http://www.etsy.com/You’re going to want to keep that cart at “0.”We know darn well we aren’t the first to do a blog post about some of the awfulness that can happen on Etsy.com.So, in keeping with our ongoing wedding coverage, we’ve taken inspiration from Regretsy.com (whose author is also a bride-to-be,…
With the Arizona Taco Festival right around the corner, we figure you might be in need of a cool refreshment to quell the heat after that chili-eating competition, and nothing goes better with Mexican food than tequila, right?! We hit up the tequila bar at the The Mission in search of something other than our fallback margarita and grabbed the much buzzed about Tequila Mojito.
You know you live in Arizona when … you can catch a nighttime, outdoor movie from October until mid-December. Every year a few valley parks set up screens and extend an open invitation to catch a free movie under the stars (so long as it isn’t raining). If you’ve been…
urbanartattack.com The ASU grads who started Spraygraphic — the creative social networking forum/website — are back at it with their very own street art blog. Urban Art Attack features graffiti, wheat pastes, stencils, stickers, and murals in Brooklyn, Paris, Barcelona, Los Angeles, and yes, even in Phoenix. …
“Understand me. What I am here for is to tell you stories you may not want to hear. What I am here for is to rescue my dead. And to scare the hell out of you now and then. I was raised Baptist, I know how to do that.” –…
Phoenix’s Musical Instrument Museum announced this week that it’s expanding its globally focused M.O. to include celluloid features. Set to debut later this month, the series will include flicks that document worldwide sonic efforts, ranging from a Steinway workshop in New York to the post-tsunami musical communities of Sri Lanka,…
A film seemingly designed to get every New York City honors student face-punched at college, It’s Kind of a Funny Story chronicles a privileged Brooklyn high-schooler’s super-cool institutionalized mental-health break. Hot for his best friend’s girlfriend, stressed out over an application to a prestigious summer school, and audaciously neglectful of…
Published five years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro’s massively praised Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate universe where life has been extended and catastrophic illness eliminated, thanks to an evolutionary advance, namely the harvesting of vital organs from specially bred human clones. But that’s backstory. Despite its lurid premise,…
Kept afloat by a great cast, Woody Allen’s latest foray into the perverse follies of mankind begins with a statutory quote from Macbeth about the futility of it all. But like so much of Allen’s work over the past decade, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is more Bergman-lite…
Davis Guggenheim’s call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system — thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in its logic and omissions — originated with his own guilty conscience. An Academy Award winner for 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth, the director, whose debut doc, 2001’s The First Year, heralded…
New Times presents an exclusive screening of the film that chronicles the life of American tattoo master Norman K. Collins. Entry to the 21-and-only event is first-come, first-served. Mon., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., 2010…
Pohlman visits with her new book Halfway to Each Other in which she shares how she and her husband were saved from divorce by reconnecting during an extended stay in Italy. Sat., Oct. 9, 1 p.m., 2010…
Stache? Like, mustache? Yes, exactly. The ironic mustache has reached the mainstream and this Sunday’s 5k run is proof. Participants are encouraged to don the upper lip fur and any mustache-inspired get-up. Think retro d-bag or 70s police officer and you’re on the right track. Sun., Oct. 10, 2 p.m.,…
The Phoenix Coyotes’ first game of the 2010-11 regular season redefines road trip. On Saturday, the Coyotes try to equal or better its super successful 2009-10 campaign when they travel to their away opener facing the Boston Bruins. And it’s super far away: the puck drops on the O2 Arena…
If you eye a taco shell correctly, it resembles a golden Southwestern sunrise that could be dawning right before the Arizona Taco Festival. It should be a glorious day devouring the curved Mexican delight, all while the fierce “Best Taco” competition rages on; the event features more than 30 of…
Ain’t no party like a pagan party, ’cause a pagan party don’t stop . . . until the village men are torn to pieces by ecstatically entranced women, that is. Okay, that never happened, but harvest has always been a time for celebration; today’s pagans continue this tradition in a…
Major League Baseball might have the “Fall Classic” phrase trademarked for its season-capping, champ-crowning World Series, but we really think the Tour de Fat deserves a shot at it. The annual celebration of all things bicycle, put on by New Belgium Brewing Company, cruises into Tempe Beach Park. The Fort…
Animal rights activists may get all huffy when they hear about doggies jumping rope and kitties pushing strollers on stage, but when you consider that these little four-leggers are rescued animals, their lives of performing are better than what was surely the alternative. (Um, death.) Plus, it’s dang entertaining. See…
Here’s one of the few blanket statements we’ll ever make: Breast cancer sucks. However, as much as the malady is an unfortunate bunch of bull, the Susan G. Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure rules that hard. This year’s edition will feature more than 30,000 folks participating in either the…
There’s no Bryant Park here. Nor is there a Heidi Klum-produced reality show competition leading up to it. So what? There are reasons aplenty to be proud of Phoenix Fashion Week 2010. The sixth annual shindig features more than 30 emerging and established designer runway shows, swanky after-parties, designer sample…
Feeling creative? Get your booty down to 5th and Wine where like-minded creative types want to hear your ideas. The networking and brainstorming event kicks off tonight and continues the second Tuesday of every month. Tue., Oct. 12, 6-9 p.m., 2010…
The fishing industry has tanked and lumber manufacturing has gone to shit. What are the good people of Northern California to do? Go green . . . dude. “There’s no reason to be driving up here except if I had a big backpack full of money,” musician and filmmaker Adam…
