“Buy Local by Local Artists” Opening Reception
The holiday show features fine art, gifts, and wearable art by various artists, including Rodgell, Kris Sanford, Melissa Hoffman, Jo Reifman, and Marilyn Szabo. Fri., Dec. 5, 6-10 p.m., 2008…
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Showing 25345 - 25366 of 33941“Buy Local by Local Artists”
The holiday show features fine art, gifts, and wearable art by various artists, including Rodgell, Kris Sanford, Melissa Hoffman, Jo Reifman, and Marilyn Szabo. Saturdays, 1-5 p.m. Starts: Dec. 6. Continues through Dec. 27, 2008…
AZ Stronghold/Merkin/Caduceus Bottle Signing feat. Maynard James Keenan
The lead singer of Tool (pictured) and his partner, Eric Glomski, sign their Arizona-produced wines. Wed., Dec. 10, 4:30-9 p.m., 2008…
Arty Girl: ASU Art Museum in Miami, FL
Finally, a reason I would actually want to go to Florida. No offense to anyone from that place. It’s just that I’m a native Phoenician – I don’t like humidity, warm beach water offends me and I’ve always thought Florida was for people who don’t know California exists.Today through Friday,…
Curtains: Southwest Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at Mesa Arts Center
By Julie Peterson Mary Riley and Richard Baird in The Winter’s Tale. Photo by Laura Durant, graphic enhancements by Southwest Shakespeare Co. Watching a play by William Shakespeare can be like watching a biopic (or, for that matter, like trying to get on an O.J. Simpson jury) — you already know what…
Arty Girl: “Love Bites” at MOCA in Tucson
By Lilia Menconi A sample of poetry from Gregory Sale’s ongoing Love Buttons project.All right, chickens, I’m giving you five days notice for this one because it requires a little planning and a trip out of town. But it’s worth it, I promise.Gregory Sale, one of our most influential local…
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Arty Girl: Shopping at the Heard Museum
By Lilia Menconi See more ornaments like this at Heard Museum North Scottsdale.It’s black Friday. How could I blog about anything else but shopping? Now, I’m not the type to hit a mall on a day like today. Or most days, for that matter.But I do love to shop. And…
“Eastern Promise: Contemporary Art from China” at the Lisa Sette Gallery Saves Visitors Airfare to See These Works on Consumerism
Wandering through “Eastern Promise: Contemporary Art from China,” the latest fare being dished up at Lisa Sette Gallery, until January 3, is like stuffing your face at a sumptuous, all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. After you’ve seen this show, you’ll have food for thought that lasts for days. According to Sette, it…
Australia’s Got Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, but No Chemistry
You don’t have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely outcome of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia within its first 15 minutes, but any or all of the above will help. Tightly wound and corseted…
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Witherspoon and Vaughn’s Carol Is Four Christmases Too Many
To brand, then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit. The story of couple Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Brad (Vince Vaughn) who, fogged in on December 25, put their planned Fiji frolic on hold to visit their four divorced parents in the course of…
Gus Van Sant’s Milk Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time
Gus Van Sant has never been what you’d call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully that there could be a Ming vase balanced on his head. Van Sant’s steps are deliberate, his posture is straight, his attitude is responsible, and his eyes are fixed…
How Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk After Decades in Development
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, 1992 to be exact. Gus Van Sant, the filmmaker who had just thrilled the world with his young-hustlers-in-love classic My Own Private Idaho, was picked to direct The Mayor of Castro Street. Already six years in development, this proposed adaptation…
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Skip the Tryp
God, are we lucky. While the poor schleps in most parts of the country suck down the tryptophan, play emotional footsie with their families, and suffer through a couple of football games that hardly ever amount to much, we Phoenicians can slip on our short-sleeve shirts, head for the park…
Restless Spiritualist
One of photography’s powers is the ability to mythologize and exoticize space, inviting viewers to journey afar by psychic means. The images in “Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor” – an exhibit featuring 70 of the artist’s works spanning the last three decades to the present – have this kind…
The Buick Stops Here
The turbo-charged V-6 on your ultra-cherry ’83 Buick Grand National is purring like a 180-horsepower kitten. Now you need somewhere to show how it can fly down the road. With those new-fangled cameras lining Valley freeways, a high-speed jaunt on the Loop 101 ain’t reccomended. Instead, take your pride and…
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Bust Her Rhyme
Poetry sucks. Poetry was written by dead white dudes. Listening to poetry is like being forced to watch Lost in Translation ad nauseam. Modern-day poetess Leah Marché isn’t buying those lit-class lies. Her all-female lyrical revue Soft & Wet: From Her Lips to Your Ears (The Sequel) is the third…
Mesa Mi Amigos Turkey Trot @ Red Mountain Park
Before loading up on fatty turkey, get your 10k or 1-mile fun run/walk on during this longstanding holiday running event in Mesa. Thu., Nov. 27, 7 a.m., 2008…
Phoenix Coyotes vs. Colorado Avalanche
Divisional foes duke it out on the ice at Glendale’s Jobing.com Arena. Fri., Nov. 28, 2 p.m.; Wed., Dec. 31, 6 p.m., 2008…
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Candle Power
We’ve become increasingly romantic this holiday season, whether gazing at birds on a wire or contemplating the winter sunsets or anticipating a seasonal stroll through Desert Botanical Garden’s Las Noches de las Luminarias. A Phoenix tradition, this year’s “Lumi” is highlighted by the new “Chihuly: The Nature of Glass” exhibit…
Strangers on a Train
Just before the curtain goes up on The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy’s “Novel in Dramatic Form,” a man attempts to kill himself by leaping in front of a train. He’s saved by a stranger, and the pair hole up together to discuss, among other things, the first man’s attempted suicide,…
Suck Up
What do the 2008 football Clemson Tigers, Tennessee Volunteers, and Arizona State Sun Devils have in common? They were all ranked in preseason polls, but turned out to be supersucky squads. Plain and simple. The suckiest of the sucky suck. To be fair, all of these teams suffered from inflated…
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Michael Medved Show Broadcast
The talk-radio host gabs live and plugs his new book, The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation. That evening from 5:30 to 7, he’ll be at Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, 7079 East Fifth Avenue in Scottsdale, signing copies of the tome. Tue., Dec. 2, 1-4…