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: 83. Cole Reed. Much…
Hello, kitty. On the fence about whether you’re a dog person or a cat person? If you live in Arizona, there’s a good chance you fall in the litter category. At least, that’s according to the real estate bloggers over at Movoto. The same guys who named Tempe one of…
Good news, bookworms. Longtime Tempe literary staple Changing Hands Bookstore has announced that its Phoenix location at The Newton, 300 West Camelback Road, will open at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30…
The Western genre isn’t entirely comprised of spaghetti or John Wayne talking out the side of his mouth: From its earliest days, filmmakers were putting a comic spin on stories set on the dusty trail, with the genre hitting its apex between the mid ’70s and mid ’80s. We’ve gathered…
Better get used to hearing the name Chelsea Peretti. The comedian, writer, and actress is primed to blow up. Why? Well, to borrow a phrase from her comedy comrade Nick Kroll, first and first mostly, she’s hilarious. Her work in the writer’s room on shows including Parks and Recreation and…
Things can get a little sluggish during Phoenix summers, but Palabra Collective isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The art gallery/hair salon just moved to a new (bigger) location off of Seventh Street, and owner Jorge Torres is opening a satellite Palabra pop-up gallery at UNION at the Biltmore…
In a time of year when pool party season is in full swing, one formerly lively Scottsdale swim spot and party haven is apparently dead in the water: El Santo Cantina y Mas. A recent visit to the upscale Mexican beach bar in North Scottsdale, which featured a huge swimming…
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. Does anyone look good in lingerie? Outside the world of a mannequin or a Victoria’s Secret…
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: 84. Angel Castro. Halo…
Look, we’re not bashful about our love for Al Beadle. The Midcentury Modern architect left his mark all over the Valley — including stops on our favorite Phoenix home tour. So naturally, we were over the moon when we heard about the free home tour being offered tonight at his…
Remarkable as it seems, there’s still poetry to be found in the idea of kids tooling around with nothing much to do. Whether you grew up in a small town or a midsize-to-large city, in 1962, 1982, or 2002, you probably remember getting into a car, unwisely, with the first…
We’re still adjusting to Seth MacFarlane as a big-screen star. Not just because his breakneck absurdist humor often demands viewers pause and rewind, but because the man himself looks like a hand-inked cartoon, with his black, pupil-less eyes and an alabaster baby face that, lacking cheekbones that could carve in…
Gammage Auditorium announced last month that The Book of Mormon, which is three years into its Broadway run and preselling seats through March 2015 as of press time, will play Tempe on tour sometime in the 2015-16 theater season. Innocent questions that arise naturally, especially in the minds of people…
Boil Maleficent down to one newt’s nose-size piece of advice and you’d get this: Don’t dump Angelina Jolie. It’s not a problem most mortals will face, but as seen through director Robert Stromberg’s lens, the antlered arch-villain of Sleeping Beauty is a sympathetic scorned woman, equal parts Gloria Gaynor, Princess…
The phrase “summer movies” will never not mean broad, action-driven crowd-pleasers to me: I counted the days until Batman (June 23, 1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (July 3, 1991), and Jurassic Park (June 11, 1993) were released. For every Dark Knight, there are 10 Prometheuses — and that’s just among…
Let’s rewind 20 years, to the summer of 1994. O.J. Simpson has been arrested for murder, the World Cup is in America and being ignored, and the biggest hits at the multiplex are Forrest Gump, The Lion King, True Lies, and Speed. Notice anything odd about those movies? There’s not…
When first-time director Gillian Robespierre’s festival favorite Obvious Child makes its theatrical debut in June, it could herald the sweetest, funniest, most unassuming cinematic revolution in years. Starring former Saturday Night Live bit player Jenny Slate in a ravishing star turn, the romantic comedy quickly caught attention at Sundance for…
For Britain, most of the 19th century was marked by peace, growth, and, above all, opulence. We layfolk might be familiar with that time in British history as the Victorian Era. But there are two sides to every story.American author Alex Grecian has taken it upon himself to tell the…
On May 18, sensing a major change was needed to turn around a baseball season going quickly south, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ upper management named Hall of Famer Tony La Russa to the newly created position of chief baseball officer. On the same day, the D-Backs teed off on the Los…
You have to hand it to James McAvoy, who has made a career out of his amiable, boyish good looks; in Filth, he destroys that image. As Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, he’s a booze-bloated, greasy wreck who appears about 20 years older, all busted capillaries and shit-eating grin. He’s not…
The Balboa Poet House in Tempe, run by Deborah Berman and Joe Montaño III, has been hosting salon-style poetry readings in an intimate, domestic setting since 2012. The poetic crew teams up with downtown Phoenix’s Great Arizona Puppet Theater to go even bigger with Rise! A Night of Hispanic Poetry,…
Arguably two of the most influential female celebrities of our time come to life in downtown Phoenix this week, with a sultry performance presented by Scandalesque. Emceed by Camille Sledge (daughter of singer Debbie Sledge of ‘70s sensation Sister Sledge) M: an Homage to Madonna and Marilyn Monroe promises to…
