If you’re tired of fluorescent lighting and the omnipresent hum of your air conditioning unit, and you want to get back out and feel the sunshine on your shoulders, you should look no further than this list of fun outdoor opportunities coming to Metro Phoenix in September. Fitness Friday Hikes…
It seems as though a lot of big cities across America offer a major convention these days devoted to video games, past and present. Seattle, for instance, has hosted the renowned Penny Arcade Expo since 2004, which has since spun off into separate events in Boston and San Antonio. Meanwhile,…
It’s back to school for the Valley’s student set, but that doesn’t mean they’re the only ones nerding out. We’ve found an array things to do that will thrill your inner dork throughout September. And they aren’t just for pocket-protector wearing stereotypical poindexters. Instead, they cover pop culture, comic books,…
Etsy Craft Night Music, snacks, kaleidoscopes. . . it’s not your preschooler’s Monday morning lesson plan, it’s Etsy Craft Night at TechShop, 249 East Chicago Street in Chandler. Friday night, amateur and expert crafters alike are welcome to come build cool things out of paper. Sculptures, mosaics and the Everest…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly, run down the worst and best of the movies they saw this summer, which as summers go, wasn’t so terrible. Among the best performances were those by Sam Elliott, wonderful in two movies,…
If you live anywhere for long enough, you realize a fact of life: every place can be broken down into a handful of archetypes of people. Those archetypes tend to date people similar to them, which leads to only so many different “types” of couples. Phoenix is no different. So…
It’s a perfect summer afternoon in Los Angeles, and Lily Tomlin wants to do everything: drive to Neptune’s Net in Malibu, explore the L.A. River, tour Koreatown, grab cocktails in West Hollywood. She jumps in her 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer — her other car, a Prius, balances out its ecological…
Young people are the only ones who ever talk about growing old gracefully. For those actually in the thick of it, the romance of that notion burns off pretty quickly, and wrinkles and creaky joints are the least of it: Growing old, gracefully or otherwise, means becoming the person you…
In 2012, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer made a splash with The Act of Killing, in which he sought out members of Indonesian killing squads, individuals who murdered thousands of innocent citizens accused of being communists after a military takeover in 1965, and invited them to re-enact their crimes in the…
Meet the Other and Run There’s no escaping No Escape’s suspense — or its xenophobia. This mean and vigorous men’s adventure pulp throwback has everything going against it. It’s a late-August release whose leads, Owen Wilson and Lake Bell, tend to be the best things in movies you otherwise regret…
Remake The Graduate today, and an adult might corner Benjamin Braddock and whisper, “Startups.” Debut director Max Joseph gives that a good shot, though the result — the EDM-fueled, drug-laced dream-crusher We Are Your Friends — is so sweaty and silly that people may not notice. Like Mike Nichols, Joseph…
A for Apocalypse The latest Y.A. end-times drama dares not to play by the book There’s a strain of science fiction writing that evokes a chilly kind of coziness, usually by introducing us to individuals or small groups of people who have found their way to the country in the…
Can you hear that? The buzzing sound you hear is the awards season murmuring of a thousand press agents as they gear up to tell us which movies to care about over the next few months. Some pretty heavy material is coming to the big screen, starting with a couple…
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sandra Cisneros, and Pablo Neruda are among some of the most prominent Hispanic, Chicano, and Latino authors you can pick up at any bookstore in the Valley. But what if you wanted to purchase a copy of Love in the Time of Cholera in its…
For cyclists, Tempe is a mythical place. With its 175 miles of bikeways and thousands of bike commuters, the sunbaked college town has won global attention for its pedaling population. The website TravelPulse even named Tempe one of the seven most bike-friendly cities in the world. And unlike cyclists in…
Minneapolis is a city full of art and culture. Everywhere you turn there’s a statue to see, a musician to hear, or a gallery to dip into. Even the sides of buildings are proof this town appreciates art. In between modern glass skyscrapers you’ll find older brick buildings with tiny,…
Tom Green has been a “silly” guy for over 20 years now. He’s hosted TV shows, starred in movies, written a book, and a wide variety of other comedic things. Regardless of the medium, Green has always preferred to do his own thing rather than what someone else is telling…
In the past year alone, there’s been a lot of changes within Phoenix’s art scene. There’s always been a revolving door — some artists and other art professionals leave, but there are always new people and spaces emerging. Even the spaces that anchor our scene, such as Roosevelt Row, Grand…
Another week has passed and, along with it, more of life’s unforgiving expenses. We understand how pricey it can be to eat, dress yourself, and put a roof over your head, and we’re proud of you for budgeting appropriately. Not wanting to put any more strain on you or your…
Spillers Storytelling nights seem to be sweeping the city these days — with New Times’ monthly Bar Flies among them — and this week a new series starts. Spillers: Short Fiction and Tall Drinks features six storytellers performing edgy, and often funny, short fiction in 10-minute sets. Speakers include creator…
Contrary to what Time Inc.’s Money magazine would have you believe, Mesa is not the best big city to inhabit in the Southwest. Mesa, you should know, is not the best big city to inhabit in the state of Arizona. Nor, hate to break it to ya, is it the best “big…
Some artists are too swamped with their own work to manage meaningful collaborations with other artists. But Ron May, founding artistic director for Stray Cat Theatre, isn’t letting his own hectic schedule keep him from the sorts of collaborations that fuel artistic growth and audience development. By day, he works…
