Gordon Monahan is truly an artist’s artist. So it’s all too appropriate that the Toronto native will be bringing his talents to .anti_space, 715 West Buchanan Street, on the first Friday of February; a night when downtown Phoenix’s art galleries should be bustling with frumpy, disheveled provocateurs, posers, and professionals…

Michael Flatley, brainchild of much parodied dance performances such as Riverdance, is an anomaly. It turns out that this practitioner of prance and purveyor of all things flamboyantly Irish isn’t actually from Ireland (though he is one badass flautist). His fan base, primarily post-menopausal cougars who are remarkably oblivious to…

The Thomas Crapper Day Scat Hike might be one of those rare outdoor events in which participants won’t mind if the weather takes a, uh, dump on them. Although Crapper (who is often erroneously credited with inventing the modern crapper) didn’t devise the toilet, he did help to develop the…

Hemophobes, beware! The magic of Gunther von Hagen’s “Body Worlds” returns to the Arizona Science Center. The controversial exhibit returns for its second time as “Body Worlds & The Brain.” Using a technique called Plastination — which may or may not be a snooty word for human taxidermy — actual…