Sunnyslope Mountain. Phoenix Financial Center. Phoenix Towers. The Bikini Lounge. If it’s in Phoenix and it’s a building and it’s even a little bit pretty, artist Jason Hill has captured it in brightly inked three-color screen prints. And, amazingly, he makes it look spectacular. Don’t believe us? Head straight for…
Commercial photographer Tyson Crosbie says he “steals souls for a living.” If that’s true, his latest gallery exhibition, “The Phoenix Series,” is his surreptitious attempt to seize the soulful essence of our fair city. With a camera lens closely aimed at decaying strips of vivid paint swashes as well as…
One thing is for certain in today’s contemporary country music — you’ll never hear bluegrass deity Dr. Ralph Stanley singing on a Kenny Chesney record. While Chesney’s grasp of country tradition begins with Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 hit “Margaritaville,” fortunately for country purists, there is Josh Turner, who dueted with Stanley…
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…
Instead of merely being a thuggish, dunderheaded megalomaniac, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has also been a harbinger of the future: At press time, SB 1070 was days from being enacted and has prompted other states to take similar measures. It’s a really dumb vision of the future that these…
If there’s one thing Phoenix sports fans are great at, it’s making excuses for our teams’ poor play. We’re all too happy to believe in the Boogeyman, whether he’s described as a substandard stadium, injuries, or – in the case of the Arizona Diamondbacks – a low payroll. The San…
Depending on whom you ask, hipsters either provide salvation or ruination to dive bars. When fashionable types latch onto a particular hole-in-the-wall, they tend to bring a ton of additional drinkers wielding disposable income. At the same time, all the attention can erode a dive’s cool factor and turn it…
Cheetahs has been hosting “Stripper Fight League” every Tuesday for the past eight months. A few other strip clubs have recently started hosting weekly cage fights, but Cheetahs was the first, and it’s still the most popular. The fight cage is about the size of an above-ground swimming pool. The…
Terry Greene Sterling’s Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone begins in the Mexican towns near the Arizona border: Nogales, Cananea, Altar, Arivaca, Agua Prieta. These are the places from which migrants press their luck to undertake dangerous crossings through the desert landscape. (Read: Chapter 6 of Illegal…
Strictly speaking, the two scrappy Irish kids in Lance Daly’s Kisses aren’t homeless, but in every sense that matters, they have only each other for shelter. Kylie and Dylan (played by Kelly O’Neill and Shane Curry, both plucked from Dublin schools and oozing forlorn defiance) live next door to each…
After obligatory helicopter views of New York’s skyline open Adam McKay’s The Other Guys, we’re introduced to Danson and Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson), a duo of headline-grabbing, unflappable supercops who keep the city exciting, if not safe, with law enforcement by the Michael Bay book. The Other…
It hardly seems fair to comment on Hale Centre Theatre’s hyper-cheerful Annie Get Your Gun. In a better world, a community theater production of the Irving Berlin perennial would be exempt from the considerations of any critic. But it’s summer in Phoenix, which means three months of warhorses performed by…
Instead of merely being a thuggish, dunderheaded megalomaniac, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has also been a harbinger of the future: At press time, SB 1070 was days from being enacted and has prompted other states to take similar measures. It’s a really dumb vision of the future that these…
Who’s not a sucker for a good makeover, especially one by a local makeup business? (Yes, those exist.) We stumbled upon, Mixology Makeup, an independently-owned makeup company out of Anthem, that’ll do just the trick. And while they’ve received some recent national press, they’ve gone virtually uncovered in their own…
A bold five o’clock curtain draping his face, “Pride of Tempe” Ray Robinson starts his day by giving Maxwell, his chihuahua, a mid-morning walk. When he’s not at the door of Mill Cue Club in Tempe, Ray’s chasing his dream of fighting in mixed martial arts full-time and maintains his fighting…
Communication in today’s teen world is a near attack on the five senses — if the phone’s not vibrating, ringing or lighting up, its keys are being tapped, its camera is being clicked or its speakers are emitting some kind of voice, beat or tune. And we just covered one…
Looks tasty, doesn’t it?Sorry, everybody. It’s not for eating. It’s for your skin, which is actually tremendous news because it means this is the one candy box in which you can indulge 100 percent guilt-free.Local creator, Kathy Monkman, just kicked off her Etsy.com site, Cream ‘n Sugar, where she’s selling…
Lisa Albinger’s “Holy Mary Mother of Birds” opens with a First Friday artist’s reception from 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, August 6. New Times rapped with her about her latest series of works, which will hang at Perihelion Arts through month’s end. The following is in Albinger’s words:”Holy Mary Mother…
Ten years ago, Mandall’s Shooting Supplies was an unusual hub in Old Town Scottsdale. Back then, it was the place to go if you were looking to shoot some high-powered, fully automatic guns or buy an expensive, vintage rifle from Spain. Now, all that’s left of Mandall’s Shooting Supplies is…
49: Stefan ShepherdStefan Shepherd started out writing music reviews of family music in his spare time for his wife’s parenting group newsletter. (More about that here.) Now he writes music reviews of family music in his spare time for his website, Zooglobble, and NPR’s All Things Considered and has brought…
Phoenix Theatre’s Hormel New Works Festival wrapped up Sunday night with the presentation of the 24-Hour Theatre Project, five fully produced 10-minute plays that had been created entirely in the previous 24 hours.Actors (who were cast as an unassigned group a week or so ago) showed up Saturday night in…
A lot of old teddy bears and second-hand pairs of undies went to heaven this past weekend. At 2:28 a.m. Saturday, a significant portion of the Goodwill Clearance Center, 421 North 16th Street, caught fire, destroying the northern portion of the complex. As of press time, the cause of the…
