Mitch Fatel is one of the most vulgar comedians of our time, yet he couldn’t be more endearing onstage and off. His 2009 DVD and Comedy Central Special, Mitch Fatel Is Magical, is drawing rave reviews. Onstage he talks about his encounters with women in his trademark slow talking style…
There’s nothing scarier than watching a hapless heroine being chased by ferocious, flesh-eating zombies — except possibly the upcoming reality series featuring abstinence spokesperson and Tea Party daughter Bristol Palin shacking up with fellow Dancing With the Stars contestants Kyle and Chris Massey. Shudder. While we wait for that horror…
Ghost children. Failing marriages. Dying parents. The women playwrights who penned the emotionally charged contemporary works making up Arizona Women’s Theatre Company’s Pandora Festival certainly cover plenty of potent subject matter. They don’t seem to pull any punches either, tackling each of these tough topics in unblinking and dramatic fashion…
CANNES, FRANCE — Midway through the Cannes Film Festival, the competition has been all about family — more specifically all about parents (and parent surrogates) and their troubled children, many of both types pretty much from hell. Brad Pitt seems a good bet for red-carpet glory as the domineering autocrat…
Identity politics. Moral dilemmas. Who better to address the problems of America than Abraham Lincoln? Perhaps a group of dancing and controversially gay Abraham Lincolns. Enter Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party, a gay-rights comedy by Aaron Loeb that’s currently enjoying an off-Broadway run after selling out the New York…
Rich Orloff is perhaps the nation’s best unknown playwright – or at least, the most prolific one. He’s authored about a dozen one-acts and over sixty short plays that have been performed across the nation and beyond. “I think I’ve finally reached the highest level of obscurity,” quips Orloff. “My…
The standup scene in Phoenix has been booming over the past few years, with comedy nights spreading like wildfire. It’s only natural considering that everyone seems to need a good laugh these days — especially with all the craziness that constitutes Valley culture. The comedians of FilmBar’s Standup Comedy Night…
For science fiction author Philip K. Dick, exploring the collision of idios and koinos kosmos (private and shared reality) was inevitable. While his characters sought meaning inside the worlds he created, Dick wrestled with phantoms afflicting his own mind. For local comic artist and Dick fan Jon Haddock, this personal-universal…
Dennita Sewell can’t believe she didn’t keep the note she scribbled on a pad by her phone the day she got a phone call from Vernon Taylor.It was late 2007, or early 2008, when Taylor called Sewell, the Curator of Fashion Design at the Phoenix Art Museum, to say that…
If the fanatical rantings of the evangelical wingnuts at Family Life Radio are to be believed, only three days remain until The Rapture occurs on Saturday. If you’ve been good (or listened to a lot of Harold Camping), that means getting beamed directly to the Pearly Gates to spend eternity partying while…
Erotic art has a history of being hushed, censored, or flat out destroyed.Secret Museums, playing at FilmBar for the rest of the week, is taking a more public approach. The subtitled documentary travels through the excavated streets of Pompeii, and the carefully guarded shelves of private collectors (and the hidden…
Artist: Kyle DeWitt Medium:Photography “Most of the time when the sun sets at Tempe Town Lake, folks are looking at the horizon. This summer afternoon, I took the time to run around.”…
Yesterday, local artist and late-night maven Quincy Ross announced the summer closing of his popular Downtown after-hours venue. Luckily, there are a few alternatives that’ll feed your need for endless nighttime excellence (also, be sure to check out local after-hour food spots on Chow Bella). Some of these are considered a little more…
Races are the best time to measure yourself up against others and get a real sense of your fitness and cycling abilities, but with the Arizona road racing season all but over (even though the rest of the world is really just getting going), where else can local cyclists going…
[jump] A Brief History of the Video Game Console: More than 40 years of gaming history are crammed into this exhaustive site, which covers every single system that’s ever been released in America (from the Magnavox Odyssey to the PlayStation 3). The Video Game Revolution: Back in 2004, PBS aired…
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? For the centennial of New York Public Library, on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, librarians put together a special text, Know the Past, Find…
Bowlers at the AMF Tempe Village Lanes certainly got an eyeful on Friday night, and not just because projected colorful lights and music videos danced on the walls.Local artist Corey Busboom and two of his cohorts donned furry animal outfits while hanging out at the local bowling alley. Their mission:…
Looking for something to do this week? “Night Owl” is a quick guide to special nights at bars and clubs around town. We’ll give you a few hints re: cover, dress code, music and atmosphere. Saturdays mark Name That Tune at R.T. O’Sullivan’s. No worries if your musical knowledge is…
Artist: Jason HillMedium: Screen Print”This is the Phoenix Travel Poster screen print from my 2005 exhibition, Visions of a Modern Oasis, featuring the Phoenix Financial Center that sits at Central and Osborn.”…
FOX announced last night that Napoleon Dynamite will attempt a (hopefully doomed) animated comeback mid-season of next year. This just in: the nerdy, annoying, nasal-voiced cartoon character may also accelerate the apocalypse countdown. Buckle up…
A plain tank top is essential, but can also get a little boring. Our tip this week: spice things up a little with a patterned fabric, a few cuts, and a few stitches. Learn how to make your own restyled tank top after the jump…
Since celebrated local artist, designer, and underground nightlife ninja, Quincy Ross announced the summer hiatus of his monthly after-hours at The Quincy in downtown Phoenix, late-night party rockers have been in a bit of a panic. Ross opened The Quincy (aka “The Q”) over two years ago, and made a…
