Despite the cringe-worthy jokes they make and their ability to tell the same five stories over and over again, dads are pretty great, and they completely deserve to have Sunday, June 21, be all about them. But instead of getting him another singing card this Father’s Day, we’ve rounded up…
These days it seems we’re Kickstart-ing and GoFund-ing everything from hospital bills and family vacations to the creation of bookstores and businesses. Downtown Phoenix-based children’s wear designer Tiffe Fermaint and her clothing company, Baby Teith, recently joined in the crowdfunding fashion craze, garnering more than $10,000 in support after a month-long online campaign. Fermaint…
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry It’s been about 50 years since the second wave of feminism caught fire in the United States. The film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry delves into this movement, specifically looking at the women who worked to create equal rights for women from 1966 to 1971…
Phoenix Fashion Week introduced its 2015 class of emerging designers to a packed house at Livewire on June 11. The 13 fashion designers will compete over the coming four months for a chance to win a prize package valued at $10,000. Four of this year’s designers are based in Arizona,…
Angels in America Angels in America is one of the best plays ever. Nearly Naked Theatre is a knockout theater company. We could just say, “Go,” and leave room for more ads on this page. But, for a constellation of reasons we’ll leave unexplored for now, we’ll divulge some more…
For decades, I have had a dream, a Merry Pranksters kind of dream: a psychedelic school bus, wheels whining on the asphalt, my Birkenstock-clad feet on the dashboard, wind whipping my long hair, my guitar in the back, headed toward a serendipitous happening. I grew up in Hawaii,…
If you have a Tia who plays alongside your Tamera in your real life Sister, Sister act, consider attending the open casting call for the upcoming season of the Oxygen network’s Bad Girls Club this Saturday, June 13, at Bevvy in Scottsdale. In the last 13 seasons of the show,…
If Mandy Bublitz loves Phoenix, she owes it all to bread. Bublitz grew up in Michigan. Six years ago, she relocated to Chandler — but not, unlike a lot of people, because she was cold. “My family is here,” she says. “My brothers live out here, and my…
Downtown Scottsdale will be a bit brighter than usual this summer, thanks to a new temporary public art installation along the Scottsdale Waterfront, a portion of the Arizona canal that’s become a hub for shopping, entertainment, and City of Scottsdale projects including festivals and temporary art installations. Golden Waters, created by…
Professional wrestling legend Bret “Hitman” Hart is what you might call a world warrior. The Canadian-born grappler — who’s a multiple-time world champion for the both the WWE and its now-defunct competitor WCW — has traveled the globe a dozen times over and, during his heyday, performed on at least…
As much as we loathe the cutesy term, staycations are awesome. And as tourist season in the Valley comes to a close, those bold enough to brave a Phoenix summer get rewarded with killer deals at some of the best resorts and hotels in town. Rounds of golf, access to…
Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returns June 12 for its third season, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips in…
In Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park reboot — set 22 years after dinosaurs started walking the Earth, again — brontosauruses, stegosauruses, and velociraptors have become old hat, sort of like the mechanical Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. Meanwhile, the habitat around them has gone Vegas: Isla Nublar, home of the…
How convinced you’ll be by Soaked in Bleach, the latest vehicle for the Kurt-was-murdered theory the private investigator Tom Grant has now megaphoned for two decades, will hinge on how plausible you find its portrait of the Nirvana frontman approaching his end. The film insists that Cobain, far from the…
Twenty years back, at the height of the UFO boom, the truest believers in alien abduction scenarios would argue that their most compelling evidence was the commonalities between regular people’s stories of nighttime visitations. Even under hypnosis, “abductees” testified to remarkably consistent waking-dream terrors: an alert immobility, shadowed and mostly…
Juan Felipe Herrera will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate, The Library of Congress announced on Tuesday, June 10. He is the first Latino poet appointed to the position. “This is a mega-honor for me, for my family and my parents who came up north before and after the Mexican…
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: Phoenix artist and director of ARTELSHOW Tara…
At the ripe old age of 7, I decided I wanted to play collegiate baseball. I still remember sitting in the leatherette corner booth of a gaudy Mexican restaurant and telling my best friend at the time that I wanted to lead Stanford to a national championship in…
Phoenix Fashion Week fans can expect to see a few familiar faces on Thursday, June 11, as the Valley’s premier fashion event announces its 2015 class of 13 emerging designers at Livewire in Scottsdale. For the first time ever, Fashion Week is allowing past emerging designer contenders to re-enter the…
Jesse Teer is living his dream: life as a recording, touring, professional musician. “Last year, I was working at Starbucks,” he says. “And I thought, ‘It’s now or never.'” Taking that first step into a music career, he admits, was scary. “But not as scary…
Bob Dylan said that “a hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” Well, prepare to feel super heroic when you free yourself from the responsibility of paying for things to do this week. We’ve got three events for you to attend without spending a single…
You may not have a summer break like you did when you were a kid, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a grown up at the movies. Let’s save the art house fare and thought-provoking movies for later this year. For June, it’s all about being a kid…
