The fab Phoenix photographer shows off some fab new works for Art Detour. (A detail of Grant Woods, Fife Symington, Phoenix, AZ is pictured.) Photos by Luis Salazar and sculptures by Jeff Zischke are also displayed. Fri., March 7, 7-10 p.m.; Sat., March 8, 12-6 p.m.; Sun., March 9, 12-5…
Names are given, not earned. Some names are never grown into, and some barely foretell a person’s talent. John Banville, acclaimed Irish novelist and author of Silver Swan, fits into the second category. Cheeky bloke that he is, Banville upturned the baptismal hierarchy and claimed a beefier epithet: Benjamin Black…
In the real world, dropkicking your buds off a sky-high platform in the middle of a fistfight would probably get you 25-to-life in the hoosegow. But inside the world of Super Smash Bros., it’s the only way to win, champ. In fact, your skills at rocking the blockbuster Nintendo game…
Being a baseball geek used to be so simple. You’d open the newspaper and flip to the box scores. If you wanted to get really in-depth about it, you’d go to the store and buy a package of baseball cards disguised as bubblegum. But yesteryear’s gum-popping fans have morphed into…
We were watching drag racing on the tube the other night when a family member said that our favorite redneck facility, Manzanita Speedway, had been upgraded. “Perish the corporatization!” we thought, until we learned that Manzy had simply installed some new handrails. Whew. See the track in all its trashy…
Say, what do ya get if you cross a pig with a coin dealer? Nothing. There are some things even a pig won’t do! Hey, how do you know a coin dealer has gone on vacation? He has chairs on top of his house! So, what kind of horse is…
As you read this, C.R. Vavrek could be rifling through your garbage. Don’t fret. The 27-year-old shaggy-chic painter ain’t trying to score some dirt on you. More likely, he’s hunting for funky junk to put the finishing touches on his Gypsy Village, which he’s erecting for this weekend’s Art Detour…
Benoît Maubrey of Germany’s Die Audio Gruppe gets all conceptual and stuff when he calls his Audio Ballerinas — chicks wearing sound equipment on their tutus — “mobile and multi-acoustic sculptures.” They look more like human d’oeuvres trays to us, but whatever. The future is now, and it’s musical clothes…
Think “immigrant” and what comes to mind? If it’s “Mexican” or Mayflower, check your head and check out Saigon, USA, an award-winning 2004 documentary that captures the Vietnamese experience post-Apocalypse Now. In the ’70s, thousands of refugees dodged Agent Orange and created Little Saigon in Orange County, California. The thriving…
Ever since desert dwellers figured out how to grow rye grass on top of dust, golf has been the most popular sport in town. And because so many folks wearing Polo shirts and funny-looking pants invade our dried-up land to spank the little white ball around the greens, the competition…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
Half of Arizona’s from Chicago and the rest of Chi-Town’s in town for spring training, so what’s not to like about a game between the Windy City’s adopted darlings, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and its favorite sons, the Chicago Cubs? That marquee match-up on Saturday, March 8, at Mesa’s Hohokam Stadium…
It’s hours after Art Detour. There can’t be a thing going on downtown because all the art crazies are passed out on their studio floors after the three-day binge of visual eye candy and culture. Right? Uh, wrong. The Downtown Chamber Series keeps the culture coming with some glorious ear…
Don’t miss this three-part class led by artist and professor of art and art history at Paradise Valley Community College, Adria Pecora. The lecture series “gives an historical overview of the use of the body and performance in photography.” The three sessions, “Imaging the Body,” “Imaging Identity,” and “Imaging Reality”…
Now that we’re on the mend from that blasted flu virus, we can indulge in some normalcy. Instead of hitting the gym again or filing income taxes, we’re going to do something tastier: drink down some suds during the Great Arizona Beer Festival. Sat., March 8, 2-6 p.m.; Sun., March…
Cities are shape-shifting entities. They never rest. Neighborhoods swell and contract, buildings are torn down, and new forms, with new ghosts, are erected in their places. Power dynamics and claims to space are constantly challenged in this way — not verbally, but visually and physically. Artist James Angel is drawn…
Behind every droll, talky movie, there’s an equally droll, talky soundtrack, lovingly handpicked by some studied music geek — or a committee of ’em. This is good, because if we were given the job of soundtrack master (or whatever it’s called), we’d probably fill the album with whatever song we…
When political times get tough, artists get dreamy. Stuck in the Vietnam War and immersed in the civil rights movement, musicians in the ’60s engaged in psychedelic escapism. Fumbling through the Iraq War and trapped in the murky quicksand of the economy, the current political tenor resembles the chaotic ’60s…
