It happened, as these things have a tendency to, in the dead of night. Exactly a week before the 7 p.m. commemoration on Wednesday, November 20, construction crews took to Seventh Avenue and Indian School Road, just yards north of the intersection, and secured a steel structure meant to give…
With less than a month to go, it’s time to start getting pumped about about the second annual Phoenix Festival of the Arts. The festival will take over Margaret T. Hance Park for three full days of art, food, and entertainment. Today, we’re announcing the full lineup of participating artists…
Though Jim Breuer has been performing stand-up comedy for over 20 years, he’s had success in other creative areas as well. Breuer showed his talent for portraying a pothead in his role as Brian, Dave Chappelle’s lovably high best friend in the stoner cult comedy Half Baked. He showcased his…
THRILLING UPDATE: Fifty Shades of Felt has been extended! See the end of this post to order tickets for added shows on December 5, 6, and 7. The setup: Nearly Naked Theatre and All Puppet Players aren’t saying what bestselling books Fifty Shades of Felt is inspired by, but we…
Bust myths, get Nick Kroll-style bottle service, and pump it up with Predator in and around Phoenix this weekend. Mythbusters Live @ Mesa Arts Center You have to love any show that has to run a disclaimer for viewers to not try at home what they’re about to do. The…
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second film adaptation of the bestselling trilogy, is in theaters today. And, in case you’ve been living under a rock, in the womb, or have been cryogenically frozen for the past two years, it’s kind of a big deal…
Arizona State University’s School of Art will move some of its graduate studio programs to downtown Phoenix’s warehouse district. Five of the school’s 10 programs are headed for a 26,232-square-foot space in the historic Levine Machine building at 605 E. Grant St., and the relocation is projected to be complete…
Things seem to be constantly changing in Scottsdale, especially when it comes to the city’s nightlife district. In the past few years alone, we’ve witnessed old favorites like Axis/Radius and Martini Ranch close and new arrivals like Maya and Hi-Fi make stunning debuts. More changes are afoot, however, including the…
This Saturday the Native Now Festival will bring performers, artists, and musicians from all over Arizona and the country to the Deer Valley Rock Art Center for a daylong celebration of contemporary indigenous culture. Each of the performances will explore what it means to be an indigenous person in Arizona…
In case your Whovian senses haven’t been at a full buzz the past few weeks, with all of the trailers, episode stills, and mini-episodes being released in anticipation for the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who, make sure you catch one of the screenings of this monumentous nerdtacular occasion in…
When we hear the word “craft,” our minds usually jump to images of crocheted woolen baby booties and reclaimed driftwood bed frames. In recent years, Pinterest and Etsy have co-opted the term in the name of the D.I.Y. revolution. But in the art world, craft has an entirely different connotation…
Images courtesy Lionsgate.Ritchman and Schlund in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.By Carolina del Busto In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, opening this Friday, Alan Ritchson and Stephanie Leigh Schlund play two of the story’s fiercest bad guys. But tucked away in a hotel room on the 17th floor of the…
If you’re ready to take your ugly Christmas sweater to the next level — and by “next level” obviously we mean making it 10 times more ridiculous — the fun-loving folks over at Team Phun are ready to take your hard-earned hipster money…
Anyone who knows me at all can tell you that I’m less than warm and fuzzy when it comes to embracing work spawned by minimalism and conceptualism, two amorphous art movements/philosophies that hit their strides in the 1960s and ’70s. So I girded myself for profound boredom and/or bafflement before…
It says something that two of the biggest sensations in young adult literature over the past 10 years have featured heroines who keep more than one guy on the line at a time. No longer do the genre’s bright young women sit around waiting for one Mr. Right to notice…
Once, in the middle of the 2004 Tour de France bicycling race, the nine-man American team, led by Lance Armstrong, pretended that its bus had broken down en route to its hotel. As fans and the international press stood outside, cheering and taking pictures, the team, hidden behind high, tinted…
In 1997, 87-year-old Richard Lusk flew from California to Florida to claim an $11 million prize he believed he’d won in a sweepstakes. The day after he returned home empty-handed, he had a stroke. Four months later, he bought a second plane ticket to Florida and stubbornly knocked on their…
It’s possible to love a work of art, a piece of music, or even a comic strip to the point of near-speechlessness. That’s the problem with Joel Allen Schroeder’s heartfelt but largely inarticulate documentary Dear Mr. Watterson, which tries to capture the almost mystical appeal of Bill Watterson’s newspaper strip…
Imagine an alternate history for Vince Vaughn. What if, 18 years ago, instead of rehearsing Swingers during the day and sampling Los Angeles’ starlets at night, he channeled his sexual energy into masturbating for cash at a sperm bank? He could have become Delivery Man’s David Wozniak, father of 533…
Few men wear a dress as meaningfully as comedian Chris Lilley. Since 2005, he has sported the pinstriped schoolgirl uniforms of his native Australia to play Ja’mie King, a perfect little monster created by an ungodly mix of wealth, vapidity, and cheerful cruelty. Ja’mie returns to HBO on November 24…
Through the soaring windows of the Mandarin Oriental Miami, it’s hard not to notice the blue skies and matching azure water. Most people find Miami’s beachy, serene views relaxing. But for fans of The Hunger Games, the vacation vista could just as easily conjure images of blister-forming nerve gas, vicious…
“This movie has been written about in books — go figure — and there’s discussion about whether or not it’s actually a zombie movie. And I can tell you it’s not; it’s not a zombie movie.” So says director Thom Eberhardt about 20 minutes into the commentary for his low-budget…
