American folk owe it big to the Greeks. Let’s face it: A world without Frank Zappa, Uncle Jesse from Full House, feta cheese, and those spinach stuffed pastry thingies with a name nobody can pronounce (spano-go-pi-whatever) is a world few of us would want to live in. That’s why it…
While many know the Old Town Scottsdale art scene as upscale and culturally authentic, a mess of goo is about to descend upon Squeeze Gallery (formerly Soyal Gallery) when the new exhibit “Slime Wave” opens. The show features paintings and sculptures by local artist Andrew Hadle, who puts pop culture…
The signing of SB1070 has evoked feelings of anger, frustration, and disdain. So in an effort to restore some local pride, Barrio Café chef Silvana Salcido Esparza formed Calle 16. The Calle 16 Mural Kick-Off and Silent Auction will feature an art auction, music, food, and information about Calle 16…
The question of whether Amar’e Stoudemire is a franchise player has divided basketball fans for years. While his ability to score has never been questioned, critics have always panned Stoudemire for his apparent inability (or unwillingness) to consistently pull down rebounds and play defense. This season, Phoenix Suns fans find…
Does Jerry Seinfeld really need to do another stand-up comedy tour? A Forbes magazine survey indicates the comedian is tipped to become a billionaire by 2015. And while the comic legend – whose TV show we still quote (even though it stopped airing over a decade ago) gets asked to…
You lucky duck. It’s officially art season and one of our best institutions is going all out. ASUAM debuts its “Open for Business” project, which features installations by sixteen Valley artists that are dispersed throughout various Tempe businesses (Rula Bula, Cartel Coffee Lab, and Mood Swings Salon, just to name…
Think about it. Every culture throughout history has danced. The ancient Mayans used ritual dance to create sacred space, the tombs of ancient Egyptians depict wall etchings and paintings of half-naked women seriously getting down, and today, there’s nothing like getting a little sauced and shuffling around the dance floor…
You lucky duck. It’s officially art season and one of our best institutions is going all out. Over at SMoCA you’ll have the evening to check out the spot’s four new shows that include the latest “southwestNET” series (this time, a group exhibit called “photography and video: Modernity and Its…
The Color Purple is a musical that wants us to arrive at the theater already familiar with its story, most of which has been swept away as keenly as a “colored” maid might have “rid up” the floor of the kitchen, circa 1932. And because little is left of Alice…
There’s not much reason to think the Arizona Cardinals will win today’s game against the New Orleans Saints. When the teams met in last year’s divisional playoffs, the Saints knocked the Cards out of the postseason with a 45-14 drubbing. Since then, practically all the Redbirds have done is replace…
Legendary Shack Shakers are not typical Southern-fried fare, no insipid Nashville Muzak served up safe and soft. Think demented Dixieland instead. Imagine vaudevillians, carnies, punks, and Tom Waits producing whiskey-drizzled psychobilly. Bursting with weird flourishes, they trample and resurrect genres with mad glee. While straightforward songs like “No Such Thing”…
Editor’s note: This story has been edited for clarity and accuracy since its initial publication. Long before it was fashionable (or commercially profitable), interdisciplinary artist Angela Ellsworth must have consulted some seer stones before she decided to focus on her well-rooted Mormon ancestry as subject matter for her art. Seer…
The annual New Times shindig will feature grub from more than 25 eateries, cocktails, live entertainment, and killer views from the 17th floor of the CityScape Office Tower. Sat., Oct. 9, 7-11:30 p.m., 2010…
In memoriam of a dead and emo goth guy Halloween is creeping closer, so there’s nothing better than a bit of terror and madness to start your weekend right. Spooky storyteller Edgar Allan Poe is being raised from the dead for your enjoyment at Soul Invictus Gallery & Cabaret for…
Stage actress Anna Aimee White sure has her work cut out for her. She’s taking on the ambitious role of Ginger Rogers in Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Backwards in High Heels: The Ginger Musical. The play follows Rogers, a Missouri-born gal who started her entertainment career on a vaudevillian…
Choreographer Lisa Starry was onto this whole sexy vampire thing long before it was faddish. Her annual production of Scorpius Dance Theatre’s A Vampire Tale is all the proof you’ll need, come Halloween. Fans have made attendance at this danced-through show a kind of ritual, and this year Starry is…
Good news for you: The coordinators of the Fourth Annual Downtown Phoenix Pub Crawl might have outdone themselves. The event — set for October 23 — signed 19 pubs, clubs, lounges, restaurants and bars, and a slew of trolleys to participate. Organizers are expecting close to 800 people, which may…
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. I love dressing up, carving pumpkins, and hiding rubber cockroaches in unexpected nooks in my house. What I don’t love: People who make a mockery out of the sanctity of the holiday. I’m generally a genial person, but come October…
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…
Courtesy of Ali Karim.If you’ve spent any time dancing in clubs around town, you’ve surely seen Ali Karim in his signature specs and cardigans.The all-around cool dude got his start in the mid-’90s promoting record labels with DJ Bigie-Meanmugg. Since then, he’s coordinated hip-hop shows, charity events, and weekly dance…
It might be hard to imagine a huge high school bustling with more 5,000 students at the corner of Sixth and Van Buren Streets these days, but back in the 1930s, that area was the site of the booming Phoenix Union High School.The buildings now house various classes and offices…
Kent Knudson, best known locally for shooting and killing someone else’s cow on his property as well as his role in 9/11 Truth AZ, committed suicide on September 25.”Kent had been suffering from depression over yet another traumatic legal difficulty and facing two felony charges, on top of his ‘Cowcrap’…
