9/10-9/14 A librarian’s search takes him far beyond the card catalogue in Underneath the Lintel, the off-Broadway hit being co-produced by ASU West’s Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance and the Valley’s new nonprofit iTheatre Collaborative. Hailed as “a wonderful metaphor for life’s meaning,” Glen Berger’s play tracks an obsessed…
Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins looks great on paper: a musical in which four assassins and five failed would-be killers sing and dance about the joys of killing or trying to kill presidents and other VIPs. And, in fact, Assassins is a darkly brilliant musical full of astonishingly naughty humor and wicked…
The last thing the Roman Catholic Church needs at this point is another exposé of its misdeeds. The shock of the pedophilia scandals and of the official cover-ups isn’t going away anytime soon, and when last we looked the former bishop of the Phoenix Diocese was out on $45,000 bail…
Harvey Pekar, star of a long-running comic-book series he writes and others illustrate, is reminded early in American Splendor that he’s no superhero. It’s Halloween, and the 11-year-old Harvey, played by a bent-over, sneering Daniel Tay, stands on a stoop seeking tricks and treats from a woman who recognizes the…
Maverick Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin hit upon a clever idea for his idiosyncratic anti-war fable The Cuckoo (Kukushka in Russian). The three main characters, marooned together on a remote reindeer farm in northernmost Scandinavia, all speak different languages. The Russian speaks and understands only Russian, the Finn knows only Finnish,…
Few machines represent the American love affair with the automobile more ably than the Corvette. Sleek and sexy, this amazing creation has been the official automobile of adventurous youth, the midlife crisis, and everyone in between who appreciates its ability to satisfy the need for speed. It takes a mighty…
Thursday, August 28 Phoenix has its very own live version of The Gong Show: Beat the Buzzer at the Paper Heart Gallery on Thursday, August 28, and the last Thursday of every month. Much like that late, great ’70s game show, there’s a lineup of performers trying to outdo each…
After taking just a few small steps toward forming a community, now Valley fashion designers are trying to make the giant leap into commercial success with the Phoenix Infusion Fashion Series, starting Friday, August 29. Inspired by local runway shows held earlier this year, including a sold-out night at the…
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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