The Western world has a flair for drama; take love and death for instance. These universal experiences and the emotions they evoke, like sadness, yearning, lust, fear, have have long been portrayed in Western art. Phoenix Art Museum invites you to take a trip through the less-explored emotionally inspired art…
Iron out that poodle skirt, put on your high-tops, and grab your Pink Ladies jacket, because Danny, Sandy, Rizzo, Kenickie, and the rest of the Rydell High gang are coming to the stage for some theatrical summer lovin’ in Grease. The Broadway musical of 1950s Americana invites you to shake…
You know what they say: The older you are, the better your birthdays get. Oay, maybe they don’t say that. Nevertheless, HP Lovecraft’s birthday celebrations are still going strong, thanks to the Trunk Space and a band of Lovecraft fans who refuse to let ’em die.T-Space hosts a party featuring…
Political junkies, hipster historians, documentary fiends — you get the point; wherever your interests lie, Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater promises to have a little something for everyone, regardless of party preference. Produced by HBO Films and C.C. Goldwater of Sweet Pea Films, this Emmy-nominated work documents Arizona politician Barry…
Love movies? Love comedy? You might just love Doug Benson too. The Comedy Central star best known for his roles in Super High Me and The Benson Interruption brings his stand-up act and his podcast Doug Loves Movies to Tempe Improv.Enjoy one night of stand-up laughs followed by another night…
Grab your straw hat and put on your overalls, because Jen Deveroux is at it again. And this time she brought the farm with her. The party queen returns to Monarch Theater with the “Barnyard Riot Art Show,” a one-night-only event featuring more than 60 local artists including Dumperfoo, Tato…
Paper or plastic? All summer long, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is investigating the art of the grocery aisles with collected works from contemporary artists as well as special events including the screening of the film Ready, Set, Bag. This award-winning documentary follows an eclectic group of state champions from…
This is your brain. This is your brain on sex. A recent study on human pleasure by Rutgers researchers Barry Komisaruk and Nan Wise has discovered what may be the best news since science discovered that pot smokers are skinnier…
If you’ve ever seen the Tumblr Rich Kids of Instagram, you know what it is to feel simultaneously enthralled and enraged. The spoiled spawn of the one percent post pictures of themselves sipping champagne on private jets, being chauffeured in Bentleys , and posing on yachts in the Mediterranean. Now,…
If you’ve ever visited Practical Art, chances are you’ve noticed the repurposed wine bottle tumblers by local artist Ray Delmuro of Refresh Glass. This week, Delmuro and Practical Art team up to teach you how to recycle your own red wine remnants with a free demo on wine bottle vase-making…
We’ve seen our fair share of bizarre beauty treatments — snake venom creams, flaming alcohol-soaked towel masks, and who could forget the flesh-eating “spa fish.” Nevertheless we are cringing at the latest spa treatment to come out of New York. Introducing the bird poop facial…
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s — a flying ball sack. Yes, airborne testicles could very much become a thing in the United Kingdom if the country’s Male Cancer Awareness Campaign gets the proper funding. The program aims to get men talking about testicular cancer and has teamed up…
Harry Potter turned 33 on Wednesday (yeah, don’t you feel old?). To honor the birthday of the boy who lived and his creator, J.K. Rowling, Scholastic Publishing unveiled a line of newly designed book covers commemorating the books’ 15th anniversary in U.S. print…
Call us metalheads, but from big-name acts like steel and iron to copper and aluminum, we enjoy artists that bring the heat and break the mold.Artist Kevin Hummelgard uses high-heat processes to bend, break, and transform rigid iron into something completely new. In his first solo show, “Iron Interpretation,” Hummelgard…
Ceci n’est pas un jeu vidéo. Whether you’re a patron of the arts, a player of Nintendo games, or a culture-balanced connoisseur of both, chances are you’ll get as much enjoyment as we do out of the new Tumblr, Super Magritte…
Say what you will about Gilbert — which is probably not very much — that East Valley town has its charm. There’s great barbecue, decent housing prices, and did we already mention the barbecue? Oddly enough, it turns out that being a boring city isn’t all that bad. In fact,…
You say tomato, we say tomato. When the game industry calls it “art,” the rest of the contemporary art community calls it — what? As part of Phoenix Art Museum’s current exhibit “The Art of Video Games,” Associate Professor of Games and Learning at Parsons The New School for Design…
“Tell us what you know about the Midwest.” It seems like a simple enough task, but according to a new exhibit at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Space, not so much. “Reinvention in the Urban Midwest” is a new exhibit curated by the design and planning firm Sasaki Associates…
Back in May, Welcome Diner turned from pop-up restaurant to pop-up theater when it hosted the première screening of Arrested Development’s new season on Netflix. Now the established diner calls to local filmmakers as it hosts its first ever Southern Summer 48-Hour Film Fest…
Tell your pygmy goat and your teacup pig to hit the road because there’s a new rare breed of adorable in town and her name is Ippo. Half zebra, half donkey, Ippo is the interspecies child of the equine world better known as a zonkey…
Often, we’ve looked at someone on a bicycle and thought, “Why does that person look so happy?” Is it because she’s minimizing her carbon footprint? Is it because she’s shedding a few extra pounds to rock that new bikini? No. It’s because her seat is vibrating…
When was the last time you visited your parents? Be honest. Truth be told, once the birds leave the nest, not all of them make return flights as much as they should (if at all). Life is short, and your parent’s lives even shorter. This is the message behind a…
