Who else thinks that Baxter the Bobcat needs to be neutered with extreme prejudice? Well, on Saturday, March 29, the Arizona Diamondbacks host the defending Mexican League champion Sultanes de Monterrey in a one-game exhibition at Chase Field, 401 East Jefferson Street. It’s an interesting match-up in and of itself,…
Life in the 15th century was fairly disgusting with those excrement-splattered streets, plagues galore, and life expectancy of about 40 years. The idea behind the Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace? Clean things up and make it hip — as hip as something like a Ren fest can be, at…
Fans of the Mike Nichols film Closer may be disappointed with the superior stage version on which it’s based, now playing at ChyroArts Venue. The 2004 movie, which starred Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Jude Law, and Natalie Portman, featured a watered-down ending with no twist, and its key plot differences…
It’s 1955, and there’s plenty of work to be had building the new interstate in Klan country. One hitch: The young black laborers are mysteriously vanishing or, somewhat more ominously, being found embedded in concrete. These are just some of the happenings in the Black Theatre Troupe-staged East Texas Hot…
“Radical Mod is a test for me and a test for Scottsdale and a test for the low rider guys that are coming here in a sense that we’re all a freakish components in the element that we’re in,” Cohen said.
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz at Bentley Gallery: Think of snow globes and you’re reminded of second-rate antique stores, Grandma’s creepy attic, and tourist gift shops. But the works by Martin and Muñoz embrace this item’s nostalgia and shed any cheesiness. Beautifully crafted snow globes rest on pedestals in the…
At the crosswalk the other day, I noticed something peeking out from the usual pasting of fliers on the light pole in front of me. It looked like an address label. In a nondescript typeface was printed: “OUT OF IRAQ” — a plea unlikely to persuade any policymakers who happened…
Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless Army deserter and con man, able to fool people into believing he’s both a substitute teacher and a master of hand-to-hand combat. It’s a part that requires…
Sometimes it’s the terrible ideas — say, a TV show about nothing, or stirring corn into your mashed potatoes — that turn out to be genius. Super Smash Bros. landed on the Nintendo 64 nearly 10 years ago, kicking off a concept that initially sounded nauseating: “lovable Nintendo characters in…
I learned to ride a bicycle when I was 34 years old. I don’t recall now why I refused to learn as a child, although my father remembers that I thought bike-riding was “childish,” which sounds like something I might have said when I was 5 or 6; I was…
Did searching for color-dipped ova left in your backyard by an over-sized specimen of the lagomorpha order leave you lacking in egg-citement this Easter? Consider that you might have gone to one of these events instead of chomping the heads off innocent chocolate bunnies, sicko. They can’t help that they’re…
“Eleven French Artists. One Revolutionary Event,” screams the headline for Phoenix Art Museum’s self-proclaimed blockbuster, “Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse & More.” PAM’s current offering is a traveling exhibition of work by easily recognizable 19th-century French masters originated by Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum and first shown there in 2007 under the…
The Sweetest Swing in Baseball is a comedy for smart people. Funny girl Neda Tavassoli playfully chews the scenery, portraying the play’s protagonist, Dana Fielding, as a famous but paranoid artist who ends up in an institution after attempting suicide over a failed exhibition and the loss of her lover…
Calvin peeing on Ford. Calvin pissing on Chevy. Calvin urinates on anything that ain’t a Chrysler-owned brand during the HEMI Show and Shootout at Speedworld Raceway Park. The MOPAR-only event – MOPAR is short for MOtor PARts that encompass Dodge, Plymouth, Jeep, etc. – features a car show, a swap…
Cowboy art in most galleries: a man and his steed; a man and his steed resting by a stream; a man and his steed looking upon the prairie. Bo-ring. Cowboy art in the “Cow Poked” exhibit, which clowns that crap outta traditional Western art: a tub-of-lard cowboy kid riding away…
Those wacky government employees at Goodyear’s Estrella Mountain Regional Park are at it again with their Full Moon Over Ireland Hike. This time, bards in boots compete in an Irish History Month limerick contest while trekking ’neath the silvery orb. It leaves at the Toothaker trailhead. Fri., March 21, 6:30…
Most rap sports the power of a guerrilla uprising and the musicality of a cantaloupe. Thump. Those who like a little melody with their revolution should check out DJ Spider, a world-beating L.A. spin doctor who specializes in hip-hop but deftly drops in elegant soul stirs by the likes of…
A point that was driven home time and again during Super Bowl mania is that Scottsdale throws a bumping party. Some of us, though, like our shindigs more locally focused and arty, which is why we’ll be in Old Town when the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art shines a spotlight…
A point that was driven home time and again during Super Bowl mania is that Scottsdale throws a bumping party. Some of us, though, like our shindigs more locally focused and arty, which is why we’ll be in Old Town when the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art shines a spotlight…
Football is full of mobile sides of beef who’d kick their grannies in the dentures if push came to shove. The NBA is mean streets all the way. Robert Horry. Steve Nash. ’Nuff said? The NHL? Todd Bertuzzi. Chris Simon. Marty McSorley. Butchers on ice, the lot of ’em. Baseball,…
Football is full of mobile sides of beef who’d kick their grannies in the dentures if push came to shove. The NBA is mean streets all the way. Robert Horry. Steve Nash. ’Nuff said? The NHL? Todd Bertuzzi. Chris Simon. Marty McSorley. Butchers on ice, the lot of ’em. Baseball,…
The NFL-champion New York Giants finished 14th out of 32 teams in scoring. Yaaaaawn. The San Antonio Spurs, reigning NBA overlords, are averaging 95.8. Blaaaaah. Our Arena-league pinball wizards, the Arizona Rattlers, won their March 1 opener 63-62. Scooooore! And continued satisfaction is guaranteed thanks to the team’s historic playoffs-or-full-refund…
