In the past 20 years or so, Americans of all ethnicities throughout the country — especially here in the Southwest — have been making a big deal of Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration that spans several days and just happens to coincide with All…
It’s really no news that crafting has become a very hot thing in Phoenix. I guess we could blame it on the need for indoor activities during the summer months. Regardless, it seems like everyone is knitting, sewing, hot glue gunning and glittering everything in sight.If you happen to be…
Last week, we talked about Curtains (the musical mystery) here in Curtains (the online theater review column at PHXmusic.com). In another of those crazy coincidences, this week’s review is of another thriller (but without songs) by one of Curtains’ (the play’s) several authors, Rupert Holmes, who was, for decades, best known for writing…
Hey everybody! It’s the third Friday of the month.There’s just all kinds of things going on tonight in the local art world. You know you can visit any of the Roosevelt Row and Grand Avenue galleries to check out what you may have missed on First Friday. You can also…
In some ways, it seems like sacrilege. In others, like it’s about damned time. Hamilton, the man who graphic-novelized Ray Bradbury’s 1953 masterpiece Fahrenheit 451, speaks about Bradbury and his own big, bold, authorized adaptation in conjunction with the ongoing Big Read AZ celebration of Bradbury’s F451. Tue., Oct. 20,…
In addition to keynote addresses by the former Mrs. Eddie Van Halen, Valerie Bertinelli (at 1 p.m. Saturday), and Olivia Newton-John (at 1 p.m. Sunday), the Expo features exhibitors, book signings, cooking demos, beauty makeovers, and complimentary massages. Bertinelli (pictured) talks about her struggles with weight gain. Newton-John addresses her…
Junko Horton offers tips about how to don the lovely, if confounding to laypersons, traditional Japanese garment. Horton will offer select kimonos and related objets for sale after the lecture. Sun., Oct. 18, 1 p.m., 2009…
The star of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic makes a personal appearance in conjunction with the film’s screening. Sat., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., 2009…
For a small but dedicated cult of fanatics, the real highlight of this year’s fest will be Embodiment of Evil (Encarnacao do Demonio), the latest shocker from ’60s-era Brazilian-horror icon Jose Mojica Marins, a.k.a. Ze do Caixao, a.k.a. Coffin Joe. If you’re a horror connoisseur and have never sampled this…
The co-star of George Romero’s original 1968 flick makes a personal appearance in conjunction with the film’s screening. Fri., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m., 2009…
Arizona Curriculum Theater presents this dramatized work about the master of the macabre, which includes interpretations of the Poe classics “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” A costume party follows the Halloween show. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Starts: Oct. 16. Continues through Oct. 31, 2009…
Traveling with friends can be murder. Agnes LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson, two of Winnie Ruth Judd’s girlfriends, found that out the hard way. Judd, after offing them in Phoenix, stuffed the two into a steamer trunk and took them on a train ride to Los Angeles. Yikes. On Friday, October…
Vampires are the new ninjas. New pirates? No, wait, they’re the new zombies, right? However vampires rank in the whole ninja/pirate/undead craze of these past few years, it’s clear they’ve established their place in today’s pop culture. With the success of the Twilight book series and television shows like True…
December 21, 2012, is gonna be worse than your worst bad-hair day. The Earth will be engulfed by a ginormous solar flare, which will reverse the planet’s poles, causing tidal waves, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, and a massive conflagration atop Donald Trump’s noggin. Should you get past the pole switcheroo and…
Global elite, beware: David Icke is coming to town. The British author, public speaker, and conspiracy theorist has spent the past two decades profiling, for our benefit, the organizations that are controlling the world. The former soccer player and sports announcer has uncovered, in 20 different books, ways in which…
Most of us know one: a clever 20-something who dresses exclusively in vintage clothing, listens to big-band music, and is obsessed with Joan Leslie films. And now, playwright Kim Porter has written a musical about these roadster-driving coolios. Blue Galaxy concerns lovely Lana, who wants desperately to find romance with…
Having sweated and sniped through a few 5Ks in our time, we admire folks who run for the hell of it. 20K types? Forget about it. These are people who just like pain, heaping helpings of it. The misery-in-Mizuno contingent will be out in force for the annual South Mountain…
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…
Among the macabre must-sees at this weekend’s fifth annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are showings of Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with personal appearances by Living Dead’s Judith (“They’re coming to get you, Barbara”) O’Dea and Chainsaw star Marilyn Burns, respectively. The hyped…
More than 100 full-size mannequins will be sporting designs merging art and fashion in this juried competition. The top five will be displayed at nearly Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in late October. Thu., Oct. 15, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 16, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-9…
Forget that Sean Kingston is about as reggae-sounding as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Forget that he uses Auto-Tune more than Kanye West singing the collected works of Freddy Mercury. The important thing to remember is that, well, he’s lovable. He’s a round mound of raw teenage heartbreak that brings out…
A cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, AWS combine a high quotient of both heft and hooks. Original drummer Nicholas Pasquale Angelini is the beast’s backbone, driving tempo like Jeff Gordon, and keying a thick bottom end worthy of J.Lo. Atop…
