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…
Weekend Pool Party at Spanish Fly in Scottsdale Pool party season is in full swing. This past weekend, we hit up Spanish Fly’s weekly pool party, where plenty of locals were cooling off at the Mexican-themed beach club…
Forget the weekday womp-womps. Here’s something to do each day this week. CraftHackEV @ Gangplank HQ Emulate as we might, we are not and never will be Martha Stewart-style domestic goddesses. Our attention to detail, ability to organize, and DIY spirit will never match that of the millionaire mogul. We…
You missed your chance, over the weekend, to indulge in some multi-band ’60s nostalgia, but tonight, Crescent Ballroom will make up for it by allowing you to resurrect old arguments about whether remaking “Pretty in Pink” was a bad idea (and then, inevitably, whether the end of Pretty in Pink…
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, Brady Breese of Urban Cookies ditches the sugar for the…
Before you start packing for nerdy adventures at San Diego Comic-Con next weekend or commit to seeing all of comedian Tommy Davidson’s five sets at Tempe Improv this weekend, read up on all your options. Here are five top picks for what to do over the next few days. Arizona…
Nostalgia acts are heartier than the rest of us. Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé booked themselves all the way into December, when Phoenicians will once again gloat about the weather; everywhere else across the music-act spectrum, things seem to be slowing down, hibernating. But if you’re into campy, accomplished new wave,…
by Chaz Kangas Everybody’s favorite boy band template New Kids on the Block have been taking the stage all summer for their tour with 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men. (They’re coming to Jobing.com Arena on Sunday, July 14.) While most of our New Kids memories could be attributed to…
From artsy endeavors to theater and sporting events, here are your plans this week. “Luster Kaboom’s FunHouse” @ Scottsdale Civic Center Library Whenever Dave Quan comes back to town, we know he’s up to something creative. The artist (who goes by Luster Kaboom) moved to New York last year, but…
Fourth of July Nightlife in Scottsdale and Tempe Downtown Tempe and Old Town Scottsdale’s numerous bars and clubs were swarming with co-eds dressed in red, white, and blue ensembles and celebrating Independence Day after the sun went down and the fireworks ceased on Thursday, July 4. Up in Scottsdale, they…
I can’t really blame Yes for not thinking about this back in 1968, when they formed, but if I were their SEO consultant at the time I would have strongly suggested they go with something that was a little easier to Google. Like “Future Loves Past” or — even better…
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, Lauren Bailey of Upward Projects shares her favorite hidden treasures…
First Friday heats up July 5 with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this artful evening. Coyote Ghost @ Palabra Studios “Coyote Ghost,” which will be on view at Palabra Studios through July 5, will be Rebecca Green’s farewell…
This weekend has potential plans aplenty, Phoenix. Here are our top picks for what to do in and around the city. Video Blender @ Phoenix Art Museum “Will It Blend?” is the ongoing series of online videos by personal kitchen appliance manufacturer Blendtec in which CEO Tom Dickson gleefully wields…
Eventually, every single musical variable collapses into time. Live fans and Filter fans and Everclear fans might not have gotten along especially well in the ’90s, but here in the unfamiliar ‘teens (are we going with ‘teens? aught-teens?) they are all bands who were on the radio back when you…
