Cinco de Mayo, like St. Patrick’s Day, doesn’t require a connection to country, just the potential to party. But where to begin? The most sizable celebration in the Southwest, the Cinco de Mayo Phoenix Festival 2010, features two days of live entertainment, including local bands, ballet folklorico, Mexican food, and…
Let’s get one thing straight: We ain’t a pothead. In fact, we don’t even smoke weed. Ever. With that said, it’s fine by us if others do. We even think it’s keen that some rally for pot rights, which is the point of the Phoenix Worldwide Marijuana March. Luckily for…
Ancient Greeks celebrated spring in true Dionysian fashion by drinking, dancing, and sacrificing. In fact, those early festivals were often held in honor of Dionysus himself. As we know, the dude could party. Well, so can we. This weekend marks the annual A Taste of Greece festival, where celebrants can…
What would we do if we got kicked to the curb and laid off from our job? We’d probably keep Beck’s Sea Change on constant rotation while pounding Jack In The Box meal deals, but only after hours upon hours of inhaling pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon at the local…
We’re covering an artist who paints horses, ranchers, and golfers. And she’s showing in a Scottsdale gallery. Sound awful? Trust us on this one — it’s really not. In fact, artist Sherri Belassen is pretty spectacular. She seamlessly weaves a southwestern-inspired color palette with a stunning manipulation of spatial geometry…
We’re covering an artist who paints horses, ranchers, and golfers. And she’s showing in a Scottsdale gallery. Sound awful? Trust us on this one — it’s really not. In fact, artist Sherri Belassen is pretty spectacular. She seamlessly weaves a southwestern-inspired color palette with a stunning manipulation of spatial geometry…
Having some of the Valley’s most creative minds together in one room could be an overwhelming experience. With so much to talk about, it might be hard to learn something from everyone in just one night. That’s where PechaKucha 20×20 comes in. The event originated in Tokyo, Japan, and allows…
When it comes to talent, the apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree. Will Smith’s son is a budding movie star, Muhammad Ali’s daughter kicks ass in the ring, and Miley Cyrus’s songs are as crappy as the tunes by her country crooner daddy. Local artist Spencer Mahaffey-Maat didn’t…
In Grandpa’s day, only criminals and sailors had ink while pierced ears were strictly for ladies. Now it’s hard to find a teenager who isn’t tatted up or studded with more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. Those kids will blend right in at the Arizona Tattoo Expo. The…
Luis Gutierrez and Anna Wilks host this artsy shindig during Earth Month. Fri., April 30, 7-11 p.m., 2010…
Maybe you’ve observed runway models, whose gliding sashay spotlights clothing, not the person underneath. Maybe, God help you, you’ve watched exotic dancers on a catwalk (sturdily constructed, ideally; never mind why we know). But you haven’t seen Catwalk, Scorpius Dance Theatre’s spiffy new interdisciplinary production at Phoenix Theatre’s Little Theatre…
In general, we like to steer clear of weirdos with three names, not wanting to become a serial killer’s victim. In the case of William Benjamin Bensussen, we’ll make an exception. Under his nom de turntable, The Gaslamp Killer, he’s slayed tracks from behind the ones and twos. GLK lays…
Before ASU Baseball squared off against the University of Arizona on April 20, we were so excited to write about the Sun Devils’ certain win that we blew deadline to listen to the game on the radio. After they took care of business, our angle was going to be that…
After he reads some of his more recent essays from the podium of what’s being touted as “the new Virginia G. Piper Theater” (what happened to the old one?), and before he sits down to sign copies of his many bestselling books, author David Sedaris will conduct a question-and-answer session…
“When I eat his doughnuts, all I leave is the hole. Any time he wants to, why he can use my sugar bowl.” Thank you, “Kitchen Man,” for that delightful lyric. Look up raunchy songs in the blues dictionary and you’ll find more like “Shake That Thing” and “The Right…
It’s bumper-to-bumper gridlock in the Roosevelt Historic District as eager music fans rush to find the few remaining parking spots. Some who are fortunate to score parking aren’t so lucky when they reach the doors of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — many people are being turned away from the sold-out performance…
It’s bumper-to-bumper gridlock in the Roosevelt Historic District as eager music fans rush to find the few remaining parking spots. Some who are fortunate to score parking aren’t so lucky when they reach the doors of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — many people are being turned away from the sold-out performance…
Against all odds, 15 years in, the scruffy, chaotic Gourds are still firing on all cylinders. Over that period, record labels have come and gone, legal hurdles have been leapt, yet still somewhere in the belly of the beast the creative fires have continued to burn, bubble and belch. This…
With their predilection for couture coifs and garish fashion, it’s sometimes difficult to tell one hipster DJ apart from the rest. So it’s kinda telling that William Fucking Reed differentiates some of the residents for his new Sticky Fingers weekly not only by their names and music tastes, but also…
Irony is dead — at least in the world of alternative metal. The organizers of the Family Values Tour shot it through the eyeball when they booked these Texas-based Christian rockers to play alongside the likes of Korn and Bury Your Dead in 2006. See what I mean? What’s the…
Grammy-winning country duo Sugarland — Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush — will bring their pop-country sound to Cricket Wireless Pavilion in support of their platinum-selling third disc, Love on the Inside, which hit number one on the Billboard 200 and has sold 2 million albums so far. They’re not stopping…
While the parking lots of the Valley’s three Sandbar locations are normally used for stow your ride during most of the year, during Cinco de Mayo weekend the spaces will become the site of three days of wacky athletic theatrics and specials like $3.50 Dos Equis. For example, the Peoria…
