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…
There’s a little strip of Scottsdale Road near Goldwater Boulevard that’s starting to look like it was pulled right out of a hipster handbook. That’s thanks in part the The Creative Center of Scottsdale, where you can explore working studios for several local artists. The Creative Center is located inside…
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 83. Ryan Downey. Ryan Downey’s…
New Times picks the best things to do in the Valley from Friday, June 10, through Sunday, June 12. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Avenue Q It’s Q time again! Avenue Q has become Phoenix Theatre’s equivalent of A Christmas Carol. The musical’s a wonderful twofer of giving…
While Arizona theater devotees are glued to their screens during Sunday, June 12’s live broadcast of the 70th annual Tony Awards ceremony on CBS, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack will watch James Corden host the show from a seat inside the Beacon Theatre in New York City. And she’ll be in good company. Others…
When we heard Hollywood announced a crossover film between 21 Jump Street and Men in Black, the aptly titled MIB/23, we were a little befuddled. How did they come up with such a foolproof concept? It practically writes itself. So why stop there? This is the perfect opportunity to kickstart…
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 84. Charissa Lucille. For Charissa…
Each week, we’re recapping the second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode by episode. Lots of sitcoms run on sex. Not sexual appeal, necessarily, but sexual plot material: pickup attempts, quirky dates, regrettable hookups, and long-running will-they-won’t-they scenarios between regular characters. This stuff’s the lifeblood shows from Friends and Seinfeld to How I Met…
Summertime doesn’t have to be a drag here in metro Phoenix. Plenty of exciting things happen, and the fact that some people head to the coast just means that those who remain have more breathing room to explore. It’s a great time of year to hit local arts and culture…
Director Jake Paltrow (Young Ones, The Good Night) met Brian De Palma at a party. He’d had a few drinks and worked up the courage to talk to the legendary filmmaker, who turned out to be surprisingly open and kind. The next day, Paltrow got an email from the friend…
It wasn’t easy being a cosplayer at Phoenix Comicon this year, to say the least. Thanks to skin-searing temperatures of 113 degrees or higher, anyone and everyone attending the four-day event in downtown Phoenix this past weekend was uncomfortable by the excessive heat. However, those wearing costumes, particularly ones with…
Ineptitude is almost an endearing quality in television characters, so long as there’s a hint of charm within. And while hapless goons frequent many tried tropes and formulaic sitcoms, very few of them remain as lovable as the shitty lawyer. Bad lawyers have been a staple of television going as…
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 85. Garth Johnson. “I’ve meandered…
Whether you’re sitting poolside or parking it on the couch, they’re no denying that finding the right book can be the best part of summer. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of good reads being released in 2016. Better get your bookmarks, because this summer is as much about your favorite lines…
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 86. Dennita Sewell. Dennita Sewell…
New Times picks the best things to do in Phoenix from Monday, June 6, through Thursday, June 9. For more events, see our curated online calendar. “Pressing Impressions” The most sophisticated print we ever made involved carving a design onto a raw potato during grade school. And only our moms were…
The People’s Champion, the Louisville Lip, the Greatest — whatever you called him, Muhammad Ali was one of the world’s most famous athletes. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., the internationally renowned boxer died at the age of 74 on Friday, June 3, in Scottsdale. Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Ali was…
If you can get past the spectacle of British and Australian actors portraying some of the most important figures of 20th-century American literature, Genius is a good example of a prestige pic that is not only literate but surprisingly vibrant. It’s the story of the tumultuous relationship between hot-tempered, Asheville-born…
In Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It’s a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them. The Fits follows Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy…
Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named Célestine, has famously been adapted twice before, by two of cinema’s immortals. Benoît Jacquot’s uneven take on the material won’t challenge the stature…
In cinema, all things move towards acceptance. In time, debates about filmmakers usually settle in favor of the filmmaker — not because detractors change their minds, but because the urgency of the conflict wanes, and stalemates go to the fans. It’s hard to believe that battle lines were once drawn…
When commercials for Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) ran on Channel One at my high school, I was ready. Vampire movies had dominated the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and at last a slapstick comedy was set to lampoon all that arty melodrama. High school me couldn’t…
