A woman gazes out at the horizon. “Have you ever seen anything more beautiful?” A man looks directly at her. “No. No I haven’t.” What was once a romantic scene has now turned downright creepy, thanks to a new site that acts as a free GPS for international hotties…
Calling a pop-up exhibition “Impromptu” might be a bit on the nose, but we’re still excited for Tilt Gallery’s three-day showcase of photography student work opening this evening in Scottsdale. “Impromptu” includes an assortment of pieces from nine photographers, who are all either current or former graduate students of the…
The setup: The 2007 stage musical Xanadu comes with so much baggage that it should be a Southwest flight. Thing is, most of that baggage is at least 34 years old. That’s why people buy tickets to the show — everything it’s based on is embarrassing and awful (roller disco…
Like a “Game Over” countdown clock urging you to drop in another quarter after getting annihilated by an arcade game bad guy, the days and weeks are ticking away until ZapCon 2014. But if the mid-April vintage arcade and pinball convention can’t get here fast enough for you, some additional…
Echo Canyon Recreation Area at Camelback Mountain re-opened Wednesday morning after a yearlong closure, and excited hikers jammed the renovated parking lot. One of the main features of the redeveloped trailhead and staging area was the expansion of the lot from 66 to 135 spaces. But rangers were turning away…
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. Sex is all about marketing. Please, understand your audience and choose your words carefully. From “making…
Heard Museum North Scottsdale will close Saturday, May 31, according to a news release from Heard that went out early Wednesday afternoon. The museum, located at The Summit at Scottsdale, will vacate the space on that date, when its lease expires…
With names like Arrow, North, Blue, and Apple floating around in the modern-day baby ether, expectant parents this year are really going to have to dig deep to bring something new to the table. (There’s one: Table.) Which is why Nameberry is offering up its 14 newest choices for baby…
If it were the late ’70s, and you were a wunderkind film artist a bit embarrassed about your zeal for space-opera kids’ stuff, you went out and bagged yourself a great to class your movie up: Alec Guinness; François Truffaut; Max von Sydow done up like a disco gladiolus. That…
“You are The Man?” a crook asks Ice Cube as the cop comedy Ride Along opens. “I am the man!” Cube insists. You can’t blame him for being defensive. Now a 44-year-old father of five, Cube is three decades away from the furious teenager who co-founded N.W.A. his senior year…
Did I miss something? Did the Phoenix Art Museum recently change its name to the Phoenix Fashion Institute? That’s not an unreasonable assumption, given that PAM currently is running two exhibitions related to fashion accessories, “The Cape” and “Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection.” Despite the museum’s hype that…
Russians still make the best movie villains. Since 9/11, Hollywood has been queasy about giving us fictional baddies from Arab countries — the line between cheap stereotypes and real-life religious extremism is too blurry, too delicate. South American drug lords have had their day, and Albanians in bad sweaters just…
Nearly Naked Theatre’s current production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, which the company also presented eight years ago, suffers in comparison to that earlier version. Watching it, I strained to forget the dynamic performances of the company’s 2006 season-opener (particularly that of Ron May, who raised his own game…
If video killed the radio star, then digital killed the Polaroid star. Noting the rise of DSLR cameras and built-in photography tools in cell phones, Polaroid announced in 2008 that it would cease production of all instant film, and the weird, boxy cameras that have been a part of our…
No matter how jaded you get, there’s something exciting about seeing something worth a ton of money. It’s why the Federal Reserve gives tours, it’s why cash booths are a thing, and it’s why they have previews for events like Friday’s Automobiles of Arizona Auction at the Arizona Biltmore, 2400…
Heading into the 2013-14 NBA season it was common knowledge that a handful of teams had hurled themselves headlong into rebuilding mode, dumping contracts and gobbling up first-round picks with a voracious eye for the famously loaded 2014 draft. Atop that list was the Phoenix Suns. But no one predicted…
Plenty of grade-A hilarity has come from Chicago’s Second City sketch comedy troupe. For a sampling, let’s look at just a few of its alumni: Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Murray. Another piece of history this trio shares? At various points in their sketch comedy careers, they packed up…
This January, the East Valley goes global and then some as downtown Chandler brings back its annual Multicultural Festival. The family-friendly event offers music, performances, and other arts from different regions around the world, with each festival striving to be more diverse than the last. This winter’s celebration of unity,…
It’s pretty easy to fall down a Wikipedia K-hole: a quick search for that one actor whose name you can’t remember in that one movie that you can’t recall leads to an afternoon eventually swallowed up by a carousel of click-throughs. In contrast, The Encyclopedia Show AZ keeps us on…
Have you always wanted to take that spin class but have nightmares about getting stuck in the pedals and crash-landing into the floor?The Madison Improvement Club, the Arcadia neighborhood’s health club and lunch spot, offers monthly No Frills, Still Fun courses for those interested in spinning or doing “downward dog”…
Just about any time a theater produces Right Bed, Wrong Husband, some PR person is quick to point out that despite the title, the play’s suitable for general audiences. Maybe — if your kids already know that adults can be downright ridiculous goofballs. (And they do know; they’ve told us.)The…
Whether you fancy yourself a wordsmith or want to create the blog you’ve been dreaming about, WordCamp Phoenix is the weekend for you.The three-day WordPress conference highlights website features, details, design, and covers brand strategy through workshops and talks from more than 40 speakers. Sessions build on what was learned…
