How desperate are you for cash? You cool with some dog slobber? Then here’s a, uh, golden opportunity for you, via Phoenix Craigslist: Do you enjoy reading fiction? Would you be interested in reading novels and getting paid to do it?…
8: John SpiakJohn Spiak is a curator at the ASU Art Museum, (he joined the staff in 1994). The California native was heavily influenced by his grandparents, who all lived a short drive from his parent’s house. One of his grandfathers worked for Disney for 25 years, his other…
Theatre Artists Studio recreates a 1940s jazz club in this production. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: Sept. 23. Continues through Oct. 3, 2010…
If you wait long enough, everything that’s played on Broadway in the past decade will make its way to Phoenix — usually in the form of a road company that docks for two weeks at Gammage Auditorium. This week it’s Young Frankenstein, the glitzy musical translation of Mel Brooks’ 1974…
Schoolyard Scrappers and the Coffin Draggers scrap it out for all of marbles. A special demo bout between Super Heroes and the Villains will also go off. Sept. 30-Oct. 7, 7 p.m., 2010…
The local theater season has commenced, and Stray Cat Theatre is celebrating this fact with the third installment of Neil Labute’s trilogy about the importance of how we look. Reasons To Be Pretty follows The Shape of Things and Fat Pig (both plays Stray Cat has previously produced) in that…
With what the economy’s done to our tax base, we probably wouldn’t be enjoying Shemer Art Center & Museum’s exhibitions and classes this year had the private-sector Shemer Art Center and Museum Association not stepped in. SACAMA operates the center right now, while Phoenix Parks and Recreation maintains the historic…
Barnett loves video games so much that he uses the ultra-realistic graphics as inspiration for his fauvist style paintings. Mondays-Fridays. Starts: Sept. 17. Continues through Oct. 31, 2010…
Jack Goes Boating is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s movie — it’s his directorial debut; he stars as its namesake sad sack; he wears his hair in those terrible dreadlocks that he covered with a big woolen hat at the Oscars last spring — but let’s talk about John Ortiz instead. Yes,…
It was the best of TIFFs, it was the worst of TIFFs. While the trade pubs breathlessly trumpeted the flurry of deals that took place at the Toronto International Film Festival, an epidemic of grumbling had spread through press and industry screenings. Key complaints concerned the quality of the lineup…
Joan Waters moved to Phoenix from Baltimore 20 years ago, and while the landscape and lighting of both cities inform the artist’s work, it’s another place altogether that inspired her bright palette. “When I was about 5, my parents took me to the Caribbean for a week,” she recalls. “The…
The company’s first non-musical performance is the hilarious story of Tito Morelli, the greatest tenor of his generation who, through a series of misfortunes, is mistakenly presumed dead. Thu., Sept. 23, 5:30 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 24, 5:30 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 25, 12 & 5:30 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 26, 12 &…
As a part of the Must See Monday Speaker Series, former journalist Terry Greene Sterling discusses her book Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone. Mon., Sept. 27, 7 p.m., 2010…
When you were a little girl (or an effeminate male youth), you fantasized about being a ballerina — dancing under the night sky with fireflies, a waterfall, and ponies in the background. The woodland creatures cheered when you finished your routine. In real life, however, you took ballet for a…
Man, are we bored. We called a friend and they were bored, too. Summer cobwebs? Shake off those doldrums with the Urban Wine Walk. The event features 12 participating bars and restaurants, all with specially priced wine tastings and piquant fare, located along the city’s light-rail route. Jump aboard the…
Think you got soul? Prove it. It’s tough to do in Phoenix, AZ, ain’t it? Start by heading to the ’70s Soul Jam. Hosted by Jimmie JJ Walker (yes, the actor who belted “Dy-no-mite!” on Good Times), the night features The Stylistics, who wrote the 1971 hit “You’re a Big…
Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca is back — this time on the silver screen. Puccini’s melodramatic opera, based on the French-language play La Tosca Victorien Sardou, is celebrating its 110th birthday by touring the country in a filmed version. There may not be sexy teenaged vampires in this movie, but there’s still…
Scottsdale Quarter feels like the Valley’s best kept shopping secret. There’s an H&M and an Apple store with a fraction of the normal shopping traffic; an Oakville Grocery with tons of locally made, gourmet foods; and Primebar, a swanky new restaurant with a killer happy hour. This month, Armani Exchange…
Skybox – who you might remember from their time in the Phoenix music scene a few years ago – return to the Valley from their new home in Chicago for their first show in the area in over a year this week. The band takes on the music business in…
Apollo 12 moon mission: A lightning strike during launch meant that both astronauts might be killed during re-entry — with absolutely no way to know ahead of time. Apollo 12 longform improv troupe: also absolutely no way to know ahead of time, with all the excitement and none of the…
At this time last year, most pundits predicted that the Phoenix Coyotes be a mess both on and off the ice. But against all odds, they banded together and made an improbable playoff run that would have made Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn proud. This season, the Coyotes appear to be…
Over the years Hollywood has produced a lot of great biopics of famous musicians. You know the names: Ray, What’s Love Got to Do with it, Walk the Line, The Doors, etc. Some bright young Hollywood screenwriter ought to start working up a script treatment on Sharon Jones. Sure, Sharon…
