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A Phoenix Wishlist
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? On Saturday, Stacey Champion, the community activist behind Rogue Green and a kickass blog, gathered volunteers and members of Keep Phoenix Beautiful to clean…
Gaming Solutions to Community Problems
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? The Knight Foundation and members of game design firm Area/Code are working together to to answer a simple question: Can communities solve serious local…
Kim Larkin to Leave Modified Arts in June
Come this fall, downtown Phoenix might lose another contemporary art space — Modified Arts Director Kim Larkin says she’ll be leaving the gallery on Roosevelt Row at the end of June. Larkin’s been coordinating and curating contemporary art exhibitions at Modified since community activist Kimber Lanning (who still owns the…
Board ’em
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours?Board to Death from Dan Markowitz on Vimeo.School’s out and summer’s here. Put those bulletin boards to use!…
Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend
Need some help finding something to do during the big three-day weekend? If hanging out with freaks and geeks at Phoenix Comicon or going on a manhunt during the Hot Dude Safari doesn’t suit your fancy, there’s plenty of other entertaining possibilities for fun and excitement.Tempe Art a Gogh-Gogh @…
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Movie Stars and Eggs in this Week’s Dinner and a Movie
Nothing goes better with a movie than dinner (and perhaps vise versa), which Chow Bella has all figured out. Dinner and a Movie pairs all sorts of films with themed recipes each week.Today features Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, and Chris Pontius, who examine their own lives…
Greg Esser Takes on the Desert Initiative at the ASU Art Museum
Downtown artist, gallery owner, and contemporary arts advocate Greg Esser is back with another project — this time, in Tempe. ASU Art Museum announced that Esser will be associate director of the Desert Initiative, which will support artistic and scientific research into desert cultures and environments. Esser’s a natural fit…
Arnold Guerrero’s Camelback Mountain
Artist: Arnold P. Guerrero (a Phoenix native) Medium: Vector Illustration “It was printed for a poster show during Phoenix Design Week. I wanted to give the feeling of movement and motion as the theme of this great local conference was Forward.”…
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Th [sic] Sense’s 3 Ways from Sunday Is the Fancy Snacks of Sketch Comedy
Do sketch comedy long enough, and you’ll even be able to compile The Best of Tim Meadows. It’s taken Valley troupe Th [sic] Sense far less than 25 years, though, to whomp up a Best Of show that, while lengthy, includes almost nothing you wouldn’t want to see again (and…
The Hangover Part II: The Wolfpack Wins in Bangkok
Besides doing fun relationship stuff like arguing about how to discipline their dog, New Times blogger Tyler Hughes and his girlfriend, Jackie Cronin, go to the movies. Tyler: The Wolfpack is back and this time they’re trading a weekend in Vegas for one night in Bangkok. I thought it was…
Doodled Consumption
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Kate Bingaman Burt, a Portland based designer, caught the daily drawing bug in 2006. She didn’t doodle her shoes, or a building in her…
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A Sneak Peek at the One-Night Exhibition to Save The Icehouse
Hugo Medina’s not afraid of climbing the rickety scaffold in downtown’s Icehouse to hang the lighting for tomorrow’s show; he’s done it before … and hopes he’ll have the chance to do it again. Medina’s on a mission to raise money for the historic-building-turned-arts-venue in hopes of “saving” it from…
Windsor and Churn: Behind the Design Scenes with Craig DeMarco, Lauren Bailey, and Daniel Germani
Lauren Bailey and Craig DeMarco are serious about their over-sized sticks of chalk — they’re what marked the walkways, outlined the bar, and mapped out the tables on the empty, concrete floor where Windsor and Churn now stand in downtown Phoenix. The two are no strangers to restaurant concept and…
The Sage Julep at District American Kitchen
Since there’s really no better accessory than a cocktail in your hand, each week Jackalope Ranch brings you a tasty adult beverage from one of our favorite drinking establishments, complete with recipe. This week: The Sage Julep at District American Kitchen. District American Kitchen may look like your typical swanky…
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Eduardo Rivera’s De Colores
Artist: Eduardo L. Rivera Medium: Digital Image I made this image last summer during the large summer immigration rally on July 29, 2010. I believe that this photograph sums up the immigration struggle from the subject’s perspective which is important for it was a fight for equality and a fight…
Frances Hosts 5-Year Anniversary Party, Opens “Frances Studio”
Empty your trunk and toss your old accessories; the very fashionable creatives behind Frances will be celebrating their fifth anniversary and opening the doors of Frances Studio on June 3. The new shop in Medlock Plaza will be home to handbags, shoes, and accessories with the same Frances feel…
Ryan Peter Miller’s Studio of Paint
Ryan Peter Miller’s home in Tempe is his own visual resume, of sorts — the walls, shelves (and sometimes floors) feature three-dimensional paintings and an assortment of sculptural work from his past shows. But Miller’s quick to note that most of his pieces are up temporarily. “The bulk of the…
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Billy Dee Williams on Lando Calrissian, Colt 45, Robot Chicken, Painting, and More
More than 30 years have passed since Billy Dee Williams first played the role of gambler and scoundrel Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back, and the actor is still just as charming and charismatic as he was back then.”Please, call me Billy Dee,” he says when we reached him…
Talk Like a Texan Flash Cards
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? A group of designers and photographers in Austin, Texas strongly believes that someday you will find yourself in a Texas Honky Tonk, and you…
Words for Music
The lyrical work of the renowned Johnny Mercer are celebrated during this annual production. May 12-29, 2011…
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Midnight in Paris: Investigating the Problem of Time
A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop — much to the open frustration of Inez (Rachel McAdams), his all-too-modern, rich-girl fiancée, who has a tendency to talk about him in catty, judgey tones as…