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. Tuesday – Friday marks The Half Off Happy Hour at The Napoleon Cigar Club. The Napoleon…
Mom let you stay up an extra hour past your bedtime, occasionally play hooky, and maybe even gave you the last piece of cake. And this Sunday (she knows), it’s payback time. Luckily, we know better than to think all moms are the same, or even pretend to like the…
image courtesy of ASU Vault GalleryPapers by Rebecca BergmanThis Friday night, the ASU Vault Gallery will host an artist reception for “Ephemeral Moments and Systematic Tides” featuring work by locla creatives Christine Cassano and Rebecca Bergman. Although both artists have extremely different styles, they’ve found their work has more in…
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?Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo. From Everynone, with WNYC | Radiolab comes “Symmetry,” a look at the balancing duos we encounter in everyday life. Everynone…
Something Borrowed is based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin. It was directed with extraordinary impersonality by Luke Greenfield (Rob Schneider’s The Animal), and produced by Hilary Swank in collaboration, apparently, with the restaurant Shake Shack — one of the lifestyle brands prominently featured in this…
I was recently in Ohio, where my plans included taking a walk in the snow. It would, I announced to anyone who listened, clear my head and allow me a privilege I never enjoy in Phoenix: the pleasure of a pleasant stroll in real weather. I imagined lungfuls of clean,…
We’re not certain why people dread the start of the workweek so much. True, the weekend may be over, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the feting and festivities have to stop. Such is the thinking at Zuma Grill, 605 South Mill Avenue in Tempe, which extends the weekend party spirit…
It’s been more than two decades since psychobilly star Mojo Nixon famously howled, “Elvis is everywhere,” and the declaration still rings true today. A Presley fan built his own version of Graceland recently, another compilation of hits is in the works, and come this weekend, the King of Rock ‘n’…
In a recent edition of his Week in Review video blog, comedian Carlos Mencia expressed shock and awe at the annual Easter reenactment of Jesus’ crucifixion by fanatical Filipinos. The caustic and controversial comedian, who’s never one to back off from hot-button topics, jokingly (and ironically) channeled the frustration of…
Joan Crawford had a rather infamous reputation, although it wasn’t for her acting skills. Sure, she won an Oscar for her performance in the Warner Bros. classic Mildred Pierce, and was among Hollywood’s top-grossing film stars for five decades. She also revolutionized women’s fashions and answered every one of her…
The Mayans didn’t screw around when it came to sports. After all, the extinct civilization regularly executed athletes who failed to secure victory on the ancient ball courts of the Mesoamerica. (Talk about the agony of defeat!) Luckily, the participants at this weekend’s Cuervo Games in Old Town Scottsdale won’t…
Sure, pagans might be cursed to forever remain on society’s religious fringes, but, by Diana’s golden fire, they sure know how to throw a party. You can witness proof of such at this weekend’s Beltane in the Park event, which is being thrown by the Gaia groupies of Phoenix Pagan…
We’ve been living in the age of the mash-up for over a decade, with enterprising, savvy DJs stretching the limits of copyright and pop decency. Occasionally the results are brilliant, as with Dangermouse’s Grey Album. Other times, it’s simply a cut and paste job. Anyone remember Jay-Zeezer, which combined Weezer…
Cashing in on an inheritance isn’t always easy — just ask OJ Simpson or Anna Nicole Smith’s kid. In Central Community Theatre’s new play Urning It, it’s not the allocation of the will that’s difficult; it’s the trip one family takes to actually claim the inheritance. The family-friendly production follows…
Folks trot Schrödinger’s cat out of its metaphorical box so often we forget that its alive/dead paradox was meant to mock what it now exemplifies. Perhaps incoherence is the fate of all arresting images, or maybe meaning, duality and interpretation are just slipperier than we think. These are the complex…
Famed Italian director Federico Fellini once said, “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Yet he denied his own films were based in truth, despite the fact that the main character in his Oscar-winning flick 8 ½ is a womanizing movie director who made the same exact…
Some people argue that all of human cultural history boils down to communication and its signs — not the signs we encounter daily on the street, but semiotics, the elements of meaning that surround us in infinite forms. John Randall Nelson’s exhibit, “Alter-Native Signs,” incorporates a different type of everyday…
Some people argue that all of human cultural history boils down to communication and its signs — not the signs we encounter daily on the street, but semiotics, the elements of meaning that surround us in infinite forms. John Randall Nelson’s exhibit, “Alter-Native Signs,” incorporates a different type of everyday…
Everybody’s favorite celebration of the Mexican army’s defeat over French occupancy in 1862 is here again! Not that we actually care about anything past our margarita glasses on Cinco de Drinko. Perhaps we’ll change our minds when we dust off our sombreros for a Cinco De Sandbar Bash at one…
Remember back in high school when you saved your tips from waiting tables to buy your mom some lousy refrigerated bouquet thinking, “This is way classier than a macaroni necklace?” You’re a big kid now, so make those pitiful childhood gifts up to her by splurging $75-$80 on a classy…
Simple decisions like whether to sleep an extra five minutes or eat that second cupcake are pretty insignificant in the big picture – or are they? That depends on how you feel about being late to work or gaining back the extra five pounds you just lost. Local artists Rebecca…
Simple decisions like whether to sleep an extra five minutes or eat that second cupcake are pretty insignificant in the big picture – or are they? That depends on how you feel about being late to work or gaining back the extra five pounds you just lost. Local artists Rebecca…
