According to the National Rifle Association’s list of grades and endorsements for Arizona’s Congressional delegation, Gabrielle Giffords earned a ‘C’ for her stance on gun rights. The list, reserved for NRA members only, was obtained today by New Times from an NRA representative. For each election, the NRA’s Political Victory Fund…
Gordon Monahan really knows how to get sound moving. In 1982, the experimental-music artist first performed Speaker Swinging. What has turned out to be Monahan’s seminal composition and performance-art routine features three perpetrators, strategically positioned in the same room, swinging illuminated, cable-attached loud speakers ’round and ’round in swooping circular…
John Wagner’s art-chronicling journeys have taken the Phoenix-based photographer to spots like Costa Rica, Spain, and Italy. However, there may not be any images in Wagner’s portfolio that are as striking as his works captured one U.S. state away from Arizona. Wagner’s “SALT” series finds the shutterbug on location at…
Hammer time. Beginning tonight and continuing through May, folks can get their Indonesian music on during the Musical Instrument Museum’s Balinese Gamelan Workshop led by MIM curatorial assistant Colin Pearson. A gamelan, by the way, isn’t a particular percussive instrument like a snare drum or a cymbal. Rather, the term…
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is much more hip than you think. If you don’t believe it, then you really need to start checking out the stuff. Like, now, dude. The Arizona Bach Festival is scheduled to burn down various Valley stages for more than a week. Highlight concerts…
Because there’s nothing going on in the South, save for fixing to get freakishly into the pigskin, it’s basically impossible to score a ticket to college football’s national championship whenever a Southeastern Conference team is involved (which has been the case the past five seasons). When the Tostitos BCS National…
Good thing the Midnite Movie Mamacita knows that The Being sucks, or else filmgoers may actually have to suffer unnecessary punishment while watching the heaping pile of suck-ass-ness. Thanks to a newfangled technology called MuVchat, folks can watch the shit flick (the circa 1983 movie fictionally chronicles what happens to…
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is much more hip than you think. If you don’t believe it, then you really need to start checking out the stuff. Like, now, dude. And lookie here, there’s a First Friday event that can get you moving on the path toward overdue enlightenment…
The Phoenix Symphony has found an interim president and CEO as well as a new general manager. Jim Ward, a former advertising and video game business executive who recently spearheaded an unsuccessful campaign for congress, has been named interim president and CEO. And following a six-month search, Andrew Kipe, former…
Three pages into the debut issue of Psychic Violence, the main thought — especially after reading the “Reasons to Kill Yourself” spread — is this: “Whoa. This person sure is emo.” But like the late Sun Ra once said, “You can’t have a white house without a black house,” and zine creator…
Bethany Keeley-Jonker’s “Blog” is “pretty” ‘darn’ funny.”” Since 2005, the Athens, Georgia blogger and writer has exposed people’s diarrhea of the quotation marks. And like real liquid feces, it’s not very pretty…
This zine probably won’t help someone avert 2012’s end of the world catastrophe. What the DIY publication can do is provide the exact lighthearted fare you’ll want to read after such a serious happening as the so-called end of the Mayan calendar. Written and drawn by Tristan Jemsek, the Jobot…
Even non-epinephrine freaks can get into Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk. The 2004 adventure film, a dream for adventure weirdos, is also a visual orgasm for those who fancy looking at pretty things. In the movie, skydiving and BASE jumping are dissected through urgent cinematography that includes views of…
Midnite Movie Mamacita is a household name around these parts, and she’s hoping her award-winning work translates into overflow crowds when she opens her very own cinema house. “Finally, after five years of programming [and] doing events at other people’s locations, I’m finally making the step to create my own…
The creators of the inaugural print edition of Downtown Phoenix Journal are clearly stoked that CityScape has arrived in downtown’s core. However, after arriving at the end of the 20-page publication — where three-quarters of a two-page spread is devoted to two different CityScape ads — it seems that the…
Everyone seemed to heart the closing performance of Space 55 Theatre’s A Bloody Mary Christmas, save for three no-shows from Buckeye. According to an e-mail sent to New Times from Space 55 co-owner Shawna Franks, three dissatisfied customers had purchased tickets to the venue’s sardonic-ish take on yuletide. After dinner…
Happy freaking holidays, Jerome, Arizona: The quaint historic mining town that’s a popular tourist destination with Phoenicians has been nailed with an $8 million-plus lawsuit. Brought upon by the Jerome Grand Hotel, the legal action is in response to the town government’s decision to revoke the historic lodging spot’s certificate…
There may be a lot of plotting going on during the 2010 Insight Bowl. That’s because one of the participating squads, the Missouri Tigers, will be back in September to play a what-will-probably-be a huge non-conference game against the Arizona State Sun Devils. The Tigers (10-2) of the Big 12…
Aw, poor baby. Why so emo? Oh, that’s right. This time of year is a heaping pile of suck ass for you and your fragile-around-the-holidays psyche. Honestly, we get it. And that’s why The Hardest, Loneliest Hike in the Park looks so super rad. The four-mile killer traverses the Rainbow…
It’s Saturday, December 25, you’re hungry as a hostage, and nothing’s open. Not true on that last point. Just check out our handy-dandy Christmas Day Dining Roundup (you can thank us by sharing your leftovers): *Don and Charlie’s, 7501 East Camelback Road in Scottsdale, offers traditional-ish fare, including prime rib,…
New Times has confirmed that the Icehouse, the longtime downtown art gallery and performance space, is planning to close at the end of 2011. “We are being taxed out by the county,” says Icehouse owner Helen Hestenes. “We are one of the largest alternative arts projects in the U.S., but…
Ouch. But so arty. And part of the whole whittling deal, which the Bleeding Thumb Whittling Club takes in stride and then some…
