The college-football championship game is shown live from Miami’s Orange Bowl in Pure Digital Cinema technology. The Surprise cinema is the only theater in the state with the live 3-D feed. Thu., Jan. 8, 5 p.m., 2009…
We all know and love (and slightly fear, even?) international rapscallion Craig Ferguson, he of Late Late Show, Drew Carey, and ex-punk-rock-alcoholic-hell-bent-on-U.S.-citizenship fame. But the Emmy-nominated Scotsman’s career is far more vast and eclectic than most realize. The same confessional, self-deprecating, oft-befuddled style that informs his chipper ’n’ cheeky nightly…
Sure, we’ve got Americana up the wazoo in this dry-heated home state, but what about “Britannicana,” Britpop-rooted music made in three-digit temperatures? Could it ever happen here? It has, mate, in the form of Eurovox, a classic mod three-piece band styled after the Jam and the Who but without either…
Like most hardcore musical gormandizers, we’ve got a few “desert island discs” (i.e. albums we’d want in our possession if ever stranded on some abandoned atoll). The Dead Kennedys’ Frankenchrist is one. Perhaps surprisingly, so is The Ataris’ Blue Skies, Broken Hearts . . . Next 12 Exits. While we’ll…
You won’t find the PHX’s fastest and most furious street racers hauling ass down any public roads (and thus risking lives) this weekend. Instead, they’ll be putting pedal to the metal in tricked-out Hondas and Mitsubishis within the confines of SpeedWorld Dragstrip during the latest installment of Arizona Street Racers…
Here’s the thing about hiking: You’re either a lone nut like us or a people person. For the latter, hiking doesn’t get much better than the City of Scottsdale’s free Preserve Connections Hiking Tours of the northeast Valley’s still largely restricted McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Or simpler. Or cheaper. After registering,…
Like a secular Noah, George L. Ellis hand-built his Ark, the Scottsdale artist colony known as the Cattle Track Arts Compound, on the banks of the Arizona Canal beginning in 1937. Though he didn’t single-handedly found the Scottsdale arts scene, his numerous constructs housed many of the significant artists who…
Strolling into the office at 10 is trendy, and American CEOs are late to 80 percent of meetings, but German artist Klaus Rinke swears he’s always on time. In fact, he’s obsessed with it. “When I was young, I was required to be at home at 8 p.m. on the…
The last time you partied in Scottsdale, you intersected with a group of Amish teens on their Rumspringa who were imbibing silly pink drinks and gyrating ambitiously on the dance floor. Their imitation of “outer world” social conduct suddenly made you very self-aware of your own societal script. You may…
The last time you partied in Scottsdale, you intersected with a group of Amish teens on their Rumspringa who were imbibing silly pink drinks and gyrating ambitiously on the dance floor. Their imitation of “outer world” social conduct suddenly made you very self-aware of your own societal script. You may…
Two white-bread guys whose pretty folk duets digress into fraternal bickering – it doesn’t sound like the recipe for a long career in show business. Yet the Smothers Brothers, about a half-century after they started, remain comedy legends. Most of this iconic status is thanks to the short-lived CBS variety…
The work is based on a true story in which World War II-era American soldier Kurt Klein freed Gerda Weissmann from Nazi rule and fell in love with her. (Gerda now lives in Scottsdale.) Wed., Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Jan. 15, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 16, 8 p.m., 2009…
Herb Sendek’s squad hosts a Pac-10 game against the Ducks. Sat., Jan. 10, noon, 2009…
Well, it’s the beginning of January and the ASU Men’s Basketball team did what it was supposed to do: mop up the mostly-weak-sauced opponents in its nonconference schedule. Aside from a slip-up to a very good Baylor squad and a tough conference loss at Cal, coach Herb Sendek and the…
Cyndi Coon of AZ-based Laboratory5 Inc. leads the workshop in conjunction with the exhibit “Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting.” Preregistration is required. Thu., Jan. 8, 6-8 p.m., 2009…
Peter Mueller and the ‘Yotes host the once-mighty Stars in a Pacific Division grudge match. Sat., Nov. 15, 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 10, 7 p.m.; Mon., March 30, 7 p.m., 2008…
2008 was a killer year for new finds: 264 gold coins from the seventh century in Israel’s Jerusalem National Park, legless lizards in the Brazilian rainforest, and a previously undiscovered Shakespeare play – at least, that’s what the late playwright Dale Wasserman wanted you to believe. Theater Works will present…
Phoenix hosts Al Horford (pictured), prodigal Sunnie Joe Johnson, and the semi-surprising Hawks. Tue., Jan. 13, 7 p.m., 2009…
On March 14, 2007, the Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks played one of the greatest regular-season games of all time. The 2-OT affair in Texas pitted the West’s top teams – and best pals Steve Nash and the Mavs’ Dirk Nowitzki — in a seesaw slugfest that ended 129-127 in…
The marine geologist and Titanic discoverer presents “Adventures in Deep Sea Exploration.” Wed., Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., 2009…
Hip-hop’s been taking existing works and weaving them into new shapes and sounds since DJ Kool Herc extended breaks at South Bronx park jams. Expect a similar energy in Revenge of a King, a Black Theatre Troupe/BlackPoet Ventures co-production that puts a hip-hop spin on Big Willie Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The…
The King is honored during Elvis Week in this three-mile loop hike in Estrella Mountain Regional Park. Elvis impersonators, believe it or not, are allowed. Fri., Jan. 9, 6:30-9 p.m., 2009…
