Arts & Culture

The tween author reads from and signs The 39 Clues. Wed., Feb. 10, 4 p.m., 2010…

Nausea is a common symptom of “Suns Fever” these days. It’s understandable because following the Phoenix Suns this season has been like riding a carnival ride operated by a drunk. For the first two months of the season, they looked like one of the best teams in the league. Then,…

If we told you there was a pill that reduced anger, fear, pain, and cortisol (the evil, fat producing hormone) while increasing cell immunity, endorphins, and serotonin, you’d pop that thing faster than a stay-at-home mom addicted to Percocet. Though the medication may not exist, all of the benefits can…

The Arizona Cardinals didn’t make it this time around, but that doesn’t mean you should cry into your Coors Light on Super Bowl Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints square off in Miami, Florida. Instead, participate in big-game nirvana at 4:28 p.m. Looking for a dodgy…

The Arizona Cardinals didn’t make it this time around, but that doesn’t mean you should cry into your Coors Light on Super Bowl Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints square off in Miami, Florida. Instead, participate in big-game nirvana at 4:28 p.m. For a Dapper Dan…

The Arizona Cardinals didn’t make it this time around, but that doesn’t mean you should cry into your Coors Light on Super Bowl Sunday when the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints square off in Miami, Florida. Instead, participate in big-game nirvana at 4:28 p.m.Coach & Willie’s will showcase…

You want authentic? Do you? Well, you’re going to get it (in a good way) during the Mekong Tet 2010 Lunar New Year Festival. The two-day celebration that gives it up to Vietnamese culture isn’t your watered-down, garden-variety shindig. Rather, Mekong Plaza, the southeast Asian-themed mini-mall that opened in October…

George Kuchar may very well be one of the best filmmakers you’ve never heard of. That all changes with the George Kuchar Film Symposium, headlined by Jennifer M. Kroot’s award-winning documentary It Came From Kuchar. In the 1960s, talented twins George and Mike Kuchar held their own against notoriously pretentious…

Poor Mesa Arts Center. They plan to host a kickass runway show called “The Black Dialect: When Fashion Speaks.” Then Game Change hits bookstores and explodes Harry Reid’s awkward-yet-valid observations about perceptions of Obama’s “dialect.” Unreal. Allow presenter Felix Asamoah to clarify: What’s happening Saturday, February 6, is “a fashionable…

We often long for the days of sleepovers and scavenger hunts, where an army of pre-pubescent girls would descend upon the neighborhood clad in pajamas and carrying clues. Now, adults can get in on the fun, too, with the Scavenger Dash. The best part: you can still wear pajamas. Or…

Guns rule. Contrarian words for this rag? Perhaps, or maybe we’re wising up because we believe that if someone wants to pack heat, he or she is welcome to. That’s exactly what’s going to happen (multiplied by a very large number) during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Weekend and Shooting…

If Elvis had shimmied down to Sunset Strip instead of Las Vegas – and stayed alive for an extra decade or so – he very well might have formed a super group with Slash, Nikki Sixx, and Tommy Lee. Okay, probably not, but four Arizona rockers came up with the…

It’s hard to believe that a whole month of 2010 is already gone. February is destined to be quite the flash, too. There’s gotta be a way for these days to be a little more memorable, which is why we’re hinging our hopes on the “Printmakers’ Calendar 2010” exhibit that’s…

No matter how bitter we become after divorce and heartbreak, we keep coupling. Author Elizabeth Gilbert went from stubbornly single globetrotting queen of anti-matrimony in her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love to the lady with a gold ring on her finger in her most recent work Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace…

For years, Anna Ramsey’s art has been mobile like a fugitive, and only present to the observant eye in fleeting moments. Now, there will finally be some permanence to the Phoenix-based artist’s work. The El Paso and Flagstaff-bred creative type (she’s the percussionist in The Do It Up Right Initiative…

For years, Anna Ramsey’s art has been as mobile as a fugitive and noticeable to the observant eye only in fleeting moments. Now, there will finally be some permanence to the Phoenix-based artist’s work. The El Paso and Flagstaff-bred creative type (she’s the percussionist in The Do It Upright Initiative…

For years, Anna Ramsey’s art has been as mobile as a fugitive and noticeable to the observant eye only in fleeting moments. Now, there will finally be some permanence to the Phoenix-based artist’s work. The El Paso and Flagstaff-bred creative type (she’s the percussionist in The Do It Upright Initiative…

If you think poets are a bunch of lit geeks, old geezers, and pathetic whiners with floppy emo haircuts that endlessly quote downers like Poe and Dickinson, then get your presumptuous booty to the Fourth Annual Treetop Poetry Festival. The bout is like a giant cage match, but with competitors…

If you think poets are a bunch of lit geeks, old geezers, and pathetic whiners with floppy emo haircuts that endlessly quote downers like Poe and Dickinson, then get your presumptuous booty to the Fourth Annual Treetop Poetry Festival, opening with a competition at MADCAP Theaters. The two-day bout is…

Hopeful authors get rejection letters piled higher than a stack of Nicolas Cage’s unpaid bills, while wannabe singers are dissed on national TV. Artists have it easy — galleries that aren’t interested usually just ignore them. But when award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz juried Arizona State University’s latest student show, the…

We used to pity the retirees who cling to work by greeting Walmart customers with gummy smiles or consulting for their old companies. Then, we remembered the alternative usually involves golf carts, plaid pants, and adult diapers. Eek. When former Phoenix advertising exec David Robb retired, he turned work into…

Fishermen, power-line workers, and loggers may be a few of the deadliest jobs in America, but the list falls short in not mentioning artist Eric Finzi. Far from being a smock-sporting, beret-bearing paintbrush pusher, Finzi dons a hazmat suit and keeps syringes, propane torches, and toxic mediums at the ready…