5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

A photo posted by @pithandmarrow on Sep 9, 2014 at 3:54pm PDTThough stores are already hawking holiday doodads, we have a few suggestions for how to spend your post-Halloween week that don’t involve red and green decorations. Make that five. A floral how-to, a special appearance by David Sedaris, and a…

8 Best Vintage Shops in Metro Phoenix

In September, Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for vintage and antique shopping in metro Phoenix. Best Place to Buy Vintage Clothing: Vintage by Misty When Misty Guerriero-Navon announced plans to move her vintage…

Jerry Seinfeld Coming to Comerica Theatre in Phoenix

What is the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? Well, the comedian has been up to a whole lot of something lately, recently joining Facebook, making his first Instagram post, and finishing up the fifth season of his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which debuts on November 6. And today,…

Kimpton Hotel Coming to Downtown Tempe

UPDATE: Monti’s is closing November 17. A Kimpton Hotel is coming to downtown Tempe, according to a report from Phoenix Business Journal. The 16-story, 247-room hotel will join the Hayden House (home to Monti’s) at the southwest corner of Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway. It will be part of…

Ballet Arizona’s Swan Lake Is a Visual Feast

When the curtain opens on Ballet Arizona’s Swan Lake, the audience is transported to a world reminiscent of Grimm’s fairy tales. Layers of elaborate trees, looking like a cross between delicate ink drawings and woodcuts used to illustrate storybooks long ago, line each side of the stage. Scenic design by…

The Table Showcases Photography and Encourages Arts Discussion in Phoenix

If there’s one crucial thing that’s missing from the art scene in Phoenix, it’s dialogue. That’s precisely why Dana Buhl, photographic artist and curatorial coordinator at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, opened her own space, The Table. Existing in between an exhibition and a critique, The Table functions through fostering…

John Wick Restores Our Faith in Violent Movies (PODCAST)

Keanu Reeves in John WickOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). We also scoop out some time for John Wick, which helps restore our faith in violent movies, Horns, Nightcrawler…

5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

Halloweekend is in full swing, with haunted houses and parties galore. Here are five more things to add to your spooky to-do list. Gotham City Halloween Though it’s been met with mixed reviews, we’ve got to say that we are pretty taken with Fox’s Gotham. While the comic book-inspired drama…

10 Signs You’ve Been Friend-Zoned

Guys, it happens to the best of us. Sometimes you’re really into a chick, and she’s only interested in you as a friend. Hopefully, she’s forward enough to tell you that directly, but that’s not always the case. If you’re wondering whether you’ve been friend-zoned or not, you probably have…

Buffalo Exchange to Move Its Central Phoenix Location

Attention Valley shoppers, one of your favorite spots for recycled retail is relocating to be closer to the downtown scene. The Phoenix Buffalo Exchange is packing up its vintage suitcases and moving down Seventh Street from Missouri Road to Osborn Road, where it will open in a newly renovated space…

Halloween Guide 2014

Note: All events take place on Friday, October 31, unless otherwise specified. SPECIAL EVENTS Alwun House 1204 E. Roosevelt St. www.alwunhouse.org As if you wouldn’t have guessed by the enormous, creepy-looking daddy longlegs spider perched in the front yard, Halloween is sort of a big deal at the Alwun House…

Citizenfour‘s Laura Poitras Explains Why Edward Snowden Did It

With the first two documentaries in her post–9-11 trilogy — My Country, My Country, a portrait of Iraq under American occupation, and The Oath, which focused on two Guantánamo Bay prisoners — Laura Poitras seemed to be making a bid for the title of film’s most vigilant observer of American…

Speed Demons

Put on your most ghoulish Halloween costume, strap on a helmet, and get on your bike, because the Life After Death Race is hitting the mean streets of downtown Phoenix and pitting racers against each other for the glory of a race win.The second annual solo scavenger hunt and alley…

Spurning the Champs

Youth, excitement, athleticism — these aren’t words that spring to mind when describing the San Antonio Spurs. Think more along the lines of methodical, precise, andselfless. But youth and athleticism sum up the current Phoenix Suns squad quite pithily.For Suns fans, the past decade has been a bitter dance with…

Gone Batty

Though it’s been met with mixed reviews, we’ve got to say that we are pretty taken with Fox’s Gotham. While the comic book-inspired drama looks primarily at the origins of James Gordon (you know, the guy who goes on to become Commissioner Gordon) on the police force, it also tends…