You can’t win if you don’t play. “Sustainable Phosphorus Summit” @ Desert Botanical Garden Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences is accepting submissions for its “Sustainable Phosphorus Summit: phosphorus, food, and our future” juried show that will be held at Desert Botanical Garden in February, 2011. Entry deadline is…
Like it or not, the word “museum” carries a set of associations and connotations, and starting tonight, the ASU Art Museum is doing some redefining. “Re-thinking the Museum” will showcase residencies and chit-chats with some of the art world’s doers and thinkers. The goal is to provoke discussions and to…
Wayne Rainey, the brains behind monOrchid, has announced the debut exhibition by the newly formed nine-member monOrchid Artist Collective. Opening next month, “All-Hands-On-Deck” will feature the work of the collective’s relatively-unknown-to-Phoenix artists (save for Randy Zucker’s digital-centric creations), including Estevan Bladeras’ graf art inspired by his upbringing in the Chicago…
Hot Nerds Reading Comics Night @ Trunk Space”With Cupcakes!,” the Facebook invite exclaims. Who could blame a downtown art space for being excited, especially when the sweet treats are paired with a comic book share and swap scheduled to start around 7 p.m. Friday. Your hotness will be admitted for…
New Times has received a Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture memo stating that Ruth Osuna is leaving her recently appointed post as cultural affairs director of the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture for a position in Eloy. Osuna will become the city manager of Eloy, located in Pinal…
The Stanford Cardinal play football the way it was meant to be played. The Arizona State Sun Devils, with their litany of boneheaded penalties and undisciplined prima donnas, really don’t. So what happens when the two meet at Sun Devil Stadium? Well, odds-makers will certainly favor the Cardinal, led by…
Unlike all other mainstream sports, where up-close-and-personal access is stupid expensive or crazy off limits, them good ol’ boys aren’t so touchy when it comes to their personal spaces. Now, we’re not saying you can get all up on Bobby and Ricky’s engine blocks, but you can definitely kick it…
Burritos are the bomb, but they’re not Latin America’s only tortilla-filled menu item. There’s also pupusas, a traditional Salvadoran dish consisting of thick, hand-sculpted corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, chicharrón (cooked pork ground down to paste), ayote (squash), or other meats or beans of your choice. The fourth annual Pupusa…
Love it or hate it, the Arizona Center has one thing going for it that so many Phoenix-area-based retail-centric businesses would kill for: Longevity. On Tuesday, November 16, the downtown retail spot, which hasn’t really packed the punch they hoped for when they opened two decades ago, is hosting the…
There’s a ton going on Saturday (a Pie Social, an arts parade, and tons of burlesque madness, to name just a few events), which means you’re going to need some body fuel. Might as well stuff yourself full of locally-reared protein and carbs, thanks to the Certified Local Fall Festival…
The debut event of the City of Scottsdale’s Cross Cultural Communications Series continues tonight at 6 p.m. when Zarco Guerrero (Juañeno/Acjachemem mask-maker), Kade Twist (Cherokee multi-disciplinary artist), Diana Ho (Chinese painter), and Joe Willie Smith (African American mixed-media wizard) present in Scottsdale. During an event dubbed “ART/CULTURE,” the multiracial pool…
“This is kind of goofy,” wrote a coworker when hipping us to Not Just Scraps of Paper. True, but it’s pretty neat, too. The Blogspot forum gives it up to the art of bookmarks. Rather than any ol’ bus ticket or paper scrap (hence, the name), the blog pimps people’s…
My, oh Myles! Morton of course! Morton Myles! @ Vintage FashionThe 1980s cocktail dress exhibition and sale also features a meet-and-greet with Morton Myles — the Scottsdale-based American fashion designer who sculpted a dress worn by Jackie Kennedy on the cover of Look in 1961 — from 6 to 8…
It’s about time, Scottsdale. Tonight, downtown Phoenix-based artist Fausto Fernandez is having his much overdue Scottsdale gallery debut with “The Virtue of Wisdom,” opening tonight with a Scottsdale Art Walk artist’s reception from 7 to 9 p.m. at Gebert Contemporary Art Gallery, 7160 East Main Street in Scottsdale.Read more about…
Maybe it’s the recent unveiling of the iPad that caused Revolver Records to rebel against the digital world by coordinating Open DJ Tables. At the very least, the shindig is causing some laptop DJs to rethink their 1s-and-2s M.O. “I’ve had experienced laptop DJs lamenting about vinyl say how they…
Take seven folks from a random pool of Phoenix’s best women artists, and have them show in an urban-lavish space that used to house the First National Bank of Arizona. That has got to be good, right? Duh. Now through December 18, The Vault is hosting “A Closer Look” featuring…
Bummer. Nobody is allowed to bring a “well behaved dog or ferret” to the 35th annual Phoenix 10K, according to the FAQs on the event website. Whatevs. At least the organizers have appeased our epic disappointment over this fact with a pretty sweet package deal with the Arizona State Fair…
What if a brown guy discovered Europe rather than, according to the history books, white people? Luis Gutierrez has an answer to that in his “Judgment” show. In his latest series of provocative works, the local painter will be exhibiting a thirty-foot installation in the cathedral room of the Icehouse…
“i hate when alot of bitches try to get on one on one fight damn foo if your homegurl cant fight den she shouldn’t have been messing around and maybe she would hav not gotten her ass beat hey im just giving my opinion,” says a Youtuber under a video…
Before you move to Canada or New Zealand or wherever, you can give the Grand Canyon State a one-hundred-percent-cotton one-fingered salute, thanks to Shane Kennedy. The downtowner, who designed the “Welcome to Phoenix, Lower Your Standards” tees, is back at it again with his snarky-centric taglines inspired partially by last…
It’s November 2, which means National Novel Writing Month will be over in 29 days. Ready to give up the 50,000-word challenge? Don’t, because there are some local groups that may help you get cranking as you try to hammer out a book in just 30 29 days. National Novel…
Scottsdale put on its best face for this one. This week, viewers can get the skinny on the ins and out of Scottsdale-based plastic surgery during Is She Really Going Out With Him? The reality show, which begins its third season tonight on MTV, shot one of its episodes on…
