Hot Nerds Reading Comics Night @ Trunk Space”With Cupcakes!,” the Facebook invite exclaims. Who could blame a downtown art space for being excited, especially when the sweet treats are paired with a comic book share and swap scheduled to start around 7 p.m. Friday. Your hotness will be admitted for…
If you tune in to the NASCAR races this afternoon at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR), you might catch Dale Earnhardt Jr. in his new, decked-out No. 88 Chevrolet. His car was recently given a new paint job in conjunction with an art contest sponsored by Diet Mountain DEW. More event…
The inside of the Galvin Playhouse at ASU Tempe smells just awful, like a huge malfunctioning bathroom. (Like sewage, but in a domesticated way — I don’t want to make it sound even worse than it is.) If I were an investigative reporter, I’d try to find out why and…
Yes, this is eye candy. It’s true, we’re fans of Frances and Smeeks (the local boutique and candy shop in Phoenix) and when they both happened to land in the first issue of “Holiday with Matthew Mead” this month, we only had one thing to say: Double whammy. Mead, and…
We know, the holiday art festival season has arrived in all of its hand turkey, glitter bomb, public crafting table madness (just don’t start with the music), which means it’s time to brush up on a little “spirited” etiquette. We sat down with a local art festival and crafting table…
The large house on the corner of First Avenue and McKinley Street in Phoenix was built in 1910. While the exterior has undoubtedly been updated throughout the century, we’re just happy much of the inside’s decoration is holding on to the past; the downtown Phoenix house-turned-antique-trove is a great place…
Bob Hoag runs the Flying Blanket recording studio in Mesa (we featured him in our Hero Worship section of the Phoenix New Times 2010 Best of Phoenix).He also has an obsession with vintage clothing. And he collects drum sets.But for this blog post, we’re going to focus on Hoag’s incredible…
Ever climbed up onto a World War II bomber plane and played with the machine guns? No? Well, you can, and you won’t have to worry about coming under enemy fire. The Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum in Mesa has a fully restored B-17 plane called “Sentimental Journey”…
Show us your ink! MARKED asks locals of all ages, professions and backgrounds to roll up their sleeves, pant legs, and so much more to reveal their marks. Here are their stories: Name: Kyle Hague Age: 31; I got my first tattoo at 18 and the figures on my arms…
The Scottsdale Festival of Greece kicks off tomorrow and runs through this weekend, bringing along all the traditional food, folk-dancing, and music of Greece along with it. But before you go, it might be a good idea to brush up on the dos and don’ts of one of the country’s…
We walk in to Steve’s Green House Grill and pull up a retro red pleather stool at the steel-top bar and are staring blankly at the book of cocktails when we turn to the bartender for his suggestion: A top-shelf Casa Noble Añejo Margarita or more simply Kelly’s Special.
Hope you have some room in your trunk — the largest Spanish Market is back this weekend, and it’s promised to be full of artsy and foodie take-home goodness. The two-day festival, at Heard Museum in Phoenix, will feature more than 70 artists from Arizona and New Mexico. On to…
New Times has received a Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture memo stating that Ruth Osuna is leaving her recently appointed post as cultural affairs director of the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture for a position in Eloy. Osuna will become the city manager of Eloy, located in Pinal…
www.etsy.com/shop/seesawvintagePillows sell like mad.It’s no secret that we adore SeeSaw Designs. So it’s only natural that we also love SeeSaw Vintage Shoppe on Esty.com.The three women who run SeeSaw (a Phoenix design firm) frequently hit some of the best thrift stores in town to accumulate the vintage goods they sell.I…
The Arizona Women’s Theatre Company has supported women playwrights since 2003 and returns this weekend with its annual Pandora Festival — an opportunity for women writers to showcase their full-length, one-act, or 10-minute creations. This year, AWTC is adding a twist. The theatre company will host a Pandora Showcase –…
This week began with the news that Proposition 203, Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Initiative, is still alive. Though the latest figures show the measure is failing by a little more than 3,000 votes, there are still around 59,000 early and provisional ballots that must be counted by week’s end. We’ve long…
The Dr. Seuss name often translates to tall red-and-white striped hats, cats, grinches, wockets in pockets, and towers of turtles. But Who-ville and green eggs and ham aside, Ted “Dr. Seuss” Geisel produced a body of adult work that was accused of being propagandist and racist. And it’s that side…
In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in a flesh-colored, diaphanous cocktail dress, its halter top and tight bodice giving way to spilling tulle. This is the kind of dress a screen heroine wears when a slow-building love plot is coming to a head; it is the…
Though based on actual 2001 events in Ohio that caused an unmanned freight train, laden with toxic waste, to go haywire, Unstoppable could just as well be set in the shining sun of Reagan’s 1980s. As the driverless locomotive begins gathering speed across rural Pennsylvania, bedecked with autumn leaves, it…
Some young actors yearn for that flashy role in a blockbuster movie that will prove their bankability to a doubting Hollywood. Kristen Stewart, on the other hand, seems determined to accentuate her anti-star bona fides, delivering aggressively affectless interviews and bracketing this summer’s $300 million-earning Twilight: Eclipse with two grittier…
Love it or hate it, the Arizona Center has one thing going for it that so many Phoenix-area-based retail-centric businesses would kill for: Longevity. On Tuesday, November 16, the downtown retail spot, which hasn’t really packed the punch they hoped for when they opened two decades ago, is hosting the…
Burritos are the bomb, but they’re not Latin America’s only tortilla-filled menu item. There’s also pupusas, a traditional Salvadoran dish consisting of thick, hand-sculpted corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, chicharrón (cooked pork ground down to paste), ayote (squash), or other meats or beans of your choice. The fourth annual Pupusa…
