Arizona Beer Week has made a habit of starting strong. And the 14th annual Strong Beer Festival aims high — in alcohol content, at least. At last count, 111 breweries have signed on from such microbrew hotbeds as Arizona, Colorado, California, Oregon, New Mexico, and, yes, Nebraska. Australia, Belgium, and…
It’s often said that wrestling is one of the oldest and purest forms of athletic competition. For the ancient Greeks, who made the sport the highlight of their olympic games, wrestling was both science and divine art. We wonder what they would think if we took them to the US…
The restless music-hunter isn’t satisfied with what’s served up on the Top 40. If you found the Grammys more blah-some than awesome, the Oh My God, My Body, My Ears! concert performance marathon of modern, new, and emerging music compositions on Saturday, February 15, might be your bag.To kick off…
Nothing says romance like Whitney Cummings telling you and your beau what’s really going on. Cummings is an actress, comedian, creator of Whitney, and co-creator of the hit CBS show 2 Broke Girls.The edgy Los Angeles-based comic has made a name for herself telling men what women are really thinking…
It’s time to get down with your bad self. Horns and Halos Productions is celebrating its 10th anniversary season with Fetish Revolution 2014. The Genitorturers will bring their 20 Years of Depravity Show to the stage along with other acts including Valerie Gentile & Abbey Nex, The Audio Virus, Midori,…
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 crystal embellishments.Those beautiful trappings come with a story…
For art lovers who yearn for deeper knowledge about what’s on the walls, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art has the perfect outside-the-box tour.Artist Studio Tours are a monthly look at the behind-the-scenes of artists who call the Valley home. On this week’s three-stop tour, check out the studio of vibrant…
Get ready to hit the bottle, because it’s going to be one of those weeks. Arizona Cocktail Week, the two-year-old celebration of all things craft cocktail, returns with more than 30 events statewide — almost all paired with local restaurants.Saturday’s first full day of the festivities is fairly reflective of…
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 annual Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show the perfect opportunity…
In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes collaborated on a script for a play, hoping to strike a balance between frothy musicals and drama with a Big Message — a tale celebrating the language and humor of genuine black America.The two friends encountered obstacles of logistics and…
Heavy subject matter meets a 600-pound man in Obie-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale.In Stray Cat Theatre’s production and with the help of a fat suit, Damon Dering of Nearly Naked Theatre brings the hefty lead, Charlie, to life – though he’s not living much of one. He has…
All Puppet Players, that Arizona-California troupe of low-budget lunatics, is most renowned right now for its embarrassingly popular world-première co-production (with Nearly Naked Theatre) of Fifty Shades of Felt, lauded by our competitors as not merely the filthiest puppet show in history but the filthiest play of any kind they’d…
For many of us the budget’s tight this time of year. Still reeling from our holiday hangovers, we lock down our pocketbooks, put our credit cards on an aggressive diet and some of us even begin to make good on our New Year’s resolutions.Well, this weekend should just about spoil…
The changes just keep on coming to Seventh Avenue and McDowell Road. On January 30, the My Florist shopping center said goodbye to one of its few non-corporate, non-food-related establishments, Bethaney Soliere’s Boutique Solie…
Mark your calendars, film buffs. The Phoenix Film Festival returns to Harkins Scottsdale 101 from Thursday, April 3, through Thursday, April 10, and, if its opening night is any indication, we’d bet that this year’s lineup will be a good one…
Bigger doesn’t always mean better. Before your mind goes into the gutter, we’re talking about housing. Tiny spaces, to be exact. “Microdwellings,” to be most specific. “MicroDwell 2014” comes to Shemer Art Center this week for a month-long hands-on look on how 600 square feet translates into a usable live-work…
Big things are afoot for Raychel Diane Weiner. The Ballet Arizona company dancer was recently cast in Flesh and Bone, an upcoming Starz dance drama created, written, and produced by Moira Walley-Beckett, who produced and wrote for Breaking Bad. Not much has been revealed about the show — except that…
Every month Kathy Cano-Murillo, a.k.a. The Crafty Chica, dishes crafty tips and tricks in La Vida Crafty on Jackalope Ranch. Hi, I’m Kathy, the Crafty Chica, and I sprinkle glitter for a living. Literally and metaphorically, right here out of my Phoenix home. I’m a third-generation Phoenician (love!) and am…
One of America’s first child stars, Shirley Temple Black, passed away Monday, February 10, at age 85. The box office golden child of the 1930s will always be remembered for such film classics as Heidi, The Little Colonel, A Little Princess, The Littlest Rebel, and Wee Willie Winkie, which, as…
Congratulations, Detroit. In 1987, Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop cemented it as the most violent city in the world, an honor the Motor City resented for decades until its powers that be realized they may as well erect a statue of Peter Weller and milk the tourism. Twenty-seven years later, the attention…
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,…
Good news, Mesa, and anyone looking for an East Valley alternative to Phoenix’s Melrose District: You’re getting a new addition to the downtown scene. That’s thanks to Old Brick House Vintage Market, which opens this week at 37 West Main Street. Kalli Gleave, one of the main creators of the…
