Beginning on Thursday of last week, my social media accounts started exploding with pictures of Daniel Funkhouser’s hypnotizing installation piece “Familiar Glass with Theatrical Spectacle with Transparent Illusion and Artselfie.” (With a title like that, who could resist?) The work was one of many included in this year’s ARTELPHX, a…
Your best bets for getting out and about this week are here, Phoenix. Jenni Pulos Book Signing Jenni Pulos’ life plan didn’t pan out. She didn’t end up being the second coming of Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live. UCLA was not interested in her performing as their mascot. And…
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: 92. Ib Andersen. Ib…
Whether you know her as the hip-hop dancing, leotard designing, Gina Linetti on Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine or as the leotard wearing, female gigolo, Farley on Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, chances are you know two solid facts about Chelsea Peretti. One, she’s funny as all get out. And two, she loves…
Jenni Pulos is just leaving a last-minute audition. It’s fitting that it popped up, given that the actress, mom, and co-star of Bravo reality shows Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis and Flipping Out recently released a book about embracing the unexpected. Her memoir, Grin and Bear It: How to Be…
It’s not too often that locally made films get picked up and featured in a hoity-toity French film festival like Cannes, but the risqué subject matter of Tim McSpadden’s Love a la Carte might just be perfect for European audiences used to films like Blue is the Warmest Color, Irréversible,…
Innocent questions that arise naturally, especially in the minds of people of all types who live in areas with a nice, large, healthy proportion of residents who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, include the following: 1. Just how many Mormons live in my stomping…
From hotel art installations and cartoonish takes on the Southwest to outdoorsy Shakespeare and movie makeup how-tos, your weekend plans have arrived. ARTELPHX It’s time for a new spring look. The Clarendon Hotel and Spa is once again lending itself to local creatives to become the largest art installation in…
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: 93. Nicole Royse. Nicole…
Attention men of Scottsdale: Your fashion game is about to get a serious boost. That’s all thanks to Scottsdale Quarter’s newest retail addition, Suitsupply. Set to open on Thursday, May 22, this Amsterdam-based brand delivers a showroom of sharp suits at relatively mild prices (suits start as low as $399…
Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson have been busying creating an alternate universe inside the Scottsdale Public Library this month. Thursday, May 15, marks the official opening of “Camp Dreamtree,” an interactive art piece, which the duo describes as “an art installation in the shape of a camp.”…
Allow us some creative liberty here. How well do you know your neighbors? Beyond a slight nod or subtle wave? We’re guessing a “not well” or resounding “who?” about covers the gamut. Because, hey, we’re right there with you. One photography project has set out to change that expectation –…
The folks at Phoenix Center for the Arts has a new tenant, and it’s one that should give the institution an extra bit of street cred. Cyphers: The Center for Urban Arts, which offers classes and workshops on hip-hop culture and street-level art forms to both youth and adults, recently…
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. Last week I told you about first time having sex. Spoiler alert: It was terrible. Nevertheless,…
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: 94. Nanibaa Beck. For…
Phoenix Art Museum director Jim Ballinger announced the 2014 Contemporary Forum grant winners at the museum on Wednesday, May 14, with French Thompson, Contemporary Forum’s president…
The Tempe Tapestry just got a lot more vibrant thanks to fashion boutique Here on the Corner and recent ASU graduate Ali Dodt. The young muralist began brainstorming a mural project with Here on the Corner owner Julie Kent back in November of 2013 and began painting the mural in…
Godzilla is the movie monster with the mostest. King Kong may be just one gorilla-chest-hair behind, but not even the greatest of apes can quite match the half-dragon, half-dinosaur who first stomped and chomped his way through Tokyo in Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Toho Co, Ltd., extravaganza Godzilla. In that picture…
Looking for a chance to shout “Only in America”? Only in America — or an American movie — could the story of the first two Indian players to be signed to a major-league baseball team get spun as an L.A. sports agent’s journey toward realizing the importance of family and…
In 2014, any filmmaker who has a feel, and a flair, for romantic melodrama is doomed, and just one recent example from the world of blockbusters suggests why: In the final moments of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the hero tragically fails to save a major character, but the moment, coming…
Chef, the back-to-his-roots indie flick from Jon Favreau (Iron Man), is to modern foodie culture as his own Swingers is to ’90s swing revival. Favreau plays Carl Casper, a culinary bad boy, barreling egotist, and divorced father with a chef’s knife tattoo stretching down his right forearm and “El Jefe”…
“This is the first generation that is expected to live shorter lives than their parents,” says Katie Couric, the narrator of Fed Up. It’s an infuriating statement given both the preventability of that outcome and the institutional opposition to the solutions, the primary conflict that drives the film. For the…
