Animal lovers, take note. It looks like the animal kingdom will dominate June’s Third Friday offerings at Phoenix galleries, where you’ll find butterflies filling a shipping container turned gallery in Roosevelt Row and all manner of fur and fowl lining the walls of an iconic television studio turned art space…
There aren’t too many points of comparison between Charlie Chaplin and John Carpenter. But both of them are on that relatively short list of movie directors who composed music for their own films. If Carpenter can’t lay claim to any standards like “Smile,” the electronic scores he wrote and performed…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, June 17, through Sunday, June 19. For more events, see our curated calendar. “Land Tracings” A trio of 55-gallon drum lids hang on a gallery wall, each featuring tintype photographs by David Emitt Adams, one of five Arizona…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 79. Jennifer Campbell. Jennifer…
Each week, we’re recapping season two of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode by episode. Perhaps it was only a matter of time until Tina Fey appeared again in her own sitcom. She showed up near the end of last season as the attorney in the case against the Reverend in a…
Phoenix-area dancers have been busy this year, performing in diverse settings from the Crescent Ballroom to Desert Botanical Garden. And this summer, several of the dancers you’ve seen on local stages are sharing their tips and techniques in various dance classes around town. Some classes are for experienced dancers, but…
Lisa Hanawalt wears a lot of hats — or, more accurately, outfits, some of which she may have designed herself. She’s an artist, illustrator, James Beard award-winning food columnist (Lucky Peach), ceramicist, textile and apparel designer, and animation producer and designer (Bojack Horseman), and co-hosts a podcast (Baby Geniuses) with…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 80. Freddie Paull. At this…
There’s a special birthday coming up! Don’t miss the twelfth installment of the monthly live reading series, brought to you by Phoenix New Times and Valley Bar. The next Bar Flies’ theme is Accidents, and it will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, at Valley Bar. Johnson’s…
If you happened to attend this year’s Phoenix Comicon, be sure to pat yourself on the back. Seriously. Not only did you endure sweltering weather and all the hassles that come with going to the popular geekfest, but you also helped the annual event achieve record-breaking attendance numbers. Comicon organizers…
Cindy Ornstein is lamenting the loss of pink. She’s looking down at geometric patterns on an outdoor plaza, remembering the mix of bright flamingo pink with deep azure blue that once infused the public art beneath her feet. It’s Saturday night at Mesa Arts Center, where Ornstein serves as executive…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 81. Cherie Buck-Hutchison. Perhaps the…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 13, through Thursday, June 16. For more events, see our curated calendar. Drink and Draw Move over dorks and dorkesses, there’s a new D&D in town. The First Draft Book Bar is hosting its first ever life-drawing…
Style creatives, take note. Phoenix General has opened at The Colony in midtown, just north of Missouri Avenue on Seventh Street. Grand opening festivities are planned for Friday, June 17. It’s the concept of local retailers Kenny Barrett and Joshua Hahn, co-owners of downtown Phoenix’s much-loved GROWop Boutique, and their…
New Year’s resolutions call for a new you. And we can’t think of a better way to unload year’s worth of stress and strain than the source of some high class TLC: the spa. When shelling out big bucks to get your mind and body in balance, it pays to…
The white-dude detective of Nordic best-sellers bears a burden other crime-solvers don’t. Besides his personal troubles — he’s usually a sauced mope estranged from his family — and the challenges of his case-cracking and victim-saving, he is also called upon to reassure readers that the rottenness he sees each day…
Finding Nemo may have been a cartoon about a clownfish traveling across the ocean looking for his son, but it was also one of Pixar’s first overt forays into the workings of the human mind. The film, from 2003, was haunted by loss: The protagonist, Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks),…
Dylan Reeve and David Farrier’s Tickled might be the oddest documentary you’ll see this year. It starts off with Farrier, a New Zealand TV reporter specializing in human-interest fare, discovering the world of Competitive Endurance Tickling — in which teams of strapping young men tickle each other for extended periods…
In a stark white room, four boys huddle on a mattress, addressing the camera. They’re athletic, the picture of youth and every Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. A blond boy says, “We want to thank Jane O’Brien Media for this opportunity,” and they all smile and wave. They’re about to take…
Teenage bodies are bared but fresh insight concealed in writer/director Eva Husson’s first feature, a dopey examination of Instagram-abetted adolescent abandon. Inspired by a news item that Husson came across in 1999 about a group of orgy-loving high schoolers in the U.S., Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), despite the…
The heat is on for 15 designers who debuted looks at Phoenix Fashion Week’s 2016 emerging designer launch event Livewire in Scottsdale on the evening of June 9. Each brand showed one look from a forthcoming collection that will debut during Phoenix Fashion Week proper at Talking Stick Resort from…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 82. Samatha Thompson. In addition…
