You’re a golfer. You just drove the piss out of the ball straight down that there fairway, Happy Gilmore-style. Then you sink a beast of a putt that’s more ridiculous than an Arnold Palmer hole-sinking tap at The Masters. You’re feeling good about yourself, your life, the kids at home,…
Wear your tie-dye tees and pass the peace pipe during Revolver’s Psych Record Listening Party. Feel free to bring your own obscure strange folk wax to spin. Sun., Jan. 13, 3-5 p.m., 2008…
“The Contact Printers Guild” at 422 Gallery: Breaking off a relationship is a pretty rough gig. Some advice: Give it to them straight. Don’t muddle intentions with manipulation — only candor will bring clarity. The Contact Printers Guild would likely agree with this philosophy. The group of 17 photographers ditches…
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Warner Bros.) — It’s the collector’s-set briefcase that seals the deal, a gunmetal-gray case that all but shouts “Completist dork!” Also: There’s damned near every single version imaginable, plus a making-of doc almost as essential as any iteration of the movie itself. Film school in…
As the waning days of 2007 tick away like Vicodins down the gullet of some rehab-bound starlet, so do your final chances of being bad. See, you’ve finally decided to cut the bullshit, buckle down, and stick to those troublesome New Year’s resolutions you’ve blown off year after year. Which…
American Pie Presents: Beta House (Universal) The Brothers Solomon (Universal) Eastern Promises (Universal) Galactica 1980: The Complete Epic Series (Universal) The Heartbreak Kid (Universal) Intimate Affairs (Universal) The Kingdom (Universal) Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection (Facets) Shattered (Lions Gate) WWE: The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary (WWE)…
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury’s Best Director award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his French-language adaptation of the bestselling memoir by the late Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. Felled by a massive stroke…
Best Sleeper Hit: WordJong (Nintendo DS) — It may not sell like Mario, but this mishmash of Scrabble and mah-jongg hooks you like handheld crack. Already a word-of-mouth hit, despite being released only this month, WordJong is perfect for quiet afternoons, loud commutes, or romantic walks on the beach. Best…
The 1920s seem glamorous to 14-year-old girls lacking in American history. Case in point, young gals (including us, back in the day) who whore it up for Halloween, complete with garter belts and flapper gear. Now we’re thinking that if we were stuck in that decade, we’d be more like…
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art dug into its permanent collection for the sculpture show “Not Really So Simple.” At first glance, the pieces really are simple. But as I shared space with each one, I found myself wanting to fondle some of them to explore their properties. It was…
The Invisible Pink Unicorn, birthed on the whim of early Internet users fed up with religion, gained underground ubiquity as a symbol of atheism. LAS Gallery’s “The Visible Pink Unicorn” exhibit plays with the notion of a different type of cult: “the ultra-feminine.” Pieces in this collection echo a certain…
The folks at Cherry Lounge & Pit bill the clientele who come to Kitten Thursdays Ladies Night “cougars in training.” Hey, gals, aren’t you offended? Oh, you heard they offer $2 mixed drinks, complimentary champagne from 9 to 11 p.m., and phat beats by DJ M2? Never mind. Screw this…
What do you do while you’re waiting for your hit stage play to be adapted into a feature film starring Henry Winkler and Carrie Fisher? Why, you tour the country with a new production featuring scenes from the original play, along with a bunch of audience-participation gags grafted on, of…
The uber-chic retail center adjacent to Jobing.com Arena is promising a huge celebration featuring live entertainment from swing kings Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Times Square’s Naked Cowboy, as well as DJs and dancing, the world’s largest martini ice luge, and more. Several private, themed VIP areas will be available…
Among other carny-style curiosities, the 1979 kung fu film The Crippled Masters features an evil hunchbacked warlord, a warrior who lost the use of his legs when the warlord poured acid on ’em, and another hunchback victim who had both arms severed for some undisclosed slight. Andrew Borntreger of Badmovies.com…
Question for ASU football fans: Did you really want to face the mighty Oklahoma Sooners in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? Wouldn’t you rather enjoy the game instead of watching the football deities from Norman running circles around the Devils? Yeah, it sucks that the hometown team got screwed out of…
Everybody has a soft spot (pun intended) for the floppy, colorful characters in the “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” exhibit, a traveling show that begins its Southwestern première engagement on Saturday, December 15, at Arizona Museum for Youth, 35 North Robson Street in Mesa. The exhibition combines fascinating fun with reverence…
There’s no way the teams playing in the 2007 Insight Bowl – the Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 and Indiana Hoosiers of the Big Ten – can top last year’s un-freaking-believable game between Texas Tech and Minnesota, but they’ll give it a go. Mon., Dec. 31, 4 p.m.,…
Cabin boy Leo DiCaprio and society princess Kate Winslet sucking wind on the bow of the Titanic – yeah, that’ll happen. Director Stephen Low’s doc Titanica tells us what did happen, picking up the story where Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard left off. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy, Titanica offers the straight…
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why are we directing you to the Rogue Bar and Coach & Willie’s for New Year’s Eve? Easy. They’ve got the banginest bashes in the Valley. The Rogue hosts Adios Motherfucker New Year’s Eve Massive, which features…
You know what’s great about America? Well, for one, superfunny black comedians. From Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor to Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, African-American standups have repeatedly stayed one laugh ahead of the censors, skewering middle-class-white prejudices and underclass-black foibles with a healthy seasoning of misogyny and potty humor…
This week, a wave of sorrow will crash over the artists, bands, and performers of Phoenix as they endure the loss of a dear friend: the Paper Heart. For the past seven years, Scott Sanders’ spot has lit up the downtown area with spoken word, performance art, comedy, art exhibits,…
