In case getting to see fine movies isn’t enough of an incentive in itself, here’s another good reason to check out the sixth annual Mesa Community College International Film Festival: Someday, say 20 or 30 years from now, this year’s featured filmmaker, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, might just be accepting…
Some rappers lean on Phil Spector-like gun shenanigans and run-ins with the law to boost their cred. Not so with Los Angeles spitter Aceyalone, who takes it back to where it belongs: the music. Born Eddie Hayes, the emcee was a member of the legendary Freestyle Fellowship and co-founder of…
The kickass Southwest artist and “storyteller to the landscape” returns with new works chronicling the Earth’s transformation, renewal, and decay. (Pictured: White Paper Birch Stand.) Thu., March 5, 7-9 p.m., 2009…
The kickass Southwest artist and “storyteller to the landscape” returns with new works chronicling the Earth’s transformation, renewal, and decay. (Pictured: White Paper Birch Stand.) Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: March 6. Continues through March 28, 2009…
You know those performances that you can’t get out of your head, even years later? For us, that’s the Taraf Degrief show from the summer of 2007. The group – composed of pianist Jacob Adler and unplugged vocalist DJ Richard – performed impassioned traditional Jewish songs written by Adler’s great-uncle…
Robert Redford narrates the documentary, which screens in conjunction with Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month. Mon., March 9, 1:30 p.m., 2009…
You think you know Phoenix until you see it through Jason Hill’s eyes: the Luhrs Tower, the Westward Ho, the Rosson House, and especially the artist’s color-saturated image of the Phoenix Financial Center all bring our fair city into brighter, sharper contrast. Hill’s vibrant, handcrafted prints combine photography and paint…
The nightlife series showcases a different Dale Chihuly sculpture and Chihuly-inspired cocktail weekly. This week’s featured sculpture: The Moon. Cocktail: Starry Night Martini. Entertainment: DJs dk. Strickler and Rani “g.” Thu., March 5, 5:30-8 p.m., 2009…
Before the disintegration of the ASU Baseball team in the 2008 playoffs, the Sun Devils suffered an even more disconcerting collapse last May 7. That’s when the then-fourth-ranked Devils traveled to the Little Apple (Manhattan, Kansas) and lost to a not-that-good Kansas State Wildcats club. The Devils seek sweet, sweet…
You may think you have to be a little frilly girl to enjoy something like Desert Botanical Garden’s Spring Butterfly Exhibit. But we’re willing to bet that even big, brawny men will be dazzled by the enclosure that holds hundreds of gentle butterflies. Walk carefully (so you won’t trample the…
In the tradition of Ed Wood comes the latest opus by local filmmaker/artist Larry LoPresti, Dr. Trimrose’s Cannibalistic Sex-Crazed Blood Island of the Tiki-Bot, an homage to the low-budget shlockfests of the ’50s. “But this is a sexploitation film that actually delivers what the poster promises,” LoPresti says. With great…
The fabulous Phoenix painter presents new works. (Pictured: Urban Explosion, 2007.) Fri., March 6, 6-10 p.m.; Sat., March 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., March 8, 12-5 p.m., 2009…
Superficially, Asylum Street Spankers appear to be two things they are not: neo-/retro- pre-rock & roll pop/swing/whatever (remember that Lounge Nation rag from the ‘90’s?) and a zany band that does “joke-y songs” (remember the Dead Milkmen and Weird Al Yankowhasis?). Wrong—while these Texan Spankers perform ancient tunes and originals…
Twenty-five-year session man, front man and solo artist Kim Wilson’s vocal and harmonica work has clearly made him an essential ingredient of the Texas Blues. But to leave it at that would discredit his contribution to blues as a whole. Any blues fan can tell you how powerfully Wilson–whose shows…
Dean Sobel of Denver’s in-the-works Clyfford Still Museum speaks about the new museum, scheduled to open in 2010, and its odd-duck namesake/subject, the first-generation abstract-expressionist who may or may not have been one of the artistic geniuses of the 20th century. Still’s known works number in the 10,000s, but most…
While American pop singers were busy having babies and/or not wearing underwear in public last year, the Brits were turning out starlets faster than crumpets. But unlike the hugely famous Katy Perry and Amy Winehouse, South London’s Adele snatched not one but two Grammys without a bi-curious façade or a…
Oh, Canada. Thank you for being so much more than America’s hat. In recent years, the indie-rock pantheon has surged with maple leaf-laden entries, such as Montreal’s Plants and Animals. The band was formed by Nova Scotians Warren C. Spicer and Matthew “Woodman” Woodley, who started playing together way back…
Its plot, in summary, sounds like the synopsis of a Lifetime TV movie. Its accolades, which include a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, give it a sheen of “importance.” But what’s significant about David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole is not its honors or its ability to rise above what sounds like…
The game versus the Cardinal marks another crucial step in the Sun Devils’ pursuit of a potential Pac-10 title. Plus, it’s likely one of the final chances fans will have to see James Harden in action. The sophomore is widely expected to declare for the NBA draft following the season…
The hometown Phoenix Roadrunners square off against the Fresno Falcons in an ECHL game. Wed., Nov. 5, 7:05 p.m.; Thu., Nov. 6, 7:05 p.m.; Fri., March 6, 7:05 p.m.; Sun., March 8, 5:05 p.m.; Mon., March 9, 7:05 p.m., 2008…
How would you like to be the brainiacs at the Paris Conservatoire who proclaimed that Erik Satie, one of the greatest composers of the late 1800s/early 1900s, was unequivocally and hopelessly untalented? Yeah, Satie really must’ve sucked ass, ’cause 84 years after his death, folks are still giving it up…
In conjunction with Cornell University’s Celebrate Urban Birds project, the Icehouse features an environmental-art exhibit including Steve Helffrich’s large-scale installation “Nest,” projected drawings of endangered species by Carrie Marill, and works by students from Central High School and Starshine Academy. (A detail from “Nest” is pictured.) Fri., March 6; Sat.,…
