CONDER/dance’s Breaking Ground took over the Tempe Center for the Arts for two nights this past weekend in hopes of highlighting choreographers and videographers on the cutting edge of the contemporary dance scene. If diversity was the end goal, the show was a raging success…
Excited for the Super Bowl parties but nervous because you don’t follow football closely enough to keep up with the conversation? Don’t worry. We’ve got your back with this handy guide that will help you talk all about the Sunday, February 2, game featuring the guy with the giant forehead…
Waste Management Phoenix Open at Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale It’s hard to imagine that home-field advantage could possibly be a thing in golf, but Phil Mickelson’s performances at the Waste Management Phoenix Open certainly make the case for its existence. The former ASU Sun Devil has won the tournament…
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…
Look, we’re not going to sugarcoat it for you. Dating sucks. Whether it’s online or in person, there’s no getting around the fact that romantic entanglements can be complicated. (That’s why we call it Courting Disaster.) A new Tinder drinking game is out to change the way we look at…
For some, the first things that come to mind when thinking of gay cinema are films like Brokeback Mountain and Blue Is the Warmest Color. While these flicks have their merits, they barely scratch the surface of LGBT film. The fifth annual Desperado Film Festival is here to broaden viewers’…
Nominees were announced this morning for the the 33rd annual Governor’s Arts Awards. The 84 nominees include businesses and individuals spanning the state who have made substantial and outstanding contributions to arts and culture in Arizona. Presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts in partnership with the Arizona Commission on…
If you made it out to Third Friday last week or you’ve happen to drive by the A.R.T.S. Market on Roosevelt Row, chances are you’ve noticed two ocean-certified shipping containers sitting outside. No, they’re not the world’s largest pieces of Ikea furniture. It’s the new home of downtown’s Hot Box…
There’s a new kid on the block, and the Melrose District’s most recent addition to its well-known arsenal of vintage, refurbished and antique shops goes by the name Twigs and Twine Custom Restoration and Design. Mark and Jill Roberts are the creative husband-and-wife duo behind the venture, which was operated…
Amazing Arizona Comic Con at Phoenix Convention Center The Walking Dead is essentially the hottest television show on the planet. As the fourth season of AMC’s ongoing horror serial prepares to commence in a couple of weeks, the Amazing Arizona Comic Convention becomes ground zero for all things zombie, comics,…
Sometimes, the best things in life really are free: vintage video games, blueprints of contemporary architecture, and now, thanks to one of the world’s foremost art institutions, some of the most valued images in history…
Let’s start with the ending: the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been done by one of the eight…
It’s being described as more than a facelift or a redesign; they’re calling it a “master plan” — a vision to transform Phoenix’s Margaret T. Hance Park from neighborhood play-place to a defined desert oasis. Built atop the Interstate 10 tunnel, the sprawling 32-acre park serves as a distinguishing physical…
The Arizona Commission on the Arts is shaking things up this month with Arizona Art Tank, a new funding initiative designed to give public awards to entrepreneurial arts ventures across the Valley. At Art Tank events, top applicants will have six minutes each to pitch their ideas to a selection…
Native American Fashion blogger and scholar Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) has brought discussion about native appropriation to the fore in the past few years, calling out companies like Paul Frank and Urban Outfitters on her blog, Beyond Buckskin, raising awareness, pushing for change, and expanding that blog to…
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 have this weird thing I do in the bedroom. I ask my partners to get…
The setup: In my old, crumbly Folger Library The Taming of the Shrew that I grabbed for a quarter to get through school, there’s an introductory essay about how William Shakespeare never meant to suggest that enhanced coercive techniques such as food and sleep deprivation, manufactured cognitive dissonance, and the…
While the well-connected and the Hollywood indie elite are spending the week in Utah, attending the many premières and parties of the Sundance Film Festival, the rest of us are confined to living vicariously through celebrity gossip sites and waiting for the winners to slowly make their way to Camelview…
The publicity campaign for Big Bad Wolves, a nasty little revenge thriller from Israeli filmmakers Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales, quotes Quentin Tarantino’s decree that it’s the “best film of the year.” Tarantino saw Big Bad Wolves at last year’s Busan Film Festival, where he reportedly showed up at a…
Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi solidifies his status as one of cinema’s finest living dramatists with The Past, a superb follow-up to 2011’s Oscar-winning A Separation that again situates audiences amid interpersonal, familial, and household crises. Working from a script that incisively plumbs a thicket of logistical and emotional complications, Farhadi’s…
New Zealand stuntwoman-turned-actress Zoë Bell is fully aware of her unique position as an action star who also does her own stunts. After working as Lucy Lawless’ stunt double on Xena: Warrior Princess, Bell was discovered by Quentin Tarantino on the set of Kill Bill. After that, Bell has enjoyed…
So many ideas in our country begin with the best of intentions and end up completely corrupted. From Lindsay Lohan’s acting career to the once-noble filibuster, well-meaning stuff sometimes just gets out of hand here. But has it caught up with Kickstarter, too? Launched in 2009, this crowd-funding platform seemed,…
