Fans of local talent, Saturday Night Live, and Phoenix’s SAS Fabrics store at long last have a cinematic place to meet: Aidy Bryant’s new short film, Darby Forever. Phoenix native Bryant, now in her third season as an SNL regular, plays Darby, a winsome loser who clerks in a sleepy,…
Soon, Grand Avenue will be home to a new arts destination. Laura Dragon, who operates {9} The Gallery, is working with artists Robert Gentile and Michael Viglietta to create a studio and exhibition space at Oasis on Grand. Owned by Laurie and Tom Carmody, Oasis on Grand is a complex of…
It feels like we always open this feature by saying, “Wow, it’s such a great month to be a nerd in Phoenix!” But that’s only because it’s consistently true. This month, Phoenicians can watch cult classic movies in brand new ways, learn about science new and old, dance with dinosaurs,…
The man behind this week’s cleverly titled OUTLOUD: More Stories from the Gayborhood insists there’s still relevance in a gay-specific plays festival. “There’s less of a need to be on a soapbox about gay rights these days,” says the event’s organizer, journalist Richard Schultz. “But there are still points of view about…
New Times picks the best arts and culture events in metro Phoenix from February 29 to March 4. The Danserye Leap Day suggests leaping about the dance floor. But it’s Monday, and you’re wiped. The next best thing is listening to dance music — beats from assorted cultures and historical…
Springs is here, and it’s no secret: March is one of the best months to be an Arizonan. With weather like this, there is no reason to stay inside. Lucky for you, we have compiled a list of five outdoor adventures to get involved in this month. Dance Walk Phoenix…
Water, art, and light. That’s the typical triad for the annual Canal Convergence, presented by Scottsdale Public Art along the Scottsdale Waterfront. This year’s ran from Thursday to Sunday, February 25 to 28. Light figured prominently in most of our favorites this time around, including floating sculptures made with fishing…
We’ve all been there. You finally get around to watching this year’s nominees, and you think, “Didn’t I see pretty much this same Oscar-bait movie last year?” You probably did, thanks to the McKee/Weinstein-driven formula behind most Best Picture noms. You can even build your own! Just mix and match…
As the brilliant and bespectacled Liz Lemon once said, “Leap Day is not a thing.” Oh, but it is. February 29 may only come but once every four years, but it’s something worth celebrating. Since real life is for March, and nothing that happens on Leap Day counts (according to…
No matter how nerdy I’ve been in my life, I could always comfort myself with the knowledge that I never — in my adult life, anyway — wrote “fan fiction.” That changed a year ago this month, when Leonard Nimoy passed on. The actor, of course best known for playing…
Beginning in the fall of 2017, the School of Art at Arizona State University’s School of Art will offer a Bachelor of Arts in fashion program, according to ASU School of Art director Adriene Jenik. The program will be headed by Dennita Sewell, curator of fashion design at Phoenix Art…
The book tour is starting, and Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is nervous. “I’m in a daze. I’ve been counting down for about 50 or 60 days,” the Nashville-based fantasy author says. “I’ve had signings at local bookstores and done convention appearances, where I picked the places I’d go, but this is the first time…
New Times picks the best arts and culture events in metro Phoenix from February 26 to 28. Canal Convergence The Scottsdale Waterfront will be alight with art again when Canal Convergence, an annual large-scale public art event, takes over the banks — and water — of the Arizona Canal, between Scottsdale…
At first blush, the least Romanian of the Romanian New Wavers, Radu Jude’s new film is in no way a steely-eyed, ultra-realist, uninflected working-class trudge, and the cranial wounds of Eastern European Communism are yet a gleam in the characters’ eyes. Rather, more acutely than The Hateful Eight, Aferim! is…
Bad cop movies — whether bad movies about cops or movies about bad cops — can be like those Arctic core samples from which scientists determine long-gone CO2 levels, though in this case they’re measuring American anxiety about police authority. Pop on John Hillcoat’s agonized pulp thriller Triple 9 in…
In the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of those sports — bobsledding and luging are others — where Joe and Jane Satellite Dish cannot tell the difference between a great performance and a terrible one unless the athlete is carried away on a stretcher. No doubt there are crucial…
It often feels like we watch the Oscars every year more as a matter of routine more than anything else, as usually one or two movies seem far more likely to win than the rest. While Beasts of the Southern Wild or Amor might have been the best films nominated in the…
Michael 23 has been doing some serious math. Recently, the artist and business owner (who uses the last name 23 because he’s fascinated by the number) learned that the building where he’s spent 15 years operating The Firehouse art space with his wife Joanna Lee is up for sale. So…
If you’ve wondered just why Hollywood now so aggressively courts Chinese viewers, look no further than The Mermaid. In just two weeks of release, Stephen Chow’s fantastical comedy has already brought in $430 million in its home country, making it China’s highest-grossing release ever. (It’s doing well here, too, having…
Chances are, you’ve seen Brian Stauffer’s illustrations. You may have glanced at his magazine cover artwork at the grocery checkout or while sipping your morning coffee over The New York Times. Since the mid-1990s, the Phoenix-born illustrator has provided smart and satirical cover art for major magazines including Rolling Stone, Time,…
Everybody needs a good art binge now and then, and it’s about time to rev up for the next one. It’s Canal Convergence 2016, taking place Thursday, February 25, to Sunday, February 28, in downtown Scottsdale. During 29 hours over the course of four days, Scottsdale Public Art will transform…
Unless you’ve been living without network television and/or the Internet for the past month, you’re probably fully aware that it’s awards show season. Either you’ve spent hours glued to a screen to see who will be arbitrarily immortalized in front of their industry peers, or you’re painfully annoyed by everyone…
