If you’re taking a stroll along the neighborhood street and you see an open window, you look. Actually, you stare. Yep, you’re a big ol’ weirdo. Okay, so maybe you’re not that strange. With events like the F.Q. Story Home Tour, it seems there’s a mass of folks who share…
Director Edgar Wright once said that he structured Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World like a musical, only the characters broke out into fights instead of songs. If you didn’t give this paean to the Nintendo generation a look the first time around, or even if you did, Scott Pilgrim vs…
As urban renewal takes over downtown Phoenix and its art galleries, mixed-media artist Lara Plecas (formerly Kupcikevicius) brings a little bit of nature and history into eye lounge with her new show “Territorial Nature.” This is the first solo show at the collective gallery for Plecas, who says she is…
Winters in the Valley are typically mild affairs. Not having to shovel mounds of snow is a prime motivation for withstanding our blistering summers. Still, visions of snow angels sometimes appear and we get the urge to play in the powdery white stuff. Warren Miller’s Wintervention is sure to fulfill…
It’s funny how drinking one ounce each of 100 beers is much more socially acceptable than drinking 100 ounces of one beer, especially in the daytime. That’s why beer festivals are such a blast: all the drinking with none of the judgment. And you may even learn a thing or…
Things get feisty and feminine at the A.E. England Gallery as lady artists from around the Valley come together for a woman-centric show featuring more than 30 female artists. It’s called “Sensory Consciousness/Bold Statements: Works by Arizona Women,” and the exhibit includes both well-known and up-and-coming artists looking to make…
All craft fairs are not created equal. Some are named “Best Indie Craft Fair” by the Phoenix New Times, while others . . . aren’t. Crafeteria at Frances Vintage was indeed named “Best,” and the event indeed deserves the honor. Now in its fifth year, Crafeteria 2010 will feature over…
Get ready for a literal head-trip. Starting on Friday, November 19, Saskia Jorda debuts “Cartograms of Memory.” The artist invites you into her world as she puts her own personal life experiences on display by using maps of places she’s traveled as models for new shapes and forms that show…
A parade of home tours may provide inspiration for a new kitchen countertop but for those wanting to know more about that backyard evaporative cooling system for Brownie, Spotty-Dotty, and Tweetie, there’s the Phoenix Tour de Coops, a self-guided tour of more than 19 of the Valley’s hippest hen houses…
Some people spend the bulk of their lives trying to put their worst failures behind them. Tom Wilson is a man who has committed himself to putting his greatest success behind him. The man who played Biff Tannen in Back to the Future wants to renounce that role to further…
If you thought raves were like, so 1993, boy were you wrong. No, we’re not talking cheesy house music, glow sticks and hallucinogenic drugs but we are talking a ten-hour rager that will knock your crafty socks off. The Valley’s coolest crafters, Kathy Cano-Murillo and Cyndi Coon (full disclosure: Coon…
What makes an artist tick? What makes him glue old bottle caps to a photograph of his dead grandmother and then piss all over it?Ask Gregory Sale, who — while he doesn’t necessarily do any of these things — is not only an artist, but the latest artist to be…
Robert Moody conducts the PSO as it presents “Home for the Holidays,” which features a program of Christmastime songs and festive music. Fri., Dec. 3, 8 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 4, 2:30 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 5, 2 p.m., 2010…
Rosie Flores, a veteran SoCal barroom warrior, explores the wilder side of neon signs, delving into the rockabilly tradition with a reverence for the form and the abandon of a punky revival-scene survivor. Combined with her intuitive blend of sass and amicability, Flores’ obvious enthusiasm for the checkpoints of honky-tonk…
Common Wall Media’s holiday shindig at the Hard Rock isn’t your typical Christmas party. Instead of the standard yuletide carols, you’ll get popular local bands playing their brands of indie music. What Laura Says, Gospel Claws, Dead Wildlife and Snake! Snake! Snakes!, will celebrate what Common Wall Media founder and…
“I was recently sitting with a group of French directors, and at a certain point, the conversation turned to Fred Wiseman,” critic Kent Jones wrote eight years ago in Film Comment. “Without hesitation, everyone agreed that he was probably America’s greatest living filmmaker . . .” — not to mention…
Saskia Jordá has no sense of direction. “I am directionally challenged,” the Venezuelan artist admits. “If you let me loose somewhere, I don’t know the difference between north and south. I walk into a store at the mall, and then I come out and go back the same way I…
If you know our local arts scene, it’s no secret that the rehabbed warehouse-turned-art gallery, monOrchid has been a long-standing source of some of our city’s finest art shows. Recently, owner Wayne Rainey kicked off Bokeh Gallery, an all-photography space housed in the same building and snagged a 2010 New…
As an alternative to the unbridled aggression of the in-vogue gangster rap, Digable Planets’ debut Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) and its vibrant jazz-laced beats—not to mention Grammy-winning single “Rebirth of Slick”—quickly earned a name as some of the early ‘90s’ most astute hip-hop. The New York…
In geometry, the transitive property is king. If a>b, and b>c, then you can be damn sure that a>c. This property does not work out so well in sports, which will be good news for the Phoenix Suns this week. A couple of weeks ago, the Miami Heat embarrassed the…
Children love animals. Annual field trips to the zoo, mornings filled with PBS programming and an enviable subscription to Ranger Rick made every kid a wild kingdom expert. Then we become adults and stop giving a crap. Get back into the craze and enthusiasm with the America’s Great Wildlife Migrations…
Until a few years ago, it was difficult to think that a kids’ show could be cool enough to merit a feature in New Times’ music section. Spare the jokes. Clearly, not every band featured in these pages is actually “cool” (Kings of Leon get covered here based on sheer…
