Arts & Culture

The easy-does-it three-miler offers a chance to search for wildlife signs and learn more about the fauna of the McDowells. Sat., June 27, 6:30-8:30 a.m., 2009…

The young fashion maven and author of Generation T discusses and signs Generation T: Beyond Fashion, which offers 120 additional ways to rework a T-shirt. Tue., June 30, 7 p.m., 2009…

We wouldn’t give you a plugged nickel for a book about orchid care. Yaaaawn. But one that focuses on the Southwest garden? We’re there. Cactus, as many locals know, is not quite as hardy and hands-off as it appears. You water it too much, it dies. Not enough, it croaks…

You think the Wild West is as dead as the Clanton gang? Well, you may change your mind after hearing the tale of Miracle Valley, located in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was founded in 1958 by pioneering television evangelist A.A. Allen. In 1979, the Christ Miracle Healing Center and…

L.A.-based See is the daughter of writer Carolyn See (Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America) and a relative of Chinese immigrants who came here to work on the transcontinental railroad. Her novels — like Flower Net, Dragon Bones, and Peony in Love — are deep with her half-Chinese…

The macho-man author (real name: Jim Czajkowski) is one of the reigning masters of high-concept action-adventure lit. Think Subterranean, Deep Fathom, Map of Bones, The Judas Strain, and 2008’s The Last Oracle. He also novelized Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Now the former vet is headlining…

She’s ill-tempered and bossy and has green skin. She rides a broom and screams a lot and, if you piss her off, she’ll sic one of her flying monkeys on you. The Wicked Witch of the West wasn’t always a spiteful hag. When she was young, people liked her and…

You’re single and want some action. However, when you bone down with a virtual stranger, it leaves you unsatisfied, paranoid about a crotch disease, and full of self-loathing about your hideous sluttiness. We say you’re better off with a middle-school-style ravenous makeout. And we know the perfect place to snag…

Just 10 days after they last tangled, the Merc get another dose of the Storm’s killer one-two punch: 20-plus-per-game scorer Lauren Jackson (pictured) and talented guard Sue Bird. Wed., July 1, 7 p.m., 2009…

Winning Last Comic Standing has its perks. For one, it allows one to talk motorcycles with Jay Leno and rib fellow competitor John Heffron, as LCS season-three champeen Alonzo Bodden has been doing. “We both bought our houses about the same time,” Bodden tells New Times. “In the beginning, we…

Even the most renowned artists are horrible about finishing projects. Take, for example, famed Mexican filmmaker Gabriel Figueroa and bomb-ass photographer Manual Alvarez Bravo, both of whom started to produce a short documentary about Diego Rivera 50 years ago. It ended up being a splendid idea that was never completed…

You might have missed this spring’s “Lowrider 2009 Tour” in Phoenix, but you can check out pictures of some of the sweet rides that were showcased there in a just-published online story. The March 1 event at the Arizona State Fairgrounds impressed Lowrider Magazine’s Saul Vargas, who says its popularity proves that lowrider…

We want our belongings to work as hard as we do. That wish sometimes clashes, gladiator-like, with artists’ urge to make art that does not, on the surface, seem to offer such immediate usefulness. But not at MADE art boutique, where daily inventory and scheduled exhibits both show off what…

The Phoenix photog is smitten by urban decay, and his shots of abandoned Arizona racetracks are especially striking. In this show, LeGoullon tracks modern central-Arizona ruins “with stories of their own that contain indications of interaction between man and nature. Like books in an old library closet, the closet being…