In preparation for this year’s Big Brain awards, we’re checking up with a few of last year’s winners. Know an emerging creative who could use $1000? Nominate ’em right here before March 14. Our Big Brain today: Marcelino Quiñonez. It’s officially March, and Marcelino Quiñonez is gearing up his classroom…
This past Friday was a great chance to get out, see some art and check out the Downtown scene. There were a bunch of great shows, and (if you went early) a fairly relaxed group of attendees. Of course we were there, and we took a few notes. The Good’s…
The first Wild Wild West Con took over the Hotel Tucson and Old Tucson Studios over the weekend, highlighting the world of steampunk, which combines the technology of the Industrial Revolution with Victorian Fashion (and American Western wear and military uniforms).Lots of people dressed up for Wild Wild West Con, and many…
First Friday March 2011 First Friday presented Phoenicians with many events to attend, including the showing of Mutant Piñatas at Bragg’s Pie Factory on Grand, and of course, First Friday art walk on Roosevelt Row. Bragg’s was packed with different piñatas made mostly of papier-mâché, but also included a human-hanging-from-the-ceiling-wrapped-in-various-materials…
Shepard Fairey’s wheat pastes may be scattered around Tempe, but don’t expect to find him downing a toddy at Cartel or grabbing a few extra supplies at Wet Paint. Fairey and his street art brand/movement OBEY will be featured in the upcoming Sticker Phiends show, thrown annually by local artist…
I didn’t make it to the end of South Mountain’s Alta Trail on Sunday. I wasn’t sick. I wasn’t even tired. I was bored. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Alta Trail. The 4.5-mile trail meanders along the desert floor and then up and over some of the smallish peaks of…
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? French artist JR began photographing shortly after finding his first camera in a Paris metro when he was 17 years old. He started taking…
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? Right now, thousands of miles away, a ragtag group of artists, performers, and engineers are piecing together a boat that will float down the…
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? Rest assured, we’re not talking about dead people. Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, wrote the first episode of a…
First Friday Night Live SEASON FINALE @ The Firehouse GalleryAs if giving New Times contributor Leslie Barton a sex change and pulling a burlesque star in a golden chariot wasn’t over-the-top enough, this uninhibited, uncensored variety/improv show finishes out its inaugural season with host Ryan Avery and comic band, Hooves…
Massive theater geek that I am, no one had to tell me twice to attend Arizona Theatre Company’s newly commissioned unknown quantity, Ten Chimneys, once I’d learned it’s about Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the renowned golden couple of the 20th-century stage, retreating to their summer place in Wisconsin to…
Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We’re here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide — an evolving guide to art walks around town. From time to time, we’ll introduce some of our favorite spots and…
It’s after 7 p.m. when Steve Weiss rolls up to The Lodge, a collective art space on Grand Avenue. He’s packing wine and his face is plastered with the kind of grin children wear when they think they’re going to get away with something naughty. Who’s to say you wouldn’t…
It won’t be hard to spot England-born, New-York Based author and salon guru Lorraine Massey when she comes to Changing Hands on Monday: She’ll be giving straight talk to curly-haired women (and men) about embracing their hair, . She’ll also have the best hair in the whole bookstore. Massey’s owns…
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. And today, they picked I Am Love, starring Tilda Swinton, who falls in love with a chef through,…
It’s about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we’re losing track of the times we’ve said, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their…
Mothers and their daughters do many things together, from shopping and getting manicures to cooking holiday meals. But Kathy Tee and her daughter, Nancy Tee, do something together that not many mother-daughter duos do: they’re activists and advocates for medical marijuana.In 2008, the Tees formed Phoenix March, a registered non-profit…
This Sunday, Conspire will die … but only for a few hours while its collective crew gives the place a much-needed paint job and symbolically changes the locks.Founding member Joey G. says he hopes the “funeral” will help get rid of the place’s “stifling negative energy.” (He later explains the…
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? Some ideas take years to gel.Such is the case with the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA), a nonprofit organization which aims to “complement…
Our dreams of an Ace Hotel in Scottsdale, as reported yesterday, went down the drain today after an exchange with Valentine Freeman, a representative of Ace Hotels. “Our capitol partners work on a variety of unique hotels and this is one of their projects,” Freeman writes. “Ace Hotel is not…
New Times staff writer Ray Stern wrote in February that Arizona’s medical marijuana pioneers are still unsure of the official rules and regulations of the potential business. And the buzz buzz grows as the DEA announced an emergency spice ban and official medical marijuana universities continue to offer classes in…
