Not to sound like Stefon from Saturday Night Live, but Desperado LGBT Film Festival 2015 has everything: comedies, dramas, documentaries, a horror film, cartoons, romance, short films, and a pink, fuzzy monster with dreams of becoming a cabaret singer. Seriously, the sixth edition of the Valley’s LGBT-themed film festival, which…
How do performance and installation artists make the transition from the structure of school to the chaos and uncertainty of the real world? [nueBox], a nonprofit arts organization, has some ideas. Their year-long residency programs provide creatives with studio space (through a partnership with Phoenix Center for the Arts) as…
Some serious cash was dropped on cars at the 2015 Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale last week. Below, check out the top 10 money-getters of this year’s auction:…
The first round of Third Friday exhibitions in 2015 is setting the bar high for the rest of the year. It was a pretty quiet evening on the streets, but most of the galleries were filled with work and people to view it. Most of these exhibitions will be around…
Meet Me Downtown If you like to do fun-runs but think they’re too expensive, Meet Me Downtown. If you wish you had more folks to exercise with, Meet Me Downtown. If you’d enjoy walking or running a three- to five-mile course through Phoenix, Meet Me Downtown. If you want to…
Change is in the air for Scandalesque co-founders Julianna Curtis and Christy Zandlo. The two women who founded the nightlife entertainment company back in 2004 have parted ways to pursue their own projects. Zandlo, whose stage name is Pyrrha Sutra, says the split between her and Curtis ended amicably. “It…
We don’t know if you worship on Sunday or sleep in the like the rest of us. (And frankly, we don’t care.) But chances are, you can appreciate good design when you see it. While we’ve taken the time to pay tribute the coolest buildings in metro Phoenix, from hospitals…
The bi-coastal film pod continues in 2015! In New York, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl, along with Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek, connect via the magic of the Internet with LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson to discuss the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, announced on January 15…
Scottsdale Public Art and New Times are teaming up for a spoken word event — and the premise is all wet. Presented in conjunction with public art celebration Canal Convergence at the Soleri Bridge and Plaza, Water Logged includes stories centered on water and canals from Michael Grady, Tania Katan,…
Whitney Cummings Sometimes the smaller things pack the most punch. Such is the case with Whitney Cummings, who boasts a biting wit — and excellent hair. The stand-up comic and creator of the popular television series Two Broke Girls returns to the Valley with an arsenal of take-no-prisoners, laugh-out-loud recollections…
In 2004, a group of Phoenix high schoolers made a splash with a robot named “Stinky.” There’s a good chance you’ve heard this one before. But just in case you need a refresher: Carl Hayden High’s robotics team of four Latino boys participated in a NASA-sponsored competition and beat MIT…
We’re figuring the year’s first Third Friday is bound to be busy, after a relative lull in some parts of the metro Phoenix art scene for First Friday earlier this month. By now, you’ve either recovered from New Year’s festivities, or you need a little jump start to make it…
While the trio of petitioners who’ve so far gathered just over 900 signatures continue to hope for a final-hour reprieve on the fate of the building at 222 East Roosevelt, home of the GreenHaus until Cole and Dayna Reed move their business to Portland, there’s no real reason to expect…
Gina Gionfriddo is something of a playwriting dynamo. Her last two full-length plays, Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn, were both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Her work goes far beyond the stage though; Gionfriddo wrote for Law and Order for several years, and more recently wrote an…
We’ve all had that fun moment when going up to talk to someone who looks like they might be a winner (or at least good enough to take on a first date) only to find out that there’s something horribly wrong with them within the first five minutes of conversation…
Here’s the pipsqueak who has hauled himself up into a sharp-dressed leading man. Here’s the comic who’s boundlessly inventive in his swearing but also suave and commanding in pursuit of love, the motormouth horndog who yawps about like a puppy on fire but can melt your mother’s heart with his…
Unless you were living under a rock this past summer — something not entirely ill-advised in Arizona — you know that Lebron James returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers. This despite the jersey burnings and the now infamously documented acrimony from owner Daniel Gilbert upon his initial departure to Miami. Shortly…
Being a relatively young city with a relatively massive inferiority complex, Phoenix and its inhabitants seem to always be wondering: What should this place actually look like and how to we make that happen? Turns out, those questions aren’t unique. With an eye on New York and Melbourne, documentary The…
It’s election year in the Valley’s gay community, as aptly named local star Eddie Broadway steps down as the mister with the most. The pint-sized performer holds two titles, Mister Phoenix Gay Pride and Mister Rock, and will be relinquishing the latter at this week’s Mister Rock Pageant.The third in…
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’s great misfortune isn’t that it replaces The Colbert Report, but that it premieres after Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. The Colbert Report was sui generis, and will likely remain so, because such a series makes leviathan demands on its host: crackerjack comedic skills,…
The most pleasurably ludicrous highlight of The Boy Next Door comes half an hour in, before the sex and murders and something’s-in-the-mirror-behind-her! jolts that stud the film like Flavor Crystals. The high school English teacher played by Jennifer Lopez is dazzled by a gift from the handsome student (Ryan Guzman)…
There’s something bracingly honest about The Humbling, Barry Levinson’s movie about a 67-year-old Shakespearean actor, played by Al Pacino, who, after being struck with crippling anxiety, gets his mojo restored — some of it, anyway — by a manipulative muse (Greta Gerwig). Based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel of…
