Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

Phoenix, your weekend is planned. Hannibal Buress @ Stand Up Live Hannibal Buress is a one-man-army of comedy; he’s hitting you from nearly every possible angle. Less than a month after visiting with Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, the prolific stand-up comic returns with his own Rural Legend tour Friday,…

Arizona State Fair Concerts: Who You’ll See and When in 2013

Arizona State Fair concerts aren’t like most concerts–and this isn’t even about the average age of the performers involved. They’re different because you can go to them almost by accident. Exhausted your fried food budget? Unwilling or unable to win your sweetheart a gigantic, unlicensed Angry Bird by shooting a…

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend

It’s not easy competing with the fair. For one thing, it has a built-in audience; you can go to a fair concert on a whim, having gone there first to watch a team of expert divers or pig racing or whatever it is people do here in Arizona (I’m extrapolating…

Watch Depeche Mode Evolve Through 30 Years of Press Photos

By Catherine Downes With Depeche Mode on tour, we thought it’d be fun to dig through our heaping, and incredibly disorganized, collection of “vintage” press photos. Last time we rummaged through these stacks, we found some sweet Jesus and Mary Chain pics (score!) So for our entertainment, and hopefully yours,…

Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

Phoenix, your week is planned. “Learn to Draw” Series @ Gangplank HQ Growing up, everyone enjoyed putting pencil or pen to paper to turn doodles into masterworks aimed for gallery walls or, at least, the refrigerator door. The world might have squeezed out your artistic aptitude, but you can get…

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

Is it a little surprising to see Keith Urban and Depeche Mode headlining the same venues in the United States in 2013? Well, yes. Is it a pleasant surprise? Well, also yes, even though parking is somewhat less than ideal. (View our complete concert calendar here.)…

First Friday in Phoenix: 5 Must-See Shows Oct. 4

First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this artful evening. “Hot Plate!” @ R. Pela Contemporary Art Don’t mind us while we toot our own horn just a little bit. The series of commemorative…

Podcast: Why Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity is a Near-Perfect Movie

GravityOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else he’s…

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend

Look, this could go either way: It could be that all the broken, empty-hearted Breaking Bad fans who’ve spent a month of weekends in their houses, talking about Breaking Bad with each other, decide to get some fresh air and see a show, and you’ll be able to see some…

Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

Phoenix, your weekend plans are here. PoeFest @ Hotel San Carlos Arizona Curriculum Theater is getting old school with its scare tactics as it brings back the fifth annual PoeFest. By now a Halloween tradition, this month-long series celebrating the gothic literature of Edgar Allen Poe takes signature stories and…

John Mayer – Ak-Chin Pavilion – 10/2/2013

by Amanda Ventura John Mayer (See the complete slideshow here) Ak-Chin Pavilion October 2, 2013 Say what you need to say about John Mayer. You just don’t know the goodness of his music until you’ve heard him blowing his songs wide open with guitar solos and those special deviations and…

Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

Mondays don’t have to suck. Same goes for Tuesdays. In fact, here’s something to do each day this week that’ll keep you busy, entertained, and cultured. I Hate Football Mondays @ Bungalow Bar and Grill While ladies might love their men, it doesn’t always mean they love accompanying them to…

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

Every so often The Maine comes to town playing a slightly larger venue than it did the time before. Their goal, so far as I can tell, is to take advantage of this until, having played U.S. Airways Center and University of Phoenix Stadium in short order, local government is…

Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

Get plans, Phoenix. Here are Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for things to do this weekend. Chambers of Fear Haunted House For true adrenaline junkies Halloween is much more than just cutely carved pumpkins, trick-or-treaters, and adults in slutty costumes. To get the blood pumping these brave souls venture out into…

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend

If you didn’t happen to be in Casa Grande when Jimmy Eat World played this show, back in May, you may find it more convenient to head out to Tucson for a show from this year’s Readers’ Choice for Best Local Band. If you weren’t really into “The Middle,” for…