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Is all that gallery hopping making you hungry — and thirsty — yet? Be sure to check out The Roosevelt, one of downtown’s newest drinking and dining destinations. Barely two months old, it’s already a popular watering hole with local artists and other creative types, who line up at the…
The entire 22-member roster of artists at eye lounge, 419 East Roosevelt Street, contributes their best and brightest works for the gallery’s annual Art Detour showcase. The lineup includes Lisa Sipe’s colorful encaustic wax and paint creation “The Bees Knees,” Aaron Abbott’s emotive photography, Leigh Miller’s perception-challenging designs, and more…
If you’re looking for some affordable art this weekend, visit the Icehouse, 429 West Jackson Street, during its Art Flea Market on Saturday, March 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, March 4, noon to 6 p.m.; where painters, photographers, and other creative types will hawk their works and…
The masterful black and white copper-plate photogravures from Angela Franks Wells’ “Parts & Labor” series are highlighted at Tilt Gallery, 919 West Fillmore Street. More than two dozen images feature an “intimate view” of the workspaces and tools of plumbers, welders, and other laborers to demonstrate the passion of their…
Any scene worth its salt comes with cliques, and the coolest club in the Phoenix art world is Collective Gesture, a group of artists, curators, and writers who communicate mostly via an invite-only listserv. Sometimes they come out to play, and this month, they’ve launched a show, “Do Me,” in…
“Tenacious” at Tempe Public Library’s Connections Caf: At first glance, artist Barbara Burton’s quirky monoprints of bunnies and teacups seem well-suited to a coffee shop that’s just a stone’s throw from dog-eared copies of Brer Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh. But there’s a darker subtext here. Check out Would You…
In serious art circles, “craft” is a dirty word. It means crocheted doilies and wooden birdhouses, the handmade kitsch you would find at church rummage sales. Form is secondary to function. Installation artist Bruce Nauman, who was featured in PBS’ Art:21 series, said, “It’s the intention that turns a staircase…
In 2003, Mark and Michael Polish made Northfork, though just barely; the brothers, also responsible for the art-house fave Twin Falls Idaho, about conjoined twins who fall for the same woman, lost funding just before shooting began and had to beg for money to finish their reverie about lost souls…
Morally irreproachable and flat as a pancake, Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace is set among bickering House of Commoners in late-18th-century London, but the movie belongs squarely in the currently blooming subgenre of Whites Saving Dark-skinned Victims of Empire. Or at least it would be were Apted able to bring a…
Having endured civil war, separation from their families, hunger and dehydration during a 1000-mile trek through sub-Saharan Africa, and 10 years in a U.N. refugee camp while awaiting the myriad challenges of resettlement in the United States, the three “lost boys of Sudan” in God Grew Tired of Us can…
The Number 23 grips hold of one stupid idea and runs so far with it, in so many directions, to such little purpose, that it nearly won me over from sheer berserkoid effort. In a nutshell, this nutso movie observes what happens to a man (Jim Carrey) under the impression…
We Americans complain of Big Brother’s unblinking eye in the post-Patriot Act, corporate e-mail era — as well we should. But, as The Lives of Others makes plain, things could be worse. Set in East Berlin circa 1984, when one in 100 citizens of the German Democratic Republic was a…
So you’ve beaten Zelda and can hurl a 90 mph fastball in Wii Sports without shattering your 50-inch plasma. Now what? It’s time to explore the rest of the “channels” — some of them included with your Wii, and most free to download. Like cable TV, Nintendo’s offerings range from…
Shut Up & Sing (Genius) It’s a shame that one of 2006’s best documentaries is being released without extras; it would have been nice, for instance, to hear feisty Natalie Maines talk with directors Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck about her reaction to the film, in which the Dixie Chicks…
Apartment Zero (Anchor Bay) Babel (Paramount) The Bros. (Lions Gate) Crooked (Lions Gate) Crossover (Sony) Curious George: Zoo Night and Other Animal Stories (Universal) Dark Castle Horror Collection (Warner Bros.) Flushed Away (Paramount) For Your Consideration (Warner Bros.) Gandhi: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Sony) A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints…
Who says Phoenix doesn’t turn out winners? Not former Phoenician Judy Kaye, on whose mantel rests a Tony Award for her portrayal of Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera. Along the way, she’s appeared in the original Broadway Grease (as a replacement Rizzo) and in numerous film and stage…
Ticket buyers to Factory Girl are in for a drag; not even the drag queens will like it. Cookie-cut from the biopic assembly line, this life and times of Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) is the least-fabulous movie imaginable about the most-fabulous persona in that most fabulous of scenes, the Warhol…
Let us applaud, on principle, Anthony Minghella’s return to small-scale storytelling. Breaking and Entering marks his first original screenplay since the oddball romcom Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), and a retreat from the jumbo-size period pieces of his Miramax-to-the-max phase. Overrated as they are, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley,…
You remember Andrew Ridgeley, don’t you? He was the other guy in Wham!, the one who found himself stranded in 1986, after George Michael had faith enough in his own talents to break up the act. Ridgeley went on to record one solo record, before CBS Records decided, yeah, no…
In December 2002, ABC’s 20/20 ran a story on Eric O’Neill, an undercover surveillance specialist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The piece was titled “Spycatcher,” because it was O’Neill who, at a mere 27 years old, helped bring down Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who, for more than two…
David and Amy Sedaris’ The Book of Liz is a smart, funny, shrewdly crafted piece of writing, full of sly social commentary and jam-packed with goofy double entendres. None of this is apparent in Space 55 Theatre Ensemble’s leaden production of the play, now on display in a dark corner…
