An old friend who knows theater phoned me last week. “I’ve just seen the most perfect production of Ragtime,” she said. “At Theater Works. You should go!” Oh dear, I thought. A community theater production of Ragtime. No…
Whether you know him as Frank Rossitano from 30 Rock, Toby Radloff from American Splendor, or as his guest characters on Flight of the Conchords or Curb Your Enthusiasm, Judah Friedlander is one thing and one thing only: The World Champion. The 44-year-old comedian has been performing stand-up for more…
Listen up artists, because this may be the closest you’ll ever get to legally printing your own money. The U.S. Mint has put out a national call to artists to create some serious change in this country — literally…
WordCamp Phoenix is on for 2014, and tickets to the event are now on sale. From January 17 through 19, WordPress users and fanatics will gather at Chandler Center for the Arts to celebrate the WordPress community. It includes three days full of workshops, presentations, and parties. The volunteer-run event…
Bo’s Funky Stuff. Shaboom’s. Elbo Antiques. Go-Kat-Go. Honey Buns. If you’ve shopped at any of these landmark vintage shops — all of them now truly things of the past — you’ve shopped with the Kvetkos, the Valley’s first family of vintage retail. What started as a mom-and-pop antiques store 35…
Hey geeks, did you happen to catch Thor 2: The Dark World this past weekend? If not, you were one of the few who didn’t, considering that Marvel’s latest entry into its cinematic universe raked in an estimated $86 million during its debut weekend. But if you did, however, you…
“Most comics are pretty dark people,” Doug Stanhope says. Few comics are quite as dark — or willing to get as pitch black — as Stanhope. Our conversation with him, following the terrible news that his best friends and Bisbee neighbors Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl, had passed away,…
Shine, our annual pocket guide to all things Scottsdale, is out. And this year, local artist Luster Kaboom is taking readers on an illustrated ride through the city’s best spots for food, drink, art, and entertainment. Here, in no particular order, are the 10 best places to shop and thrift…
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. Now that you’re a card-carrying medical marijuana patient, you’d probably like to try your hand at growing your own weed, like our…
A few months back, Alison Bechdel spent an evening at ASU’s West Campus. Before her visit to the Valley, the New York Times bestselling author and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient spoke with Jackalope Ranch about Fun Home the Musical, teaching, and her next book. Now the accomplished artist/author has another achievement…
While some of us are content with cramming a pre-made bouquet into recycled milk jug vases, there are those who would prefer to get a little more artistic with their floral arrangements…
Guests of the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel — not to mention the patrons of the Arizona Center and the residents of a few apartments building along Third Street — got a bit of unexpected entertainment this past Saturday evening. The uproarious Phoenix Annual Parade of the Arts rolled past each…
Spring into action this week with sports, art, and science events in metro Phoenix. “Imaginate” @ Arizona Science Center “Dream. Create. Build.” is the theme for “Imaginate” at Arizona Science Center. The concept behind the exhibit is to help viewers unlock their minds to ponder and pose the questions that…
Until Arizona embraces ladies marrying ladies, there’s gonna be a lot of outlaw ladies looking to embrace each other. So, if you’re a lady who likes ladies, living in Arizona, and looking for love, chances are really good that you’ve either dated or are seconds away from dating one of…
While you and your friends were busy debating whether leggings counted as pants, the sweater-centric site Westknits was busy unleashing an all new brand of winter WTF…
On Thursday night, one of the Furious Styles Crew’s biggest prodigal sons made his return. And he did it in honor of the long-running b-boy/urban arts crew’s 20th anniversary this weekend. Local DJ kingpin Z-Trip paid a surprise visit to the Blunt Club at Tempe’s Yucca Tap Room (the event…
ASU’s Ceramics Research Center will be moving to a new home in the coming months, but luckily its extensive ceramics collection doesn’t have too far to go. The new ceramics center is slated to take over a portion of The Brickyard on Mill, the ground-floor space formerly occupied by Borders…
The setup: Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was a psychiatric pioneer whose insights into the development of children’s personalities, including the introduction of play therapy, supplemented the work of Sigmund Freud, changed analysis forever, and caused the British Psycho-Analytical Society to quarrel internally for decades like a bunch of babies in poopy…
Theater, festivals, and shopping round out this weekend’s must-attend events in and around Phoenix. Prodigy @ Brelby Studio Now that Brelby Theatre Company’s in its official venue, the troupe’s wasted no time scheduling not just a mainstage season but a Studio Series of new, relatively obscure plays. Through Saturday, November…
If you think you have it hard, trying talking to a mannequin. (Please don’t actually.) They are constantly being objectified, publicly undressed, and stuck wearing the same ensemble in the same position for weeks on end. Weeks, people. But finally, thanks to the useless wonders of the Internet, their tiny…
Get your game faces on and prepare to have a bitchin’ time, because A Bitch in Time is back. The show will include such acts as monologues, music, poetry, and performance art from 10 women and take place at Space 55 at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, November 8 and…
With summer and its blockbusters behind us, here are five films worth heading to the theater to see this month. Kill Your Darlings Sex, intrigue, Beat poets, Harry Potter — Kill Your Darlings just happens to contain some of our all-time favorite things. Director John Krokidas brings to the cinema…
