Phoenix preservationists acted fast on Monday, July 14, when they noticed construction fencing pop up around the historic Civic Building on the Arizona State Fairgrounds at 19th Avenue and McDowell Road…
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: 49. Kyllan Maney. Looking…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we hear from L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, who’s intrigued by the bizarre universe of Pixar’s Planes movies. We also hear about the film critic’s background and how she became interested in the movies by way of subliminal advertising and photography…
Let’s face it, guys are willing to overlook a lot in lieu of getting laid. And the ones that aren’t, well, you’ll find them in the comments section below. That being said, nobody’s perfect, and bad habits are a two-way street. So while you may harbor some secret hatred over…
Arizona Humanities, the state chapter of the National Endowment for the Humanities, announced its four newly elected board of directors members on Tuesday, July 15, including Jaclyn Roessel who won the 2013 Arizona Humanities Council Rising Star Award. Arizona Humanities’ goal is to help organizations that promote understanding of the…
Arizona’s many reputations have certainly shifted over the years, but one fact remains intact: it’s a mecca for Midcentury Modern design. Just ask home-based historian Alison King. The mastermind behind ModernPhoenix.net will be making a special appearance at Phoenix Art Museum on Friday, July 18, as part of Creative Mornings…
Summer is not yet half over, and we are hot and tired and want a chilled beverage. If we must be entertained, we want simple amusements, please, Beckett can wait until November. Actors Theatre — poor, beleaguered, recently almost-dead Actors Theatre — has delivered what we need. This professional theater…
It turns out that the cars and planes of Cars and Planes can kiss. Deep into Planes: Fire & Rescue, a time-killing kid-flick whose title is an exact summary of its plot, the filmmakers introduce us to two creaky old Winnebagos, a husband and wife in their sunset years, revisiting…
Wish I Was Here, the movie that actor and second-time director Zach Braff partially funded with money raised through Kickstarter, isn’t nearly terrible enough to satisfy all the grumblers who are hoping to see it fail. When Braff couldn’t secure traditional financing for the film, he appealed to the fan…
If the Saw series taught us anything, it’s that every quasi-inventive genre movie is fated to become a yearly franchise with increasingly diminishing returns. The Purge practically cried out for this treatment from its premise alone: James DeMonaco’s film had a big idea — a near-future in which “any and…
A defiantly R-rated farce seemingly commissioned to plug the We’re the Millers-shaped hole in the summer lineup, Sex Tape is warmer and more amusing than its ads would lead one to believe. In fact, it’s almost good enough, leaning a little too hard on the innate likability of stars Cameron…
There’s a reason the Weather Channel is the most watched channel (true!): People are fascinated by weather. There’s no denying the scary, heart-racing thrill of watching tornadoes or hurricanes along their destructive paths. Of course, that’s on TV. Closer to home come storms of a different nature, which is the…
Land Ho! is a How Grandpa Got His Groove Back for the geezer set, a buddy road trip through Iceland, starring two divorced men with a combined age of 150 years. The writer-directors, Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, are 30 and 34, respectively, young enough to be their leading men’s…
Someone’s going to get a hurt. Or, most likely, some big laughs. That’s because globe-trotting comedian Russell Peters has put together a new set of material and is taking it on the road.Peters pieces together his experiences growing up and his observations on cultures today for a show that’s as…
The Hell Ride, as the name suggests, is not fun. You will not enjoy the 45-minute ride to the top of Phoenix’s South Mountain. You will not smile as you pedal your fixed-gear bike across nearly eight miles of terrain that rises 1,300 feet in elevation. With a forecast temperature…
A Tempe-based spoken word group has teamed up with a Scottsdale art museum to present a verbal rather than visual approach to the arts.Phonetic Spit and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art host the second summer session of a crash course in performing pieces, poetry, and hip-hop. This year’s event,…
Given summer’s burning heat, there’s always room for another event based on beer consumption. The latest addition to the brew circuit is the Real, Wild, and Woody Beer Festival. Presented by the Arizona Craft Brewers Guild as a “more intimate” offshoot of the annual Strong Beer Festival, the focus here…
Earlier this year, the iPhone-based game Flappy Bird hit critical mass and frustrated millions with its easy to learn but hard to master mechanics of steering a barely-flying bird through obstacles. Within months, its lone wolf Vietnamese developer, Dong Nguyen, had a meltdown. Participants in the Phoenix Makes Games Jam…
The Canadian comedy sketch show Kids In The Hall had one major flaw — it was too good, too ahead of its time. Consequently, the show never really emerged from the shadows of the mainstream, remaining instead an underground hit until its premature demise in 1995. Still, its founders David…
The Arizona Rattlers are no longer chasing history, but that may not be the worst thing in the world. Last month’s loss to the San Jose Sabercats cut the Rattler’s bid for a perfect season short, but it also relieved a certain amount of pressure. Rather than playing every game…
At PechaKucha Night Phoenix, design-driven minds of the public and the American Institute of Graphic Arts can meet, greet, and take note from creative catalysts in the community as they present on projects that produce positive change in society.Featured speakers include Pat and Mike Murray of Maker Twins, Lindsay Kinkade…
All eyes are on the bride and groom as they make their third and final walk down the aisle. Orange Theatre’s year-long development of adapting Federico García Lorca’s Spanish classic, Bodas De Sangre, has reached its much anticipated end. In this live multimedia interpretation, five actors will take the age-old…
