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 21. Josh Brizuela. Josh…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, September 5, through Thursday, September 8. For more options, see our curated calendar of events. Labor Day Divas While yes, for most people, the Labor Day holiday means an extra day off work, if you’re planning on attending…
Pass by the old Praise Sanctuary Church near 9th Avenue and Van Buren Street on the southwestern edge of downtown Phoenix and you’ll encounter a property that, quite frankly, has seen better days. Numerous patches of weeds, dying trees, broken fencing and other signs of blight surround the former house…
Every week, we’re recapping season two of Degrassi: Next Class, episode by episode . Three of the alumni from last week’s reunion make another appearance. Can you guess who? We reach the halfway point of this season similarly to how we began: with a sports montage. The episode starts off…
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 22. Elly Finzer. Elly…
Formed approximately 30 million years ago, Arizona’s Mogollon Rim forms the southernmost portion of the Colorado Plateau. Just north of Payson, this area offers an abundance of Ponderosa pines, aspens, blue spruce, lakes, streams, fields of ferns, and much, much more. It’s not exactly what you’d expect when hiking in…
The Bridge Initiative creates opportunities for women playwrights. For its next event, Bridge is partnering with Southwest Shakespeare Company to present the first reading of New York playwright Liz Duffy Adams’ newest work. Tracy Liz Miller, who co-founded The Bridge Initiative in Mesa with Brenda Jean Foley in 2014, invited…
This year’s Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest is going to be turned up to Eleven. That’s because Millie Bobby Brown, the 12-year-old actress who plays psychokinetically gifted preteen Jane Ives (a.k.a. “Eleven”) on Netflix’s hit sci-fi serial Stranger Things, will be a special guest at this year’s event. The folks behind…
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 23. Slawomir Wozniak. Slawomir…
Make room on your social calendar for another night of song and sass as Arizona Drag Stars joins the ever-growing ranks of don’t-miss drag nights throughout metro Phoenix. The show returns to the Crescent Ballroom main stage on Thursday, September 1, with a stacked lineup of outrageous personalities and local…
New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from Friday, September 2, through Sunday, September 4. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. The Velocity of Autumn If you missed Eric Coble’s The Velocity of Autumn at Theatre Artists Studio in April 2015 — well, shame…
The last chapter of Jen Kirkman’s newest book, I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself, is an homage to Joan Rivers, a comedic hero and resident mom-in-her-head. But instead of referring to Rivers as a “female comedian,” as many do, she describes her as “a stand-up who also happened…
Some Valley residents are feeling excited for September. Specifically, we mean the self-described nerd population. Why? Well, they’re going to have plenty to do and see, thanks to a ladies night at Samurai Comics, a Leonard Nimoy documentary screening, and the largest anime convention in Arizona, Saboten Con 2016. And that’s…
We’re recapping Difficult People, episode by episode. You feel fat. This post contains clowns, blood, Kubrick references, and Colombian shapewear. You’ve been warned. We begin in one of those mobile blood donation vans that give us the Scooby-style heebie-jeebies, where Julie is donating, perhaps because she’s trying to be a…
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 24. Tess Mosko Scherer…
Phoenix Art Museum and the Hermosa Inn have teamed up for a fresh edition of the Conversations in Fashion series, a somewhat monthly event featuring some of the top authors, designers, and photographers from the fashion world that runs from September 13 to February 7. The series started with the designers…
You can be forgiven for thinking that the new show from Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, might come off as niche. Available on the new comedy streaming service Seeso, Harmonquest features comedians playing Pathfinder — a tabletop role-playing game similar to Dungeons and Dragons — in…
It’s hard to watch White Girl without experiencing a creeping sense of anxiety. Loosely based on the adolescent life of writer/director Elizabeth Wood, the film follows Leah (Morgan Saylor), a college student who parties all night and snorts prodigious amounts of cocaine. She and her roommate, Katie (India Menuez), live…
Were we wrong to root for Kevin Smith? When he burst onto the scene in 1994, it was the most improbable of rags-to-riches movie narratives: bankrolling Clerks by selling his comic book collection and running up thousands of dollars in credit card debt. Almost overnight, he joined the likes of…
Nepotism is occasionally a positive, and not just for the direct beneficiary. Ridley Scott gave us Alien, with heroine Ripley and a memorable cast of ne’er-do-wells and villains with defined personalities. And now Scott’s son, Luke, who’s been shadowing his dad on his last few big-budget films, has delivered unto…
Tension and release is the driving principle of a tearjerker, where every good fortune is countered by something worse. And as dismissive as critics often are of the genre, it’s actually quite difficult for a director to make people cry en masse and genuinely feel things. Derek Cianfrance’s foreboding melodrama…
Opening your film on the image of a child plummeting off a cliff, presumably to his death, is a fairly foolproof way of getting the audience’s attention. And Alexandre Aja’s hyper-stylized coming-of-age-movie-slash-fantasy-slash-psychological-thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax excels at grabbing you with a steady stream of provocative and ornate…
