You might’ve noticed some of your old favorites on TV last weekend as you were scrolling through the channels, and the good news is it’s here to stay. Retro TV has officially launched in Phoenix, and that means you can watch shows like classic Doctor Who, Mystery Science Theatre 3000,…
For more than 25 years, Through Each Others’ Eyes (TEOE) has utilized photography to cross boundaries both locally and internationally. But for its latest event, the organization is going outside the traditional form of banquets and gallery shows. Led by world-renowned travel photographer Kerrick James, TEOE will hold a self-driving…
Day of the Dead celebrations may be months away — Friday, October 31, through Sunday, November 2, to be exact — but Phoenix Public Library is already on the lookout for Valley artists to lend their creative talents to the upcoming Día de los Muertos exhibition “Heroes: La luminaria de…
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: 37. Monica Robles. Creating…
Running the gamut from gardening to surfing, here’s what should be on our out-and-about radar this week in Phoenix. Surfing on Central Surfing in Phoenix? As good as that sounds, it also sounds fantastical. Wait, it’s true! Surfing on Central is all about enjoying a surfing-like adventure compliments of a…
The second-ever Welcome Diner Film Festival will screen locally-made short films on Wednesday, August 13 and Thursday, August 14 at the RoRo eatery. But, before that can happen, the festival needs teams of local filmmakers and actors to work fast and furious under pressure for the 48-hour film challenge. If…
You don’t need a major income to stay in touch with happenings around town. From free documentary screenings to graphic novel get-downs and community get-togethers, the Valley offers its fair share of activities — on the house. Here are are top three picks for free events in metro Phoenix this…
Prepare yourself for cuteness overload. Thanks to the Internet, we’ve seen our fair share of unusual fluffy characters, from dwarf foxes to zonkeys to the unhappy but irresistible local feline celebrity Grumpy Cat . But now it seems a new four-legged farm animal in the Valley is about to give…
For local muralist Francisco “Enuf” Garcia it’s impossible to activism without art — and vice versa. The artist, who won the Eric Fischl Vanguard Award at the Phoenix Art Museum in 2008 and spoke at the White House for Youth Summit in Washington D.C. in 2012, will display a new…
From First Friday haps to soccer, trivia, and modern dance, here’s what to mark your calendar with this weekend. “an idea of why” Phoenix artist Daniel Shepherd brings solo work to Willo North Gallery for an upcoming show entitled “an idea of why.” The artist, who works in abstract paintings…
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: 38. Rossitza Todorova. For…
First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows you will not want to miss this Friday. “Animal Party” The latest exhibition at Modified Arts really does feel like a party at first glance, with all of the saturated…
San Diego Comic-Con is an exhausting, chaotic mess. Going to panels and rubbing elbows with folks dressed up like Doctor Who and Game of Thrones characters sounds fun, but in reality, you spend most of your time waiting in lines. It’s a bit absurd when you think about it. Phoenix…
Comicon may be over, but don’t let that you get you down, graphic novel geeks. This weekend local publishing group Sloth Dojo is heading to Ash Ave Comics & Books for the signing and release party of Biker Mice From Mars. Created by Valley residents, artist and co-writer Chris Ness…
On this week’s film podcast, Stephanie defends her Guardians of the Galaxy review against Internet trolls who tell her to go suck eggs, and we touch on Scarlett Johansson in Lucy and the excellent James Brown biopic Get on Up. There’s a lot to be had in this one. Enjoy…
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: 39. Gavin Sisson. Being…
Some of your favorite comic and cartoon characters might be coming to life this month on the silver screen. Or maybe you’re excited to catch a biographical peek into the world of a prolific fashion designer or genre-bending indie band. In any case, there’s plenty of good stuff to see…
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. Heads up, bitches. This one’s going to sting. Whether you love her, hate her, or secretly…
Ten years old might sound way too young to have a facelift, but it isn’t if you’re Mesa Arts Center. This week, MAC announced that internationally renowned artist and designer Cecil Balmond has been selected to create a shade structure that will connect the Mesa Arts Center’s North Plaza with…
The 2013-14 theater season may be over but the rounds of applause are just getting started. On Monday, July 28, the nominees for the 2013-14 AriZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence were announced at Phoenix Theatre with numerous categories ranging from the overall production of contracted and non-contracted plays to original…
This might be a story about the beginning of the end of Sunnyslope as we know it. Call it the Dumbing Down of Mayberry, or How We Lost Another Round to the Big Box Guys. Call it progress, or community evolution, or stop reading now before I get to the…
Uncomfortable-silence auteur Joe Swanberg has made a career of testing how much falseness you can strip out and still have a movie. What if people on-screen talked like people off it, and they spent as much time looking at phones and laptops as you do, and if their moments of…
