The countdown to Best of Phoenix is on. Mark your calendar: This year’s issue will be on newsstands September 26. What better way to warm up than by asking some local “experts” to list their own personal bests? This week, Georganne Bryant of Frances and Smeeks shares her favorite spots…
Your weekend is planned, Phoenix. Here are five ways to spend the next few days. Push @ Peoria Center for the Performing Arts We don’t know about you, but ever since the Royal Water broke we’ve had baby fever. But because nine months is a hell of a long time…
There’s a reason Arrested Development’s fourth season came fully-bleeped despite being on Netflix, and it’s the same reason some people prefer their Die Hard replays on basic cable and their “Gold Digger” MP3s ripped from a Wal-Mart version of Late Registration. Sometimes the censored version is just better, or at…
Typically we just give you a chance, in these weekly previews, to see shows. But something-something-Web-2.0, and now user interaction is important. So go see shows, if you want to be Web 1.0 about it . . . or you can go to Zia and try out to be a…
An emergency deployment to Hollywood Alley might have deprived them of sleep and beer money, but it wasn’t about to keep our Club Candids photographers off their usual July beat: Taking pictures of people who would probably have left Phoenix for the summer if it weren’t for the pool parties…
No sad faces are allowed this Monday, Phoenix. Here’s something to do every day this week. Dr. Gladys T. McGarey @ Changing Hands Kelly Osbourne and Kate Moss can dye their hair gray all they want. Doesn’t change the fact that it looks better on a lady who’s earned her…
Our intrepid Club Candids team was camped out at Hollywood Alley all last week as the Mesa institution prepared to close its doors just shy of its 25th birthday. The result: Copious material for an upcoming feature, some video, and lots and lots of photos. They were on assignment, technically,…
The Monkees and the Jonas Brothers are both playing the Valley this week, which is a think piece someone else is going to have to write — only one of them made our list of five Phoenix shows to see this week. Find out which one it is after the…
The countdown to Best of Phoenix is on. Mark your calendar: This year’s issue will be on newsstands September 26. What better way to warm up than by asking some local “experts” to list their own personal bests? This week Joe Johnston — the guy who put the “Joe” in…
Need weekend plans? Voilà. The Amazing Johnathan @ Stand Up Live When the Las Vegas hotel and casino of his then-residency seemingly stopped promoting his shows, The Amazing Johnathan channeled his inner Peter Gibbons from Office Space last December and simply stopped going. After 13 years of headlining in Sin…
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. “Generations: Inspiration of Bird City” @ Willo North Gallery Phoenix native and Chicago-based artist Joseph “Sentrock” Perez cannot contain his excitement when he talks…
Are you on a live album? Not as a performer, I mean — are you background noise for one of your favorite bands? If you haven’t already earned the opportunity to make your friends scrub through 40 minutes of crowd noise to hear you shouting “My wife!!” during between-songs banter,…
If you’re hoping to look as good at 50 as you do at 20, there are a lot of (ultimately futile) things you can do. You can eat right. You can exercise. You can try to avoid stress and anything else that’s wearing on you, with the help of prayer…
by Aaron Thompson Hollywood Alley has always been just another bar to me. Since I relocated to the Phoenix area about four months ago, the bar, located in an unassuming strip mall at the Tempe-Mesa border always seemed like a potential suburban gem of hidden filth and rock ‘n’ roll…
Don’t let Monday (or the man) get you down. Here’s something to do every day of this here working week. Monday Karaoke @ George & Dragon We love Bill Murray, but his flick Lost in Translation may have given people the impression that karaoke is just for sad sacks’ thinly…
The countdown to Best of Phoenix is on. Mark your calendar: This year’s issue will be on newsstands September 26. What better way to warm up than by asking some local “experts” to list their own personal bests? This week Crepe Bar’s Jeff Kraus shares his favorite finger foods. By…
Need plans? Here’s how to spend your weekend in and around Phoenix. The Rocky Horror Show @ Desert Stages Theater In a culture brimming with “cult classics,” only one can claim to have created the genre. After countless adaptations, The Rocky Horror Show comes to Scottsdale Desert Stages Theater, 4720…
It’s not that I’m rooting for The Maine to become nationally famous and then commit some terrible faux pas in Western Europe, but I’m halfway through a “Maine in Spain Fails Softly Something Something” headline that I’d really like to sell to the New York Post. They’ll be back in…
Rob Inderrieden By Keith Plocek San Diego Comic-Con is a lot of things to a lot of people. You can bemoan the commercialization and curse the movie studios, but while you’re doing that, be sure to appreciate the magic of thousands upon thousands of super-fans dressing up as their favorite…
With something to do Monday through Friday, here are your plans in and around Phoenix this week. Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Chicago Cubs @ Chase Field If it seems like an eternity since the Arizona Diamondbacks hoisted the coveted commissioners trophy in 2001, imagine being a Chicago Cubs fan. The Windy…
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Hanna Raskin, formerly the food critic for two of our sister papers, just published Yelp Help: How to Write Great Online Restaurant Reviews. The book’s a how-to guide for contributors to sites such as our own Voice Places, where you can weigh in with your opinions of local restaurants. We…
