The documentary, screened in conjunction with the library’s “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings” exhibit, features commentary by the five surviving victims of the Nazis’ sodomy statute (Paragraph 175), which led to the imprisonment or murder of approximately 100,000 German homosexuals between 1933 and 1945…
Phoenix artist Urso will take rock-carving tools in hand to dismantle a heavily adorned 350-pound boulder and create instant “chip art” that viewers can take home. She’ll also show her video Conversation Scribble Tangle. New Orleans native Berry unveils a new video installation with the Hurricane Katrina devastation at its…
The Valley gets a rare leg up on New York City and the rest of the planet with this screening of Jieho Lee’s new film, based on a Chinese proverb that says life is composed of four emotional elements: happiness, sorrow, pleasure, and love. The flick, which won’t open in…
You’re paying $3 per gallon and think you’ve got it bad. The daft and inventive indie flick Blood Car – made by Atlanta native Alex Orr for $25,000 — imagines a hellish world in which fossil fuel costs $40 per, and, not surprisingly, no one can drive. One of the…
Never mind the bollocks, Jeeves. Snatch up your y-fronts and bend a leg over to the Steel Horse Saloon for a proper invasion of vintage British and European motorcycles. The 13th annual British and European Bike Show & Swap Meet only runs for four hours, so there’s no time for…
Ever since our daddy made sure we included Roger Staubach in our nightly childhood prayers, we’ve been a sports junkie. Then, as a teenager growing up on the northside, we’d sneak into Turf Paradise to watch the magnificent thoroughbreds pound dirt until security threw us out. Now that we’re old…
“T-Bone” Hadley will drop the final curtain on his kids’ extravaganza for adults. After two years of monthly shows and a stunning array of guests that includes The Blackface Hitlers barbershop quartet, Uncle Sku’s Clubhouse will squeeze in one more excursion of fun and lessons to grow on. Will Sku…
Two manuscripts and a microphone. That’s how First Fridays go down at Changing Hands Bookstore. At 7 p.m. Friday, January 4, our favorite lit nerds celebrate three decades of bold souls stepping up to bleed in public (1,500 showcases, give or take) during 30 Years of First Friday Poetry. That’s…
The word “paradise” means different things to different people, but here’s our definition: a world without speed limits, stop signs, cops, speeding tickets, or other stupid-ass drivers. Believe it or not, this automotive Shangri-La actually exists at Firebird International Raceway, 20000 South Maricopa Road in Chandler, during “Run What Ya…
Even on First Fridays, the streets of Phoenix are cold, cruel, callous boulevards where materialism and art clash, hipsters congregate in slow-moving packs, and drunken ASU students suffer from disorientation and boredom. Since last February, “Free Hugs” dude Ian Fecke-Stoudt has made it his mission to bring joy to First…
How could Pump Up the Jams: Randemonium Thursdays at Glam not be the shit? Not only do DJs Adventure Face, Adriane, and Meow Meow rock the place with anything-goes tuneage, but they also instruct us to “wear clean underwear.” No wonder Glam’s our favorite joint for a cheap hookup. Suck…
This crime-fiction author has earned her nut — many times over — with her V.I. Warshawski series (which, as few of you will recall, was turned into a stink bomb of a movie starring Kathleen Turner in 1991). Paretsky’s taken an odd, but welcome, turn in the last few years,…
Fernande. Eva. Olga. Marie-Thérèse. Picasso certainly had a high turnover rate, because, to him, there were “only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.” His attitude toward women was dichotic. He used them as models and muses, yet sought and exercised control over them. Despite this — and no…
It’s likely none of us will be invited to come to the theater in our pajamas again anytime soon, so for that reason — and several others — it might not be unwise to visit Herberger Theater Center, where Arizona Theatre Company is presenting The Pajama Game this month. The…
From Kant to Descartes, countless philosophers have grappled with immortality and impermanence. Phoenix-based artist Junjie is fighting the future that drove the old-timers mad one painting at a time with his “Junjie: Past & Present” exhibit. The solo show by the Filipino native spotlights the artist’s visually dense and layered…
It’s been two days since the New Year busted in on you making urgent and reckless love to your doorknob. Remember? You deposited saliva into four different strangers’ mouths (15 points/deposit), cracked jokes that didn’t cause endless suffering (7 points), and committed hara-kiri (800 points). Yet, miraculously, you concluded the…
It’s a well-known fact that Wu-Tang Clan “ain’t nuthin’ to fuck with,” which may be why the nine original emcees (and savvy businessmen) landed such a sweet record deal back in ’93. Their successful strategy was to maximize cash flow by making it big as a group, then create as…
We’ve lost count of the number of projects that pianist Jacob Koller, percussionist Corey Fogel, and bassist Andrew Jones are involved in around town, and we’re especially jazzed that the dynamic trio decided to hook up and form yet another musical experiment: Music for Bowlers. The group’s sound can be…
You ain’t a real bluesman until you get a clever alias like Leadbelly or Howlin’ Wolf. Since 1958, fellow hip-moniker-bearer Sonny Rhodes (born Clarence Edward Smith) has been creating heartfelt music for the jovial and the blue alike. Influenced by B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, and Pee Wee Crayton, Rhodes is…
No one likes to languish in airports. First, there’s the tortuous wait, barefoot, in line to clear security, hoping your bottle of mega-hold gel isn’t confiscated as weapons-grade grooming gear. Then there’s the airport food. Whether it’s a $12 steam-table hamburger or $12 coffee, you’d better enjoy it, since you’ll…
Ask anyone who’s been to France – it’s all about the food. Wine, cheese, crusty baguettes, amazing sauces, fresh crepes, and appreciation of the culinary niceties in life must be hard-coded into Francophile DNA. Luckily, desert dwellers can enjoy such pleasures without updating the old passport. Restaurateur Vincent Guerithault and…
Christian Slater stars in Frank Cappello’s film about a bland little man trapped in a bland little life whose bleak future is transformed by the unintentional intervention of a damsel in distress (Elisha Cuthbert). William H. Macy co-stars. Tue., Jan. 8, 7 p.m., 2008…
