doors will open tonight for a pop-up art exhibition featuring the latest work from The Rise Project, a Downtown community arts and music youth program.Joseph “Sentrock” Perez curated the Project’s first art show last month as part…

Final Friday at the Open Source Project

TGIFF. The Open Source Project in Tempe is hosting their monthly party tonight and they’re bringing a new round of local art and folksy sounds of violinist Tobie Milford.”Final Fridays is when we exchange all the art out for the month,” says Michael Witham, co-owner of the Open Source Project. “Artists come and display their…

Six Best Bums in Entertainment

In a world gone mad, one vagabond has the courage and the fortitude to stand up to the corrupt forces that tear all that is good asunder. This is the plot to Hobo With A Shotgun, and it is more than 80-minutes of hideously terrific cinema.The contest-winning Grindhouse trailer turned…

Seven Comics That Should Be TV Shows

That Wonder Woman pilot from David E. Kelley didn’t quite work out, but rejoice, comic fans, for Powers is coming to the small screen. After getting the green light from FX in February, Brian Michael Bendis has revealed that his hit superhero detective series will enter production on the pilot…

Grand Reopening at Collector Haven in Mesa This Weekend

​Collector Haven in Mesa might have moved to its newer, nicer, and bigger location a month ago, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have their Grand Re-Opening celebration whenever they damn well please. This Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the comic and collectible shop is throwing a party to…

AZ Pop Culture Experience Hosts Green Lantern Bash This Weekend

​In order for Hal Jordan to become a protector of the Universe, he must exhibit great feats of courage, strength, willpower, and the ability to overcome fear.Luckily, none of these is required for you to have a good time this weekend at the Arizona Popular Culture Experience’s Green Lantern movie…

Pros and Cons: New Video Game Hardware at E3

​E3 is well underway, and the video game industry’s “Big Three” of Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have all conducted their press conferences and made their major announcements.As expected, each company gave glimpses of games we’ve seen and games we haven’t seen as well as promises of a better future complete…

Steampunk Sonnet Slam at Gotham City Comics & Coffee

If your inner-Shakespeare’s dying to get out, clad in a leather corset, dust-stained goggles, and rustic thigh-high boots, you might want to mark down Gotham City Comics & Coffee’s Steampunk Sonnet Slam. This Saturday, June 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., local poet Aaron Johnson will be hosting the fiction-driven…

Peoria Artist Steve Rude Attempts a Return to Comic Books

To say ‘Steve Rude is an interesting dude’ would be putting it lightly.The Peoria-based, Eisner award-winning artist made his bones in the comic book industry during the ’80s and ’90s. Rude became a prolific artist through his work on the science-fiction epic Nexus with co-creator, Mike Baron, and employs a drawing…