Arts & Culture

Since there’s really no better accessory than a cocktail in your hand, each week brings you a tasty adult beverage from one of our favorite drinking establishments, complete with recipe. This week: The Sueño Mojado at Gallo Blanco.Gallo Blanco’s Sueño Mojado is a classy take on the tired sweet-and-sour margarita…

So Steam Crow recently put up an entire body of artwork inspired by food at SideBar. And, this Friday, Five15 Gallery opens “Show Us Your Cans” — a group show by the collective’s members that doubles as a canned food drive (click here for details). Since food and art seem…

Pardon the dust at Jackrabbit Lounge, but it’s much needed, according to co-owner Don Serpe. For the past few weeks, the fancy-pants Old Town Scottsdale club, known for its 4,000 square feet of glitz and glamour, has undergone some minor renovations as well as some rumor squashing. This weekend, the…

Finally, a hookah lounge that gets the “lounge” part just right. Urban Café hookah lounge in Tempe may not have the largest selection of hookah tobacco in the city, or the fanciest furniture, but when it comes to comfort, they’ve got everything a hookah smoker needs. The hookah lounge is…

With a name like Overcome, it’s gotta be one of two things: A Christian metalcore band or the latest in pharmaceutical “male enhancement.” (Rejected ad pitch: “Wanna put the zing back in your marriage? Overcome.”) Formed in the mid-90s, the Overcome boys were the first musicians signed by Facedown Records,…

So, Mark Matos is on tour somewhere in the American Midwest, gets real far out on an LSD bender, decides to quit his buzz band Campo Bravo and move away from the “tweaker dens” of Tucson, Arizona, where they’ve been steadily gaining attention for years. Returning to the Bay Area…

Every woman knows she can sleep with as many dudes as she wants without becoming a slut . . . as long as the dudes aren’t bros. Anti-slut rules also apply for showing off boobies. If you’re rockin’ those tatas to the public during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, you’re…

Yes, Phoenix is forever trying to be all L.A. However, until we pop into a Starbucks on a weekday afternoon and witness the entire joint brimming with laptop-wielding folks looking busy while sculpting their “screenplay,” the Los Angeles-ification of the Valley probably isn’t happening soon. But that doesn’t mean that…

Somebody should have thought of this sooner: The End of Summer Bowling Blowout merges two way-fun activities – shopping and bowling – into one awesome thingy. On the fashion tip, expect to score jewelry, accessories, and True Religion jeans on the cheap. Bowling-wise, knock down some pins for Phoenix Day,…

Twenty-two-year-old Tempe denizen Stephen Steinbrink is mostly known for his beautifully crafted, twangy pop woven from the tangled threads of love, insecurity, hope, and everyday despair. In addition to creating music and frequent touring, Steinbrink has poured himself into illustration. His drawings have appeared as the art for many of…

For those of us who grew up on the horror stories of Aunt Maud and for whom the phrase “Feed the birds” induces tittering, it’s iconic. To everyone else, The Wallace and Ladmo Show is just another old kiddie program — Phoenix’s version of L.A.’s Hobo Kelly without the magic;…

University of Arizona alum and superstar softball player Jennie Finch may be retiring, but there’s a new reason to get excited about softball in the Valley. Namely, the Phoenix Spartans, a squad that isn’t your average ponytail-and-ribbon-wearing ensemble — they’re representing Arizona at the Gay Softball World Series this month…

Got 100-plus pounds to lose, a competitive edge, and don’t mind letting it all hang out on national television? Get in line. With casting now open for the 11th season of The Biggest Loser, NBC’s hit reality fitness show, ranch-reaching hopefuls are lining up in cities across the U.S., including…

Lisa Albinger will probably never be thumping Bibles any time soon. However, her new painting exhibit at Perihelion Arts is influenced by religion. But not in a cliché way. You see, the work in Albinger’s “Holy Mary Mother of Birds” includes a likeness of Saint Francis of Assisi. With a…

Lisa Albinger will probably never be thumping Bibles any time soon. However, her new painting exhibit at Perihelion Arts is influenced by religion. But not in a cliché way. You see, the work in Albinger’s “Holy Mary Mother of Birds” includes a likeness of Saint Francis of Assisi. With a…

You may not have the grades or the rich daddy to attend Harvard, but now you can party like a pretentious, coked up co-ed at Jen Deveroux’s newest Ivy League bash. Go-go dancers will be clad in underwear and knee-highs on the retro futuristic light-up dance floor as DJ Tricky…

Remember those glorious days when you and your friends would stay up until the wee morning hours having the best existential conversations over a hangover-relieving cuppa joe? Perhaps that was back in college, before you gave two shits about things like job security, health benefits, and sleep. Or maybe it…

Though they’re self-described as an “indie/soul/rock” band, Brian’s Escape packs a little more heat than those blasé labels might suggest. Loud, heavy, and in-yo-face, they might better be explained as power-pop with a hint of screamo. Having formed as Breaking the Silence in 2005, the rock ‘n’ roll sextet is…

How does television host, radio personality, and funnyman Adam Carolla feel about the live tapings of his podcast, The Adam Carolla Show? “I really had no idea that any of you would give a shit and come out and support us,” Carolla tells an audience in Irvine, California. “It feels…

We like novels that are merely inspired by the weird crap that happens around here. It’s a relief to read something we know isn’t actually happening right now, probably right outside our window. Arizona-raised best-selling author Brenda Novak delivers the goods with White Heat, about a possibly murderous couples-only cult…