The chic affair centers on the work of artists Yebin Choi (detail pictured), Joseph Metcalf, Ted VanCleve, David Lancaster, and Sierra Berry. Entertainment by DJs William Reed and Sean Ryan is planned, as are film and video offerings and a courtyard area set aside for local artists to show off…
The brain child of Portland improv comic Aaron Ross, this touring production features Ross as a throwback windbag of a talk-show host based on the real-life author of a motivational book Ross found at a thrift store. The show also features a house band named Thuggage and a requisite second…
Hall of Famer and retired Chicago Cubs great Ferguson Jenkins leads a number of his celebrity friends against the All-Stars, a team composed of media figures and community leaders. Proceeds benefit the Ferguson Jenkins Foundation and the Mesa HoHoKam Foundation. Fri., March 28, 7 p.m., 2008…
The sweetie-pie star of the Food Network show Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller unveils her new book, which is titled (take a deep breath, ’cause, appropriately, it’s a real mouthful) Robin to the Rescue: Quick & Simple Ideas for Delicious Home Cooking, an Essential Guide for Getting Weeknight Meals…
The National Endowment for the Arts medalist/pianist highlights repetitions in the works of Debussy, Satie, Faure, and Messiaen in this concert held in conjunction with the “Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse and More” exhibit. Sat., March 29, 2 p.m., 2008…
You’d be one crazy mofo to miss this shindig. On Thursday, March 27, Djentrification, Johnny Dee, and One Peso share four turntables during this DJ potpourri. One Peso, who plans to leave Phoenix soon, will spin rarely-heard Jamaican music while the legendary Johnny Dee plays super rare songs from local…
The Arizona American Italian Club will be a heaven for record nerds when they host a Record Swap Meet. Sat., March 29, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 2008…
How does a British girl of average attractiveness (whose first single was a White Stripes cover, by the way) rise to international fame? For then-16-year-old Joss Stone, worshiping Aretha Franklin and belting out soulful dirges like a Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey love child may have had something to do with it…
High school and hyperbole go hand in hand. In describing grades 9 through 12, most people declare them the “greatest years of my life!” or “four years of living hell!” Perhaps, that’s why it’s so hard – though dozens of filmmakers try each year — to depict high school on…
Tiger Woods snubs the Valley every year. At least budding superstar Michelle Wie wanted to be here. The 18-year-old received an exemption from the Safeway International that would have allowed her to compete as a pro for the first time in Arizona, but an injury nixed that idea. Oh, well…
While the Willo Historic District receives mad accolades and recognition, little ol’ Coronado – loosely bordered by Virginia Avenue to the north, McDowell Road to the south, Seventh Street to the west, and 14th Street to the east – sits there in all of its cute and quiet glory. To…
There’s a dusty adage that says your likelihood of scoring with the opposite sex increases if you’re in a band or a movie. Double score if you’re in a movie about being in a band. If that’s true, that makes our very own instrument-wielding all-stars Andrew Jackson Jihad, Haunted Cologne,…
You might think that Alternative Race Day means lesbians in wheelchairs, but at Turf Paradise on Saturday, March 29, there’ll be a veritable Island of Dr. Moreau on the sandy racetrack, with ostriches, camels, mules, and pigs squealing out in place of the racehorses. Speaking of animals, The Mayor, Dave…
Chuck Taylor All-Stars, those venerable Converse sneakers, were once the cutting edge in athletic shoes. They’ve long since given way to NASA-level contraptions in competition arenas. Similarly, Jean Cocteau’s contributions to art and performance might seem a little, well, quaint. Backwards Theatre, a new avenue for experimental theater from preeminent…
It’d be easy to talk about a Canadian-sponsored film festival and slip in the requisite “Take off, hoser” and “Drink more Molson, eh?” comments, à la toque-wearing Bob and Doug McKenzie. But while we might chortle and giggle like a third-grader over a fart joke, the fleeting laughter’s over in…
It’s easy to scoff at Valley suburbs — as if Phoenix proper is the condensation of all things urban and art — but we’d generally rather gag than travel anywhere requiring entry onto a Loop and drive-bys of four Target Greatlands. However, glorious weather is the great equalizer. Things you…
Arizona Cactus League baseball is one of the most anticipated sports happenings in town. But around this time in March, we’re way more jazzed about practice ball ending and the Arizona Diamondbacks beginning regular-season play. That’s why we say enough already with miniature ballyards featuring used-up hurlers running foul-pole laps…
Outside of blaxploitation and Spike Lee, motion pictures made by black filmmakers don’t get much love. That changes (at least in this town) when acclaimed African-American filmmakers visit for the seventh annual Arizona Black Film Showcase. Workshops take place at Phoenix Convention Center, 111 North Third Street, while the films…
What does it take to get into the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament these days? How about a fifth-place finish in the stacked Pac-10? In the case of the ASU Sun Devils, the answer would be “false.” What about a sweep of your in-state rival? In the case of the ASU…
The hip cats who put together the Theonix Arts Showcase know how to throw a slammin’ shindig. 4 real dough. On Friday, March 28, the center of the cool universe takes place at Hollywood Alley, with performances by What Laura Says Thinks and Feels, Rocketline, The Market, and H.P.R. as…
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, the newest, Internet-only album by Saul Williams, may not be what fans expect from the accomplished writer, star of the 1998 movie Slam, and poet/musician. It’s more gritty, electronic-based, and, at times, even more pissed-off. For that, we can thank Trent Reznor of…
What do Oscar-winning screenwriters do between films? They make little plays, apparently. One such diminutive dramedy is John Patrick Shanley’s The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, an oddball skewering of infidelity, spousal abuse, and the vagaries of love. Shanley, who won an Academy Award for his Moonstruck script in 1987, pits…
