Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show at WestWorld of Scottsdale You’d be hard pressed to find many people who don’t like horses. Little girls beg to own a pony, and some adult men get into the equestrian spirit with the whole brony thing. For horse lovers who just won’t quit, the 59th…
Welcome to the Phoenix Bucket List. Robrt Pela and Amy Silverman — two New Times contributors and longtime Phoenicians — have put together a list of 100 things to do in this city before you die. Each week we’re presenting another 10; in March we’ll wrap it all up in…
The Roosevelt Row Artists’ District has come a long way in its time, and it certainly shows no signs of stopping, thanks to Roosevelt Row CDC’s five- to 10-year growth and development plan, Roosevelt Row Artists’ District: Creative Placemaking in Downtown Phoenix, debuting Thursday, February 20, at The Nash…
Brent Bond’s latest exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts might make you rethink artistic appropriation. “Accomplice” features a selection of Bond’s work from the past decade alongside some of the prints he helped bring to fruition through Santo Press, a fine art publishing company he founded in 2009…
We don’t need to remind you what today is. If you’re in a relationship, you’re probably looking forward to the plans you and your sweetheart have made. Lovely. Good for you. However, us singletons are either trying to forget this love-ridden day or desperately searching for a last-minute date. And…
Ballet Arizona Presents La Bayadère at Symphony Hall Ballet Arizona’s production of La Bayadère will be a feast for the eyes. With costumes and sets designed by Sergiy Spevyakin, borrowed from Boston Ballet’s 2010 production, the show will offer the vibrancy of India’s most fantastical palette with rich silks and…
It’s Valentine’s Day. So while everyone else is pulling out all the stops to get gussied up for the evening’s affairs, a historic downtown Phoenix building will be doing the same. Many locals may already be familiar with The Pressroom, a 14,000-square-foot structure built in the 1920s, formerly known as…
Bunky Boutique will host a trunk show on Saturday, February 15, featuring Pinkcheeky, an Arizona-based line of yoga shorts, headbands, boyshorts, and men’s boxer-briefs. Show-goers can expect a DJ, a photo-op with a double-decker bus, food, drinks, and, most importantly, plenty of shopping. While Bunky currently carries only select styles…
The setup: Nina Raine’s thought-provoking Tribes, about a typically troubled family whose deaf adult son, Billy, illuminates further hurt when he discovers the Deaf community he’s been denied, has been acclaimed since it premièred in London in 2010. Winner of New York’s 2012 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, the…
I’ve been able to see, touch, and hear art — maybe even smell it — in numerous exhibitions I’ve visited, but getting to take a piece of the artwork in a museum and eat it is a new one for me. “Five Senses” at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art hits…
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. I’ve had few memorable Valentine’s Days in my life. Probably because, much like the winter plants…
Unless you’re really into the local tattoo artist scene, you’ve probably never heard of Old Town Ink co-owner Aaron “Bubba” Irwin. But Irwin’s notoriety will likely grow this month, after the season four première of Spike TV’s Ink Master at 10 p.m. Tuesday, February 25, in which Irwin is a…
It looks like one of the most exciting suburbs in America is about to get its very own curling rink. Since November 2013, the Coyotes Curling Club has been enlisting the help of its members and other curling enthusiasts to construct a 30,000-square-foot facility dedicated solely to the winter sport…
Just because an artist works in abstraction does not mean an exhibition of that artist’s work should follow suit. Case in point: “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land,” currently on view at the Heard Museum. The biographically driven exhibition, which includes 53 works by the artist,…
Director José Padilha’s long-delayed RoboCop reboot has arrived, and it’s neither an unalloyed (see what I did there?) triumph nor the travesty that partisans of Paul Verhoeven’s subversive Reagan-era classic had feared. At least, and at most, it’s different, taking bold liberties with the original text, as remakes should. One…
The endless love in question unfolds in that universe where shy, bookish teenage girls are always catalog-model beautiful, not a pimple in sight or a pound overweight, not a garment from Hot Topic darkening their closets. The movie tells us that 17-year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) is “awkward” and has…
Just as animated characters who look too human creep us out, could there be a phenomenon we might call the RomCom Uncanny Valley, a case when movie stars’ gorgeousness fully outshines our ability to believe their characters’ humdrum relationship problems? Radiant lovers make radiant love — and then argue about…
Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, both of which publish special daily issues at the major international festivals, may be the most famous movie trade magazines. But every morning at any of these festivals, including Berlin, most critics I know – and probably plenty of industry people, too – turn to…
Think you know your stuff? The cast of NPR’s weekly program and podcast Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is traveling all the way from the Chase Auditorium in downtown Chicago to see you news buffs in action with a live showing of the popular hour-long quiz program. Hosted by the…
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No Night & Day entry was ever adapted into an acclaimed film starring Queen Latifah, and, thus, we’ve got nothing on The Secret Life of Bees author Sue Monk Kidd, who ventures to Tempe, thanks to Changing Hands Bookstore, to sign her latest novel, The Invention of Wings. Situated in…
Valentine’s Day blows for everyone. If you’re single, it feels like the whole world is plotting against you, and if you’re in a relationship, you’re left with colossally high expectations. The solution for most is to avoid the crowds at home, but V-Day is what you make of it. Regardless…
