Steven Rogers never does anything small, especially when it comes to his nightlife endeavors. Over the past 15 years, the nightclub guru has spared no expense in creating pulchritudinous pansexual playpens in which Valley urbanites can dance and dance until dawn, ranging from the tony Amsterdam to the gorgeously gothic…
Get schnockered in a good cause While active types relish the thought of running 15K for breast-cancer research or taking a fundraising trek up Mount Kilimanjaro, those of us who got the lazy-couch-potato genes are wondering why we can’t just get totally plastered for charity. Our prayers will be answered…
Sure, the bohemian artsy hipsters and gallery rats may have laid claim to First Fridays, but there’s no reason Goths and horror geeks shouldn’t have some end-of-the-week fun, too. Thus, MADCAP Theaters’ launch of Black Friday, an evening of bizarre and eerie festivities that starts at 6 p.m. Friday, September…
On most people’s desirability scale, listening to poetry ranks somewhere between doing 10 loads of laundry and spending a weekend alone in the wilderness with your mother-in-law. Still, we hold out hope for poet and author Stephen Dobyns, who’ll be reading and signing books at ASU’s Memorial Union. Dobyns, who’s…
In their second home preseason game of the new campaign, the ‘Yotes take on the Ducks and center Ryan Getzlaf, who may not be quite as big as Mickey Mouse down in the Land of Oranges, but is certainly in the conversation. Fri., Sept. 18, 7 p.m., 2009…
Comedians are underappreciated. Even though they have impeccable timing, perfect delivery, and lightning-fast wit, they’re never taken seriously as actors unless they cash in and go dramatic. Shameful. Comedian David Cross falls in this underrated category. The guy pulled double duty as a comic writer and actor in the early…
John Pinette divines his comedy inspiration from water parks, waiting in line, and buffets. His latest special was I’m Starvin’ — which gives you an idea where he’s coming from after his previous CD, Show Me the Buffet. Pinette’s trimmed down his size, but not his attitude. New Times: You’re…
Stephenie Meyer may get most of the headlines these days, but Arizona’s other world-famed author of atmospheric romantic fiction – Diana Gabaldon – gets her due with the national launch of An Echo in the Bone, the latest in her wildly popular Outlander series. To accentuate the Scottish theme of…
Reese Witherspoon in 2001’s Legally Blonde (the movie) proved that raw star power can sometimes trump barefaced marketing. You wanted to hate the high-concept affair – you really, really wanted to – but in the end, Witherspoon’s winning portrayal of poor little rich girl Elle Woods made it impossible to…
The New York Times recently profiled the Sonoran-style hot dog, a funky frankfurter sandwich birthed in the Mexican state just south of Arizona. This mouth-watering monstrosity – wrapped in bacon; festooned with pinto beans, cheese, chopped tomatoes, onions, and jalapeños; glazed with mayonnaise, mustard, and salsa; and floating upon a…
Maybe it’s the gazillion YouTube videos of drunken mishaps, the preponderance of “up-skirt” porn, or the fact that you started taking shots with your iPhone instead of dialing 911 the last time you saw a public brawl, but did you ever get the feeling somebody’s always watching? Given the accessibility…
If you’ve always wanted to go to the national punk-rock music festival known as the VANS Warped Tour but never cared to brave 115-degree heat, get your Warped on in cool comfort when VANS Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Celebration hits local movie theaters at 8 p.m. Thursday, September 17. The…
The best damned sports team in Phoenix — and the top seed in the West — opens its quest for its second WNBA title in three years against the always challenging Silver Stars, led by guard Becky Hammon (pictured) and forward Sophia Young. Game two is scheduled for Saturday night…
As evidenced by The Informant!, it’s a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland biochemist-exec-turned-crooked-federal-snitch Mark Whitacre is a tragicomedy. Journalist Kurt Eichenwald spent five years trailing the bipolar fuck-up, and his 2000 book, The Informant, is so densely, richly…
Finally, there’s a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger — even if it arrives under the more potable name Thirst. Carnal appetite, not a parched palate, is the accelerant that fuels this perverse, prankish, and merrily anti-clerical exercise in bloodletting from Park Chan-wook, the South Korean director whose…
If, as the saying goes, no news is good news, then this year’s theater season is nothing but good news. Great news, in fact, for those of us who don’t like our plays and musicals to do much of anything new or different. Magnificent news for anyone worried that local…
In my college days, my “style” was pretty pathetic. I was super poor and I biked to school so all my outfits went like this: ill-fitting jeans, Adidas (hey, it was the early 2000’s) and a black or gray wife-beater from the Men’s Hanes 3-pack I picked up at Target.Like…
Man, there has been some shady business all up on Roosevelt Row lately.Early Monday morning, the historic buildings (on 4th St., just south of Roosevelt) formerly known as House Studios burned.According to the news report by abc15.com,…
Arizona Republic clip of “Phoenix Lights” Remember when many Phoenicians saw UFOs? Even former Governor Fife Symington eventually fessed up to seeing the giant, V-shaped formation of lights cruising slowly through the sky The so-called “Phoenix lights, appeared suddenly on the night of March 3, 1997, and just as suddenly…
Remember in Season 3 of Project Runway when the contestants had just one day to sift through a recycling plant for materials and then create an outfit from trash?If you don’t, here’s an incredibly long (but somewhat hilarious) blow-by-blow account of the episode on TVgasm.com.Lucky for you, you have six…
My best friend came over a couple weeks ago wearing a metal rose, an I.D. bracelet, a broken Swatch watch, a chandelier crystal and a large, metal cross…at the same time.All of these broken bits were tangled, soldered, bent and twisted together in one odd and awkwardly gorgeous necklace.I completely…
The theater season has officially begun in our little cultural sweatbox, and that means more of the musicals have live orchestras again. This is great news, and it makes Theater Works’ current production of Camelot just that much less dreary. The score has great, popular, memorable songs that audience members…
