The University of Oregon has owned the Arizona State University Football team as of late, winning five straight over the Sun Devils (the last time ASU prevailed over the Ducks: a 28-13 win at Eugene’s Autzen Stadium on October 2, 2004). Plus, the last few match-ups in Tempe haven’t been…
Screw afternoon-pick-me-ups like Earl Grey and Rockstar. You just need some more Poncho Sanchez in your life. Arguably, the Laredo, Texas-born conguero may be the best Latin Jazz musician out there today. Un-arguably, Sanchez and his ensemble inject head-nodding and feet-shuffling energies into the spheres (especially in a live context)…
We hope those hiking boots are nice and broken in. On Friday, November 5 and Saturday November 6, the Phoenix Summit Challenge will offer outdoor enthusiasts/workout freaks the biggest beast of a workout, aside from the Ironman Triathlon, this town has to offer. Now in its sixth year, hikers can…
North Scottsdale is about to get 6,000-square-feet more artsy.Beginning next month, the Arizona Art Alliance Gallery will open its doors in the Scottsdale Pavilions Shopping Center, 9011 East Indian Bend Road, Suite E-1. The circa 2000, all-volunteer organization that includes more than 4,000 artists from 28 Arizona art groups, guilds,…
Kevin Patterson has been there, done that, in terms of traveling. So now that he’s tied down to a job and a mortgage, he’s recreating the experience without leaving his current Phoenix home. Patterson recently debuted Stationary Hobo, a podcast series — featuring Rick Larsen and Patterson conducting travelogue interviews…
Sorry, but you can no longer mutter Podunk when talking about the Downtown Chandler Art Walk. (Well, we guess you could, but that wouldn’t exactly be the truth.) In the past year or so, the modest gallery stroll, which takes place during the Third Friday of every month, has significantly…
Zia Record Exchange is going into the book business. New Times confirmed today that the Zia location at 2510 West Thunderbird Road is expanding its operations and opening a bookstore. They bought the two existing spaces next to the music shop, and are currently in the process of expanding the…
It’s not hard to get Jonathan Brandstein going. All you need to do is bring up music and travel — two things many people are head over heels about — and he’s like a freshly discharged jack-out-of-the-box telling all sorts of amazing tales of the places he’s been and the…
It’s 1 p.m. on a blustery Sunday afternoon, and more than 100 music fans are lined up outside downtown Phoenix’s Modified Arts. The doors to the intimate venue don’t open for another hour — and the headliner, Courtney Marie Andrews, won’t take the stage for nine hours — but that…
Listen to Italian creative-music ensembles Tribraco and Neo and it’s not hard to imagine that these dudes are all over ESP-Disk’s records by Marion Brown, The Fugs, and Noah Howard. Or maybe those infamous BYG Actuel recordings by Burton Greene, Jimmy Lyons, and Clifford Thornton migrated en masse south from…
Billboards always suck. So do many large-scale print ads. That’s why the recently completed Knowledge Breaks Down Barriers Created by Ignorance mural is such a badass and welcome addition to the local community. East L.A.-based creative type Raul Gonzalez, along with youth from the Garfield neighborhood in central Phoenix, created…
After two wins, the season finally begins for the Arizona State Football team. That’s not a typo. It’s just that the Devils, who waltzed through their first two games against Portland State and Northern Arizona, will actually play someone with a big-time-college-football pulse. On Saturday, ASU visits the city of…
After two wins, the season finally begins for the Arizona State Football team. That’s not a typo. It’s just that the Devils, who waltzed through their first two games against Portland State and Northern Arizona, will actually play someone with a big-time-college-football pulse. On Saturday, ASU visits the city of…
Las Otras Hermanas Boutique is ditching its Civic Space Park digs for more DIY-urban territory: Beginning next month, the fair-trade, non-profit shop will sell its independently-made wares inside of Way Cool Hair Pollution, 1524 East McDowell Road. In August 2009, Charis Elliott opened the volunteer-run shop next door to the…
Herberger Theater Center will indeed reopen on October 1 — the complex at 222 East Monroe Street has been closed since May 17 while undergoing its final phase of renovations. And that means it’ll need some rad art for its new and improved space. Now through October 4, the contemporary…
You may notice some changes the next time you’re hanging out at 4200 North Marshall Way in Scottsdale. That’s because the former site of Soyal Gallery, the pop-up gallery that helped spruce up Scottsdale’s Marshall Way with contemporary art, is now Squeeze Gallery…
We’re not really sure how he does it, but Stephen Steinbrink has made us swoon over his art as much as he does with his music…
The 2011 edition of Art Detour is testing fate. Instead of traditionally taking place during the first weekend of March, Art Detour 23 will be held on the third Friday weekend: Saturday, March 19, and Sunday, March 20, 2011.Things didn’t go very well the last time Art Detour moved festival…
Thanks to Eat Pray Love, leaving it all to travel somewhere exotic is not exactly rooted in betterment-to-society purposes, especially when considering Jonathan Brandstein’s 2005 adventure. For the Los Angeles-based photographer, it all began that summer when he peeped a documentary about blues musicians in Mali. Recalls Brandstein, who has,…
We’re not trying to stir the pot here, but something stands out about the Crossroads of the West Gun Show. Not the fact that there will be all sorts of rare, antique, and modern firearms to check out, but because organizers decided to hold the event on the sensitive-to-every-American day…
Dodgy downhill footing. Skull-and-crossbones switchbacks. Spots where climbing or butt scooting may be necessary. Screw that noise. We like hiking and all, but we also don’t feel like freaking dying today. Instead, the Take Your Walk to the Desert event at Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area sounds more like our…
However you feel about the prima donna quarterback/shoulder-pad-wearing god, you can air your opinions in front of the tube when the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints host the Favre-led Minnesota Vikings. The nationally televised donnybrook gives Coach & Willie’s an excuse to throw an NFL Kickoff Party, and…
