New Times picks the best things to do in the Phoenix area from Monday, April 18, through Thursday, April 21. Crossfade LAB When the CALA Alliance and ASU Art Museum announced that they would team up with help from Casandra Hernandez, we knew that the Valley was in for some stellar…
Many Arizonans know Suzanne Young for causing a social media firestorm when she tweeted a picture of the pro-abstinence sticker from her son’s biology textbook. The Gilbert author was driven off social media by harassment and worse. But Young doesn’t want to be remembered for that incident. Or even for…
The second season of Netflix’s flagship superhero drama arrived to mixed reception from critics (“It wasn’t as good as the first season!”) and high praise from fans (“Holy crap bro, that stairwell scene!”), which is par for the course with this superhero stuff. Our own Alan Scherstuhl found it to…
Love is in the air, and here in the Valley of the Sun, wedding season is more of a year-round thing. While we can’t tell you what dress to wear, who should be on the guest list, or whether you should write your own vows, we can point you in the right direction of where to put it all together. Between museums, resorts, and art galleries, there are plenty of prime places to put a ring on it in metro Phoenix. Here are our top 25.
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we can watch more than 80 years of development take place in about five seconds.Maricopa County keeps aerial maps dating back to 1930, and we’ve combined some into time-lapse images to show you how Phoenix has changed over the years:…
All actors possess their own personal gateway into becoming a character. Some require deep memory mining (Method). Others require lengthy conversations with the director about seemingly unrelated philosophical topics. And some just need a single physical characteristic around which they can develop a character’s entire being. Susan Sarandon is a…
Deep into her earnest, uncertain Nina Simone drama Nina, writer-director Cynthia Mort at last musters up a sequence of gravity and power. The inimitable Miss Simone — imitated here by Zoe Saldana — reads a letter from a woman who has recently lost her mother, a great Simone fan. It’s…
Each week, we’re recapping the first season of Fuller House episode by episode. Everyone jump in the ring! The Legend of El Explosivo opens with Kimmy unloading a bag of groceries from her trip to the 89-cent store. She gushes about it — compared to the snooty 99 cents store…
In the first pages of poet Elly Finzer’s first full-length book, Says the Speck, readers will find a dedication to one Mrs. Hughes – her sixth grade teacher. Back when Finzer was her pupil, Hughes stuck a Post-it to her student’s class journal that read: “I fully expect to see you published, Michelle.” Needless…
When Target announced it was teaming up with Finnish design house Marimekko to launch a collection — available in stores and online April 17 — print junkies rejoiced. Known for its brightly-colored printed fabrics and joyful designs, Marimekko was founded in Helsinki in 1951 by the print visionary Armi Ratia…
Pets: They’re just like us. They have likes, dislikes, baggage, and let’s face it, probably more Instagram followers than you. So why then are their adoption profiles being limited to the bar minimum? Sure, it’s probably important to know if they can tolerate children (who can?) and have had all…
New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from Friday, April 15, through Sunday, April 17. For more things to do, see our curated calendar of events. Dance: Inventions & Conventions Most students can already feel the fear — and freedom — of finals right around the corner. And for…
High-Rise weaves a remarkable web of contradictions. Locally debuting at Phoenix Film Festival this past weekend, the film tells a grand, sweeping story within the confines of a single apartment building over a three-month period. It’s a flashy, graphically violent, high-intensity thriller, as well as a metaphorical thinkpiece on the nature…
It’s a good time to be a fan of old-school arcade games right now in Phoenix. By our count, there are at least five different spots locally where joystick jocks can get their hands on quarter-powered masterpieces from the ‘80s and early ’90s (aka the golden age of arcades), including…
Often considered “the best idea America ever had,” national parks are notorious for offering up incredible views, stretches of tranquility, and the freedom to escape into the natural wonders that span our 50 states. Currently, 401 national parks span some 84 million acres of the United States, and the National…
Vaxxed, the new “documentary” about the alleged connection between vaccines and autism, is directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor responsible for duping untold thousands of parents into believing vaccinations could give their children autism. This may not be news to anyone who’s followed the controversy surrounding the film’s abrupt…
Daniel Schay cornered me at a cocktail party a few years ago. Usually, encounters between myself and theater people don’t go well, and often involve a thespian telling me how disappointed they are in my recent critique of their work. But not Dan, who died suddenly last Thursday. Dan wanted…
You may know John Carney as the writer and director of Once and Begin Again, both indie romantic comedies with fantastic soundtracks about struggling musicians in major cities. His new film Sing Street, which debuted locally this past Sunday at the Phoenix Film Festival, makes the three a sort of spiritual trilogy. The film sets…
To read poet Marilyn Hacker’s work is to enter a landscape both wild and artfully contained, where classic forms of poetry are no longer emissaries from a lost world of meticulous manners and pristine hosiery, but are transformed into a call for dynamic action or a lament for fallen revolutionaries…
Give your best scissors and most beloved camera a long, hard look before you head out to see the new crop of exhibitions opening on Third Friday this month. Because you might be amazed by what some local artists have accomplished using these tools most of us tend to take…
The effortless charisma of Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, the headliners of the first two Barbershop movies (released in 2002 and 2004), helped keep those over-plotted comedies buoyant. Cube and Cedric are back as Calvin and Eddie in Barbershop: The Next Cut, but even their enormous appeal can’t rescue…
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get…
