The art of looking back will never leave us. Witness the Tempe History Museum’s new exhibit, a year-long tribute to the long-dead amusement park Legend City. The exhibition opened last Friday, and features pieces of some of the park’s best-remembered rides, old ticket stubs and flyers, even an employee uniform…
Looking for some cheap — like, really cheap — ways to get out and explore the city? This week, we found some relaxing (and free) ways to get out and socialize. From readings to art shows to yoga, we’ve got you and your budget covered. Camelback Art Collective The Camelback…
November’s First Friday was all about vibrant art spaces. Museums, galleries, small businesses, and pop-up marketplaces filled with creatives showing and selling their wares highlighted the breadth and depth of the local arts scene — proving that giving people different ways to experience art across a wide spectrum is a…
Creative types in the Grand Avenue arts district in downtown Phoenix have big plans for Saturday, November 14 – when the seventh annual Grand Avenue Festival gives locals and tourists alike all sorts of cool ways to get to know the historic neighborhood and the people who give it life…
Up in Smoke At great personal risk of donning a sort-of seasonal hipster guide, a lot of non-hipster guys are at present stashing their razors for Movember. And in honor of the charitably unshorn, FlimBar is hosting the November Film Series, which celebrates the silver screen’s most memorable cookie dusters…
In its very first scene, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix series, Master of None, presents something never before seen on TV: an Asian-American male romantic lead at the center of his own series. Granted, that scene is hardly sexy: A broken condom puts the brakes on a bar hook-up between Dev…
Phoenix gallery goers have seen works by artist Fred Tieken exhibited in several local settings from monOrchid in Roosevelt Row to ArtelPhx at the Clarendon Hotel, but soon they’ll be able to see work by the 80-year-old creative, along with 44 additional artists, exhibited in the new Tieken Gallery, located…
Old-school video gamers of the Valley, please rip yourself away from Super Mario Maker for a moment and listen up. We’ve got some good news for you: the organizers of ZapCon recently revealed the dates for next year’s edition of the popular local retro arcade and pinball convention. Earlier this…
Los Angeles theater website Bitter Lemons published a piece by Jason Rohrer on October 23 in which Rohrer takes issue with New Times’ Robrt Pela, in particular his October 9 essay, It’s Not Okay to Review Plays After One Act, Christopher Frizzelle. Pela argued in that piece that it is…
New Times picks the best fashion, outdoors, and theater events in Metro Phoenix from November 6 to November 8. La Dolce Vita Garden Party We can sum up Phoenix Art Musem’s La Dolce Vita Garden Party in just three words: footloose, fancy, free. Starting at 6 p.m. Friday, November 6, patrons…
November’s First Friday will be a night of firsts and lasts. It’ll be your first chance to see an exhibition in the new Carline Center, an adaptive re-use project by Harder Development, and your first chance to see an exhibition at the new Public Image located at Roosevelt Point. It’s…
“I use the same approach to clothes as I did when I designed buildings,” the late Gianfranco Ferré once said. “It is basic geometry: You take a flat form and revolve it in space.” This hyper-technical, detail-oriented approach the Italian architect turned designer employed is evident in Phoenix Art Museum’s…
Remember when the people who could tinker on computers and create websites were considered geeky and nerdy? Those days are long gone, thankfully. Coding, or the process of creating computer software, apps and programs, has become the passion project of all types of celebrities. Karlie Kloss is doing it, President…
The Muppets doesn’t work, exactly, but I’m still watching. As a relative outsider to the 60-year Muppets franchise, I’ve long suspected that early imprinting is the key to loving Jim Henson’s gaudy, unblinking rags. I’ve never felt a particular need to watch pieces of felt tell Borscht Belt–style jokes, and…
Yes, it’s 3-D computer animation, and yes, it shows us more of the face of Charlie Brown’s Little Red-Haired Girl than you ever thought you would see. But the news, for the most part, is good: The Peanuts Movie is much closer in spirit to Charles Schulz’s half-century comic strip…
Because women are particularly beguiling when viewed from behind, the camera loves to follow them: Anyone who’s watched James Stewart’s lovesick detective trailing Kim Novak, a platinum dream poured into a pale gray flannel hourglass, understands the voyeurism at the heart of Vertigo. With Spectre — the 24th James Bond…
Autograph Collection Hotels opens its first Phoenix property, The Camby, in December 2015. Marriott International owns the Autograph chain, which includes more than 100 properties around the world, but individual hotels are independently operated. Host Hotels & Resorts is behind the Phoenix hotel. Located at the corner of Camelback Mountain at 24th Street…
In this month of giving thanks, let’s take a moment and appreciate the movies that make us smile, make us cry, make us cheer, and make us laugh. If you’ll be traveling to see family or hosting them, there’s plenty to see this month that likely won’t even cause an…
If you’ve seen American Pickers, you’re probably familiar with Frank Fritz. He’s got a knack for finding awesome buried treasures in people’s junk-filled storage spaces, and his personality is impossible to not notice. He’s also coming to Tempe on Friday, November 6, for the third annual Salvage This!, which figures…
As one might expect, costumes were literally everywhere to be seen across the Valley over Halloween weekend – and people adorned themselves in all manner of getups for the occasion. Some were stylish and sexy while others ran the gamut from downright silly to flat-out scary. And there was no…
Susan Fritzler’s kids gave her a $55 gift card earlier this year, redeemable at the recently shuttered Palms Theatre. “They fully expected I could use the gift card for dinner or for a show,” Fritzler says. But before she had a chance to enjoy a revival of Kismet, Fritzler heard…
Of all the places in the cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson is coming to Phoenix. In addition to serving as America’s favorite astrophysicist, Tyson hosts the StarTalk podcast and presented Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. You probably also recognize him from guest appearances on The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. Soon, he’ll take his…
