Your guide to metro Phoenix’s best weekend events is here. Comedy on Fire 28 Downtown’s “longest continuously running independent comedy show,” Comedy on Fire returns with its 28th season. Boasting a laundry list of up-and-coming comics and a few recognizable features, the show promises to pack in the laughs. Things…
In the modern era of constant communication, it can be difficult to dump someone. Who are you going to text/call/Facetime/stalk on social media if you break things off with the person you talk to most? People have way more options for resisting your breakup, since it’s way easier to sneak…
Promising to pack a punch alongside each laugh, Comedy on Fire returns to downtown Phoenix this Friday for its 28th show. The three-hour evening features musical and stand-up guests from across the state to offer their insights — and punchlines — to a regularly growing audience. The night of side-splitting…
Phoenix Art Museum has announced that Kaela Hoskings will join its ranks as education director on August 17. Hoskings currently works as director of education at Artpace, a San Antonio, Texas, nonprofit arts organization that Amada Cruz headed before she was hired as director of Phoenix Art Museum in February…
BoJack Horseman lurched out of the gate last year with a whole lotta animal puns and one uncomplicated thesis: Old sitcoms suck. An aggressively stupid and mawkish show from the late Eighties called Horsin’ Around, about an equine-human hybrid in Cosby sweaters who adopts three adorable orphans, made its star,…
It’s been 32 years since the release of National Lampoon’s Vacation, in which Chevy Chase, as dad Clark Griswold, packed his Griswold clan into what looked like a Country Squire from Hell and sought the family-bonding experienceTM by driving cross-country to a mythical mega-amusement park known as Walley World. If…
How much time would you like to spend in the company of benignly kooky hobbyists? That’s the question to ask before committing to docu-commercial A Lego Brickumentary, a largely genial but frequently wearying feature-length toy ad. The film’s central conceit is sound enough: Lego construction kits “unlock [users’] imagination,” in…
Even if you live in the same city or town your whole life, the place you came from is always a distant country: Old trees are cut down to be replaced, one hopes, by new ones; shops and businesses change ownership or, worse, are torn down; landmarked buildings may stay…
At 53, Tom Cruise is past the retirement age of every James Bond except Roger Moore. Yet his 19-year-old Mission: Impossible series ticks on, counting down the seconds till its next explosion — and Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is determined to unman his cross-Atlantic competition. Forget high-tech gadgets. The older Cruise…
What happens in the studio shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit Q+A is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: nueBOX resident artist Kyle Daniels. The multidisciplinary…
The artists of Eye Lounge are anything but confined to their collective’s Roosevelt Row gallery space. More than 60 artists affiliated with the Eye Lounge artist collective during its 15-year history were featured earlier this year in a retrospective at Vision Gallery in Chandler, which highlighted the marvelous diversity of…
We live in a beautiful city in the middle of a beautiful desert. Enjoying all the gorgeous scenery that the Sonoran desert has to offer doesn’t have to come to an abrupt stop when the mercury rises — or falls. Instead, we can enjoy all that beautiful beauty in short…
Yoga has long been used to help its practitioners find inner peace and balance in life. It can also, unfortunately, get pretty pricey. Some Valley studios are helping residents ease into the yogic lifestyle without emptying their wallets by offering free classes. Many of these sessions are intended to encourage…
While students around the state are facing the start of another year of school, we find ourselves facing an equally daunting though somewhat less cerebral challenge: figuring out what we’re going to do this week, and how we’re going to pay for it. Thankfully, there’s plenty to keep everyone entertained…
It’s difficult to to grasp the ways unleashed nuclear weapons can forever alter personal and geographic landscapes. But five people whose stories of life following the Nagasaki bombing of 1945 are featured in a new book by Tempe author Susan Southard know all too well the horrors of nuclear weapons…
C Is for Clown If you’re coulrophobic, you fear clowns, but if the clowns you fear are red-nosed, frizzy-haired, birthday-party and circusy types, you’ll be okay attending C Is for Clown from Pandanda Players, the troupe that practices Alphabet Shakespeare. For one thing, Pandanda has assured audiences that there will…
Amy Radcliffe’s life is made up of seemingly unrelated ingredients, as she puts it. Part of the time, she works at Crepe Bar in Tempe. She also works with children at A New Leaf, an organization in Mesa that offers support services to families and individuals. And when something comes…
Back in May of 2014, 11 Phoenix arts and culture organizations announced they had formed the Central Arts District as a way to up their visibility in the region and increase their mutual collaboration while promoting local art and cultural offerings. The 11 organizations involved were Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix…
Just midway through the year, we’ve already spotted several works that stand out from all the rest — from dance festival featuring emerging and established artists to a graduate art student video conjuring the spirit of a famed contemporary artist. Here are a few of the best things we’ve seen…
Phoenix artist Beatrice Moore estimates that about 40 exhibitions have been shown at Frontal Lobe Community Space and Gallery during her four or five years spent operating the venue that’s best known to many for its annual “Mutant Piñata Show.” But now Moore says it’s time for a change. “I’ve…
Hair 1968’s Hair was a groundbreaking Broadway musical with a killer soundtrack, all about hippies and love and drugs and stopping the war and resisting the Man, man. Seriously. And hair, of course. Those days might be the last time the elements of a musical drenched our culture so thoroughly…
“Damn, dude, she’s basically you as a girl, but way less ugly,” my friend said, commenting on the girl I’d just started seeing. “I’ve never seen anyone handle your crap this well.” It’s true, dating (or befriending) me means dealing with a lot of my self-centered nonsense and snarky quips…
