Ah, the modern woman. She’s educated (so much so that she emasculates her boyfriends). She’s independent (because she’s too much of a chickenshit to take emotional risks). And she’s career-driven (yep, the uterus is dead). Even with so much, er, success (?), society still expects her to be a culinary…
After downtown Phoenix’s First Friday event began pulling 10,000 people into the city’s core, other sleepy communities, such as Chandler, decided to jump into the art-walk mix. Now, thanks to the neighborhood organization Sunnyslope W.I.N.S., the north-central Phoenix community of Sunnyslope is sending out a wake-up call of its own…
Whatever happened to the good old days of the 1990s? It was the gays’ heyday, and we were all on board. We cried into our leopard-print pillows when Pedro Zamora died on Season 3 of The Real World and blasted Melissa Etheridge on our VW Bug stereo. Our favorite color…
In our experience, most outdoor film screenings skew toward the Adam Sandler/Coors-in-a-cozy demo. The annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, on the other hand, woos the cognoscenti-and-cocktails crowd with works by indie filmmakers drawing on “different visions and levels of experience.” (Translation: You won’t see Happy Gilmore.)…
Eliza Gregory’s amazing portraits of recently resettled refugees in the Phoenix area illustrate an experience that most of us complacent Americans would find nearly impossible to imagine: suddenly fleeing your home, leaving behind not only political unrest and/or violence, but friends, family, and most of your worldly possessions. On one…
There are poetry readings of the “I was born in a log cabin” variety (ick, snore, groan) and then there are poetry readings, those slamming shindigs that showcase raw wordplay with kickback musical backing. If you hit up the Poet Bar Mic Check, you’ll find the latter and more. The…
The Life Before Her Eyes, starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood, is a sort of Gen Next Sophie’s Choice, featuring a fascinating, guilt-racked premise drawn from the book by Laura Kasischke. The film opens nationally April 18, but Phoenicians can get a sneak peek at the flick, which closes…
It’s despicable how Rory Flynn sullies her father’s ne’er-do-well legacy when she describes him as “graced with a combination of charm, eloquence, and courage.” O, wretched lies for a scandalous rogue! Daddy was Golden Age movie star Errol Flynn, who swashbuckled to fame in Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk…
Fictional astronaut Steve Austin had six million dollars behind his rebuilding. What does Matt Spastic — drummer for chaotic garage punks The Complainiacs — have? A little help from his friends. Spastic recently took a sucker punch from the universe, fracturing his jaw in five places and knocking out several…
When someone broaches the endless search for the Great American Novel, we laugh in exasperation. Why are we still chasing that Grail when it’s right there on the shelf, right before our eyes? It’s hard to dispute the qualifications of, say, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath,…
Wanna score tickets to see the recently supersized Phoenix Suns? It may not happen, baby, and it definitely won’t come cheap. So what can low-cash-flow fans do to get their Suns intake? Head to the local watering hole, of course — preferably one that’s equipped with giant plasma screens and…
At the time of writing, it appears highly unlikely the Arizona Diamondbacks will make the playoffs. What happened? Why the total collapse from a team that went 20-8 in April into one that the measly Padres have been laying wood to? Who’s to blame for this steamy pile of horse…
With the release of Ire Works in 2007, Dillinger Escape Plan made a leap into the super-visceral metalcore stratosphere while abandoning many elements of its signature, technically proficient mathcore. The New Jersey band also abandoned many fans, according to various online message boards, and long-timers scoffed at the group’s new…
Though we’re big into reggae, we tend to get forget the names of the many sons following in Bob Marley’s wake. There’s Ziggy, Damian, Stephen, and . . . and . . . oh, yeah, Ky-Mani, who’s scheduled to headline the Reggae Spring Festival. Sat., April 12, 11:45 a.m., 2008…
Yeah, yeah, let’s get to the playoffs already. We feel your pain, folks, but there’s a smidge more torment to dole out. The Phoenix Suns have two regular-season games to go, so let’s try to slap on a happy face while we’re powerin’ through this, okay? Game 81 starts is…
Yeah, yeah, let’s get to the playoffs already. We feel your pain, folks, but there’s a smidge more torment to dole out. The Phoenix Suns have two regular-season games to go, so let’s try to slap on a happy face while we’re powerin’ through this, okay? Game 81 starts is…
See, personal assistants do get some love now and then! This former PA to John Lennon and Yoko Ono snatched John away from Yoko for a short time in the early ’70s, but the siren song of Ono won out in the end, and Lennon ditched the hot Chinese chick…
El Marques. El Chucky. Fantasia el Exotico. Mascara Magica (pictured). All ages. Children welcome. Ooooo-kaaaay. It’s safe to say that the fiends who’ll be grappling at the Superstars of Lucha Libre of Mexico bash won’t be staging a south-of-the-border High School Musical. Rather, they’ll be trying to rip off each…
Does the Valley truly harbor a huge NASCAR following, or do fans of the left-turn circuit flock to town just to set up their homes-on-wheels for a weekend visit? Maybe it’s both. How else to explain when upward of 400,000 spectators come to witness a sport that requires binoculars and…
Does the Valley truly harbor a huge NASCAR following, or do fans of the left-turn circuit flock to town just to set up their homes-on-wheels for a weekend visit? Maybe it’s both. How else to explain when upward of 400,000 spectators come to witness a sport that requires binoculars and…
Does the Valley truly harbor a huge NASCAR following, or do fans of the left-turn circuit flock to town just to set up their homes-on-wheels for a weekend visit? Maybe it’s both. How else to explain when upward of 400,000 spectators come to witness a sport that requires binoculars and…
In their chart-topping single “You! Me! Dancing!,” the indie Britpoppers of Los Campesinos describe how a raucous club night in their native Wales is filled with much dancing and debauchery, singing “The beats, yeah, they were coming out the speakers/And were winding up straight in your sneakers.” And from what…
