Modern Contemporary Dance Tears for Fears may have advocated shouting it all out, but when the world’s gone mad and we can’t take it anymore, we’d rather dance it out. Express yourself in movement with the modern contemporary dance class on Monday, August 11, at 5th Row Dance Studios…
Money may not be able to buy you class, happiness, or love, but in metro Phoenix, having a enormous chunk of change is your ticket to owning your own personal sauna, yoga studio, olympic size pool, movie theater, shooting range, and world-class kitchen. When it comes to living at the…
Forget the starlight, star bright — you can actually see a meteor shower tomorrow night. The Perseid meteor shower, named for its origin in the Perseus constellation, is an annual night-sky spectacle appearing every summer when the Earth passes by the Swift-Tuttle Comet. This week the shower is expected to…
The Phoenix Police Department has reportedly wrestled up a few more suspects in the recent burglary of WWE superstar Daniel Bryan’s home. According to Sergeant Tommy Thompson, a department spokesman, police arrested three individuals on Wednesday who are believed to be involved with a break-in last month at the pro…
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: 33. Nathan Blackwell. There…
Bike to the Ballpark It’s time to saddle up for a cause, because the Phoenix Spokes People are calling out to Valley cyclists to join them on a group ride to Chase Field for an afternoon baseball game…
Listen up, HGTV lovers. If you’ve been feeling like your home decor is stuck in a rut or are starting fresh in a new space, grab your pens, notepads, and color swatches and head over to Lowe’s of Scottsdale this weekend to get some style tips and tricks from Emma…
This week, Bentley Gallery added a new artist to their already impressive roster. Jonathan Cross is a recent MFA graduate from ASU, who spent time working as a studio assistant to Don Reitz, another ceramicist represented by Bentley. Cross joins the ranks of popular sculptors Jun Kaneko and James Marshall,…
One attends a community theater production of Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues hoping to see pleasant performances and, if you’re a Simon fan, expecting to have a few laughs. One does not go expecting a powerhouse performance by a principal player — a performance so thrilling that it completely overshadows the…
The Valley has not yet finished celebrating the life of the late Bill Thompson. The creator, producer and co-host of the hit children’s television program, The Wallace and Ladmo Show, passed away on Wednesday, July 23, at the age of 82. Now the community is coming together to remember Thompson’s…
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: 34. Yai Cecream. Yai…
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. First dates are rough. A single meal or a meet-up over coffee can make or break…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly discuss Woody Allen’s latest, Magic in the Moonlight, and revisit Get on Up and Guardians of the Galaxy, and finally, touch on the new documentary The Dog…
Barricade the windows and cue the Jaws soundtrack, because one of the greatest cinematic train wrecks of all time is returning to select Valley theaters for one night only. And this time, it’s a sequel. For those who missed the July 31 television debut of Sharknado 2: The Second One…
Star presence, that distillation of charisma and sometimes glamour, lies at the heart of the movies’ appeal. The star presence James Harvey evokes so richly in his new book, Watching Them Be, is never simply about physical beauty. Harvey rightly points out that Ingrid Bergman’s fresh unaffectedness was distinctly unglamorous,…
Daniel Radcliffe’s first trip to Comic-Con kicked off like the world’s cuddliest Nuremberg rally. This summer, just minutes after he walked into Hall H, the hangar-sized sardine can of 6,500 people sang him “Happy Birthday.” It was an emotional moment for everyone. “The fact that I was turning 25 slightly…
Before you buy that tiny box turtle in Chinatown, know that it can live for 100 years. Which means that among all the Mad Libs nonsense of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — a comic book-turned-media-phenomenon that’s always half-admitted it’s a goof — at least the teenage part is accurate…
In the highly imperfect world of contemporary romantic comedies, What If is as close to perfect as anything we’ve got, not least for the way it captures the abject hopefulness of young people who’d like to be in love but don’t know how to go about it. Who does know…
Even those of us who loved Robin Williams as a performer would have to say that sometimes he was too much — too wired, too pleading, too on. There were times when I’d see him nattering away on a late-night talk show, or suffer through a performance like the one…
It’s time to saddle up for a cause, because the Phoenix Spokes People are calling out to Valley cyclists to join them on a group ride to Chase Field for an afternoon baseball game.The evening will start at The Original Hamburger Works, 2801 North 15th Avenue, for happy hour at…
For ages, man has tried to either fast-forward to the future or blast to the past. As it turns out, doing the time warp isn’t that hard at all. It’s just a jump to the left, a step to the right, hands on the hips with knees bent tight, and…
Peter Bugg’s latest curating endeavor “Animal Party,” currently on view at Modified Arts, is kind of like Disneyland. With its brightly colored sculptures and large cartoon-like paintings, it initially feels like a dreamy play world. But upon closer inspection, it’s clear that there’s something sinister afoot here. Take our advice…
