Like watching A Charlie Brown Christmas and eating an embarrassing quantity of cookies, there are some holiday traditions that we simply can’t skip. Among our favorites is Crafeteria. Each year CenPho boutique Frances hosts this free-to-attend marketplace of Arizona makers just in time to tackle that gift list (and snag…
Of the standup comics who started in the early 1960s, struck stardom in the late ‘60s and ‘70s, and had a hit sitcom in the ‘80s, we always knew that we could count on mild-mannered Bob Newhart to not be an awful creep. The 85-year-old accountant-turned-comic still hits the road…
Do some shopping and some noshing as Bragg’s Factory Diner host’s a pop-up holiday market. Somethin’ to Bragg About will feature a vintage polaroid station, vegan tamales, a card-making table, and merchandise from Grand Avenue stores including Hazel & Violet and A Bloom Salon. The free event runs from 2…
Don’t eat dinner before going to see Neil Hamburger live. This non-stop comedian, who says he performs nearly 400 shows a year, is liable to make you throw up a little bit in your mouth between laughs with his oft-disgusting, vile, and revolting humor. Hamburger (real name: Gregg Turkington) spreads…
You walk into an art gallery, spot a piece, take it, and walk out. Normally, this is pretty frowned upon and would result in criminal charges. But Art Intersection is encouraging art lovers to do just that during “Off the Wall – Exhibition and Silent Auction” Well, after you bid…
If you aren’t sick and tired of Clara and her legume-crunching toy by now, we’re going to assume you’ve been snoozing through The Nutcracker for the past few years. Opt for the unfamiliar this season by attending Images in Motion. Featuring Scottsdale Community College’s three resident dance troupes, the show…
It’s time to get blissed out for the holidays. Yoga Phoenix, 2308 North Richard Street, is hosting its annual Winter Yoga Festival this weekend with the theme “Celebrating A Way Through Every Block.” The festival includes everything from traditional yoga classes to dog reiki (seriously). You can pick and choose…
If you’ve been around YouTube, Tumblr, or the general Internet over the past few years, chances are you’ve heard of Mamrie Hart and Grace Helbig, seen one of their videos on either Helbig’s It’s Grace YouTube channel or Hart’s You Deserve a Drink, laughed, cried, and possibly had your life…
Bashing SNL is beyond trite. The late-night staple should be lauded for the continuous stream of comedians it brings into the limelight. Case in point: Dana Carvey. If the funnyman had only been Garth, hetero-life-mate to Wayne, he’d be golden. But the guy’s triple-platinum for original characters like The Church…
Shopping for private jets online, asking complete strangers about their sexual fetishes, having diarrhea on a daily basis. . . While all of this might sound like bizarre behavior to the rest of us, to comedian Tom Segura, it’s Completely Normal, which happens to be the name of his latest…
The latest installment of the 7 Chef dinner series will go down tonight at Southern Rail in Phoenix. The Fowl Out will feature seven courses of fowl-focused dishes from chefs including Cullen Campbell of Crudo, Tracy Dempsey of Tracy Dempsey Originals, Stephen Jones of Bootlegger, Bernie Kantak of Cowboy Ciao/The…
On Tuesday Sprinkles Cupcakes in Scottsdale will launch a new cupcake ATM that will let diners satisfy their sweet tooth 24 hours a day. In celebration of the launch there will be 50 golden tickets hidden inside cupcake boxes inside the ATM. Each ticket will be worth anywhere from one…
If you’ve ever had the haunting feeling that a parallel universe was just outside of your reach, you might identify with Danny, the young protagonist of the new young adult sci-fi thriller Now That You’re Here. Danny, a teen graf artist, is wise to the streets but suddenly awakens in…
Fortunes don’t change often in the NBA, but when they do, they change quickly. A year ago, the Miami Heat were a powerhouse that seemed all but certain to contend for NBA titles for the next half-decade. The Phoenix Suns, meanwhile, seemed destined for a long cycle of rebuilding. One…
You don’t so much watch a Warren Miller film as experience it. You feel the crunch of the powder, hear the swish of the skis. Your stomach drops as you descend thousands of feet across icy mountains in seconds, then take to the sky on parachutes moments later. No Turning…
You know when something’s rooted in a Seinfield joke, it’s gonna be good. The fourth annual Phoestivus Market proves it. How could this sitcom-to-Phoenix-tradition festival not be the place to be when they’ve got over a hundred local vendors, basically every cuisine you could want served out of a truck,…
Stop and think for a second. When did you last use a home printer? If you can readily answer that, well, uh, good for you. But if you can’t, like us, chances are you can appreciate how much of a dying art printing is. Calaca Cultural Center and Willo North…
Forget the traditional ornaments and turn your tree into something truly outrageous for Space 55’s The Weirdest Little Christmas Tree Contest. Interested participants should submit “trees” that are roughly a foot tall and decorated as wildly as imaginable (think lava lamps adorned with bows and artificial firs covered in doll…
We understand that Eric Dufault’s Year of the Rooster is a play about chicken. Sign us up! We’ll chase it with a slow-roasted bird: garlic stuffed under the skin, a cut lemon inside, and . . . what’s that? It’s a play about a chicken? A gamecock. Oh. Well, that’s…
Center Dance Ensemble artistic director Frances Smith Cohen delivers a fairy tale classic and a holiday tradition with a choreographed production of Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen. Featuring music by Sergei Prokofiev, this fantastical show offers real-life issues we can all relate to: ice queens, evil mirrors, and the ups…
We know this is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year or whatever, but sometimes, Christmas sucks. It’s a ton of work, you have to buy other people things, and if you’re not happy all the time, you get compared to an old man who travels through…
In case you’ve been living under a rock (hey, we’ve been there), you’ll be delighted to learn that the musical film version of Mary Poppins was adapted as a Tony-winning stage musical 10 years ago. It features most of the catchy songs that imprinted on your childhood brain — “A…
