Five years ago, Phoenix homes were worth a mint. Now you can score a three-bedroom pad for $60K – if you don’t mind that the previous owners hammered holes in the walls and pissed on the carpet as a pre-foreclosure “screw you.” Our economic situation looks bleak, but according to…
Your husband sucks. So do the husbands of your two best girlfriends (whom you actually don’t know all that well, and aren’t sure you even like). Yours has been busted for embezzling money from his employer and has taken up hunting, leaving bloody deer carcasses in your basement. One of…
Beene compatriots Patsy Tarr and Abbott Miller speak about the late fashion designer’s work in conjunction with the new exhibit of the same name. Wed., Nov. 11, 7 p.m., 2009…
Amateurs can aim for a hole-in-one on a 125-yard hole for $1 a shot. Top finishers receive prizes and a short at the $1 million finals. Proceeds benefit the 100 Club. Nov. 5-14, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., 2009…
Sarah Palin may think she can smack her googly grinning face on the map by Going Rogue, but, Sarah darling, it’s been done. Besides, it takes more than a Lindsay Lohan-like resignation speech and a book deal to be a true rogue. Palin’s got a long way to go if…
Hear some new music by indie experimental band Everything I’ve Never Seen, then take it home with you when they play Chyro Arts Saturday, November 7. The band releases their new 7-song, self-titled EP and gives out free copies to fans. EINS plays noisy, electronic-tinged instrumental tracks, a couple of…
The P-Town b-boy and hip-hop dance collective marks its 16th year of existence with a weekend-long celebration of fresh rhymes and killer moves. It kicks off with a Thursday-night throwdown featuring plenty of MCs and DJs doing their thing. Fri., Nov. 6, 9 p.m., 2009…
Three different bands, three disparate takes on how to mix electronica into their eccletic sound palattes. Indiana two-piece Totally Michael blends electro with indie pop sound in such upbeat hits as “Casual Satisfaction” and “Winona.” Meanwhile, Texas trio Best Fwends adds in keyboard and drum-machine weirdness to their gutteral punk…
Every artistic medium has its challenges: Oil paint can stay wet for months, acrylics dry quickly, and encaustic (heated wax) is unyielding. But local artist Lisa Marie Sipe, whose latest works are on display in the exhibit “Polychromic Outthrusts” at eye lounge in Phoenix, found a way to bend encaustic…
MY TOWN: Jan Wichayanuparp and Helen Yung Jan Wichayanuparp and Helen Yung are our kind of tastemakers. At Sweet Republic, their hip, eco-conscious ice cream shop in north Scottsdale, they dream up novel flavors like Chocolate Guinness, Cashew Turtle, and Cabernet Poached Pear. Everything’s made fresh daily, which means these…
It’s not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale that has survived nearly two centuries of retelling. Stuffed with simple souls winning over a stingy misanthrope to the view that life is…
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany’s loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable plots, unspeakable cover-ups, and unseen forces. The guys who made The Men Who Stare at Goats can’t quite decide whether this syndrome is risible or…
MY SCOTTSDALE: Nicole Danis Nicole Danis knows Scottsdale like the back of her manicured hand. It’s a necessity in her line of work as head concierge for the Mondrian Scottsdale. If she’s with gal pals, the night starts at such Scottsdale Waterfront spots as Upstairs at Estate House. “Their drinks…
MY TOWN: Susan Speidel Eighteen years ago, Detroit native Susan Speidel literally pointed at a map with her eyes closed and her finger landed on Arizona. Now she can’t imagine being anywhere else. “I love the land,” she says. “It looks like the earth burped, and the mountains sprang up!”…
Here’s a Scottsdale paradox: Many of its most fashionable residents sport clothing purchased elsewhere — meaning New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Milan. Enter Barneys, the chic New York department store that landed here last month. The name alone is guaranteed to make the heart of any fashionista (or fashionister)…
Scottsdale “Style” by Deborah Sussman Susser “Play” Scottsdale by Wynter Holden “Eat” Scottsdale by Michele Laudig “Party” Scottsdale by Benjamin Leatherman…
Scotty Jeffers, a talented and popular Valley actor and musician who’d graced our stages continuously ever since his Washington High School days, died suddenly Saturday night, October 31, at the age of 38, from what friends were told was cardiac arrest triggered by a pulmonary embolism. He had just completed…
Last night hundreds of people flooded the Tempe Center for the Arts for Ignite Phoenix 5, a presentation series that gives 18 people five minutes and twenty slides to talk about their passions. I would have happily joined them, but I was too busy pacing back and forth back stage,…
Now, Arty Girl doesn’t usually like to double dip on covering art events. This time around, however, we’ve got two artists, two gallery locations and two receptions. So it seems only appropriate that there would be two blips of coverage on the Phoenix New Times radar.Yep, the exhibition, “colLABORation” certainly…
First, you have just two days to get a little scratch together and purchase tickets for the “Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth” lecture and soundsuit performance. But you already knew that, right? I mean, we’ve written a night & day piece and an entire review…
BY JENNIFER FRY Where: The Gauntlet at Golfland in Mesa. 155 W Hampton Ave Mesa, AZ 85210 Overview: The Gauntlet is a dark, indoor attraction focusing on mazes and diversion tactics. The theme is The Black Plague in Europe in the 1300s. Without the narrator at the beginning, the theme may…
A new educational performance company is in town, scaring your kids and introducing them to actual literature. And they are kicking ass at it, based on the public performances of Poe that Arizona Curriculum Theater is currently presenting at Soul Invictus. (The Emily Dickinson programming in their catalog might not be as…
