By Julie Peterson See more shots in our Star Trek: The Exhibition slide show. You don’t have to be a huge fan of Star Trek to enjoy the touring exhibit that just opened at Arizona Science Center — it’s got plenty for the general TV and movie enthusiast, as well…
After surviving brain surgery, some Tony-winning composers might just take it easy. But as William Finn’s life flashed before his eyes in 1992, he saw unwritten songs longing to be given voice. “When I got home to my studio . . . I basically put my hand over the piano…
Planning ahead is more necessary than ever. In fact, once you’ve arrived at the correct polling place, the adventures continue.
Still waiting to get your art-walking feet wet? This is your week. Not only is the weather pretty much perfect, but we’ve found an exhibition where you can say, “Geez, what’s that? I totally don’t get it,” and the artists will probably be thrilled. “Mysterious: simultaneously arousing wonder and inquisitiveness”…
Still waiting to get your art-walking feet wet? This is your week. Not only is the weather pretty much perfect, but we’ve found an exhibition where you can say, “Geez, what’s that? I totally don’t get it,” and the artists will probably be thrilled. “Mysterious: simultaneously arousing wonder and inquisitiveness”…
Is the apocryphal saying “May you live in interesting times” really intended as a curse? We haven’t experienced any times that weren’t “interesting” – and that’s a blessing and a curse. While humanity chases peace, prosperity, and brotherhood, the nasty opposite conditions always pop up somewhere, like cosmic Whack-a-Moles. Say…
AmeriSuites, we’re sure you’re a fine hotel. Though bestselling humorist and National Public Radio darling David Sedaris name-checked you as a less-preferred accommodation, it was, no doubt, only because a 28-city/28-day book tour ranks second only to a Valley DUI sentence as substantial, grueling hotel time. As Sedaris told The…
AZ ain’t Connecticut, so our lifestyle gurus are the anti-Martha. Namely, Patrick Murillo and Kathy Cano-Murillo, the latter of whom, Crafty Chica, has already been zazzing us up with her newspaper column, cruises, events, and new line of supplies. “La Casa Murillo: A Life-Size Shadow Box,” currently showing at the…
The third runway show of Phoenix Fashion Week 2008 took place Friday night in a loft-like space in the unfinished condos at Hayden Ferry Lakeside. The bulk of the evening’s participating designers presented T-shirts — seriously, four lines of T-shirts in a row, which made me itch to run off…
The sun was setting like a luscious new shade of rosy lipstick as hundreds of beautiful people streamed into the Royal Palms Resort Wednesday night. And that was a sneak preview of an evening of all things pink, in honor of the kickoff event of the fourth annual Phoenix Fashion…
Watching other people work is always fun. Watching them make it work is even better. Vicarious sweat takes on a glam sheen at the fourth annual Phoenix Fashion Week. Your ticket for each evening’s runway show ($30 general seating, $60 reserved) also gets you in to that day’s seminars, trade…
Generally, if there’s a grow house nearby, The Man wants it shut down. But gRow House, a brand-new gallery and community garden on Roosevelt Row, is strictly legal, if still somewhat trippy. On First Fridays, visual arts, music, and scenesters overtake the House right behind Conspire and other Fifth Street…
There’s a reason Mel Brooks’ The Producers has been a movie and a musical and a movie musical: “You can’t see it all the first time you see it. You can’t hear it all,” says Michael Barnard, producing artistic director at Phoenix Theatre. “I must have seen the original movie…
You might reconsider scrawling “Become a better person” on your bathroom mirror, ’cause huge, amorphous goals leave you vulnerable to smooth operators with their own agenda. Such is the dilemma of Billy, the hero of the Phoenix-made indie film The Constant Epiphanies of Billy the Blood Donor. What could possibly…
Tried watching prime time lately? Olympians. Democrats. Tennis pros. Republicans. It’s enough to drive us into the arms of a Great American Novelist – just in time for the release of Philip Roth’s Indignation, which Esquire calls the author’s “latest novel about Ohio, Newark, sex, war, and guilt. Always guilt.”…
A friend of ours freaks out when he realizes the molecules he’s inhaling have been inside our lungs, too. You other wusses better check out “Human & Animal Grossology” at Arizona Science Center beginning Saturday, May 24, and get desensitized to all the emissions and secretions of us Homo sapiens…
Come on, now — you don’t print photos. Hence the “Wanna see my boyfriend? Come look at my phone” phenomenon. Tilt Gallery compensates for us flakes, showcasing the finest photography in its cozy jewel box of a space. Though historic and alternative processes (a.k.a. not Walgreens) are Tilt’s focus year-round,…
If our nights and days at Night & Day have taught us anything, it’s don’t ask comics about comedy. A few members of Mommy Hit Daddy addressed our questions about form and theory, and we’ve chosen to let their responses remain a beautiful and unlitigated mystery. So we asked why…
Changing Hands Bookstore’s an old hand at connecting real life and book life, reminding us that reading is part of enjoying the world. In that funkified, life-affirming tradition, the Julia Alvarez author event kicks off with a quinceañera fashion show by Azteca Wedding Plaza. After the tiaras, spangles, and big…
When the fiercely fun, fishnetted females of Scandalesque shimmy into Wrigley Mansion, they’ll bring “a mix of classic burlesque and neo-burlesque — a little bit more edgy feel,” says the troupe’s Tarah Niccoli. (We say “edgy” don’t begin to describe what these fire-spinning-ballet-trained-circus-artist types will do to ya.) Drag queen…
What’s one of our favorite things about Mesa Contemporary Arts besides the kickass exhibits? The gallery’s sheer size, which makes it the perfect fit for “Mass Consumption,” a show that associate curator Tiffany Fairall describes (in a ginormous nutshell) as “everything about popular culture.” Juror Greg Escalante of Juxtapoz magazine…
Video games have saturated our culture for 30-something years, so if you haven’t waxed nostalgic about them yet, you’re way behind the curve. Catch up at “ZAP! Vintage Video Games.” “It’ll be an interesting cross-generational experience… a great opportunity to show a time period that has become kind of distant,”…
