ONGOING Anyone who writes haikus to cola is a soda aficionada, and we admit to it. Imagine our delight in discovering Pop the Soda Shop, a south Scottsdale beverage boutique at 2015 North Scottsdale Road. Pop caters to everyone’s tastes with 450 varieties of alcohol-free beverages, including juice, tea, soda…
Sat 8/30 Impact Zone Wrestling, the state’s only full-service training school for professional wrestlers, celebrates its first anniversary at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, August 30, with a full card of local wrestlers at its Phoenix facility. For $8, fans can check out the next generation of pro wrestling heroes, who…
Sat 8/30 When Jonathan Swift suggested in his famous work A Modest Proposal that the Irish eat their own young, he was being sarcastic. So when comic Ryan McKee began a local humor magazine in January and called it Modest Proposal, he knew he had picked a title that would…
9/13-11/15 ASU is sending kids back to the drawing board — not to mention the painter’s easel, potter’s wheel and photographer’s tripod. The university’s yearly Eleanor A. Robb Children’s Art Workshop resumes this weekend, as art education students from the School of Art teach weekly classes to aspiring young artists…
8/31-9/1 “I can’t remember the last time I saw the sun rise,” Valley comic and impresario Jimmy Danelli says. “When the sun comes up in the morning, I’ll be wearing my sunglasses.” Danelli, host of the Funniest Person in the Valley comedy series, is talking about his upcoming stint MCing…
A respected comedy writer sits over lunch with a man who, in the late 1960s, was very, very famous. This man, slender and balding, was a comedian who, with his younger brother, hosted a network television show that caused quite a ruckus–they talked too much politics, and pot, for prime…
8/22-9/21 It just might be the sleeper hit of the season. Starting this Friday, Desert Stages Theatre presents Once Upon a Mattress, Broadway’s take on Hans Christian Andersen’s Princess and the Pea. The musical comedy finds Dauntless the Drab desiring to be the prince formerly known as single, but his…
Tue 8/26 Get down, kids — Matt Pryor’s New Amsterdams are set to rock Nita’s Hideaway, Tuesday, August 26. The side project of the Get Up Kids vocalist/guitarist — with drummer Jake Cardwell, guitarist Alex Brahl, and Get Up’s Robert Pope on bass and organ — the band brought expanded…
Tod Keltner and Don Standhardt want to get married, dammit. To each other. Hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s dissing of anti-sodomy laws, and Canada’s recent recognition of gay marriages, Keltner and Standhardt last month filed an application for an Arizona marriage license. When the application was rejected,…
If, in keeping with current fads, you seek movies featuring females kicking a bunch of ass, your appetite will be tended (and cultivated) at the multiplex all summer long. Wander into your local art house, however, and you may find a fine if somewhat challenging import called The Legend of…
The praising of Hollywood summertime cinema is the pastime of pale critics who, come late July, start to wonder what the strange yellow orb is hanging in the sky. Hence the gallons of kind ink spilled over the season’s sequels, which shipped spoiled but were guzzled nonetheless by parched writers…
Author Michael Waldock’s fascination with flight attendants began with a distinctly memorable experience. “The first time I came to the United States, I had to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco on a local airline called PSA. The flight attendants wore micro-minis and odd-shaped hats, and when I got…
Thursday, August 21 Thursday, August 21 is the last trial round of competition in the Climbmax Bouldering Comps Hot House Classic before the championship, scheduled for September 16. With divisions geared to different age groups as well as all skill levels, it’s a chance for the whole family to rock…
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8/23-12-6 Can’t tell the difference between a Renaissance and a Baroque painting? Be not afraid. The ASU Art Museum happens to own some of the best examples of art from both periods, and, beginning Saturday, August 23, brings them out for all to see. “The Painters’ Craft: Renaissance and Baroque…
Sun 8/24 This weekend is World Wrestling Entertainment’s latest installment of the SummerSlam pay-per-view event. One of WWE’s biggest annual mega-bouts, it features wrestlers from both RAW and SmackDown!. But for around the price of a pay-per-view purchase, you can roll on down to America West Arena and experience it…
8/27-9/19 On Wednesday, August 27, the planet Mars will be closer to the Earth — 56 million kilometers — than it has been in some 60,000 years; Neanderthals were the last to observe Mars in such proximity, according to NASA. It’s obviously an appropriate date for the opening of “See…
He knows there are people, too many, who do not like him. He has to know. They’ve told him to his face–the studio executives who slice and snip the scenes he loves the most and suffer his outbursts for it, the directors he’s pushed out of the way so he…
I normally don’t review children’s theater, but the temptation to watch several dozen teenagers drown was too great, and so I attended an evening performance of Valley Youth Theatre’s Titanic last week. I’ve seen this show once before, enacted by adults, and so I knew what I was in for:…
It’s a great pleasure to behold a chunk of art that’s both dank and fresh at the same time, and this appraisal perfectly fits the superb Dirty Pretty Things. The latest from veteran director Stephen Frears (Gumshoe, Prick Up Your Ears, High Fidelity) immediately transports the viewer to a subjective…
Kevin Costner appeared in his first Western when he was 30 and looked to be in his early 20s. He was a slender, restless actor in Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado, the 1985 film in which Costner played the blithe brother of a somber Scott Glenn — all giggles and gunshots, a…
Ah, Paris — City of Light, of Love, of Liver Damage and Lung Cancer. C’est formidable, non? Who in need of a posh vacation would turn down the opportunity to luxuriate in its finest hotels, to stuff oneself with sumptuous snails, and to work on a terribly flat romantic drama…
