Every love affair — no matter how torrid, tempestuous, or twisted it might be — will probably come to an end sooner or later. In the case of the fiends behind Horns & Halos, the promoters of most of the Valley’s major fetish events over the last 10 years, they’re…
PoeFest 2014 Should you be unfamiliar with iconic author Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether,” apologies, here comes a spoiler alert and incidentally, an obscure 1980s pop reference: The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Don’t worry; The System is still a worthwhile…
The 22nd Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is happening on Sunday, October 12, at Cesar Chavez Plaza and for those of you who want to get involved but aren’t sure how, we’ve got all the details to make that happen. The event, which raises breast cancer awareness…
If there’s one thing we love more than a shiny, pretty thing, it’s a shiny, pretty party. To celebrate its new location and its new art exhibition, local jewelry-maker Mother of Gideon (MoG) is throwing an official grand opening party and reception starting a 7 p.m. this Friday, October 10,…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, open this week’s podcast with a brief discussion of Twin Peaks, which comes back to TV via a series on Showtime in 2016, and move onto The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall,…
After you’ve been charged by a rhino while riding an elephant and come face to face with some of the world’s largest cats in the wild, speaking in front of a packed auditorium must seem run-of-the-mill. At least, that’s how we imagine National Geographic photographer Steve Winter will feel when…
Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. To all the happy couples on Facebook who have polluted my news feed with one-month anniversary…
A new season is a new excuse to revamp your closet. But before you max out your latest credit card on this fall’s trendiest styles, you need to know what you’re getting yourself into. While plenty of runway looks for autumn 2014 are wearable, nice, and, hey, maybe even gorgeous,…
Better put on your ear muffs, kids, because Ignite Phoenix’s naughty sibling is set to return this fall. Much like its better-known sister event, Ignite Phoenix After Hours invites people from all walks of life to share their experiences, talents, and passions on stage — only difference being, it encourages…
It was a mystery that reporter Gary Webb would have jumped on: a man who’d made powerful enemies allegedly committing suicide with two gunshots to the head. The tragedy is that Webb was the deceased. Michael Cuesta’s earnest, ire-inducing Kill the Messenger is a David-and-Goliath story where truth is the…
There’s plenty to love about the month of October if you’re a film fan. Yeah, you can binge watch every B-horror movie on Netflix, but if you’re looking for a little more culture and a little less blood and guts, the Scottsdale International Film Festival is the event for you.Now…
A gloom hangs over writer-director David Ayer’s brutal war drama Fury that only the audience can see. It’s April 1945, and we know that in weeks the Nazis will surrender. The war is already over — Hitler just hasn’t admitted it. American sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) suspects as…
Knocking out the first-rate forgeries that fooled 60 American museums? That was a curiously mundane miracle, something for Mark Landis to do while watching TV. A frail and ascetic Mississippian who resembles Michael Stipe playing Truman Capote, Landis sketched and painted minor Currans, Averys, and Cassatts with one eye on…
The big news: In its first half, before it bottoms out with the rankest feel-goodery, Theodore Melfi’s too-familiar ain’t-he-irascible comedy-drama St. Vincent features scene after scene of Bill Murray actually trying to make you laugh. How long has it been? He plays Vincent, a drunk-driving Brooklynite whose look suggests science…
First wave punk rockers everywhere are alive and kicking. Just look at the Angry Samoans, hailing from Los Angeles, they’ve been doing their thing since the late ’70s. And since their inception, they’ve made a career out of being offensive. Rumor has it their song “Get Off the Air” was…
No longer relegated to bumpers and covering ugly logos on water bottles, stickers are a bona fide art movement. Pretty impressive, considering that once they’re adhered there’s not much moving to do. Sticker art is rooted in street art culture, but it’s made its way into galleries and serves as…
Just as things are starting to cool down, Phoenix becomes the hot spot for word-based battling. The 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam sets the city on fire this Friday, October 10.Competition is thick with local favorites like Myrlin Hepworth and Joy Young mixing it up with lauded wordsmiths from all…
Margaret Cho’s first comedy album dropped in 1996. Give it a listen — her profanity-laced tales of personal kidney stones, oral sex, and her boyfriend’s mangina sound even more relevant today than they did almost 20 years ago. She might rightfully be crowned the first of the “not afraid to…
Thanks to the seeming permanence of the competitive reality TV show, it’s pretty easy to find super-talented dancers performing everything from classical ballet to jazz and hip-hop while flipping through the channels. But fans of movers and shakers have a pretty good reason to leave the couch lonesome this weekend,…
There’s good, there’s bad, and then there’s just plain ugly. In Class 6 Theatre’s Worst Play Ever Contest, pitiful playwrights and lousy local artists go for the gold in a festival of god-awful short play readings. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be tempted see if maybe you can’t write…
Might seem crazy, but a traditional Oktoberfest celebration begins in late September and lasts no less than 16 days. However, a single Tempe weekend in October will nicely serve the purpose of quaffing down the large quantities of beer for which the event is renowned.The tradition dates back to 1810…
You don’t have to go too far out or spend a bundle of money to feel like you’re vacationing in the Mediterranean — just head to the Queen Creek Olive Mill this weekend for the grove’s Food Truck Olivepalooza festival. The free event features complimentary wine tastings, Bocce ball, and…
