Put away your Docs, Mr. Aging Gen X Rock Fan – this almost certainly isn’t the X that afforded you so many precious mosh-pit memories back in the day. That X featured the pitch-perfect wailing of John Doe and Exene Cervenka, the V-twin rockabilly guitar of Billy Zoom, and the…
Join fashion historian Jane Trapnell Marino as she deconstructs the designs by Adrian Adolph Greenberg, a 1940s costume designer for the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio. Wed., June 2, 7 p.m., 2010…
Celebrate Memorial Day like a true Zonie by tubing on the Salt River. May 29-31, 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m., 2010…
The hip-hop hustlers of HYB Entertainment have a huge lineup of parties scheduled for Memorial Day weekend. Not only will they be bringing in Lil Wil to kick it as Myst on Friday, they’ve also booked Twista to hang out at Devil’s Martini on Saturday night (click here and here…
Hip-hop superstar Twista hosts this special Memorial Day weekend soiree, which also features DJs, dancing, and drink specials. Sat., May 29, 2010…
The hip-hop hustlers of HYB Entertainment have a huge lineup of parties scheduled for Memorial Day weekend. It kicks off on Friday with an appearance by Lil Wil at Myst. DJ Phlava will drop the hip-hop and R&B all evening while DJ Dark Vader spins up some reggae jams. Fri.,…
AltoArizona will be sponsoring a “Festival for Human Rights” at Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox’s El Portal Restaurant at 2nd Avenue and Grant. A concert featuring Alex Lora and several other acts, as well as an art show, mural painting and other activities are planned for the party. The…
After a few weeks of searching for a new home, the promoters of Adult Swim have finally found a new location to host their popular hipster pool party this weekend. And in a huge stroke of irony, it’s the Hotel San Carlos, the place where the party first launched back…
The Drunken Immortals are celebrating the release of their latest CD The Artist Lives, and they’re inviting a few friends to the party. A loaded lineup of locals will also perform, including About Freedom, The Sugar Thieves, Modern Groove Assembly, Japhys Descent, Hot Birds and the Chili Sauce, Patrice, Angellque,…
Down the list of least needy causes, it’s just below a man standing next to his Hummer bumming for gas. But any true lover of melodic pop music oughta sign a petition to get Graham Nash inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. What’s that, you say? Nash…
Brian Wilson is not a great interview. Actually, the best quote I can pull from 10 painful minutes of taped conversation between me and my all-time favorite musician is this: “Print that Brian says: ‘Please, come out to my concert.'” On the surface, that’s probably the worst quote any music…
Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st-century pop band. Almost purpose-built for short-attention-span marketing campaigns, the four gents in CIWWAF focus so heavily on pop sheen, hooks, and scenester touchstones that it’s often difficult to figure out just what the sum of the parts is. Then…
You might vie to have an entourage filled with stylish hangers-on with enough muscle for when the beef pops, but we roll with the eggheads, the nerds, and the know-it-alls. Why? Because nothing’s more glorious than dominating Live Trivia. To ensure total domination over opposing trivia teams, you gotta have…
Say what you will, Michael Patrick King knows how to stage a fabulous gay nuptial. Sex and the City 2 begins with flair and good humor at the wedding of Stanford (Willie Garson) and Anthony (Mario Cantone), complete with a gay men’s chorus in white top-and-tails crooning a tastefully low-key…
The debate raging through John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God concerns the veracity of miracles and the possibility of virgin birth. In a series of monologues and flashbacks, it tells a story that’s often ambiguous and deliberately vague. But in its Desert Stages production, one thing is very clear: The young…
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’s story hinges on a dagger that can rewind time, a narrative conceit that doubles as a taunt to those who endure this cacophonous, frivolous adaptation of Ubisoft’s Arabian Nights-themed video-game series. Bruckheimered to the hilt with the same rollicking period-piece cheesiness that typified…
When it opened in 2000, the Sandra Day O’Connor federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix was both heralded as a sign that the courthouse was regaining ground as a center of urban life, and hated as a “dirty glass greenhouse” — literally too airy to cool in the hot Arizona summer…
Who needs a road trip when you can have the post cards and tchochkes delivered right to your door?…
Victoria Lindley opened Muse Apparel, a neighborhood boutique at 7th Street and Glendale five years ago. She says with nothing like it around for miles, she quickly became the go-to place for the North Central crowd looking for chic staples like Michael Stars t-shirts, Ella Moss’ flirty tops and fitted…
Jen Deveroux is a Phoenix-based party promoter — with some of the best flyers in town. Check them out at www.jendeveroux.com What is the last item of clothing you bought?1960’s Leopard Jumpsuit. What is the item of clothing you most covet at the moment?(get the answer after…
When he’s not doing the daily grind at his IBM day-job, Greg Fennel’s knee-deep in anime and manga programming for the Phoenix Comicon this weekend.Fennel’s been an anime (Japanese cartoons) and manga (Japanese comics) costumer for 10 years — he blames Speed Racer and Robotech, which sucked him in during…
Okay, quilters, we know you’re out there. And Chandler wants to hear from you.The Chandler Arts Commission has put out the call to art quilters for their upcoming “Art Quilts XV: Needleplay” exhibition slated for November 5, 2010 through January 15, 2011 at the Chandler Center for the Arts and…
