On this week’s Voice Film Club episode, film critics Alan Scherstuhl, Amy Nicholson and Stephanie Zacharek race through the latest (and the most terrible) Transformers movie (2:01), Earth to Echo (13:14), and Tammy (16:30)…
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: 58. Vara Ayanna. Vara…
Ch-ch-ch-changes. Summertime in Phoenix might be little slow, but that’s not stopping certain small businesses from doing a dosey doe in downtown Phoenix. Independent retailer Nostra Style House has closed its Roosevelt Row storefront and is moving to 702 North Seventh Street…
It’s no secret that here at New Times we’re pretty big fans of Lit Lounge, the spoken-word series that serves as the centerpiece of performance programming at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. So when we landed on a theme for this year’s Best of Phoenix — “Tales of the…
If you happen to be a geek with either artistic leanings or a flair for design (or both), the people at local PBS affiliate Eight, Arizona would like to tap some of your brain power. Don’t worry, they’re not interested in plugging electrodes into your head as part of a…
First Friday heats up tomorrow with creative works going up all over the city. This month, Phoenix’s favorite art-filled evening falls on the Fourth of July. Artlink’s First Friday Trolley Tour will be taking a brief hiatus for the holiday weekend, but don’t let that deter you. Most galleries and…
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. All right, guys. We set you up with the five things women secretly love about you…
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: 59. Kerstin Dale. You…
FYI, DVF fans. One of your favorite designer brands just got a lot more accessible thanks to the new Diane von Furstenberg store, which opened its doors Tuesday, July 1, at Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. Although the high-end line best known for its signature wrap dresses and bold prints could…
It’s a relief, after the wretched Identity Thief, to see movies whose makers love Melissa McCarthy as much as audiences do. Identity Thief’s comic centerpiece was predicated on the idea that McCarthy having sex is a hilarious gross-out, like she’s the pie Jason Biggs once had to diddle. Half an…
Horror, like porno, can be judged only by its effect on your pulse. If you jerked in your seat, it served its function. Biology requires us to react to jump scares, just it urges a lonely man to thrill to a great set of tits. But triggering a coronary reaction…
Who knows why, but the sight of apes sitting tall and proud on horseback is stirring in a primal way. That’s one of the best images in Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to 2011’s enormously successful Rise of the Planet of the Apes (directed…
Plays adapted into movies always feel naked by the time they make it to the screen, their theatrical bones showing through in a most awkward and unbecoming way. That’s more or less true of Roman Polanski’s screen version of David Ives’ Venus in Fur, in which a playwright and first-time…
So far onscreen, Mexican narcoculture has generated mostly grim documentaries, but given the carnage and the proximity, you easily can imagine the movies coming from both sides of the border: the mezzobrow hand-wringers, the trigger-joy gangster trips, the based-on-true-story crusades. What we might not have seen coming is something like…
Some events get better with age, including the Tempe Town Lake Festival featuring Tempe’s 63rd annual fireworks display over Tempe Town Lake on July 4. Tempe’s fireworks, shot from the Mill Street Bridge, may not be the prettiest or biggest in the valley on this evening, but it is hard…
Laura Spalding Best’s latest works are all about connections.Through a painted series of scenes depicting street lights, telephone poles, wiring and signage along Roosevelt Row, Best explores communication through city dwellers’ shared language of reds, greens, one-ways, and don’t-walks. Painted on the back sides of aluminum traffic signs, these works…
Time for some star-spangled cocktails and some tan line stripes. While the Hotel Palomar is celebrating a whopping 100 days of summer, it’s giving special attention to number 47, also known as the Fourth of July. This All American Independence Party will feature specialty drinks with Tito’s Handmade Vodka, grilled…
The Arizona Celebration of Freedom 2014 is America’s birthday party — and you’re invited.The annual freedom fete highlights plenty of indulgences worthy of a salute, from classic car shows to beer gardens and live performances from bands with names like Rock Lobster and Whiskey Kiss. Displays include a showcase of…
Get ready for a double feature with local flair when FilmBar brings two Arizona-made flicks to the big screen on Saturday, July 5.As a part of the Arizona Filmmaker Showcase, the films PIG and Sex and Violence might take you to familiar locales, but what they’ll show you is something…
Contrary to what Miley Cyrus would tell you, Jay-Z and Britney songs are not the best way to have a party in the USA. Apollo’s Lounge has the formula right. First, they call the shindig America, Fu*k Yeah! Then they pack it with everything that makes our country great: flags,…
Fill in that unibrow, throw some flowers in your hair, and take an elaborate selfie. The Phoenix Public Library is celebrating one of the most sensational artists to come out of Mexico on what would have been her 107th birthday. The Frida Kahlo Birthday Party will offer music, live dance…
Before the season, a division title seemed like a realistic goal for the Arizona Diamondbacks. After a disastrous start, the only realistic goal was to not be a complete embarrassment. The D-Backs kissed that goal goodbye when they essentially threw a game against Milwaukee in order to prove that they…
