We’re not sure if it’s just the social media buzz, but it sure feels like the 2014 World Cup has been one for the books. From a player with vampire-like tendencies to teams that can really get their groove on, we’ve been entertained in unexpected ways over the past month…
It seems that right now all eyes are on The View. Well, more eyes than normal. That’s because with Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd having recently left their spots at the table, the only remaining host from last season is Whoopi Goldberg. And while on Thursday, June 10, it was…
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: 54. Bobby Zokaites. Bobby…
On this week’s Voice Film Club episode, film critics Alan Scherstuhl, Amy Nicholson and Stephanie Zacharek recommend seeing Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (12:00) and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (20:00), a movie filmed over 12 years with the same cast…
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. Few of us can claim to be fluent in the language of love. In truth, there’s…
If we take a moment to be honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that we didn’t really read anything in high school. And if you’re anything like us, you probably leaned a little more on SparkNotes and CliffsNotes to get through English class than you’d be proud to admit. Even the…
“If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” But if you’re looking for David Sedaris, you’ll find him inside the Ikeda Theater at Mesa Arts Center at 8 p.m. Wednesday, November 5. That’s right, despite seeing the good, the bad, and ugly wryly…
“It’s the secret films you have to watch out for,” jokes Richard Linklater of his new movie Boyhood, a furtive experiment that he kept quiet for more than a decade. In 2002, he chose a first-grader named Eller Coltrane, the 6-year-old son of two Texas artists; cast Patricia Arquette and…
How has there not already been a Nicolas Cage movie called Rage? That title could fit many of the Drive Angry star’s late-career time-wasters. Here it works best as an imperative rather than an announcement of theme: You may feel some anger if you pay to watch this. Or you…
Put a little Flagstaff flavor in your drinking routine when Mother Road Brewing Company joins forces with The Arrogant Butcher. Five courses and five beers means there will be plenty to taste in this special one-night dinner event on Thursday, July 10.Featured chef Matthew Flanagan will be presenting dishes like…
The searing heat of the summer makes it easy to take refuge underwater in the backyard pools of the Valley. No Festival Required’s presentation of the 1968 film The Swimmer, screening on Thursday, July 10, is a cautionary tale about swimming your life away.NFR’s ongoing mission to spotlight forgotten films…
The business of childhood is the business of waiting: waiting for Christmas, waiting for school to let out, waiting to be old enough to stay up past nine. No other movie I can think of better captures the wistfulness of those days full of waiting than Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, an…
Sirens blare and an eerie voice announces that it’s best to remain indoors if you don’t plan to participate. While others make safety arrangements, and some sharpen their knives, one man loads his black, steel-armored car with plenty of guns and begins cruising. Fires erupt along the street, and gunshots…
t’s hard to believe, but the ninth season of Arizona Derby Dames is nearly in the books. Only two teams remain in contention. Those two teams will face off for the title on Saturday, July 12, at the Arizona Derby Dames Warehouse, 2517 West McDowell Road, suite 118.On one side…
Carmen Lynch has traveled the world, first as the daughter of a naval officer, and now as a comedian, entertaining troops abroad. The Last Comic Standing finalist pops up in Scottsdale on Friday, July 11.With a Spanish nurse for a mom and a childhood spent in Spain, Lynch is able…
“They say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice/I say the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots,” Tupac Shakur raps in his hit 1993 single, “Keep Ya Head Up.”Phoenician Noelle Martinez touches on similar ideas in her upcoming solo exhibit. “Back in the Daze: An Exploration of…
The 1980s were a magical time. You could buy leg warmers without visiting an American Apparel. New episodes of The Cosby Show were being made. And Simon LeBon’s babe status was unquestionable. Scorpius Dance Theatre revisits the era with its summer production of Catwalk… I Love Duran Duran.Fashion, pop music,…
There’s a reason why average Americans can’t name more than a few French bands or musicians, past or present. It’s because French music has always been pretty classy. Perhaps that’s an unpatriotic dig, but really, lassis hardly something most folks west of the Atlantic look for when surveying their listening…
Even though we still have a few months left of 110 degree heat, we’re sorry to say that summer peaked last weekend. It’s true. Fourth of July weekend was the ultimate stretch of pool parties, sunburns, and lots of booze. Heck, you might still be hung over. But there is…
Everyone knows it’s different strokes for different folks. But what if your view of the world isn’t so much about where you come from as it is what you come from? At the ongoing workshop series The Perks and Perils of Prvilege, ASU Project Humanities looks at how individual experiences…
One could argue that downtown Phoenix dries up come the summer season, but hundred-degree temperatures and vampire hours be damned. A handful of artists have been hiding from the heat, creating work for gallery exhibition, “Future Shock.”Organized by Ishmael Dueñas, the collaborative show includes work from art scene staples like…
Want to turn your noontime meal into something more naughty? Petit dejeuner gets a whole lot more provocative when it’s accompanied by a live performance of Risque Business. In this daring depiction of Broadway, out-of-luck actors aspiring to be in director Lord Delacor’s wild depiction of Great White Way bend…
