6 Best Concerts in Phoenix This Week, 6/23 – 6/26
As always, check out our comprehensive concert listings if you don’t see anything that strikes your fancy. What are you> seeing this week?…
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Electric Daisy Carnival Vegas 2014: The Best and Worst
By Dennis Romero What’s it like partying with 134,000 of your closest friends? After a fourth year covering Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, the size and scope of America’s largest electronic dance music festival (and, really, one of the country’s largest music events, period) still just leaves us breathless…
Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week
Mark your calendars, Phoenix. From poetry and comedy to storytelling and bingo, there’s more than enough to keep you entertained — and out of the house — this week. Naughty or Nice Bingo Generally reserved for the white- or purple-haired crowd, bingo and board games make a weekly appearance at…
10 Favorite Cult Restaurants in Metro Phoenix
You’ve downed the Kool-Aid and you don’t even care because some restaurants in town deserve the obsessive following you give them. That might mean constantly checking a joint’s Facebook page to find out the week’s market specials or it might mean stalking your favorite local chef’s Instagram. Ain’t no shame…
EDC Raver’s Death Under Investigation
By Dennis Romero The Clark County (Nevada) Coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed Saturday morning outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren’t yet available to the media, an official at the coroner’s office told us. If…
5 Must-See Concerts This Weekend, 6/20 – 6/22
Charity is the name of the game this weekend. Check out Fight Club Sadisco*, a brutal night involving fistfights and industrial music where proceeds will go to pay the cancer bills of one of the its founders, and Independents Bowl, a bowling tournament benefiting a local charity. If live music…
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Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend
Phoenix, your weekend awaits. Here’s how to spend it. PopUp Metal Shop #3 Fancy yourself a DIY-er or maybe just hardcore? Check out this hands-on metalworking class at downtown’s shop on the corner and community garden…
We Have to Hold Filmmakers Responsible, and If They Make a Piece of Crap, Too Bad
We leave the movie theater on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast in favor of a longform interview with Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek, who’s been at the New York paper for about a year. Before that she wrote for Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and the Boston Phoenix,…
Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week
From sporty hangouts to ancient Egypt and suburban art, here’s what you should put on your to-do list this week. USA vs. Ghana Viewing Party The United States Men’s National Team entry into the World Cup was heightened by their draw into what’s been called the “Group of Death.” The…
5 Must-See Concerts This Week, 6/16 to 6/19
The flow of music coming into Phoenix is trickling to a summer-induced halt, so make sure you get out to see shows while you can. Check out these five recommendations, and if you don’t see anything you like, check out our comprehensive concert listings for many more options…
8 Must-See Concerts in Metro Phoenix This Weekend, 5/13 to 5/15
There were so many rad concerts going on this weekend we couldn’t just choose just five. Here are eight, ranging from hip-hop to metal to Americana to psych-rock. If you’re picky, you can always try our comprehensive concert listings. Stay cool this weekend, Phoenix…
Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend
In case Comicon didn’t meet your yearly quota of geekery, here are a few events to nerd out over this weekend — from theater and horror fandom to a celebration of Ulysses. No, really. Mad Monster Party Phoenix If meeting Kane Hodder, the man behind the hockey mask as Jason…
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Should Adults Really Be Embarrassed to Read YA Novels?
The Fault in Our Stars made heaps of money at the box office, and film critics Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek wonder if a recent piece declaring that adults should feel ashamed to read young adult novels has any weight to it. They also talk about The Immigrant and film…
5 Must-See Concerts in Metro Phoenix, 6/9 to 6/12
James Taylor might be the marquee name in Phoenix this week, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of other shows to see around the Valley of the Sun. Check out the following selections, which include a bass master, indie rock, alt-blues and more. And if those don’t tickle your…
Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week
“Summer Juried Graduate Exhibition” School may be out, but the summer exhibitions are just getting started. As the academic year comes to a close, artistic hopefuls will be showing off their higher-learning art skills for a chance to feature their work at R. Pela Gallery in Phoenix. The “Summer Juried…
10 Underrated Restaurants in Metro Phoenix
It’s a familiar scene: You’re in your main food hang-out in town and it’s dead. Why is it dead? You know it’s great but for one reason or another your favorite joint just doesn’t get the cred it deserves. We have a few of those places and we’re sure you…
25 Best Metro Phoenix Concerts in June
Feeling warm? Don’t let it get to you…seriously. Look, we know you’re miserable now that the heat’s really kicking in, but just crank up the A/C, grab a ice-cold beverage, and think happy thoughts. You can’t stay inside all the time, especially there is many an excellent show to see…
5 Must-See Concerts This Weekend, 6/6 – 6/8
Who says live music slows down during the summer? This weekend, catch anything from local pop music to weirdo rappers to top-notch EDM producers. You can always check our comprehensive concert listings for many more options as well…
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Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend
Nerd-outs, pop-ups, and a pair films fit for a queen round out this weekend’s top picks. Phoenix Comicon Gear up in your best Sherlock cosplay and prepare to bask in the geeky glory of Phoenix’s premier nerd culture event: Phoenix Comicon. Each year, the event grows bigger and bigger with…
Hugh Laurie’s Rock Face Is Epic
Toes were tapping, bodies were swaying and there were mini standing ovations after almost every song Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band played for a sold out crowd Tuesday night at the Mesa Arts Center. If there was any doubt that the House M.D. star was a tried and…
New Times Hiring a Web Editor
Phoenix New Times has an opening for a full-time web editor. This position combines journalism with social-media marketing and analytical data management to increase the audience for New Times and improve its desktop and mobile applications. The web editor assigns and edits photo slideshows and video projects, manages a weekly…
Top 5 Concerts To See In Metro Phoenix This Week, 6/2 – 6/5
At the this this was written, it was 104 degrees in Phoenix, with a projected high of 110. Summer is coming. Since we all know that ignorance is bliss when it comes to Phoenix summers, here are five concerts, all in climate-controlled, air conditioned environments, that will make you forget…