Lance Fung, ace curator and mastermind of international exhibitions, has once again snapped his fingers and set in motion another undertaking of grand (though somewhat elusive) proportions. Because not even el maestro himself knows what theme his upcoming “Lucky Number Seven” biennial exhibition will express. The 27 participating artists, hand-picked…
We dodge religion like vampires shrink from garlic toast, and it’d take a Supreme Being-size miracle to lure us back. Jesus Christ, here’s one now! The Son of God Himself is scheduled to appear at 8 and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, May 25, at Scottsdale’s City of Grace, 9610 East Cactus…
We dodge religion like vampires shrink from garlic toast, and it’d take a Supreme Being-size miracle to lure us back. Jesus Christ, here’s one now! The Son of God Himself is scheduled to appear at 8 and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, May 25, at Scottsdale’s City of Grace, 9610 East Cactus…
Oscar Wilde’s “trial of the century” could well have taken place yesterday. It’s got all the right ingredients, such as celebrities, art, sex, and our persistent appetite to see those perched comfortably at the height of fame pulled down into the muck. Although Wilde lived and traveled openly with Lord…
Think of how much money you wasted when you switched your college major four times. And did you know you’ll make at least three significant career changes in your lifetime? Welcome to the age of waffling. Society’s encouragement of self-reflection has turned you into an indecisive wiener. The good news…
Things are heating up early in the WNBA season for the Phoenix Mercury as the Seattle Storm – the team the Mercury swept in the first round of last year’s playoffs – blows into U.S. Airways Center. During the offseason, the Storm undertook a serious re-build around last year’s league…
“If I’m gonna get busted, it is not gonna be by a guy like that.” Know what movie that was from? How about this one? “When you get old, your heart dies.” Come on, you know that one for sure. Okay, one more. “I mean, not many girls in contemporary…
The duo named Dresden Dolls is slightly more than a bit unconventional, by which me mean to say, “Duh.” Any band that labels its oeuvre “Brechtian punk cabaret” and names itself after the site of one of the most horrible war crimes of all time, well, it’s probably not gonna…
The jaunty, strummed rhythm of “Squirrels” counters the sentiment at its center; frontman Jake Bellows notices a squirrel doing “backflips for change, for a lady who vacuums her heartache away,” before the brokenhearted singer confesses, “I just keep writing the same song.” It’s a boon if true, because Neva Dinova…
It’s highly likely that Rob Reiner used the theatrical-metal band Iron Maiden as a working template for This Is Spinal Tap. But as cartoonish as these volume-to-11 Brits can be, the Maiden’s also been known to break the mold it helped create with stray shrapnel like 1984’s “Rime of the…
Sixty-four to 35. 84 to 59. 63 to 28. These are all losing tallies that the Arena Football League’s Grand Rapids Rampage has suffered so far this season (some Arena teams rack up 28 points in one quarter). If these scores still don’t mean anything to you, let’s put it…
To hear them tell it, photogenic Kills principals Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince were lost before they found each other — ambitious outsiders trapped in standard-issue punk bands. Drawn together like bullied drama-club kids, Mosshart (a Floridian femme fatale) and Hince (a British Lou Reed) met in 2000 and have…
A single, quick glance at Billie #14 is all it takes to burn the name Lyle Ashton Harris into one’s brain forever. Ashton’s transfer print from an old Polaroid is so evocative of a long-gone glamour era, so transformative of Billie Holiday’s unmistakable visage, that no one who sees this…
Besides skin-searing temperatures and sky-high electric bills, here’s another sign we’re hip-deep into summertime: the annual assault of big-name package concert tours. Between now and Labor Day, the PHX will be invaded by the Vans Warped Tour, Projekt Revolution, the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, Crüe Fest, and the Metal Masters Tour,…
Phoenix artist Mayme Kratz once told New Times that she spent her childhood “burying things and digging them back up and dissecting them.” Kratz’s predilection has paid off as an adult with scores of shows and representation by Scottsdale’s Lisa Sette Gallery. As the current artist-in-residence at Desert Botanical Garden,…
The Spanish version opened in Madrid last October. The Swedish take opened in Karlstad shortly afterward. The Japanese production opened recently in Tokyo, and other foreign-language adaptations are scheduled to première soon in Finland, Germany, and South Korea. But Phoenicians will have to settle for the original English production of…
We’ve heard the “opera with a twist” and “rock opera” distinctions before from various classical-music organizations. However, each time we’ve checked out these so-called hip concerts, the music’s turned out to be too, well, operatic for our tastes. In the case of the Phoenix Symphony-presented Ainadamar: Fountain of Tears, the…
Valley ‘boarders battle for an all-expenses-paid trip to the OC and a spot in the éS Game of Skate Amateur World Championships at this tricky-tricky flatground single-elim tourney modeled after the hoops game H-O-R-S-E. Sat., May 24, 3 p.m., 2008…
By Jonathan McNamara It’s five minutes into the six-minute trailer for Mill Ave. Inc., a new documentary about the gentrification of Mill Avenue, and nothing but musicians, citizens and club owners talking about “corporate takeover” and prizing (the old) Mill Avenue as “the jewel” of Tempe have been seen. Finally,…
By Jonathan McNamara Adam Sandler did not appear in the original 2006 musical version of The Wedding Singer. Stephen Lynch did. What better replacement? The producers swapped one comedic song-writing star for another. Neither Lynch nor Sandler will be appearing in tonight’s opening show for The Wedding Singer at Gammage…
By Jonathan McNamara This weekend got underway with a gift for us all from 103.9 The Edge’s Craven Moorehead. The Skapunk show host parodied “Handlebars” by The Flobots brining us “Scottsdale Bars” by the Blobots. The song which is currently in rotation on 103.9 The Edge crams an unprecedented amount…
By Jonathan McNamara And the wiener is… Wiener dog owners presented their pampered pooches at Phoenix Greyhound Park this weekend for the Wienerschnitzel Wiener National Race and Festival. Interspersed between greyhound races, the little guys got into the race action running 100 feet from the starting box to their owners’…
