7/09-8/01 For weeks, Gerry Cullity has been surrounded by whores — yes, whores, good golly! “And isn’t that a little bit like heaven?” says Cullity, director of Desert Stages Theatre’s mainstage production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 9, at 4720 North…
THU 1 Relationship woes? Money issues? In trouble with the boss? We’re not promising anything, but “professional” astro-therapist Roxy Carter might help in the search for true romance, winning lottery numbers, and a good excuse for why you’re stumbling into work at noon — again — when she unites psychology…
7/2-7/4 When an artist is touted as “revolutionary,” it means one of two things. Either “I do extraordinarily odd things, call it ‘art,’ and yuppies eat it out of my hand.” Or “I do extraordinarily odd things, it’s actually creative, and yuppies just don’t get it.” Artist Vic Void falls…
The very best thing about Menopause: The Musical is that it eventually ends. Although not soon enough. After what seems like days, the off-key warbling and flatfooted dance numbers — and therefore the misery of any discerning audience member — finally stumble to a close. But not before we endure…
He has been, for the past 10 years, the mayor of Tempe — a man who, like the best politicians, has been both respected and reviled. Neil Giuliano is a man who built a town lake, a man who helped revitalize a sagging downtown, a man who was reelected three…
All you need to know about Spider-Man 2 is revealed in the opening credits, in which comic-book artist Alex Ross recaps the 2002 original in lovingly, lavishly painted panels. Spidey and Mary Jane Watson are once again entangled in that now-iconic upside-down kiss; nutty Norman Osborn, out of Green Goblin…
It’s charming. It’s hilarious. It is perhaps the most beautifully crafted, lovingly rendered portrait of extreme geekitude ever to grace the screen. It’s Napoleon Dynamite — the first feature film from 24-year-old Brigham Young University student Jared Hess — and, if there is any justice, it’s going to be huge…
America’s Heart & Soul, the debut feature from commercial director Louis Schwartzberg, is being depicted in some quarters as the antidote to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, mostly because it’s a documentary, being released around the same time, about the USA. For more simplistic minds who equate anti-Bush sentiment with hatred…
Depending on whom you ask — and where you direct your Web browser — Bob Saget is God (www.bobsagetisgod.com), or Bob Saget is Satan (maddox.xmission.com/saget.html). “There’s some pretty frightening Internet stuff about me,” Saget says, aware of the religious wars being waged in his name. The actor and comedian –…
Bedazzling in your Uncle Sam novelty hat and puffy-paint flag shirt, with nowhere to go? At least it’s the Fourth of July this time — and not your cousin’s bat mitzvah. (Don’t worry — we’ve made the same mistake.) No need to waste your ingenious ensemble on homemade barbecues and…
7/1-7/31 The folks at downtown’s Trunk Space Gallery are mining comic value — in the most literal sense. A portion of proceeds from “POW! Comic Book & Sequential Art” — a monthlong exhibition and sale opening Friday, July 2 — benefits the ACTOR Comic Fund, a nonprofit aiding comic book…
7/2-7/4 With its stable of Gold Glovers, home run kings and future Hall of Famers mired in a disastrous season, the Arizona Diamondbacks are (to borrow from Soundgarden) looking California but feeling Minnesota these days. So it’s most apropos that the cellar-dwelling D-Backs take on the Twins — those of…
7/2-8/6 Since we were mere babes, we’ve tentatively unwrapped each chocolate bar, hoping that famed golden ticket was inside. Alas, we’ve been left only with empty pockets and stern lectures from our dentist. Regardless, we’ll enjoy reliving our cavity-filled childhood at the production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,…
7th Avenue Streetscape: The new light box installation on Seventh Avenue north of Indian School is not your typical public art project. Unlike most, its artwork will change twice a year, giving the neighborhood a vibrant boost and artists a round of opportunities to get their work out on the…
THU 24 Scoring points with the girly girls in the crowd, the Phoenix Mercury invite local ladies to America West Arena, 201 East Jefferson, for a Girls Night Out this Thursday, June 24. While the team puts the heat on the New York Liberty, we’ll keep our cool with 10-minute…
It’s often a challenge to fairly assess a film that, by its very conception, is simply targeted to an entirely different demographic from one’s own. I am not by nature romantic, or female; for those who are, it may have to suffice that the mostly double-X-chromosomed crowd watching The Notebook…
The reception area outside of Leah Landrum-Taylor’s office smells of burnt toast. Perhaps a file clerk in the House of Representatives has scorched an English muffin this morning — or maybe someone is trying to intimidate Representative Landrum-Taylor with a subtle warning. If so, they’re wasting their time, because Landrum-Taylor…
Carrie Bloomston is an accomplished artist, a graduate of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. Her beautiful paintings have left random, empty frames of green-gray-purple-peach paint on the walls of her Tempe studio, where Bloomston stands, on a recent Friday morning, flipping carefully through a drawer of older work…
The real Melvin Van Peebles shows up just once in Baadasssss!, a fictionalized account of his making of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song in 1971, and it’s at the film’s end; he sits silent, grinning, clutching his ever-present cigar. But he’s all over this movie, in which his son Mario plays…
Everyone loves tigers, save perhaps for those actually being mauled to death by them. Men like ’em because they’re wild beasts; women like ’em cuz they’re big kitty-cats. So whatever your point of interest, Two Brothers, starring a pair of tigers named Kumal and Sangha, is the perfect date movie…
Black and teal confetti litters the floor of America West Arena as the Arizona Rattlers are mobbed by the press, having just outlasted the Colorado Crush, 45-41, in the semifinals of the Arena Football League playoffs. After an afternoon-long war of attrition, you’d expect the boys to retreat to the…
