Get up off your knees, Gaytown. Lent is now ovah! And since that hoary, religious gangster, the Roman Catholic Church, considers pride a sin, we’ll create our own fabulous Capital Vices just in time for the Phoenix Pride Parade. The underlying themes for the event will certainly include, ahem, anal…

We remember third-grade lunch hour as a free-for-all scream fest. It was also a time to prove your strength to your peers during rousing matches of arm wrestling. Remember the callow figures circling, young arms flexing, and heads diving above closed fists? Where are they now? Possibly at the Grand…

Is the latest Eckhart Tolle tome not doing it for you in the enlightenment department? Then you may want to check out the “Spiritual Homecoming” exhibit that features work by multi-media artists Bridget Conn, Toshi Ueshina, and Ron Bimrose. Conn’s three-dimensional installations engage familial ritual through found objects, beeswax, cinnamon,…

Ever since seeing the 1969 Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy in an old singleplex cinema, we’ve argued that big-box theatres need to feed the nostalgia of the cult crowd. But what gives a film cult status? Video sales. In 2000, the shoot ‘em up indie thriller The Boondock Saints was released in…

Sorry to break it to you, but the crown jewels of Scottsdale ain’t the latest oxygen bar or the newest plastic-surgery joint. Rather, it’s the Parada Del Sol Pro Rodeo, which takes place in arguably “The West’s Most Western Town” (at least locally). The 57th annual event kicks off with…

In Salem Village, Massachusetts, Bridget Bishop was living the new American dream as wife, mother, and tavern owner. But on June 10, 1662, she suffered the final ignominy of being the first of nineteen souls (mostly women) hung to death for “suspicion of sundry acts of witchcraft” in the Salem…

Steam-punking, as a way of life, is a collision of Edwardian-era fashion sense with anachronistic, mad-science experiments that has touched everything from wrist watches and laptops to reinterpreted vehicles. It’s a celebration of our species’ rigorous nature and our ability to interweave idiosyncrasy with robotics. We’ll be front and center…

Our hangover clock begins its countdown a healthy twenty-four hours before “the greatest show on grass” (also known as the Waste Management Phoenix Open). Yes, we’re spit shining our sweet spot, practicing our waggle, and popping a preemptive aspirin for the highly anticipated Coors Light Birds Nest Opening. Expect the…

Steam-punking, as a way of life, is a collision of Edwardian-era fashion sense with anachronistic, mad-science experiments that has touched everything from wrist watches and laptops to reinterpreted vehicles. It’s a celebration of our species’ rigorous nature and our ability to interweave idiosyncrasy with robotics. We’ll be front and center…

George Kuchar may very well be one of the best filmmakers you’ve never heard of. That all changes with the George Kuchar Film Symposium, headlined by Jennifer M. Kroot’s award-winning documentary It Came From Kuchar. In the 1960s, talented twins George and Mike Kuchar held their own against notoriously pretentious…

We asked our boyfriend’s six-year old son about monster trucks and he firmly said, “They are always red or blue and they look like Hot Wheels and they are really fast and loud!” We’ll test that theory at the Monster Jam event featuring big-boy toys Grave Digger, Iron Outlaw, El…

Are you reading this while shivering on the couch with your ex-boyfriend’s ratty blanket that barely covers the goosebumps? Well, lose the minus zero and heat up like a hero during the Snuggie Pub Crawl, scheduled to take place at five different watering holes at Tempe Marketplace, 2000 East Rio…

A frugal dyke would never buy herself a special weekend out of town, because everyone else comes first: her mother, workmates, children, and definitely her pushy girlfriend. But, dammit, when is it your turn, frugal? Drop it like it’s hot and get to zGirl Club for the Club Skirts Party…

After receiving Aunt Fred’s handmade sweater vest that’s bedazzled with “Born to Die,” we’re hoofing it to Hoodlums New & Used Music the day after Christmas to check out some real art at Spraygraphic’s second annual “B-Sides: Vinyl Art Show.” Besides the affordable, original artwork available for purchase, the exhibition…

For the first annual Scottsdale Fantasy Of Lights, a drive-through holiday-lights on steroids, we’re going to enjoy the heck out of the winter magic . . . with binoculars from a heated automobile. Our boyfriend the frugal pirate and his scalawag children will sing-along with religious carols and ‘80s disco…

Arise, lazy peasants! Raise your fists and remember Saturday, December 5, the day we finally overthrow that evil, tyrannical, big-box bastion, Walmart. Our weapon of choice? Indie Chic @ 10th Street, which marks a sweet victory for our God-granted right to purchase independent designer clothing, original artwork, custom jewelry, and…

Some meals are more equal than others, especially when you’re an unlucky animal looking down the business end of a slaughterhouse power saw. Green, the vegan/“New American” restaurant in Tempe, hosts its second annual, family-friendly ThanksLIVING, a T-Day banquet of compassion and excellent foodstuffs, minus the “T,” as it were…

Depository. Single-bullet theory. Grassy knoll. Pink suit. On Saturday, November 21, Backward Theatre iconicizes the events surrounding a certain sunny, autumn day in Texas over four decades ago with its self-described “strange” and “experimental” The 46th Annual Dallas Welcomes JFK Luncheon. Since we weren’t born yet, we watched the Zapruder…

We have some pretty sick fantasies, but none ever centered on staring at the night sky through a telescope. Undaunted hat- and scarf-wearers and general-punishment gluttons can rendezvous at the secluded Estrella Mountain Regional Park for this 3.7-mile jaunt up the Toothaker Trail that ends at arguably the best place…

So bad it’s good, or vice versa? Decide for yourself when “Roadkill Bill” Robertson’s third low-budget horror-comedy B-movie, 2009’s Bisbee Cuisine — a Tales From the Crypt-style short flick featuring a foul-mouthed waitress regaling her reluctant diners with a triple shot of culinary storytelling debauchery – at Mesa’s Hollywood Alley…

If you check out the Phoenix Faerie Festival Web site, you’ll see that the fest’s fan base falls into four basic groups: little children chasing bubbles, supple guys in snug leotards, hot chicks with face paint, and potbellied bearded men sporting tiny wings. By Merlin’s beard, we fit right in!…

We love a parade of men, especially when they’re wearing leather chaps and riding bareback. Note to self: Watch more of Spike TV’s World’s Toughest Cowboy, the reality-show round-up that begat the World’s Toughest Rodeo trailblazing its way through Glendale’s Jobing.com Arena. The fall showcase features hanging-tough cowstuds like Bandy…