Writing workshops are all the rage this summer. Between the bookstores and the libraries, there are more than 20 writing workshops around the Valley through July, hosted by a gamut of literary notables and catering to all kinds of writers, from tweens and teens to poets and memoirists (there’s a…
Jacki O. has done some crazy things over the years as an artist, but she’s really about to outdo herself. Coming in August is PoolBoy, a DIY magazine devoted to the male form. In other words, naked photos of dudes. Jacki O., a local multi-media artist and writer, has been…
Twelve square feet. No Water. No Electricity.It’s not the story of capture, punishment or even a doomed family vacation — William Powers’ Twelve by Twelve is his story of a season spent in rural North Carolina at the home of Dr. Jackie Benton.Powers, a successful physician, had just returned from…
This summer vacation doesn’t have to be synonymous with Playstation, Wii, DSi or any other energizing, brain-stimulating plastic box with a screen and buttons. That’s because Laboratory5, the art venture brainchild of Tempe-based Cyndi Coon and Jeremy Briddell, is hosting an art/writing workshop for local tweens called WIYS WAYD. So…
Just days after advance tickets for the Eclipse movie went on sale, we’ve got yet another tasty tidbit for all of you Twilighters out there. In case you haven’t heard (which, in this case would mean you were dead, undead, or under a rock or something), author Stephenie Meyer has another Twilight…
In the name of journalistic research, renowned sports writer Rick Reilly played rock-paper-scissors, sat in a sweltering sauna, and dropped a ferret down his pants. The Sports Illustrated columnist, ESPN host, and 11-time National Sportswriter of the Year was on a globe-trotting quest to find the world’s most absurd sporting…
Thought the sappy love poems you wrote in your high school notebook were worthless? Think again. Those gems could be worth $100, if you manage to dig ’em up and perform ’em well at the Anthology Invitational Poetry Slam, 8 p.m. on Friday, May 22 at Club Mardi Gras, 8040 East McDowell Rd. in Scottsdale…
That’s the crazy scheme nationally recognized poet and former LA Weekly writer S.A. Griffin is planning. Griffin purchased a defunct U.S. military practice bomb for $100 from some dude on Craigslist in November of last year and set about drilling, grinding and refurbishing it into a sleek pinstriped capsule filled with poetry…
Although we still wish that longtime Phoenician Laurie Notaro hadn’t moved to Oregon, we’re always thrilled to know that the prolific scribe of Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood and We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive will crack…
