Even when it’s hot, folks can wear silly-looking outfits, chase around a little white ball, and wet their whistles with a post-hobby cocktail at ASU Karsten Golf Course. That’s because the 18-hole public course is offering Happy Hour Golf every Wednesday through September 22. That means duffers can show off…
When Hurricane Katrina hit, Cynthia Hogue knew she had to respond. Hogue is a poet. When the hurricane hit in 2005 she was living in metro Phoenix, but she’d lived in New Orleans a decade before Katrina and taught in the University of New Orleans’ MFA program. Hogue admits it was a place she disliked…
Matthew Mosher gave out white-chocolate Hershey’s candy, powdered doughnuts, and Natural American Spirit cigarettes for yesterday’s opening reception of his new exhibition at the Arizona State University Step Gallery — The Gallery is No Place for Artists. “White foods are really hard to find,” Mosher explained to those who gathered…
Steve Bass, the Phoenix-based artist who was involved in a head-on automobile crash with three Yavapai County Sheriff’s detention officers on August 7, remains in the intensive care unit of Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix.Bass’ sister Lori Bassani tells New Times that “Steve is still critical, but making…
Fall is on the horizon. Which means kids are heading back to school. Adults can get in on that action with Tilt Gallery’s fall line-up of classes.Tilt Gallery is hosting four classes throughout September and October with super limited seating. So, yeah, hurry and sign up. Read about the classes…
Thanks to professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek, a new, super-slick skate park is coming to Phoenix. Plans for the skate park were announced at Phoenix City Hall on Tuesday afternoon, during a press conference with Dyrdek, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, Phoenix Vice Mayor Michael Nowakowski, and District 8 Councilman Michael Johnson…
34: John Wagner John Wagner studied art with an emphasis on traditional silver and non-silver processes. His interest in photography has landed him all over the world, but he writes that his focus never relies simply on location. He has this to say about his process:”I’ve always been intrigued with…
Just a skip away from Mill Avenue and ASU’s Tempe campus, Here on the Corner’s Tempe roots have been firmly planted for the past 8 years.The locally owned women’s fashion boutique (and sorority girl haven) will host its first fall fashion preview to celebrate its history and keep Tempe dwellers…
Ted Decker curated a show. It’s called “Converging Trajectories” and it’s all about you…and him…and 41 artists. You’re going to see a little bit of everything here — video installation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing…you name it, it’s at Modified Arts. but don’t bother looking for a connective thread between these…
Big, sprawling houses are the norm in the neighborhoods nestled in the mountains around 44th street and Camelback Road. But the house at 5050 East Red Rock Road is unlike any other in the area — in fact, it’s not so much a “house” as it is a big, Moorish…
It’s no surprise Roy Watkins shoots his Nikon D300 with a fisheye lens — he’s at fish eye-level, under the rippling waters of Fossil Creek. His interest in photography started at a young age, but he didn’t get his camera wet until he combined his interested in photos with his…
Hate all of the graffiti and fugitive shopping carts in town? There’s an app for that. In June, the City of Phoenix introduced an iPhone application for blight-loathing locals that want to report urban eyesores to the city’s Neighborhood Services Department. Now, as of last week, Motorola Droid users can…
35: Cindy Dach Cindy Dach had believed she was going to write one of the great American novels that would have been released in both hardcover and paperback, and then optioned for a small independent film. After receiving her MFA, she realized that she didn’t want to spend that much…
Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with one reader commenting he’d love to see the looks on our faces if we actually tried…
As a part of Mark-Taylor Community’s Summer of Love, dozens of bikini-, boardshort-, even boxer-clad bodies showed up at San Palmilla in Tempe. We couldn’t help but check out the party and report back. You know the drill. The good’s above and you’ll have to check the Bad and the…
Had it not been for the graffiti-ed plastic chairs by the door, we might have skipped over Just Blaze, which opened its doors on Saturday (now it just needs a bigger sign).Just Blaze was located on McDowell Road in Phoenix, but took over the building on the corner of Camelback…
Lauren Henschen is an actress, musician, and local creative force who describes her latest project, Super Stereo, as “a super fun, dance-inducing future-pop band.”When we asked her what she’s been up to lately, she responded, “When I’m not pumping up the jams, I can often be found mowing my lawn,…
It was only a matter of time before the vajazzling founders at Completely Bare Spa in New York one upped even themselves. Allow them to introduce the Vatoo — the latest down-under adornment that can be done after a good wax, of course. Like the vajazzle, the vattoo isn’t permanent…
Mark Taylor’s Sam Palmilla Pool Party School’s back in session and that means more pool parties. Check out one of this weekend’s splash fests in the above photos…see photos Meat Loaf at Celebrity Theatre Last Night As I sat through Meat Loaf’s concert full of epic songs, costume changes, rhinestone…
Most people wouldn’t guess it, looking at my chubby physique, but I am a man who loves to dance. If there’s a scuzzy bar or club in some part of town hosting a dance night (preferably one without a cover), there’s a 70 percent chance that I’ll be popping in…
If you have the power of the paranormal running through your veins, you could spend a good chunk of the next year eating for free. Green New American Vegetarian Restaurant, located at 2240 North Scottsdale Road, Suite 8 in Tempe, is hosting an ouija board-themed art exhibit. Entitled “Wanna Ouija?”…
36: Kade Twist Kade L. Twist works with video, installation, sound, text and two-dimensional media. In his words, he aims to “combine re-imagined tribal stories with geopolitical narratives to examine the unresolved tensions between market-driven systems, consumerism and American Indian cultural self-determination that dominate the postcolonial landscape.” Twist is one…
