Gordon Monahan, International Avant Gardist and Sound Sculptor, Performs at antispace

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…

Musical Instrument Museum’s Balinese Gamelan Workshop Starts Tonight

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…

Got Your Bach

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…

Southern Comfort

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…

Keep in Text

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…

Got Your Bach

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…

Phoenix Symphony Appoints New Officers

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…

Psychic Violence: Issue #1

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…

“Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

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…

2012 Survival Manual – November/December 2010

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…

Sick Trip

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…

Downtown Phoenix Journal: November/December 2010

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…

Show-Me State

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…

Pain Management

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…

Holiday Feast

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,…

Icehouse Slated To Close at 2011’s End

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…