Want some music? Just add weather. Sunny days sometimes lead to the breeziest of songs while being shut in by Minnesota snowfall, we imagine, yields the claustrophobia-in-a-blender noise of post-punk rockers Gay Beast. Led by the stabbing vocals and pulsing synths of Daniel Luedtke (whose retina-buzzing art also adorns the…
As we’re being all hot and laying around in our own filth in our apartments, the Phoenix Art Museum seems to be super ambitious this summer. Take Wednesday, July 14, for example. On that day, the museum offers a rad event. Namely, the bad freaking ass Downtown Chamber Series will…
As we’re being all hot and laying around in our own filth in our apartments, the Phoenix Art Museum seems to be super ambitious this summer. Take Wednesday, July 14, for example. On that day, the museum offers a rad event. Namely, the Drop-in Studio: Cézanne’s Obsession, a participatory shindig…
Art as violence. Not a very pretty picture. But Bela Fidel wasn’t aspiring to beauty in the pieces that make up her new el Pedregal show, “The World at Ground Zero.” The artist, born and art-educated in Brazil, meant instead to depict the horror she and the rest of us…
. . . and the Arizona Diamondbacks lose another game. Yeah. No shit. Tell us something we don’t know. OK, how about this: since June 21, the Arizona Rookie League has been in full swing at various spring-training ballparks throughout the Valley. The three-division, twelve-team league feature bunches of ripe…
Like it or not, it had to end sometime. On Sunday, July 11, a planet Earth champion of soccer will be crowned during the World Cup 2010 Championship Match. Whether you’re a soccer die-hard, casual football follower, vuvuzela music fan, or a bro-dude that pretended to care that your life…
Chicks and guns. It’s a staple of American fetishism. We can thank Annie Oakley for that. Now we can’t go a summer without some kind of Hollywood blockbuster that features cleavage, pleather, and steel. Hot stuff. Get ready for AZ’s indulgence in this “don’t want to go there” psychological fantasy…
Two film students, miffed that their creation didn’t make their school’s festival, did what misunderstood geniuses have since time immemorial — It Themselves. The 1st Annual Ignominious Film Gala, going down at MADCAP Theaters, presents that overlooked new classic, Carl Jensen IV and James Hamilton Mitchell’s The Ignominious Triumph of…
The zombie craze has officially reached maximum ridiculousness.If you dig the undead, we have the perfect event for you: the Zombie Research Society Meeting. This international society (we’re not kidding – there are chapters in Germany and Canada in addition to the 16 U.S. states that host meetings) is committed…
The zombie craze has officially reached maximum ridiculousness.If you dig the undead, we have the perfect event for you: the Zombie Research Society Meeting. This international society (we’re not kidding – there are chapters in Germany and Canada in addition to the 16 U.S. states that host meetings) is committed…
Let us be the first to tell you that Mesa is officially a cool place to be. It’s true, we swear. Particularly if it’s the second Friday of the month and you’re downtown.Yes, the 2nd Friday in Downtown Mesa festival is at it again. This time, the “Winter in July:…
Love only kinda’ stinks. At least that’s the message put forth by Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre’s interpretation of The Wedding Singer. The season-concluding play for DST remounts this 2006 Broadway rewrite of the 1998 Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore vehicle, and features an unapologetically ‘80s inspired musical score by Chad…
Whether you’ve visited every country from Australia to Zaire or your idea of a vacation involves lounging on the couch with a microwave pizza in one hand and the controls to Halo: Reach in the other, local artist Jon Totel hopes his travel collages will inspire you. “I am interested…
Purchasing a piece of art can be considered an investment in itself, but at Christine Cassano’s “Invest with Confidence” art lovers are encouraged to make a different type of investment. Namely, one in their communities. That’s because Cassano’s glass-reinforced concrete works are offered at a discounted price to those who…
Purchasing a piece of art can be considered an investment in itself, but at Christine Cassano’s “Invest with Confidence” art lovers are encouraged to make a different type of investment. Namely, one in their communities. That’s because Cassano’s glass-reinforced concrete works are offered at a discounted price to those who…
Father’s Day is a bit of a trap holiday. It sneaks up on you right after Memorial Day, so it’s kind of easy to forget about it. Then your dad thinks that you secretly resent him, which is really awkward.If you messed up on Father’s Day, it may interest you…
Few things are hotter than Phoenix in the summertime. Saunas. Microwave ovens. Satan’s attic. “The heat just kind of sucks the life out of you. By the time you get home in the evening, you just want to stay indoors and relax,” says Emmett Potter, co-owner of Scottsdale’s Soyal Gallery…
Being a goth artist seems pretty clear cut, but for Jenny Fontana, adding a seven-year-old daughter to the mix changes things considerably. “She’s totally to blame,” Fontana laughs when explaining the change in her color palette from drab grays to bright reds, purples, and pinks, “but I find that some…
Before you hole yourself up in an air-conditioned bunker eating ice cream and wearing nothing but a thong this summer, wake up and notice the many positive things Phoenix offers in the off-season: smaller crowds, water parks, and the annual Summer Spectacular ArtWalk. Look for live jazz and folk music,…
We spend time with our parents mainly to see what we’ll be like in the future. Sports teams, of course, don’t have the luxury of genetic parents, which is why we’ll be at Chase Field for today’s game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Florida Marlins. In 1997, the Marlins…
Not so long ago, Kings of Leon and Built to Spill inhabited the same college radio territory, with Kings of Leon the plucky up-and-comers and Built to Spill the wily veterans. We all know what happened next — the youngsters got haircuts and became international megastars, and the senior band…
Caffeine and alcohol make a beautiful union as Tea Time joins forces with 5th and Wine. Guests can enjoy their choice of three tea-infused martinis and bring home recipes. RSVP is required so be sure to call ahead. Wed., July 14, 6:30 p.m., 2010…
