NCAA Championship Game on TV
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be showing the NCAA Men’s Championship basketball game on a projector-style big screen. Mon., April 5, 6 p.m., 2010…
Arts & Culture
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We know. Your bracket fell to pieces on day one of the NCAA tournament and you aren’t winning jack in whatever pool you’re playing. That’s cool, because there are still three huge games left to play that you can enjoy, sans the gambling thrill. Zipps, the hardwood-floor-bathed sports bar is…
How Mice
This is what modern absurdity truly looks and sounds like. The White Mice – three guys that go by Snail Hatin’, Hail Cheesus, and Cheddar Dung – dress in human-sized mice outfits and play the most insane brand of free-noise that clashes with grindcore, spars against walls of feedback, and…
Eye Candy
In a sea of locally produced hipster DJ dance nights, Cheap Thrills is looking to stand out this Saturday by bringing live band Super Stereo to the stage. The group’s electronic-tinged pop is highly danceable — there’s no way to not shake your booty to a song called “Cybersex.” And…
Folktales
Record labels that liken themselves to one big family go back to the Motown days. On the local tip, River Jones Music (RJM) is kind of like early Death Row and mid-period Roc-A-Fella, meaning that if there’s one of RJM’s artists on a show bill, you’re sure to see at…
Deep Six
The Trunk Space, one of downtown Phoenix’s top art galleries and performance venues, celebrates its sixth anniversary this month. Ample toasts and huzzahs should be sent the spot’s way, especially considering the rough and tumble place that the local art scene can be. The Trunk Space cheers the artists that…
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Deep Six
The Trunk Space, one of downtown Phoenix’s top art galleries and performance venues, celebrates its sixth anniversary this month. Ample toasts and huzzahs should be sent the spot’s way, especially considering the rough and tumble place that the local art scene can be. The Trunk Space cheers the artists that…
White Hype
Vessel’s one-night-only presentation of ASU prof Rachel Bowditch’s Transfix Retrospective: 1996-2010, a silent, fin-de-siècle ghost-white, urban-architecture-transforming, spectator-involving performance. The happening includes an exhibit of Bowditch’s photos. Fri., April 2, 6:30 p.m., 2010…
Call of the Wild
It’s not unusual for women to collect porcelain cats, chalkware, or china. Local artist Jessica Joslin’s collection of animal bones and antique brass hardware, on the other hand, seems more suited to The Addams Family mansion than a teahouse. “I find things anywhere that I find myself,” says Joslin. “In…
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Let’s Fringe Again
Phoenix Fringe Festival helpfully gathers the performance and interactive artfunk of not just this multiculti metroplex, but farther-flung communities (including Richmond, Virginia; Detroit; Seattle; and London, Ontario) as well, and throws it into the mantis-eats-butterfly CenPho terrarium. It’s a menu of exclusive treats you’ll kick yourself if you miss. April…
The Last Song: Hannah Montana Gets Upstaged by Sea Turtles
The script, costumes, and props of The Last Song work hard to establish Miley Cyrus’ dramatic-role bona fides as the 17-year-old crosses over from G to PG: Her character, constantly sneering high school grad Ronnie Miller, sports a tiny nose stud, stomps on the beach in Doc Martens, believes meat…
Ajami: An Israeli Arab and Israeli Jew Come Together to Make a Cross-Cultural Crime Drama
A contemporary crime drama edged with Greek tragedy, Ajami is an untidy, despairing, oddly exhilarating joint venture by writer-directors Scandar Copti, an Israeli Arab, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew. Though its unwieldy cast and multiple storylines might better lend themselves to a television series, the movie teems with life,…
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How Treme Can Get It Right
‘Price was twelve, bruh.’ ‘Say bruh. Them twelve hundred was for eight pieces.’ A deal’s going down, yeah. But not the sort we’re used to witnessing between black men on a television show set in an American city. Certainly not a David Simon drama on HBO. Yet before even a…
Arizona Theatre Company’s The Glass Menagerie Builds a Story Around Story Building
I hesitate to describe the staging tricks that make Arizona Theatre Company’s production of The Glass Menagerie so magnificent, for fear that detailing the ways in which director Juliette Carrillo has illuminated this graceful old warhorse will diminish its beauty for you when you go to see it. And you…
First Friday Celebration of Al Beadle at Phoenix Metro Retro
Man, 7th Avenue is really going off this Friday.First, we’ve got that 7th Avenue Streetscape debut.And now, Phoenix Metro Retro is throwing a little shindig to honor a Mr. Al Beadle, one of the Valley’s most acclaimed architects…
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Seventh Avenue Streetscape Debuts at First Friday
Hey, remember when I wrote this?Yes, it was a whole three months ago when the City of Phoenix put out the call to artists for the Seventh Avenue Streetscape public art project and I’m pleased to tell you that the finished product debuts this Friday, April 2, during the First…
Curtains: Arizona Curriculum Theater’s Topical, Disturbing Salem: 1692
At least three excellent classic 20th-century plays are presented regularly by high schools, which tends to taint them for anyone who was first exposed to them there: Arsenic and Old Lace, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (which I wish I could have squeezed into the “Curtains” schedule when Fountain Hills Community…
Visual Acoustics Film Shown With High-Res Projector at Phoenix Art Museum
Now that Arty Girl doubles as the Assistant Night and Day Editor, I know dang well that New Times has already given you plenty reason to check out the Visual Acoustics film at the Phoenix Art Museum this Sunday.But I feel the need to stress a couple things in this…
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A Farewell to Arms
We remember third-grade lunch hour as a free-for-all scream fest. It was also a time to prove your strength to your peers during rousing matches of arm wrestling. Remember the callow figures circling, young arms flexing, and heads diving above closed fists? Where are they now? Possibly at the Grand…
Enter the Dragon
An armada of boats will be taking over Tempe Town Lake this weekend. But have no fear; the Valley is not being invaded by crazy-looking pirates. The cheerfully hyper water paddlers are harmless participants in the seventh annual SRP Arizona Dragon Boat Festival, where aqua-minded athletes compete in the ancient…
Live Poets Society
Wrestlemania is in town this weekend, but we dig the kind of slams that don’t require greasy shirtless dudes. All across America, you’ll find poetry slams giving voice to folks compelled to rant, rave, and share their life through a mic. Who do we thank for this? Marc Kelly Smith,…
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Put Up Your Faux Dukes
People make fun of professional wrestling, but it’s actually a performance art. The coordination, agility, and strength required of pro wrestlers make the “sport” a lot like ballet — or at least like a bizarro version of ballet with carnies as dancers. The fine-arts enthusiast in you should know that…