Arts & Culture

The good doctor from Star Trek: Voyager, in town playing the distinctly different role of composer Erik Satie, signs autographs. Sat., March 7, 12-2 p.m., 2009…

In a culture so besieged by the conflict between art and commerce, it’s perhaps natural that the use of pop idioms is disparaged by the critical elite, anxious to protect their canon from dilution. Charlie Hunter has dodged such dismissive darts aimed at his eclectic jazz treatments, which have spanned…

Local pretty boy rockers Anarbor will just one of the acts on this year’s Take Action! Tour. It’s put together by Anarbor’s emo-pop-rock label, Hopeless Records, through their non profit organization, Sub City, and also features Meg & Dia, Breathe Carolina, Every Avenue. It’s the eighth year, for the tour,…

I’d always assumed that the peculiar church on Seventh Avenue was a Frank Lloyd Wright knockoff, one of dozens of acclaimed buildings around town that are politely referred to as “homages” because they ape Wright’s trademark concrete-and-stone stylings. But it turns out that this prettily peculiar building is that rarest…

One of Arizona’s greatest treasures, Grand Canyon National Park, turns 90 today. If it wasn’t for the protections this designation offered, by now the park would probably be strung up with cable cars, lined with resort hotels and full of reservoir water. Instead, the Grand Canyon remains in relatively pristine…

The inaugural drinking-and-not-driving blowout features drink specials at selected bars and restaurants dotting the Metro Light Rail line, including Four Peaks Brewery, Stoudemire’s, Draw 10, Majerle’s, Club Central, George & Dragon, and Doc’s Place. (Photo courtesy of Metro.) Sat., Feb. 28, 4-11 p.m., 2009…

The “no-holds-barred night of poetic injustice and spoken word” features performances/screeds by the likes of The Klute (pictured on a how-a-bill-becomes-a-law field trip), Trishjustrish, Bill Campana, Kevin Patterson, Jeff Falk, Jack Evans, and Richard Bledsoe. Sat., Feb. 28, 8 p.m., 2009…

It’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome-style brawling at the Celeb, with a fight card that includes a Main Event pitting Alberto Crane vs. Eric Regan, two Co-Main Events, and 11, well, for lack of a better word, plain ol’ no-holds-barred Events. Sat., Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m., 2009…

Politically-charged, Washington-based singer-songwriter Amber Darland performs a show to benefit Equality Arizona. Mon., March 2, 7 p.m., 2009…

This year’s fest honors the films of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who will be in attendance and will host a Q&A session after each screening. Wed., March 4, 7 p.m., 2009…

This year’s fest honors the films of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who will be in attendance and will host a Q&A session after each screening. Tue., March 3, 7 p.m., 2009…

You think you know Phoenix until you see it through Jason Hill’s eyes: the Luhrs Tower, the Westward Ho, the Rosson House, and especially the artist’s color-saturated image of the Phoenix Financial Center all bring our fair city into brighter, sharper contrast. Hill’s vibrant, handcrafted prints combine photography and paint…

A rose by any other name . . . you know the rest, Shakespeare dude/dudette. Detroit garage rockers Tyvjk know the quote and its meaning perhaps too well. You see, the rockers started as Tyvek, only to be endlessly hassled by DuPont, which owns the registered trademark for the synthetic…

It’s tough to look away from a story that begins, “I was one of twenty-eight children born to my dad and his three wives.” So commences Flora Jessop’s Church of Lies, in which the former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints details the horrors of indoctrination and child…

Long-term relationships are like physical and psychological endurance tests. Misunderstandings are the bane of all monogamous systems, and you have prided yourself on being able to read your partner with sensitivity. You know that those muted weeping sounds at night indicate gastrointestinal discord rather than a painful yearning for the…