“Chado Ralph Rucci” at Phoenix Art Museum’s Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery: If you just splurged on a ridiculously expensive piece of clothing — whatever you do — don’t wear it when you see this show. Why? By comparison, the garments on display will make you feel like a bum…
Lifetimes are spent trying to tackle and pin down the constant state of flux of the human mind. Even pros like Freud, Jung, and Dr. Phil have grasped only morsels. The task is arguably impossible. But painter Mark Keffer accepts the challenge in his show “The Future of Heads” at…
Hazelwood’s 1st Place Sports Grill on Saturday, April 12th. By: Lilia Menconi For more to fantasize about click here. This weekend, we decided to check out one of those places we’ve passed by a million times but have never bothered to stop in. Rumor has it that Hazelwood’s is loaded…
Hazelwood’s 1st Place Sports Grill on Saturday, April 12th. By: Lilia Menconi For more to fantasize about click here. This weekend, we decided to check out one of those places we’ve passed by a million times but have never bothered to stop in. Rumor has it that Hazelwood’s is loaded…
Whatever happened to the good old days of the 1990s? It was the gays’ heyday, and we were all on board. We cried into our leopard-print pillows when Pedro Zamora died on Season 3 of The Real World and blasted Melissa Etheridge on our VW Bug stereo. Our favorite color…
Ah, the modern woman. She’s educated (so much so that she emasculates her boyfriends). She’s independent (because she’s too much of a chickenshit to take emotional risks). And she’s career-driven (yep, the uterus is dead). Even with so much, er, success (?), society still expects her to be a culinary…
Cherry Bomb!’s April Pre-Pride party at the Rogue on Thursday, April 3rd.
Cherry Bomb!’s April Pre-Pride party at the Rogue on Thursday, April 3rd.
You opportunists should get ready for the most shameful steal of your life. Our constipated housing market is prairie-dogging the dump of the decade, and you should be at the ready, pooper-scooper and shady real estate agent at hand. Once you get your cheapskate paws on the new pad, try…
“Enrique Montenegro: American Modernist” at Eric Firestone Gallery: This exhibition of work by the late Enrique Montenegro, an accomplished American painter, reveals Montenegro’s insatiable interest in people. In these paintings, he studies how we see — or don’t see — ourselves by focusing on the human figure. The works depict…
Mill Avenue saw its fair share of action over the weekend with the Tempe Arts Festival and the Tempe Music Festival at the lake. But we decided to see what kind of crew rolled in after all the main events were over. So we headed down to Mill Avenue Cue…
After watching reality shows like America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway, trash-TV viewers (myself included) may think they know a thing or two about fashion design. But the garments on display at Phoenix Art Museum’s “Chado Ralph Rucci” put the likes of Runway winner Christian Liriano to shame. Given…
It seemed every hipster-artist type with a little extra cash was heading to “SMoCA Nights: Drive” on Thursday, March 20. The car-inspired theme was arguably the best we’ve seen from the think tank responsible for these seasonal parties, and the accompanying lowrider car show was just the right touch to…
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz at Bentley Gallery: Think of snow globes and you’re reminded of second-rate antique stores, Grandma’s creepy attic, and tourist gift shops. But the works by Martin and Muñoz embrace this item’s nostalgia and shed any cheesiness. Beautifully crafted snow globes rest on pedestals in the…
You say you’re brokenhearted? Actually, it feels like someone shoved their arms down your throat, clutched your heart, and wrung it out like a dishrag. You gagged repeatedly until you barfed out your soul. Then the poor thing was slowly torched on a spit. Now all that’s left is a…
A single woman on the prowl starves herself, commits daily suicide on the treadmill, and hires some Russian woman to wax her mommy parts until they’re as red and hairless as a baboon’s bunghole. The only waxing single men need is for their sweet rides, which is also an easy…
Your windshield on the way to California. Dried barf on your shoes. A decapitated Spock. Séamus McCaffrey’s on St. Patrick’s Day. What do these have in common? They’re all splattered in green shit. But of the four, Séamus is by far the most appealing. Celebrate that tiny strain of Irish…
We love Art Detour weekend. Not only does it bring out the best of downtown, but it’s also one event we can cover that doesn’t result in a hangover the next morning. On Friday, March 7, the weekend kicked off with an evening tour of the galleries. And while there…
The East Valley beckoned once again for a Saturday-night gallivant. This time, we poked around in Old Town and slid into Pattie’s 1st Avenue Lounge to drink a few rounds with the locals.(Click here for more photos.) Things started to fire up around 10, evidence that the place is a…
This past week, you may have noticed a surge of bleary-eyed, artsy individuals grabbing their caffeine fix from downtown coffee shops before noon. That can mean only one thing: Art Detour. The gigantic, weekend-long extravaganza comes once a year and is equal parts art showcase and insane asylum — kinda…
We were all over the east side on Saturday, February 23, looking for just the right party. We hit Tempe Marketplace, but after one glance at the endless lines filled with ASU duders, we discovered that our patience had run too thin for the hustle and bustle. So we changed…
Rough, chapped palms and brown dirt caked under fingernails. Unruly waves of sun-bleached hair reeking of dusty sweat. The soft, squeaky caress of well-worn leather. Buns in blue jeans wiggling like puppies wrestling under a blanket. Cowboy boots rhythmically thudding like a headboard against the wall. Oh, cowboys . …
