On a sunlit Saturday morning in early fall, Teresa Wilson and a guest sit on the back porch of her home and discuss everything from Michael Pollan to parenting. Wilson shares her cozy 1952 ranch home with her sons Keane, 5, and Enoch, 2. Located in the Camelback East neighborhood,…
When I first came to Phoenix, I was working as a butcher at Food City. My artist’s eye noticed there was all this cardboard being thrown away at the market. I thought, “What can I do with it?” My coworkers would tease me: “Why do you want so much cardboard?…
It’s been 15 years since I started blogging, nine years since I’ve made it my full-time career. Still, to this day, many friends and family ask, “Kathy, what exactly do you do for a living?” “I spread the gospel of glitter!” I say. “I’m a digital entrepreneur! CraftyChica.com is my…
Ha sido quince años desde que empecé a bloguear, y nueve años desde que he hecho bloguear mi carrera a tiempo completo. Aún hoy en día, muchos amigos y familiares preguntan, “Kathy, ¿qué es exactamente lo que haces para vivir”? “Yo difundo el Evangelio de brillo!”, digo. “Soy una empresaria…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, October 3, through Thursday, October 6. For more options, see our curated calendar of events. “Concept to Completion” Most people settle for cooking in cast-iron skillets. But some artists actually use cast iron to create sculptures, which easily…
With Gilmore Girls returning to Netflix this November, we figured it was time to take a closer look at the fictional town of Stars Hollow and the many citizens who live there. While the show itself has always focused on Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, the titular girls, the sleepy Connecticut…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 1. The Fortoul Brothers…
Every week, we’re recapping season two of Degrassi: Next Class. Grab a hold for a doozy of a cliffhanger, y’all! As we’ve made abundantly clear in almost all of our recaps, the Degrassi empire wasn’t built on pleasantries and playing it safe. Many of the show’s biggest moments came as…
Casual Friday doesn’t exist at CO+HOOTS — at least not the way it does in the traditional business world. There are no cubicles, and every wall is a window. There are standing desks, treadmill desks, and an open-office floor plan, busied with people wearing jeans. Odeen Domingo, co-owner of the co-working space,…
With the first days of fall just behind us, October brings with it breezes, changing foliage, and a great reason to go outside. Grab your shoes, because we’re going outside on purpose. To get you started, we’ve compiled a list of five great outdoor events going on this October. Tour…
Recently, I received an e-mail from Jeopardy! telling me that there’s still time to register for the show’s online test, which runs from October 4 through 6 (for details go to jeopardy.com). I get e-mails from the show every now and then, and they always bring up some stinging memories…
Phoenix, it’s time to celebrate. Best of Phoenix has arrived, and this year, New Times is taking a closer look at what it means to be so close to Mexico. Hence, this year’s theme: Bordertown. The Mexican border is just a few hours away, and the Valley is all the richer for…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, September 30, through Sunday, October 2. For more, see our curated events calendar. Fall Forward Sun Devil football may have kicked off over a month ago, but Arizona State University celebrates the start of a new season this…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 2. Lisa Sette. Lisa…
For the last five years, American Horror Story has been one of the sexiest (and spookiest) shows on television. Thanks to new cast members, including Emma Roberts and Lady Gaga, AHS has only gotten hotter since we last wrote about its steamiest scenes. But with that extra sexiness comes some…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 3. Louis Farber. The…
It’s safe to say that nerds get more excited for October than any other month in their Pusheen the cat wall calendar. And why not? October is full of costumes, horror and sci-fi movie marathons, and the year’s biggest day for fantasy, Halloween. Here in Phoenix, there are ways to…
The road to equal treatment has been a long and difficult one for the disabled community, and littered with setbacks and defeats. Occasionally lost in that quest for accessibility legislation and insurance mandates has been the subordinate struggle to recognize the fact that, yes, the disabled can be assholes, too…
You know those kids who didn’t give a shit about fashion or football but piled onto beanbags in the basement every Friday to watch the freakiest low-budget camp horror comedies and psychedelic vintage animations on bootleg VHS procured via mail order from some dude they met at a rock show…
One of the benefits of services like Netflix and Amazon Prime is that they allow TV stars, liberated from the confines of network television and cable, to try something new, expand their reach, or otherwise kick it up a notch. In Amazon’s Eat the World, for example, Emeril Lagasse, the…
The conventional wisdom about early-career Tim Burton is that he was an imaginative visual stylist but not a great storyteller. That sounds smart, right? It’s still something that a certain kind of ratty-beard-stroking film critic keeps tucked in his sweater vest in case he needs to say something that sounds…
Adults in 2016 know not to feed the trolls. If you have to, though, you need to come on hard and strong, publicly glutting them on so much truth that they just curl up and die under their bridges/in their comment threads. So it goes in Mick Jackson’s patient, heartening,…
