Adult-oriented designer vinyl toys are all the rage right now. We don’t mean your naughty Mistress XXX; we mean Muttpop’s mini-figures featuring characters from the Tcho! Anthology Comics series. On Friday, July 17, French artist Ohm (Bao Battle) stops by the tiny, but trendy, Red Hot Robot toy gallery and…
Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum hasn’t been “The Madhouse on McDowell” since the Phoenix Suns outgrew it in 1992. What better league to kick back open the cuckoo’s nest than the hip-swaying, trigger-tempered Arizona Derby Dames, who’ve moved into the cavernous Vet after selling out all of their games last season at…
Nobody ever called Frida Kahlo an asshole, though, in 1939, the Mexican artist dubbed André Breton and the European surrealists the “bitches of Paris.” Oh, snap! Frida existed to paint, and only then was the “Dove” allowed to fly free and depict her dark reality of surgeries, miscarriages, and self-medication…
You say you want a revolution? How ’bout a quiet, tasty one on the water at Lake Pleasant’s Island Hop Breakfast Paddle? The ranger-guided canoe/kayak tour of the loch’s northern isles features brief stops on each atoll for Guatemalan coffee and Danish pastry. Sounds pretty all-American to us. The jaunt…
Early in the documentary Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, Ashraf Zanati proclaims that his sexuality “doesn’t belong to anybody,” especially his government. In May 2001, The Cairo 52 (including Zanati) were dragged from The Queen Boat, a floating gay discotheque moored on the Nile, and systematically tortured…
Even if you don’t know you’re building it, they’ll still come. AzRockabilly founder Fernando “Wolf” Figueroa tells New Times he didn’t choose the rural town of Laveen for the group’s new Hot Diggity Dog Cruise Night, saying the offer “came from the blue” from the owner of the Wienerschnitzel hot-dog…
Here’s a golf challenge: We triple dog dare you that you can’t land on the green in the dark. Sounds all Mission Impossible, right? Well, when the balls are fluorescent like they will be during the Night Flight Golf event at Palo Verde Golf Course, then it’s, like, mission possible…
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…
Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum hasn’t been “The Madhouse on McDowell” since the Phoenix Suns outgrew it in 1992. What better league to kick back open the cuckoo’s nest than the hip-swaying, trigger-tempered Arizona Derby Dames, who’ve moved into the cavernous Vet after selling out all of their games last season at…
Hey, you. Yeah, the unkempt, sweaty dude with the pickled pig knuckle in your grip. We know you originally ripped out this newspaper page to wipe the grease from your chin, because you certainly don’t read us, but the name Reverend Bob Levy flipped an electrical impulse and you fist-pumped,…
Our seventh-grade year in north Phoenix was spent racing our cruddy bike down alleys and jumping over canals, flanked by our best buds Brent and John. Respectively known as “new girl,” “pest,” and “the redhead,” we’d roll over to the homestead for a few dirty cannonballs after a disgruntled Mr…
To quote James D. Rolfe, a.k.a. the Angry Video Game Nerd, “You know what’s bullshit?” Here’s what: registering for the Pokémon Video Game Regional Championships and not being one of the 128 randomly chosen gamers. Or spending long hours training your Flareon, but losing in the first round to your…
Adam Bradley specializes in strange bedfellows. In his new analysis of hip-hop lyrics, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop, the author asserts that “rap has helped bring about a renaissance of the word, returning rhythm, rhyme and wordplay to our daily lives.” In the book, the Harvard Ph.D…
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 the Dark Sky Telescope Hike, a 3.7-mile jaunt up the Toothaker Trail that ends…
Comedy on Tap, the what-used-to-be-only Wednesday weekly standup open mic at Hidden House, sounds the trumpets for its empire by adding every Thursday to its upcoming calendar, kicking off with an “All New Material Show.” (New jokes are the only requirement for the HH regulars, which includes Cristin Davis, Jonathan…
For the love of pink triangle, are we the only straight-curious girl who owns Pansy Division vinyl? We asked around, but no one remembered that the San Francisco band was handpicked to open for Berkeley’s Green Day in ’94, and we bet a few of those Dookie lovers shit themselves…
Remember prom? Only the biggest party of the year! What if you had a do-over? Would you take it? Hey! Cue the time machine! Shizz Prom 2009: An Enchanted Evening on Mars crosses the frivolity of cavorting unicorns with the heat and lust of the Red Planet. Says Shizz executive…
Just because poseurs ride scooters doesn’t mean a Piaggio Vespa or Lambretti isn’t for you. Love them or hate them, it’s no accident that poverty-stricken Euro mods helped kick-start these tiny “wasps” into the forefront of fashion. Easy on the gas and delightful to maneuver, they eventually made their way…
We have some pretty sick fantasies, but none ever centered on staring at the night sky through a telescope. Undaunted 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 in the Valley to…
Still in the closet pretending it’s 1952? Drop the H-bomb at the Gay Pride Parade and Festival during the Gin Blossoms set and your flaming ass will suddenly seem milquetoast. Trust us. Of course, you could also come out during the parade, when the unlikely grand marshal — Phoenix Mayor…
In The Internet Writing Journal, American author Kris Saknussemm outlines his “Five Tips to Avoiding Total Disaster as a Novelist.” We like numbers 1 and 5: “Burn your notebooks and clear your head” and “Ignore all reasonable sounding advice like ‘write about what you know,’ ‘read as much as you…
Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum hasn’t been “The Madhouse on McDowell” since the Phoenix Suns outgrew it in 1992. What better league to kick back open the cuckoo’s nest than the hip-swaying, trigger-tempered Arizona Derby Dames, who’ve moved into the cavernous Vet after selling out all of their games last season at…
