“Do you remember what you looked like before you were born?”One night, a mysterious man appears on the streets of Phoenix, asking this question and raising dozens more. Nobody knows who he is, where he comes from, why he’s here, or why he looks so peculiarly familiar. All they know…
Tonight, you should do what I did a week ago. Really, you should. Because I went to the Phoenix Art Museum to see “Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement”.I have to say, I loved this show. And while I won’t get too heavy-duty on the criticism here, there are…
I’ve had this blog idea in my back pocket for a while and I believe this is the day I’m going to write it.I heard about a website. A crazy one. And I’m not going to pretend that I really understand what’s going on here. Okay, go ahead and click…
It’s no rumor that Marilu Knode, associate director and head of research at Future Arts Research @ ASU (F.A.R.) is leaving Phoenix for considerably less dust storms and considerably more humidity to become Executive Director of the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri. One of just a handful of…
Once again, I find myself in a position where there’s a darn good Third Friday Art Walk to blog about, but I’d rather blog about an event on Saturday. Hmmm, what to do…Ok, here’s the plan: I’ll throw down some links to some sweet stuff happening tonight that you can…
If actor/musician/artist Richard Edson turned into the Troy McClure character in The Simpsons, this is what he might say: “Hi, I’m Richard Edson. Though my name isn’t known on, say, a Michael Jackson-like plane, you may remember me from films such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (I was the joy-riding…
It’s probably not a coincidence that there’s nothing new to say about Tool. After all, it’s been a while since the band had anything new to add to the world. (Well, presuming they ever had anything new to add to the world.) Whether it’s their cookie-cutter riffs, their interchangeable drum…
If this year’s Rockstar Mayhem Festival inspires a sense of déjà vu, it could be due to the fact that Slayer and Marilyn Manson already did the co-headlining summer tour thing just two years ago. It could also be because Rockstar seems to slap its corporate logo on so many…
“Performance monster” Chris Danowski (pictured) and “dramaturg” Matt Watkins present the multi-media performance piece in progress, which also features Wilana White Coyote, Portia Beacham, Xchel Hernandez-Zendejas, Courtenay Cholovich, Jonathan Hernandez, and Tiffinie Greer. Warn/promise Danowski and Watkins: “The version you’ll see here will be rough, the rituals will be in…
Perhaps the most attractive feature of this year’s fest, which features fresh works by up-and-coming playwrights, is this showcase of five 10-minute one-act plays created and shown in the space of a single day. Sun., July 19, 7 p.m., 2009…
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if it is broke, make like the folks of Scottsdale’s giantONE dance night and start the hell over. After a brief hiatus, the weekly returns with a new look, new crew, and new sounds from house/techno guru Joe DiPadova as well as…
“Monsters from the Id!” cries a supporting player, as he dies. But isn’t that where all good monsters come from? The poor man has figured out whence cometh the peril in Forbidden Planet, which closes the Horror Movie Nights series at Paisley Violin. One of the most entertaining of Hollywood…
Who was worse, the Wicked Witch of the West or Stalin? According to author Suzanne Ross, one was as bad as the other. Ross is in town to promote her new book The Wicked Truth: When Good People Do Bad Things, based on the smash musical Wicked, a road-show version…
Chicano artist Harry Gamboa Jr. knows the role of the court jester well, wrapping uncomfortable truths with disarming absurdity and punchiness. In 1981, Gamboa spoke about Chicanos’ relative invisibility in the art world and mainstream culture. As part of the ’70s conceptual and performance art collective ASCO – alongside fellow…
What are the necessary ingredients for an off-the-hook party anthem? Looking at some of the greats — from LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali’s” to Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” — it’s gotta have infectious hooks, plus gratuitous references to alcohol, bling, the choicest bits of the female anatomy, and the…
Maybe your favorite part of each calendar day is morning, when it’s too early to receive bugaboo messages on your CrackBerry. Or possibly it’s the afternoon, when you turn off your phone for a nappy-poo Personally, our most beloved occurrence happens each weekday evening when Mega 104.3 plays love dusties…
Adult-oriented designer vinyl toys are all the rage right now. We don’t mean your naughty Mistress XXX; we mean Muttpop’s mini-figures featuring characters from the Tcho! Anthology Comics series. On Friday, July 17, French artist Ohm (Bao Battle) stops by the tiny, but trendy, Red Hot Robot toy gallery and…
If you’re into the suicide-girl types, pool parties like Star Swim and Adult Swim are your place to spy some gnarly tats peeking out of bikini lines. On the other hand, if you like more conservative-looking woman who still put out, we’ve got just the pool party for you. Head…
The perception is that mystery/crime is geezer fiction. It’s old. It’s lame. If it were a dude, it’d have ED and a bum ticker. If it were a broad, it’d have sagging support hose and a house full of mousers. Now meet authors Theresa Schwegel and Megan Abbott, a couple…
Bare: The Musical is not about getting naked. Instead of tits and ass, this contemporary tuner offers tightly wound commentary about the influence of Catholicism and the evils of peer pressure in the modern world. Its story concerns a cadre of Catholic boarding-school students who tunefully attempt to fight the…
‘Boarders from across the state make gnarly waves at Pleasant’s Two Cow Cove in this event sponsored by the Arizona Wakeboarding Association. Sat., July 18, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 2009…
The former CNN reporter knows that those who can’t be spies write best-selling spy novels. And Silva does so superbly, recalling (in some minds) the golden era of Greene and le Carre. His new novel, The Defector, features one of contemporary spydom’s reigning faves, Israeli art restorer-cum-spook Gabriel Allon. Wed.,…
