Sat 5/8 The heart of rock ‘n’ roll is still beating. Feel the love this Saturday, May 8, when the third annual “Music for a Cure” resonates with sound (13 local bands on three stages) and vision (all proceeds benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation). Sharing the benefit…
You could be the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to the Dave Matthews Band concert at Cricket Pavilion on August 24. Count the number of silver 1800 bottles that appear in this Cinco de Mayo Guide and e-mail your guess to tickets@newtimes.com. Winners must be 21 or older…
Reviews by Gina Cavallo Collins and Kathleen Vanesian “Double Vision” at the Phoenix Art Museum: There’s a surprising harmony among the works of San Antonio artist Constance Lowe and Los Angeles artist Alicia Beach in their joint exhibition. Both manage to tame bright colors into soft, psychedelic tones. Both start…
Thursday, April 29 Shakespeare scholars love this labor lost. Touted as the Bard’s great lost — and possibly last — drama, Cardenio surfaces this weekend at the Tempe Performing Arts Center. The Southwest Shakespeare Company makes something old new again, presenting the Southwestern première of the work, also known as…
Pantyhose with cotton crotches, old cut-up tablecloths, Hopalong Cassidy, Cesar Romero. Yup, Mesa Contemporary Arts certainly has selected a strange mixture of materials and subject matter for its “Two-Person National” exhibition, purportedly its very last before MCA bids adieu to its old location in Mesa Arts Center’s venerable Leave It…
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“Thirteen is The Big Lie!” declares Daniel Waters, about midway through a dual interview with him and his brother, Mark. He’s referring to the acclaimed teen drama from 2003, and it’s a fairly cocky assertion. But if you’ve ever been asked by a teen girl, “What’s your damage?” you can…
Pour a couple of old-fashioneds into the average golf historian, and it won’t be long until he gets misty-eyed over Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Jones not only ruled golf in the 1920s, the fellow will tell you; he also epitomized the gentlemanly ideal of the old Scottish game, transplanted to…
Some people talk with their hands; dancers talk with their arms and bellies and sacroiliacs. Listen as 30 dance groups use body language to communicate their emotions for motion at the fifth annual “Celebration of Dance.” The show’s producer and director Helena Saraydarian, whose credits include music videos, TV and…
4/30-5/5 Ask 10 revelers what event Cinco de Mayo pays homage to and, chances are, 11 of them would have no idea. Why sweat the details when the party extends from one end of the Valley to the other, and even underwater? The action promises to be bigger, better and…
Sat 5/1 In a battle for Valley skateboard supremacy, who’s shredding who this Saturday, May 1, when two of the state’s newer skate parks — in Chandler and Glendale — host their first contests? If you’re looking for humility, don’t ask CJ Cowie of Industrial Skate & Boards, co-sponsor of…
Laws of Attraction is the kind of film you might mistake for “cute” or “charming” at first glance. Maybe you will open the paper and spot the ad with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore canoodling and think to yourself how nice it would be to see James Bond defrosting indie…
If another long week’s got you stressed, a visit to the Phoenix Airport Marriott for this weekend’s fourth annual Valley of the Sun Tattoo & Piercing Jamboree — where it’s a good thing to be on pins and needles — might be in order. “It really is just a place…
Fri 4/30 At 22, Zachary Yoshioka would be the youngest working director in Hollywood, by far. As it is, he’s ASU’s only filmmaker with 14 movies and music videos on his rsum — and a legion of low-budget cinemaniacs yearning for him to make it big. “I’d love a picture…
4/29-5/23 When Icarus donned wings to reach the sun, the gods rewarded his boldness by throwing him back to earth. Varekai, the latest incarnation of the famed Cirque du Soleil, reveals what happens when he lands. The word “varekai” (ver•ay•’kie) means “wherever” in the language of the Gypsies. Based on…
In his new book, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, journalist Jonathan Rauch argues that same-sex marriage is a social policy issue, and not about insurance benefits or sex. Rauch, a former Phoenician, swears that legally wed gays will strengthen the…
What a shame that most stage fans will probably miss Hale Center Theatre’s Over the River and Through the Woods rather than drive the dozens of miles to this shiny new playhouse in (gasp!) far-off Gilbert. Joe DiPietro’s bittersweet, sometimes witty comedy is enlivened by a topnotch cast that reads…
Thursday, April 22 Make a date to see The Figgs. The guitar-rock trio leaves the garage to gig at the Clubhouse, 1320 East Broadway in Tempe, on Thursday, April 22. Despite 17 years of rocking, Pete Donnelly, Pete Hayes and Mike Gent remain among “America’s best-kept rock and roll secrets”…
He drips with dry humor, but Steven Wright claims that comic inspiration rolls in only occasionally. “Jokes come to me like rain,” the comedian says. “A lot of ’em will come, and then nothing will happen for a while. And then some, a little bit. And then nothing. And then…
The heck with paper routes. Seventeen-year-old Christian Alf is earning pocket money by fending off the nasty roof rats that have invaded his hometown. The Tempe teen not only launched his own roof rat-proofing business this past winter, but has also prevailed over the wicked bureaucrats who tried to shut…
This may sound an eensy bit hyperbolic, but dig: Mayor of the Sunset Strip is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll movie of all time. Of course, as with any advanced class, it’s good to bone up on the prerequisites. If you haven’t explored rock in film (and rockin’ film) from…
On its surface, José Padilha’s absorbing documentary Bus 174 shows us how a homeless 21-year-old named Sandro Rosa do Nascimento hijacked a city bus in Rio de Janeiro on July 12, 2000, how he took 11 passengers hostage at gunpoint and became the raving centerpiece of a five-hour urban drama…
