Maricopa County community colleges are the place for the unexpected. Take a cinema class at SCC and you’ll watch the rape scene from A Clockwork Orange in the school’s miniature movie theatre. Take a wrong turn at MCC and you may barge into the life drawing class (yes, that model…
It’s not easy to combine lovable cartoon characters, trisyllabic meter, and serious political messages in a way that both children and adults adore. That’s why Theodore “Dr.” Seuss Geisel is just as relevant today as he was mid-century. This year, the late children’s author, who made anti-consumerism, anti-fascism, and anti-isolationism…
Erin Peters spent many an unforgettable evening at the old Nile Basement back in the day. Ask her about some of her favorite shows she witnessed at the bygone Mesa live music spot, and the 29-year-old concert promoter rattles off names like Rise Against and Tsunami Bomb. “I saw so…
Maybe it’s the instant-gratification of a race that’s over in 4 seconds, the concept of driving a car that needs a parachute to stop, or our love of Vin Diesel movies, but there is something about drag racing that just fascinates us. That’s why we’re considering spending this weekend at…
Sticking with a workout plan has nothing to do with discipline. It’s all about feeling obligated to others. Second to loathing your own body, a healthy serving of peer pressure is the best motivator. That’s why the Road Runner Sports Monthly 5k Run has high potential for long-time commitment. Show…
Steam-punking, as a way of life, is a collision of Edwardian-era fashion sense with anachronistic, mad-science experiments that has touched everything from wrist watches and laptops to reinterpreted vehicles. It’s a celebration of our species’ rigorous nature and our ability to interweave idiosyncrasy with robotics. We’ll be front and center…
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby’s parents, begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet. The film is his prolonged purging, with Daniels coughing up chunks of his backstory…
Because they’re crafted outside the Hollywood system, you might assume that this year’s Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts stand in sharp defiance to conventional mainstream cinema. But the best of these 10 entries are, in some ways, the most familiar — their most radical element being that they operate in…
A door slams. A man in a black unitard angrily stalks onto a bare stage, carrying a bar stool. He sets the stool down, then spends the next several minutes moving the stool from place to place and doing the sort of limbering and breathing exercises an actor might do…
Local artist Carrie Marill is featured on the home page of www.20×200.com today, a website dedicated to selling fine art prints.This, however, isn’t a generic site like www.allposters.com where you can get a millionth reprint of Van Gogh’s Starry Night for your kid’s dorm room. And it doesn’t let just…
Against absurd odds, Lisa Sette Gallery on Scottsdale’s Marshall Way can boast that three of her gallery artists — Enrique Chagoya, Claudio Dicochea and Angela Ellsworth — have been handpicked to show work at the 17th Biennale of Sydney, which runs from May 12 through August 2010. Sydney’s Biennale, a…
Attention struggling artists: On Wednesday, February 17, you can learn how to turn your talent into a business at the “Marketing and Managing Your Art Career” workshop at Tempe Center for the Arts.Now, I understand that some creative types might interpret the integration of business practices into their art as…
I haven’t decided what the deal is with interactive murder mystery dinner theater, or whether I like it in general. It’s possible you’ll get to see me work that whole issue out, right in this virtual space, one of these days. But in the meantime, I had a swell time at…
The radio tells me that 8.5 million Americans have lost their jobs due to the economy.Make that 8.5 million and one.Today is Senior Curator Claire Schneider’s last day at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts…
So you want to be a published writer, eh? Good news! The Superstition Review online magazine is now accepting submissions.Here, in the offices of the Phoenix New Times, discussing the current state of a career in writing is one of our very favorite things to do.Ok, maybe “favorite” is the…
“Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase’s arrogant claims throughout the 1980s and 90s that he could buy his way into professional wrestling immortality may have come true. It was announced the other day that the bad-guy wrestler will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the…
It’s unfortunate that Ellen Snortland’s Now That She’s Gone: Unraveling the Mystery of My Mother is so often compared to the work of Lily Tomlin and Garrison Keillor — not because those folks have been working at writing and performing for decades longer than Snortland, but because Snortland’s piece is…
The local painter exhibits six new paintings at the European-style eatery. Mondays-Saturdays. Starts: Feb. 6. Continues through Feb. 27, 2010…
Turning 34 years old isn’t exactly a red-letter date in life. It’s just another step away from the blissful ebullience of your twenties and two years removed from getting booted out of the coveted 18-to-35 demographic.Although most folks would probably avoid celebrating said occasion, local turntablist Tricky T has booked…
Hi. You’re fat. Oh, sorry. Was that an evil thing to say? We’re merely reiterating the message that you most likely tell yourself (assuming you’re a “healthy” American) every morning when you look in the mirror, right? That’s awesome. Way to live your life. In case you weren’t aware, there’s…
Steam-punking, as a way of life, is a collision of Edwardian-era fashion sense with anachronistic, mad-science experiments that has touched everything from wrist watches and laptops to reinterpreted vehicles. It’s a celebration of our species’ rigorous nature and our ability to interweave idiosyncrasy with robotics. We’ll be front and center…
You think Valentine’s Day comes from the heart? Well, if you’ve got a strong one, put that theory to the test and participate in this heart-pumping workout. The Lost Dutchman Arizona Marathon takes off from Prospector Park and meanders through Gold Canyon. The event also offers a half-marathon, 10k, 8k-trail…
