Inside Jim and Amy Adkins’ timeless central Phoenix ranch house
The inside of the Jimmy Eat World frontman’s home is just as creative and quirky as you’d expect.
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“Masterworks of Spanish Colonial Art” at Phoenix Art Museum Is a Mysterious Key to Latin American Soul
St. Gregory is a bearded man with hazel eyes, and he raises a finger to his temple, as if lost in thought. He looks like a typical pope, with his gold miter and elaborate robes. The portrait is standard Vatican fare — except for the eyeball floating in the corner…
5 Inventions You Probably Didn’t Know Came From Arizona
The word “invention” ignites thoughts of Leo da Vinci pouring over a flying machine sketch, Edison pacing the floor of his New Jersey workshop, and maybe that one Simpsons episode. But probably not Arizona. Having just passed the 100-year mark in 2012, Arizona’s baby-soft history doesn’t exactly pop with spikes…
J.B. Smoove on Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Importance of Comedians in Society
You might not know J.B. Smoove by name, but you’ve almost definitely seen him on your television. He’s Leon Black in Curb Your Enthusiasm, a regular in sketches on Conan, and he’s been featured on enough TV (and reality TV) shows to fill an entire network schedule. When he’s not…
5 Free Things to Do This Week in Metro Phoenix
Looking for the best free things to do in Phoenix this week? There are workshops, beatboxing competitions, zines, bike rides and a festival dedicated to one of the coolest holidays of the year. (Hint: It’s not Halloween). So go forth this week and learn something, or create something. What You…
Arizona Opera Promises Bold, But Arizona Lady Is a Bore
As Arizona Opera opened its three-day Phoenix run for an operetta titled Arizona Lady at Symphony Hall on Friday night, the audience was clearly excited by the prospect of hearing a story set in the Southwest. Simply the sight of the set, complete with cactus and a distant mesa, was enough to…
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5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week
Tales of Halloween If you’re like us, you avoid scary movies most of the time — we’ve got enough nightmares already, thank you very much. But in October, when Halloween approaches, we embrace the terror. That’s why you’ll find us at FilmBar this month, screaming in fright as the theater…
7 Things We Learned at the Vaping Expo in Downtown Phoenix
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire – unless you’re talking about vaping, which produces no smoke, no flame, and only a subtle aroma. The industry for electronic cigarettes is so new, it’s hard to believe that vendors are already hosting an expo. But here it is: Vaping experts from across the country…
Please Like Me Is the Gay Comedy About Millennials and Mental Illness You Didn’t Know You Needed
Twenty-year-old Josh’s (Josh Thomas) world explodes twice in the Please Like Me pilot: first when he realizes he’s gay and again when his bipolar mother, Rose (Debra Lawrance), attempts suicide. Josh takes both revelations in stride, though he dreads having to inform his mom, whom he’ll be living with and…
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The National Lampoon Gets Toasted in a Doc That Doesn’t Dare Enough
A documentary about a magazine is doomed never to capture the thing it’s documenting. The best that can be said for Douglas Tirola’s Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is that it captures, at times, the heady disbelief of paging through its subject, the National Lampoon, the headwaters of much of American…
10 Hottest Halloween Costume Trends for 2015
At this point, it might seem like everyone’s got a Halloween costume going. Your co-workers are going as the staff of Camp Firewood from Wet Hot American Summer, including Mitch and his beloved can of vegetables. That geek kid you know is building a screen-accurate rendition of Kylo Ren. The…
Prepping for Back to the Future Day With the AZ DeLorean Club
Where is my hoverboard already? It’s a question Mesa resident Mark Burchard and other Back to the Future enthusiasts have been asking for nearly 30 years since the fictional floating skateboard first appeared in the classic movie sequel. “I’ve wanted a hoverboard since 1989,” says Burchard, a Back to the Future…
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The Ermahgerd Girl Is Now a Nurse in Phoenix
This one might give you gersberms. It’s the story of a pigtailed girl in a vest show giddily fans out Goosebumps paperbacks in the famed “ermagherd” meme. Her name? Maggie Goldenberger. She’s all grown up and the subject of a new Vanity Fair article that delves into how that unflattering Polaroid became a…
7 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend
“Engangled” The candles from Standard Wax don’t just smell good; they look good, too. Samantha Thompson and Andrew King’s creations are meant to be art — a decision certainly influenced by King’s outside work as a contemporary painter and pastel artist. A collection of his recent pieces, “Entangled,” debuts this…
Arizona Opera and Poet Laureate Alberto Rios Collaborate on Arizona Lady
Arizona Opera’s falls season opens with a collaboration that sets a high bar. Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos recently collaborated with Arizona Opera for its production of Arizona Lady, an operetta set in Tucson in 1925. Think gold rush, rodeos, and horse thieves. It’s opera on the lighter side, with plenty…
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7 Free Art Shows on Third Friday, October 16, in Downtown Phoenix
If you’re keen on catching works by a diverse assortment of artists with just a single outing, October’s Third Friday looks like the way to go. If you bounce into each of the shows noted below, you’ll see works by more than 50 local artists — from emerging artists still…
Lush and Mad, Crimson Peak Just Wasn’t Made for Times Like Ours
Mia Wasikowska is proof of reincarnation. The Australian actress must be possessed by the spirit of Lillian Gish. At 22 — the same age that Gish starred in Birth of a Nation — Wasikowska became a bankable name playing the lead in Tim Burton’s garish Alice in Wonderland. In the…
Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies Finds Murk in Everyone’s Moral Certainty
Steven Spielberg’s true-story Cold War procedural Bridge of Spies has a wintry chill. The colors are gray and green, the skin tones pale as frozen fish, and the film stock fuzzed and snowy. Our protagonist, James Donovan (Tom Hanks), spends half the movie waylaid by a cold and takes his…
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Goosebumps Honors the Vigorous Fun of R.L. Stine — for a While
Here’s a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just…
Civil War Thriller The Keeping Room Pits Women Against Men Gone Mad
Corpses putrefying, the social order gutted, bands of flesh-cravers roaming the countryside: Our pop apocalypses look a lot like life during wartime, which goes to show that Americans do have an interest in the suffering of refugees — just so long as it’s sugared up with zombie thrills. A mean…
“Survivor Shows How Republican Fearmongering Works”: A Superfan Explains
In the Golden Age of scripted television, reality TV is supposed to be dying, but you wouldn’t know it from Survivor’s tenacious resilience — or its just-debuted 31st season. The show that launched reality TV as mainstream programming at the turn of the millennium returned two weeks ago with an…
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Karen Gillan Is Coming to Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest 2015
Okay, kids. This is where it gets interesting. Scottish actress and geek icon Karen Gillan will be heading to the Valley in early December as a special guest of Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest 2015 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. And it’s certainly big news since she’s pretty famous…