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…
Your weekend? It’s already planned. Here are the top five things to do in and around Phoenix. Doug Fine @ Changing Hands A new crop of “ganjaprennuer” is growing out of this country’s flowering legal acceptance of cannabis. As states pass legislation allowing medical marijuana and even decriminalization, pro-pot activists…
Have you ever played a Final Fantasy game? If you have, you’ll know that many-if-not-all of them involve collecting an arbitrary number of crystals that a megalomaniacal villain is also chasing, so that they won’t fall into the wrong hands and be used to enslave the world or shoot down…
Phoenix New Times won four national awards for work published in 2012 from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia at the organization’s recent convention in Miami — including a first place by staff writer Stephen Lemons for his Feathered Bastard blog. Lemons won in the Best Individual Blog category, and the…
There’s no shortage of ways to contribute to efforts benefiting the families of the firefighters killed in Yarnell late last month, but if you were hoping to see Dierks Bentley as part of the arrangement, you’re too late: July 22’s Dierks Bentley Country Cares concert is sold out. The hastily…
by Alex Distefano Call it what you will — glam metal, hair metal, cock rock, or plain old ’80s metal — but there’s something to be said for a subculture that extended from the late ’70s into the early ’90s that refuses to wash off its makeup and die. Glam…
GOOD, BETTER, BEST … Want to know where to go and what to do in Phoenix? Your essential mobile guide–also known as our Best Of app–just got better…
GOOD, BETTER, BEST … Want to know where to go and what to do in Phoenix? Your essential mobile guide–also known as our Best Of app–just got better…
GOOD, BETTER, BEST … Want to know where to go and what to do in Phoenix? Your essential mobile guide–also known as our Best Of app–just got better…
