Visiting the show “Seeing Is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth,” now on display at the Phoenix Art Museum, I have to descend a small flight of steps, which seems somehow fitting in a weird way. Fitting because this is a show about descent of a kind — mainly, lineage…
Maybe it’s his knack for drawing lofty conclusions from minute observations, his enviable friendship with the loyal Dr. Watson, or simply his iconic fashion: a deerstalker hat, a cape, and a pipe. Whatever combination of qualities and characteristics — Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognizable literary figures in the…
All right bibliophiles, hold on to your book jackets. We’ve all been told not to judge a book by its cover, but Awful Library Books is breaking the rules. The online catalog is maintained and narrated by two librarians from Michigan, whose only criteria is that the books, found in actual library…
In the graphic novel Hark! A Vagrant, which was released last month, artist Kate Beaton explains, “Some time ago I packed my history degree into a suitcase and said goodbye to the world of working in museums for low pay and limited opportunity, and said hello to the world of being…
Attention short film enthusiasts: there’s a new film festival coming to town dedicated to showcasing local filmmakers. The Long Shadow Film Festival is currently seeking submissions of short films and videos of all genres (narratives, documentary, experimental), and is especially interested in the work of Arizona artists. Check out submission details after…
When I walk into the ASU Art Museum to check out the video exhibition “By myself and with my friends . . . ” I have an immediate positive reaction to the show, which probably has to do with the closely framed shot of a 700 pound seal with round…
There is nothing quite as lasting and personal as a first name. It is considered dreamily in the months before birth and remains on a tombstone long after departure. It is one of the first gifts you receive. If you have been given a problematic name there are only two…
Artist Heather Green spent many childhood days and nights in La Cholla, a headland along the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Her family had a one-room cabin built there by her grandfather in the early 1960s. The cabin was built up against a hill overlooking the rocky reef and featured…
There is chatter all around. Near the ice-blue evening gown of silk satin with chinchilla cuffs, and the duo of gray Madame Gres day dresses, and by the case with the striking, gold metal comb looking like an ornamental piece of sculpture. This is “Fashion Independent: The Original Style of…
It started when our sister-in-law, Ryan, said she was making jar pies. Jar Pies! What’s that? “Oh you make pie in canning jars, then you can either freeze them or bake them”. Holy cow, why didn’t we know about this? Individual servings of pie in a jar? This is…
Pie Social on Saturday, November 13th, is less than a week away and we are getting excited. For inspiration, check out this photo of a pie and cake table in Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940. Just look at that assortment! It’s got our mouths watering. Pie Social’s also got…
The first-ever Pie Social — to be held Saturday, November 13, 2 to 6 p.m. at 5th Street and Roosevelt — is right around the corner. While we wait, we are busy trying to flex our pie-baking muscles. We’ve never made lemon meringue pie before so this seems like the perfect…
Get out and do the funky chicken — or at least talk about a few this Saturday, November 6, at a lively discussion on Urban Poultry and kick-off event to the Tour de Coops 2010.The self-guided tour of the Valley’s coolest chicken set-ups, sponsored by the Phoenix Permaculture Guild, will…
After a year of making Monday Night Martha, we’re looking back. Last week we brought you the flops, this week, as promised, here are our favorites. What did we learn from preparing a Martha Stewart recipe each week? Well, for one, that even when the recipes turned out less-than-perfect we…
Here at Monday Night Martha, we have been preparing a Martha Stewart recipe each week and writing about the results for almost a year. This week we take a look back at some of the worst things we made. Dishes we will not make again, and one that may have…
We went up to Northern Arizona this weekend where we went to a car show, a quilt show, and drove through Oak Creek Canyon. To eat we had chimichangas, cheeseburgers, tacos, and some big slices of chocolate cake. It was fun, but now it’s time to take it easy and…
We were intrigued by a recipe for pear and apple phyllo crisp spotted on the last page of the October Martha Stewart Living magazine. The recipe’s not online yet, but should be arriving shortly – when the magazine is no longer on newsstands. Since the recipe calls for sheets of…
There’s something fun about a late night dinner that you throw together with whatever you happen to have on hand. That’s what we did this week when we got home on the later side after seeing a movie. Of course, as is our habit here at Monday Night Martha, we…
When we lived in Brooklyn, NY we had a monthly ritual. It started with going to our favorite sushi joint and loading up on Spanish mackerel sashimi and rolls of varying types and bowls of miso soup and sake. And then, because why stop there, we would stumble down the…
Like just about everyone in Phoenix, we’re fans of Chris Bianco and the amazing things he does with bread. Making trips to his sandwich shop, Pane’ Bianco, at 4404 N. Central Ave. is on heavy rotation in our travels. However, right now the whole team is off on their annual…
We have a lot of family birthdays in the spring so we decided to get a suite at the ballpark and have a joint celebration. A cake was ordered for the big event. When it arrived it said, “Happy Birthday Tom”, the only problem was no one celebrating a birthday…
Back in May – just as school was about to let out for summer vacation – we headed over to Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek for their annual Peach Festival. In the late spring sunshine, as the days in the desert were just starting to get robustly hot we picked a…
