Impersonating famous women is high on the list of Kelly Carpenter’s acting skills. She has, for the past four years, played Mrs. Claus in Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, and can occasionally be found pretending to be Patsy Cline in Ted Swindley’s jukebox musical about the late, great country…
Local house music impresario Joe DiPadova hasn’t been kicking it in the Valley much lately (word on the street is that he moved to New Mexico or perhaps even California). But wherever he’s been hanging the past few months, DiPadova’s returning to the PHX for one night only and staging…
Downtown Phoenix’s art scene is hard to exactly quantify in some respects, with creativity running amok across multiple genres and mediums. Hyphenates abound as musicians, DJs, painters, and other talented types collaborate and feed off each other’s muses. So it’s apropos that one of the art scene’s more pre-eminent bands,…
Breathtaking and majestic, the Chinese composer’s award-winning epic score to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will be presented by the PSO with conduction by En Shao and accompaniment from erhu soloist Betti Xiang. Thu., May 13, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 15, 8 p.m., 2010…
The youth chorus presents its final concert of the season, which will feature songs from such stage hits as The Wizard of Oz, The Fantastiks, and Peter Pan. Sat., May 15, 7:30 p.m., 2010…
ido wasn’t the first white girl to do the singer-songwriter thing with light electronica and pseudo hip-hop beats. Sophie B. Hawkins probably wasn’t the first, either, when “Damn I Wish Your Lover” went top-five in 1992, but at least she didn’t rely on a cracker rapper like Eminem to get…
One of the weekend’s best concerts has to be the Secret Garden Rendezvous Grown & Sexy Tour. Now, if the name doesn’t have you chomping at the bit, then the lineup sure will: Bobby Brown, Christopher Williams & Al B. Sure. That’s right, Al B. Sure, of “Nite & Day”…
By now you’ve likely heard about the recent anniversary of the release of Let it Be, the Fab Four’s final album before the went splitsville. If you missed out on playing Beatles: Rock Band or watching any of the recent docs on TV, celebrate the occasion by checking out this…
Singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins defies a cut-and-dried definition. Influenced by everybody from the Violent Femmes and James Taylor to contemporaries like the Indigo Girls (whose co-founder, Amy Ray, attended Clarkston High School in Georgia with Mullins), the folk rocker maintains a homey pop vibe throughout his albums but doesn’t feel compelled…
We women of today think we’re real tough. But compared to the women of the 1940s, we’re big-time wimps. These American ladies had to say goodbye to their men, keep a home, work in factories, and look smashing at the end of the day. They did it with the help…
Check out these oft-forgotten treasures Phoenix Art Museum is neat, SMoCA rules, and Mesa Arts Center is pretty rad. So are all of the other Valley museums that may not get as much turnstile love. We’re talking about the Arizona Military Museum, 5636 East McDowell Road, which displays rare relics…
Popular images like Uncle Sam (with his bushy eyebrows and emphatic index finger) or the desperate cockroach screaming “Raid?!” have been burned into our collective American psyche. It’s funny to think that these images as well as album and book covers, comics, postage stamps, and billboards were once drawn or…
What can we say about peaches? They’re fuzzy. They’re delicious. And some crazy Canadian singer who wears flashlights on her crotch has adopted the word as her name. Well, we can also tell you that Schnepf Farms is using the fruit’s abundance as an excuse to throw the Queen Creek…
“This is an opportunity for the bands to come out and do what they do best,” says Michael Peck, theater director and founding member of Chyro Arts, “and let us thank them the best way we know how.” After three seasons of theater, music and poetry, Scottsdale’s Chyro Arts Venue…
If Mike Metzger says it’s cool, then it must be pretty freaking god damn cool. OK, so Metzger didn’t actually tell New Times that the third annual AZ American Freestyle Motocross Championship is the cat’s pajamas. However, the FMX rider of various fames – he won the X-Games’ Freestyle and…
If you’re the type who’d call in sick to perfect your Avatar, stand up a first date to play Final Fantasy XIII, or trade your firstborn for a pre-release copy of Halo: Reach, get your slothful self down to the 2010 Bookmans Video Game Challenge. Competitors will play Call of…
The nighttime is the right time for many things, but running a race is not generally among them — until now. The Twilight Town Trek takes the concept of an evening race to the next level, combining it with a scavenger hunt, obstacle course, and strategy game (like a Phoenix…
We want you to close your eyes and visualize a huge room that’s bursting with racks of designer jeans. Beautiful, eh? Well, you won’t have to go to your mental happy place to experience this euphoria again because The Warehouse Sale is coming to the Hilton Scottsdale Resort. The Grand…
Nothing lasts forever. Local examples include the unseasonably cool spring, the Coyotes’ amazing winning ways, and the safety of illegal immigrants in Phoenix. Considering she was born in a Canadian town that no longer exists, it’s no wonder the paintings of local artist Linda J. Shearer-Whiting explore the transience of…
We all multi-task, but few do it like Random. The Phoenix rapper (by way of Philly) balances being a middle-school teacher with rocking out-of-state shows alongside nerdcore icons like MC Frontalot. Born Raheem Jarbo, he took on the MegaRan moniker once he started spitting over instrumentals that drew from classic…
It’s May sweeps again, so you know what that means: sensationalized local television news stories and season finales. Before a summer of reruns hit the airwaves, it’s also a good chance to give a fond seasonal farewell to the monthly stage show Grand Avenue Live! GAL! might not rank in…
DNA Extractor Probe? Slimy Slim? Regurgitating Ralph? These are the names of creatures you do not want hiding in your closet, let alone living under your bed. Featuring new work by Phoenix-based artist Nervis Wrek and San Francisco-based artist Jay222, “Home Grown Monsters” is a freak fest of toy sculptures…
