Firestage 6th Anniversary Ernesto Moncada wears a lot of hats in his downtown Phoenix adventures: writer, poet, comedian, performance artist. Each one contributes to his mischievous and raunchy alter ego Ernasty, the goth-eyed host of Firestage, the unpredictable variety show and open mic that celebrates its sixth anniversary on Friday,…
Jamie Kilstein is making his voice heard. The progressive left-wing comedian can be found sharing his thoughts on war, abortion, gun control, rape culture, religion, veganism, and mainstream media coverage on stage at New York comedy clubs, on his comedy album, What Alive People Do, on his political podcast with…
Who says astroturf can’t be classy? On Friday, August 15, The Sandlot is hosting the pop-up exhibition “Soirée in the Garden” featuring sculptures by Mikey Estes and photographs by Abigail Lynch (who was recently featured in our 100 creatives series). The show is only going to be up for one…
If there’s a problem with Michael Rossato-Bennett’s Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, an engaging, vaguely uplifting documentary about how personalized music therapy can help dementia patients, it’s that it ignores the very tune it’s playing. Rather than present its elderly, memory-impaired subjects as human beings who deserve…
Art, meet science. This fall ASU’s Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, the Center for Science and the Imagination, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing are teaming up to launch the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative (ICF), a multidisciplinary effort to explore the connection between the…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 29. Brian Cresson. Fashion’s…
Williams in Moscow on the HudsonOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly remember Robin Williams, who died on Monday. He was 63…
It’s almost festival time again. The Grand Avenue Members’ Association and the Phoenix Annual Parade of the Arts will team up for the 6th Annual Grand Avenue Festival on Saturday, November 8, held in the Grand Avenue District in downtown Phoenix…
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. Online dating has come a long way. With so many virtual matchmaking venues out there now,…
If there’s one life lesson we’ve gleamed from decades spent watching professional wrestling, its this: Your best friend could possibly turn into your worst enemy. As unthinkable as it may seem, we’re willing to bet that you and your bestie could easily become frenemies (or worse), given the right set…
Put on your dancing shoes, Phoenix. The Emmy Award-winning Fox show So You Think You Can Dance is following up its 11th season with a North American tour. The So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2014 will visit more than 70 cities across the United States, kicking off Wednesday,…
Misery loves company. I guess that’s why people won’t stop talking about the fiery furnace that is a Phoenix summer. Arizonans have a complex when it comes to the heat, which isn’t entirely unwarranted because it does, in fact, get heinously hot here. The unbearableness of it becomes a rallying…
When you put a pair of losers in uniforms, at the end of the day they’re still losers. Best friends and roommates Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Ryan (Jake Johnson) learn that the hard way but not without finding some joy in the fantasy that you can become the success…
Titles don’t get more ironic than The Expendables 3. The franchise claims to be about death-seeking mercenaries yet stars ’80s action heroes, who refuse to die. Three films in, everyone in the sprawling team is still alive and ass kicking, save for Bruce Willis, whose million-dollar-a-day asking salary has caused…
The Giver is more simple and raw than the rest of today’s teen dystopias that try to cram in unnecessary backstory and love triangles. (Original author Lois Lowry published her novel in 1993, which makes it officially the cool aunt of Katniss and the kids.) The story picks up several…
Maybe you think you know what Woody Allen did or didn’t do in that summerhouse all those years ago. Maybe you look at his history — shacking up with a Stuyvesant high school girl in the late ’70s; marrying his longtime partner’s adopted daughter in the ’90s — and simply…
Walls aren’t the only place to view art this week. Art Intersection is hosting an evening of member portfolio sharing that is open to the public for viewing and input. Each member will have a space of about 18 square feet to show their collection of photographs. All artists will…
Few artists have fully captured the essence of the Chihuahua like the anonymous painter whose giant, colorful depiction hangs in the Ingleside Animal Hospital lobby. This small dog with a larger-than-life attitude jumps from the canvas. That big doggy attitude also provides the spark behind Herberger Theater’s Lunch Time Theater…
Teams of filmmakers took to the streets of Phoenix to craft short flicks in just 48 hours, and now the time has come to find out which one is the best of the fest. Welcome Diner’s second film festival will screen all of the movies on Thursday, August 14, when…
Ernesto Moncada wears a lot of hats in his downtown Phoenix adventures: writer, poet, comedian, performance artist. Each one contributes to his mischievous and raunchy alter ego Ernasty, the goth-eyed host of Firestage, the unpredictable variety show and open mic that celebrates its sixth anniversary on Friday, August 15.Between jokes…
Some ideas sell themselves to their target audience. There’s not much you need to tell a child about an ice-cream sandwich, and there’s not much you need to tell the elderly about all-you-can-eat buffets. Friday, August 15’s Beer Olympics at Tempe Marketplace fits the same mold: If the name catches…
If you want want some more insight on what dead people do, go talk to a medium. But if you want to know what alive people do, go check out Jamie Kilstein and his opening performer John Frusciante for an evening of interactive improv and comedy. Kilstein, a New Yorker…
