You’re melting in traffic and you know that there must be a better way. There’s just gotta be. Jane Jacobs felt your pain, too, and her ideas will be brought to life with the inaugural Jane’s Walk Phoenix. The Pennsylvania-born urbanist/activist, who died in 2006, wrote The Death and Life…
Now’s a bad time to be looking for a career. The only positions available are in “marketing” (selling knives door-to-door), “customer service” (fielding calls about those knives), and “data entry” (giving your Social Security Number to a kindly man from Nigeria). It’s enough to make you think about taking a…
Earlier this year, some shamsters put out word that prominent Wu-Fam rapper Killah Priest would make a stop in the Valley, going so far as to politick with locals to set up a show. It was news to Priest’s crew, so the Wu-Tang posse and the Blunt Club crew swiftly…
It’s no wonder how DJ Icey got his name. One look at his mug shot and you’ll be reaching for the SPF 50. It’s true that Icey’s a fair lad, but that doesn’t mean he can’t punch you in the gut with some killer sounds that make you wanna thrust…
The Phoenix-based ASU grad’s making some waves with her debut novel, Under the Lemon Trees, which explores the clash of cultures in a Sikh Indian-American community in California’s Central Valley circa 1976. Fri., May 1, 7 p.m., 2009…
Now that that dirt-ball institution named Manzanita Speedway is history, what’s a speed-freak desert rat to do over the weekend? We recommend a trip out to dusty Wittman for the inaugural Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. The modified mini trucks kick up dust and crank over dunes on the…
For a town with the Hispanic presence of Phoenix, we see far too few big-name Latino/a musical acts. The folks behind the annual Food City Cinco de Mayo Festival are remedying that dearth with their 16th annual blowout, which features Grammy-winning supergroups Los Horoscopos de Durango and Montéz de Durango,…
Stanley Martin Lieber changed the face of American pop culture. Don’t recognize the name? Chop off the last syllable. As Stan Lee — he was saving his full name for later, when he planned to write the Great American Novel — he created or co-created the Fantastic Four, Iron Man,…
SpazDog celebrates with a conclave of local comic creators who’ll be showing off their work. The lineup includes Daniel Davis, Matthew Goodall, Ben Templesmith, Chinh Potter, Scott Godlewski, and Kaare Andrews. Sat., May 2, 2009…
Phoenix isn’t known for being a late-night town. Not like the doors roll up at 6 or anything, but if you’re looking for food after 10 p.m., we hope you’re in the mood for a Denny’s Grand Slam. Live entertainment after midnight? It’s strip joint or bust. However, on Friday,…
Remember prom? Only the biggest party of the year! What if you had a do-over? Would you take it? Hey! Cue the time machine! Shizz Prom 2009: An Enchanted Evening on Mars crosses the frivolity of cavorting unicorns with the heat and lust of the Red Planet. Says Shizz executive…
Feminists knitting in their dorm rooms. People buying handmade. Folks making stuff out of garbage. (Words fail us. Did you know there are Houston taggers who knit their graffiti?) We totally saw DIY coming, and so did Milwaukee’s Faythe Levine, who explored the indie crafting and art community for her…
The Tucson author explores Arizona place names in his lecture “Names on the Land,” relating often little-known stories about why our oddly named places came to be oddly named. Thu., April 30, noon, 2009…
While it doesn’t pay to piss off someone from either the far-right or far-left, the righty will just have you terminated. The lefty will harangue you, oh so slowly, to death. Danish intellectual Bjørn Lomborg can surely relate. The former director of Denmark’s Environmental Assessment Institute cut against the leftist…
“I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat.” That line — and its movie of origin — more or less launched Hollywood’s love affair with the summer movie nearly 35 years ago. And as summer movies go, it don’t get much better than Steven Spielberg’s simultaneously funny and jarring mammoth…
In its 10th year, the National Dance Week salute features performances by more than 30 local groups, including Ballet Etudes, Scorpius Dance Theatre, the ASU Hip Hop Coalition, Dulce Dance Company, Neo Phon Etix, and Spisak Dance Academy. Sun., May 3, 7:30 p.m., 2009…
The photography of Joy Goldkind deserves its own soundtrack — one that you would hear in a silent moviehouse or on a scratchy 78-rpm record. You see, her waggish interpretations of nudes and human forms, exposed using the bromoil process (a Pictorialists-era alternative photographic method) remind us of a theatrical,…
Only diehard Sarah Wayne Callies fans recall her as Kate O’Malley on TV’s quick-to-vanish Queens Supreme, or her starring role as Detective Jane Porter on The WB’s update of Tarzan. Pretty much everyone who’s heard of the comely brunette knows her from her stint on FOX’s Prison Break and the…
Voodoo vibes and colorful beaded necklaces are so rock ’n’ roll. Just ask soul-patched, devil-horns-throwing funny man Jim Florentine, who brings his singular breed of Howard Stern-approved comedy to Club Mardi Gras & VooDoo Lounge for two shows this weekend. The co-host of VH1’s That Metal Show and vocal artist…
A recent Junior Achievement survey found that the top three career choices for teens are businessperson, doctor, and teacher. Funny, our not-so-scientific survey of teens we know says trust-fund slacker, overpaid celebrity, and professional beer drinker. Either way, the next generation could learn a thing or two from Dogfish Head…
Though San Diego quartet Dredg has toured with Taste of Chaos and major label metal acts like Hoobastank and Deftones, their atmospheric, undulating sound defies easy categorization. Their willowy guitar drones are melodic enough for post-grunge radio rock, though the arrangements waver, dip and swerve like a spacey prog act,…
Damn you, Justin Timberlake. You kind of ruined it for white people. “It” meaning the white-boy soul image. Though Timberlake’s dance-pop music is much different than blue-eyed soul, too many folks associate his solo albums on Jive and the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime-show nekkidness with soul crooners with a pasty…
