If during movies you find yourself rooting for the replicants of the world, instead of the Rick Deckards, there’s a fair chance you’ll make friends at DarkCon. The annual Arizona-based sci-fi and fantasy convention puts a grittier spin on the typical super-hero-laden pop culture powwow.This year, the ‘con is geared…
Sometimes it’s near-impossible to separate actors, writers, and personalities from shows or movies When we think of Janeane Garofalo, we think of Heather Mooney, her totally badass character in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. She’s a chain-smoking outcast who dresses in head-to-toe black, takes no shit, and has a…
Apparently Alexander Graham Bell, Richard Branson, and actor Billy Bob Thorton all have one thing in common: purportedly, each suffers from dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning defieciency that makes reading comprehension and fluency difficult and has two forms, acquired and developmental. Those with dyslexia – potentially as many as a…
Corvettes, carousels, and life-size Hotwheels cars. That just about sums up the reasons why thousands of shoppers (and gawkers) will head to the 2014 Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction.The traveling auction will be a weeklong display of opulence, as car collectors drop more money than we’ll make all year on valuable,…
The American West is a far cry from the City of Brotherly Love, as learned by two brothers, Austin and Lee, in the dark comedic play, Sam Shepard’s True West, presented by Class 6 Theatre. In this sad depiction of sibling togetherness, two brothers journey west to produce a movie…
Southwest Shakespeare Company is serving up a theatrical juxtaposition of romantic comedy and tragedy with a seasonal pairing of Shakespearean classics. Taking to the stage first is the centuries old story of love and marriage as told through the misfit couple Kate and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew…
Here in Night & Day, we love it when people express and share the captivating beauty of human diversity. When public figures such as athletes come out as gay, leading to more understanding and acceptance by everybody. If we can ogle some tight buns and help a theater company stay…
Hyperbole is no stranger to art. For example, when The Proclaimers proclaimed that they would “walk 500 miles,” we all knew they were fibbing. Besides, Scots don’t walk miles, they walk kilometers. Conversely, playwright Amy Herzog’s delicately wrought work 4000 Miles does tell a tale of a man traveling a…
Next time you’re at Herberger Theater Center, sashay up the grand staircase (or simply take the elevator) to the Steele Pavilion Art Gallery for a fresh exhibition of two- and three-dimensional pieces from 24 different artists. The show’s name and theme is “Balance,” a state highly touted as natural and…
Alice Geneva Glazier, better known as Gene Kloss, left a mark on the art world that is anything but a reprint. The early mid-century American printmaker altered the gender stereotype of the Taos School by being one of the first women to make a name for herself with rich, black-and-white…
Audubon Arizona is looking for owl-loving creatives to illustrate a few posters. Who? You…
If you’re looking for fun ways to get moving in the New Year, you’ll have a chance to test run your dancing shoes this weekend when Ballet Arizona opens the doors to its state-of-the-art studios for a day of free classes. On Sunday, January 12, the professional dance company will…
Michelle Vilavanh just wants to make things look nice. The 23-year-old graphic designer and Arizona State University graduate is all about simplicity with a hint of pizzazz. Whether it’s a new design or a new outfit, she’s creating it all on her own terms…
If your only knowledge with anime begins and ends with Pokémon, you’ve obviously got a thing or two to learn. First lesson: Anime is an ultra-diverse and highly respected art form of Japanese-produced animation (hence its name) that was first produced in the Asian nation way back in 1917 and…
Now for a scene the chronically late are all too familiar with: You’re holding your belonging, walking to your car, then realize you forgot your keys. You walk back inside, put down said belongings to look for keys, eventually locate keys, return to the car, only to realize that the…
Comedian Sasheer Zamata will join Saturday Night Live this month as the show’s newest featured player, making her the show’s first black female cast member since 2007. Her midseason addition follows SNL’s search for a black woman to join the cast this winter. The long-running show came under fire after…
By Kiko Martinez She may not have fully understood what it meant to be an actress when she was only 5 years old, but somehow Kaitlyn Dever instinctively knew it was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Born in Phoenix in 1996, Dever moved to…
James, By now, your buddies have forwarded you the Reddit Ask Me Anything where a 24-year-old man with Diphallia — a.k.a. two penises — says he wants to give you a facial. Say yes…
Say goodbye to your little blazer because winter’s almost over. Replacing the atrocious Muppet coats and slouchy pants of your cold-weather wardrobe are a new batch of totally repulsive fashion options that are set to trend this spring. Here’s what not to wear…
Chitral Hays — not his real name — is Jackalope Ranch’s resident expert on medical marijuana in Arizona. In Perfectly Blunt, Hays delivers news, reviews, and must-know info. This week he’s answering one reader’s MMJ question. I have been battling chronic kidney disease for about three years now, if I…
Super Bowl XLVIII airs on Sunday, February 2, and it’s down to just eight teams competing for chance to win the Lombardi Trophy. But for those of us who could not care less about whether or not the Cincinnati Whatsernames or the Kansas City Whocares makes it to MetLife Stadium,…
New Times photographers were out and about over the past week. Did we snap your picture? New Year’s Eve 2013 Parties in Downtown Phoenix Downtown Phoenix was replete with a slew of New Year’s Eve parties, including spirited shindigs like the ’70s-inspired Boogie Ball at FilmBar, a night of punk…
