Let’s play a quick game of word association: zombies, the archangel Gabriel, monkeys, and the London Financial Times stock listings. Go! If you’re totally flummoxed, you’re clearly not familiar with Chinese-British artist Gordon Cheung. This creative cat doesn’t just mix media – imagine art that combines traditional Japanese ink brushwork…
In part of its ongoing First Friday shows, the Phoenix Center for the Arts’ debut show of 2010 is a juried exhibition entitled “Japanese Friendship Garden: Photography Exhibition” and features images taken by members and lovers of the garden (Ro Ho En), located at Margaret T. Hance Park over the…
We remember the prime of First Friday, a time when the monthly downtown art walk wasn’t a carnival and actually allowed one to peruse the latest exhibits. Luckily, artists and galleries have started pumping some focus into alternate days, such as Third Fridays. Artist Mad One takes it one step…
We remember the prime of First Friday, a time when the monthly downtown art walk wasn’t a carnival and actually allowed one to peruse the latest exhibits. Luckily, artists and galleries have started pumping some focus into alternate days, such as Third Fridays. Artist Mad One takes it one step…
Changing Hands continues its tradition of honoring the Lost Boys of Sudan with an open-to-the-public birthday bash. Thu., Jan. 7, 7 p.m., 2010…
We criticize our grandparents for their lack of cell-phone and e-mail skills, but those old battleaxes could definitely beat us in a fistfight. With a lifetime of shoveling snow, bailing hay, and burying their own children, they’re way more badass than us. Author Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle) knows this…
ASU continues its Pac-10 home-opening weekend against the Cougars from Washington State. Sun., Jan. 10, 1:30 p.m., 2010…
It’s tough for a team to carry on when it loses its brightest star. Remember when ‘N Sync fell apart after Justin Timberlake split? If you’re curious how the ASU Men’s Basketball team will respond after its best player James Harden bolted to the NBA, then we suggest you take…
It’s hard to imagine taking sound advice from Jason Alexander. We know him as the neurotic and negative George Costanza, who was always too frazzled to offer up anything useful. Even though we’re used to his pitfalls (i.e. – becoming the punch line to many sitcom jokes), we won’t be…
The Milwaukee Bucks currently reside in second place in their division. The Phoenix Suns should be worried when they come to visit US Airways Center, right? Not exactly. You see, the Bucks – led by young ballers Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova – are in the Eastern Conference’s Central Division,…
It’s safe to say that Americans have made as much as we can of the construct of the “dysfunctional family,” and can now officially stop talking and writing about fucked-up families and move on to some other annoying form of navel-gazing. Perhaps as our sendoff, we can all go see…
Back in the ’90s, Alabama-bred Auguste Arthur Bondy went by the name Scott Bondy, and he fronted a hard-charging alt-rock trio called Verbena. They sounded so much like Nirvana that Dave Grohl – who produced the band’s 1999 major label debut, Into the Pink – very probably had flashbacks to…
For years, Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne’s 1993 novel Youth in Revolt — which, actually, was three novels collected under one title, and so the possibilities were endless, given 500 pages of material to mine. In 1996, Fox filmed a pilot starring Chris Masterson as Nick Twisp, the…
Is this a commercial for the National Tourism Council of Ireland or for the conditioner Amy Adams uses in her hair? Either way, both look fabulous. Then there’s the movie, a soggy affair directed with no great enthusiasm by Anand Tucker. Leap Year draws its dubious premise from a supposed…
Things were not going well. I was at a holiday party, and people were doing that thing where they try to get me to talk about theater. Mostly, when this happens, it’s because people assume that I want to chat about shows I have seen or am about to see…
1. The Hurt Locker: The decade’s strongest Iraq movie is also the year’s finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow’s personal best. Working from Mark Boal’s knowledgeable script, The Hurt Locker is impressively old school in its construction of suspense and character, and horrifically topical in its depiction…
On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while down by the city’s busy waterfront, the players of South Africa’s national rugby union team — the Springboks — go for a training run. Only…
Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-Man, to name just a few — and overrun with prequels and sequels (Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw . . .), each of our three critics picks three…
I swear, I should have been a marriage counselor. I am obsessed with relationships.And, no, it’s not because of the romantic mushy stuff.I love to know the intricacies of the particular dynamics between people. I’m constantly observing interactions, subsequent reactions and body language. Particularly when it comes to romantic relationships,…
We’re done with resolutions to eat healthfully and quit our vices. This year we’re resolving to reconnect with our nerdolicious self — basically to let our geek flag fly. And it looks like we won’t be alone. 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the geek, with scores of filmmakers, software companies, sci-fi cons…
All of the CGI special effects in movies over the years has put a bad taste in my mouth. Even on a 2D screen, you just can’t beat real space. I’d much rather see a slightly stiff and somewhat immobile Yoda than a Yoda who is so CGI’d out, he…
A month or so ago, I was quasi-obsessed with this: It’s a video/preview/advertisement for the new Julian Casablancas album. The whole thing is filled with compelling visuals with instrumental parts of the songs – edited like a movie trailer. Of course, being that I really enjoy this album, I’m charmed…
