The redneck farce from director Ari Gold is about a closet air drummer named Power who discovers that there’s power in a union — of other secret air drummers — in the mine where he works. Fri., April 3, 2:35 p.m.; Sat., April 4, 7:45 p.m.; Sun., April 5, 9…
Christopher Young directed the multiple-storyline drama about the twists of fate that occur between five strangers who are connected by a soldier just returned from the war in Iraq. Fri., April 3, 11:50 a.m.; Sat., April 4, 6 p.m.; Sun., April 5, 11:30 a.m., 2009…
Dori Berinstein’s documentary is about — no joke — the New Jersey Nets’ senior-citizen hip-hop dance team, the NETSational Seniors. Fri., April 3, 9:20 a.m.; Sat., April 4, 2:25 p.m.; Sun., April 5, 2:35 p.m., 2009…
Get a pre-release gander at John Hindman’s romantic comedy about the prickly author of a spirituality tome (Jeff Daniels) and a happy-go-lucky chiropractor (Lauren Graham). The film, which opens this year’s Phoenix Film Fest, was scheduled for a mid-summer release at press time. Thu., April 2, 7 p.m., 2009…
Among the highlights of this year’s fest are Hi, My Name Is Ryan (the documentary about Phoenix’s eternally youthful Mormon thrash vocalist/performance artist Ryan Avery) and the documentaries The Way We Get By, about a trio of Maine senior citizens who greet troops returning from the war, and I Know…
The world musician will play percussion and the Hang — a Swiss-invented steel drum — during First Friday. Fri., April 3, 8 p.m., 2009…
You can learn a lot about a person’s finances in the cereal aisle. A guy might buy a car out of his price range, but when the chips are down, you know dude’s reaching for the Malt-O-Meal, not the fancy rich-people cereal in the tiny boxes on the top shelf…
The man behind the handcrafted Voodoo Choppers line signs autographs. Fri., April 3, 4-8 p.m.; Sat., April 4, 4-8 p.m.; Sun., April 5, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 2009…
We know your dream. We’ve dreamed it, too, in our seedier moments. Ditch the job. Buy a hog. Fall in with questionable company. Prowl the city with greaser buds in search of babes, boobs, and booze. It’s a great gig if you can get it, and once a year –…
Artist Frida Kahlo had serious body issues. No, we don’t mean the Sasquatch eyebrows and pencil ’stache — though if her self-portraits are any indication, Frida definitely could’ve used some Nair. We’re talking deformed legs, a crooked spine, and dozens of broken bones from a bus accident. Ouch. Frida’s grandniece,…
This guided trek takes you from the beginning of the kick-butt Sunrise Trail to the end, with a pit stop about halfway along at Sunrise Peak, the highest point that can be legally accessed at present in the Conservancy. Sat., April 4, 8-11 a.m., 2009…
Errol Morris (A Brief History of Time, The Fog of War) directed the masterful 1988 documentary about the murder of a Dallas police officer in 1976. Morris’ filmic investigation led to the overturn of the conviction of one of the suspects in the crime. The score is by Philip Glass…
Jerry Stahl, author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight and CSI episodes including one in which someone dies after an acid-laced enema, has a sardonic, witty voice that leaves the reader torn between laughter and tears (much like that acid-laced enema would). In Stahl’s latest novel, Pain Killers, pill-popping ex-cop…
The biggest, baddest Bond of ’em all — based on the best of Ian Fleming’s Bond books — screens outdoors. Fri., April 3, 7:30 p.m., 2009…
Second annual exhibit of sick, twisted, and just plain weird variations on the Mexican anthropomorphic craft fave. Fri., April 3, 6-10 p.m., 2009…
The Rockies are in the thick of things. The D-Backs are long out, but could still act as a spoiler in Colorado’s bid to overtake the Dodgers for the NL West title. And for whatever it’s worth, this is the last time Arizona and the Rockies will meet ’til Cactus…
If you dig mid-century modern, especially as it applies to the desert Southwest, you’ll want to catch the sessions featuring Don Ryden (“The Architecture of Enterprise: Uplifting Design of Modern Phoenix 1945-1975”), Richard A. Eribes (“Mythic Influence: Calvin C. Straub’s Work in Phoenix”), and Charlie Ray (“Cacti and Succulents as…
The annual Mod PHX event opens with a screening of the documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, about the famed architectural photographer. A Q&A with the film’s director/producer, Eric Bricker, follows. Fri., April 3, 7-9 p.m., 2009…
The nightlife series showcases a different Dale Chihuly sculpture and Chihuly-inspired cocktail weekly. This week’s featured sculpture: Ruby Fiddleheads. Cocktail: Bloody Mary. Entertainment: What Laura Says (pictured). Thu., April 2, 5:30-8 p.m., 2009…
It’s a decidedly unfunny line on paper. A lanky and bald, albeit exceptionally animated, comic insists, “No, no, I am not Iranian. I am Persian, like the cat!” A beat, a tilting of the head, then he laughingly paws his hand in the air and coos, “Meow!” Durned if it…
The digital/new-media correspondent for NBC Nightly News speaks about her pioneering position — the first of its kind on network TV. Mon., April 6, 7 p.m., 2009…
Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum hasn’t been “The Madhouse on McDowell” since the Phoenix Suns outgrew it in 1992. What better league to kick back open the cuckoo’s nest than the hip-swaying, trigger-tempered Arizona Derby Dames, who’ve moved into the cavernous Vet after selling out all of their games last season at…
