Home ownership is a big step. Made even bigger by the fact that you have to wade through an online shitpile of vague, misleading, and too often disappointing in-person pads before finding the right one. But if there’s one silver lining to your real estate woes, it’s knowing that others…
Grab your day planner and get a pencil, because your fall season is about to be booked. As the heat dies down, the Valley livens up with festivals, shows, holiday entertainment, and more. Since there’s so much to do and only so little time to do it, Jackalope Ranch presents…
If you happened to be one of the record breaking 6.4 million viewers that watched Breaking Bad last Sunday, chances are you tossed and turned your way into a disheveled state by Monday morning. Between the unforeseen plot twists, heart-stopping cliff hangers, and the looming fact that the story of…
Whether you’re looking for a way to wow your art-loving friends at the next First Friday or simply want an up-close and personal preview of the downtown art scene, the Artlink Collectors Tour is your multi-stop ticket to artsy enlightenment. Organized by the curator of modern and contemporary art for…
If you mourn the loss of Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show and still hold onto the hope that HBO’s Flight of the Conchords will return for a third season, we have some good news. While these long-lost laugh makers may not be making a comeback on your favorite cable comedies, they…
While exercise may come naturally to some, the rest of us need some thorough persuasion. Thankfully, there are events like the Phoenix Neon Dash that disguise burning calories as something much more enjoyable. This colorful 5K course is a nighttime fusion of foam, neon, field games, giveaways, glow-in-the-dark accessories, music,…
There are plenty of ways to measure an epic night out: booze, body paint, drunkenly consuming a short stack at two in the morning…. Fortunately for us, this Friday night promises to be one of them, as Los Angeles creative Tom Kirlin brings his Pancakes and Booze Art Show back…
Put on your frowny face and pack up the Benedryl, Grumpy Cat is going on a book tour. Yes, between interview appearances, generating new content for memes, and rumors of a live action movie deal, the famous scowler, otherwise known as Tardar Sauce, is setting aside time to give fans…
Whether you believed The Office was over as soon as Michael “World’s Best Boss” Scott made his season-seven departure or you felt inclined to stick it out and stay tuned until the lackluster series finale two years later, fans of NBC’s Emmy-awarding show can all agree we had some good…
You think you’re hardcore? Try telling that to David Markey and Jordan Schwartz, founders of punk fan rag, We Got Power. The small-scale magazine captures the sights and sounds of punk pioneers in the Reagan era of the early 1980s, featuring bands like Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Suicidal…
Reach for the sky, Scottsdale. The town of Cave Creek wants to challenge you to a showdown. Long before Old Town Scottsdale spawned a reputation for high end shopping, dining, and douchebags, it was given the title of “The West’s Most Western Town.” And little did any of us know,…
You can claim to be above such immature offenses as taking cat-bearding selfies or ordering your pampered pooch a decaf Puppiccino at Starbucks (yes, they exist). But no spine is strong enough, no funny bone numb enough, to resist the pathetic cuteness overload that is pets dressed as food. Go…
Nowadays it seems like there’s a fine line between high-brow pornography and quality cable programming. While the more professional adult videos cost money and contain graphic sex scenes, explicit language, and hard-to-believe plot lines, cable networks like HBO offer, well, all of those exact same things. Seriously people, have you…
Get ready, Great Britain. A trio of teenagers from Arizona are coming to save you with a very particular set of skills; skills they have acquired by practicing karate and studying the bible…
They say those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach — but what about those who do both? Henry Schoebel, Anthony Pessler, and John Obuck aren’t just friends, wise guys, and veterans of the Phoenix art scene, they’re also professors at ASU. And as students head toward midterms, this…
When the Big Apple becomes the biggest maximum security prison in the country, new meaning is brought to the phrase, “If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere.” In John Carpenter’s 1981 futuristic thriller Escape from New York, the city that never sleeps becomes the city that…
Forget the pumpkins and the autumn leaves. For like-minded creatives, the fall season starts at the museum. On Friday, September 13, Mesa Arts Center invites the community to celebrate the arrival of new works as it hosts the free 2013 season kick-off, dubbed Remix, Remaster. This evening street festival will…
They say you can’t put a price on higher education, but that’s not stopping lady Sun Devils from trading in their transcripts for some tantalizing photos on www.seekingarrangements.com. The online sugar-daddy site recently conducted a survey based on its growing number of female ASU student users — and apparently, there’s…
If you’ve been watching the final season of Breaking Breaking, chances are you’ve lost more sleep than you’re willing to admit speculating on how the epic drama will end. Since the return of the final eight episodes, theories about the series finale have been running wild, involving everything from Walt…
Whether you think going green is the way of the future or the way of the left-wing tree hugger, Professor Peter Byck of ASU’s School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication invites you watch a free screening of a documentary that addresses where your carbon…
Good news, ladies: For those assertive sex kittens who have long since given up on finding Prince Charming and would rather make their fame the Kardshian way, porn star James Deen (known among more mainstream audiences for his “performance” with Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons) is now offering the chance…
It must be hard for toast. Always being passed up for his more decadent French counterpart. While toast must settle for being someone’s à la carte, French toast enjoys the full satisfaction of taking centerstage at the most important meal of the day. And though no two French toasts are…
