The Black Cactus Records gang is fed up. They’re annoyed by the brash young hotheads who fancy themselves rock stars. They hate the dudes given to asinine behavior on stage and off. They’re done with excessive drinking and drug use. They’ve had enough of bands flaking out on gigs, showing…
If we learned anything from the Pauly Shore classic Son in Law, it’s that everyone can benefit from a little bit of country living. Unfortunately, Phoenix isn’t exactly the easiest place to start up a farm. Want a little slice of rural life, but don’t quite have the acreage? Rachel…
Are you sick of the Where the Wild Things Are craze? We’d by lying if we said we weren’t. So why is it that, in spite of our best efforts, we still like the damn thing? We can’t help it. That children’s book by Maurice Sendak, with its fantastic world…
Parno Graszt, in Romani, means “white horse,” a symbol of purity and freedom in Hungarian culture. The band that uses this name takes its moniker seriously, using acoustic guitars, tamboura, the double bass, and various kitchen implements including spoons, a milk jug, and a water can to create the freest,…
We love it when a baseball squad starts playing the spoiler role. We think it’s the implied spitefulness — there’s something positively delightful about a group of players who don’t care about winning so much as they care about making another team lose. The Arizona Diamondbacks are stuck in the…
You love art exhibitions. Your man, on the other hand, thinks that crap is for sissies. No problem. Tempe Center for the Arts has you covered with its latest show “Cars and Guitars.” As you enjoy the aesthetics of guitar design and the artistry of low-rider restoration, your dude will…
It’s late to be further bemoaning the state of the American musical. Like it or not, staged musicalizations of popular motion pictures have become a genre of their own, and a staple at little theaters like Scottsdale’s Desert Stages. I attended this company’s mainstage production of The Wedding Singer with…
Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent of the 19th Amendment: finally, a level playing field for female action stars! This is mostly bullshit, of course —Jolie’s Evelyn Salt is not the first action hero to…
People cashed in favors, called up relatives and took advantage of media access to score an in to the invite-only H&M VIP preview Tuesday night (including yours truly). Didn’t land your name on the list? Here’s a sneak peak of what’s in store for H&M’s grand opening in Scottsdale Fashion Square Thursday.
Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, a section of the inflatable rubber dam that held Tempe Town Lake burst, sending waves of sun-baked, germ-infested water into the Salt River Bed.The two-mile-long Town Lake that once was, could be no longer in a matter of hours, which means there’s going to be a…
We can’t decide if we love or hate our latest find, an old-school VW Bug with a custom mural of The Incredible Hulk spray painted from bumper to bumper. Surely, any comic book geek can appreciate this driver’s dedication to the Marvel Universe. A Hulkmobile is an awesome idea. Especially when there’s Internet buzz flying about who will…
Kimber Lanning and her super crew at Local First Arizona have done it again. Presenting their collection of local businesses; each highlighted by specialty and mapped out on a conveniently sized, one stop shop for local goodness. (Maybe we should start featuring brochures that make us happy?) More than 70…
Listen up Phoenix photographers: You’ve got a deadline approaching. Put a big, red circle around August 5 and get to work.Tilt Gallery is hosting the “Photography Re-Imagined: 4th Annual Juried Alternative & Historical Process Show” in October and they need your work.Assuming your work is made using alternative or historical…
She stands high, beaming radiance in the name of life and liberty … in some Phoenix-area storage unit.That’s what a representative of Pathfinder Properties tells New Times following the removal of Lady Liberty from the Statue of Liberty house on Seventh Avenue and Palm Lane.The Scottsdale-based company purchased the home…
59: Lynn Fisher Lynn Fisher will admit to it: if you tell her your birthday once, she’ll never forget. Her attention to detail and draw toward oddity is what’s reflected in her work ranging from painting and sculpture to mixed media and web design. “Through my art school years, my…
Ladies and gentlemen, the “clown prince of the downtown Phoenix art scene” would like to show you his wardrobe. Or maybe just a few outfits. Okay, we’ve convinced him to just pick one (though he’s already fashioned a “What are you wearing” photoshoot on his Facebook page). Ryan Avery, the…
It’s fitting that a private memorial service for Heidi Owens, the longtime owner of Hollywood Regency, took place on July 17. For one, it was Owens’ birthday. More than 250 friends, family members, and folks in the vintage scene packed into the non-air-conditioned Zinnias at Melrose to share stories about the…
One of our pet peeves is when people bemoan the lack of community and cohesion in the Valley without bringing any new ideas to the table. We’ll grant you. It’s a pretty easy topic to rip on. Thankfully there are visionaries like Taz Loomans who shun this cliché in favor…
Bob Hoag runs Flying Blanket Recording in Mesa and has an enviable client list filled with bands like Dear and the Headlights, What Laura Says, and Kinch.He also loves vintage fashion. And he likes to talk (and talk and talk) about it. Read on (and on and on) about what…
Few signs around Phoenix are as eye-catching as Western Exterminator Company’s “Little Man.” The “Little Man” is really anything but — the fiberglass figure of a man in a top hat holding a hammer behind his back stands nearly 10 feet tall, and hovers over 24th Street from about 20…
60: Neil Borowicz These days, you can find Neil Borowicz behind the scenes. The artist co-owns Argo, an art services business that has completed renovations and installations in museums around Arizona, including the newly opened Musical Instrument Museum in North Phoenix and the Western Discovery Museum in Tusayan. When he’s…
It’s true, we’re total paper sluts. And we’re talking about all kinds of paper — the stuff we write on, the stuff we draw on, the stuff we fold, crumple, stamp, cut, paste, whatever. And until the end of the day, the stuff we love (and you should too) is…
