Welcome to our weekly idea of a seriously kickass job. Today, we nabbed Catherine Hayes of Hayes Architecture/Interior Inc.. Hayes designs for a living — and quite often, she gets paid to design kickass restaurants like Modern Steak, Sanctuary Resort Spas & Suites, and Chelsea’s Kitchen. Hayes started her design studio…
In some ways, Friday night’s Bernard Woma performance didn’t belong at the Musical Instrument Museum’s theater; a seven-month old venue that still seems so shiny and untouchable that one is tempted to remove his or her shoes before entering. However, when the concert concluded with more than 30 audience members…
Some people are crafty, some aren’t (i.e. me). It’s the way of the world. But taking a cue from Mantastic Crafter Patrick Murillo, I’m training in the art, and hoping to work my way up to something truly mantastic, all while trying to avoid what Murillo calls a “craftastrophe.” I…
ADU is located in the Bell Canyon Pavilions strip mall just off the I-17, and bills itself as “the most comprehensive school of it’s [sic] kind in America!” The class we took, “Initiative 101,” began with a bad joke and a disclaimer from ADU founder and instructor Allan Sobol, operations…
Somewhere around twenty four hours after National Novel Writing Month officially ended for the year 2010, my writing partner sent me an instant message. It started with bad news. He’d been let go from his job. There was, he explained, a silver lining to his plight. He is listed as…
Save your napkins, envelopes and scrap pieces of paper, because DOODLES is looking into what you’re drawing while you’re supposed to be doing something else. Artist: Jason Ayers (@consumer), who says he completed the doodle “over a couple days of boring phone calls about a month ago.”…
www.flickr.com/photos/72213316@N00/Hot chick in the snow…coming soon to Scottsdale.Snow Night @ Axis/RadiusOkay, so our photo might be a bit of an exaggeration in terms of what you’ll see tonight but we can guarantee this: hot Scottsdale babes will be frolicking in the snow — ten tons of snow to be exact…
Tovrea Castle, the iconic what-the-hell-is-that Valley landmark at Van Buren and 52nd streets that’s viewable from Loop 202, may not be available for public tours quite yet, but it has been immortalized in print. Arcadia Publishing recently released its ode to the wedding cake/medieval castle-style building constructed between 1929 and…
With work from creative minds like Brain Boner, Patricia Beatty, Sylvia Hardt, Danielle Hacche, Rafael Navarro, Jason Savaglio, and Susan Rae Westover, you hardly need a silver lining. Luckily, these artists are hanging, installing and displaying their artwork anyway. The team behind 11th Street Studios, at 1117 E. Van Buren…
You know how the old adage goes: “Pass a bill, start a business.”Okay, so maybe that’s not an old adage, but it certainly applies to the recent passage of Proposition 203, Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act, and the slew of businesses that have sprung up following its passage. First, we get…
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…
Not all children’s shows are grippingly entertaining for grownups, but their audiences always are. Careful eavesdropping on the moppets who attend Childsplay’s Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! will take you back to your own days of wonder and excitement. “Whoa! It’s her school!” exclaimed one girl, when she…
Save your napkins, envelopes and scrap pieces of paper, because DOODLES is looking into what you’re drawing while you’re supposed to be doing something else. Artist: Mark Dudlik Check out more on Dudlik’s blog, Pen & Pandas…
Like we needed another reason to love SeeSaw Designs. The team’s 2011 Letterpress Calendar received Martha Stewart’s (double embossed, beautifully designed) stamp of approval in her 2010 Holiday Gift Guide. We learned how the three SeeSaw girls letterpress and how they find their vintage treasures … and now we know…
We’ve been geeking out about the Crafeteria for a few weeks — blame the 40-something vendors selling handmade goods, promises of Urban Cookies and Pumpkin Soup, or the simple excuse to hang out at Frances, Smeeks, Stinkweeds, Halo and Red Hot Robot all night.And then we saw a few previews…
Last night, The Lodge celebrated its anniversary with free food for all: Mac and cheese, buffalo meatloaf, grilled chicken, fish tacos and more were laid out near the pools tables. We stroll up to the bar through the crowd and ask for something North Woodsy: The bartender whips up a Creamsicle instead.
When the Phoenix Center for the Arts partnered up with ASU Downtown’s School of Public Affairs and the Phoenix Center Association, we knew things were about to get seriously creative — and educational. Together, they’re sponsoring the Rise Project, an 8-week, after-school program in urban performing arts. Classes will be…
Do you love LOL cats? Then thank Seattle resident Ben Huh, creator of the website Icanhascheezburger.com, which features fuzzy cats making funny faces above captions their humans write. You can even thank Huh in person on Friday, December 3, when he signs his latest LOL tome, Teh Itteh Bitteh Book…
There’s a new school in the Valley that gives new meaning to the phrase “higher education.” The Arizona Dispensary University, located in north Phoenix, is now offering a variety of classes related to medical marijuana.The campus is located at a facility that serves as a prototype of a medical marijuana…
Artist: David Sedaris, who drew us a Jackalope last night after his reading at Changing Hands…
It’s funny, the things you remember. In 1979, I was the photographer for my high school newspaper. Our new journalism advisor, a mean-spirited psychopath named Barbara, wanted a story about the holiday displays in downtown Phoenix. Babs had just moved here from Florida and assumed that Phoenix did what most…
