The Lab in Phoenix is a new space with a simple mission: to bring together creatives in a co-working environment. Located at 818 North Central Avenue, the space is a simple-yet sophisticated environment dedicated to building local culture through art, design, and outreach…
We hit the Grand Avenue Festival with a few predictions about what might make for the coolest parts of the day — most of them traditions like the recycled fashion show that have been among our favorites in years past. Instead, it was new and unexpected elements we liked most…
Put away the blowup mattress and clear that couch, because your out-of-town guests have a new place to stay in Tempe. Graduate Hotel opened its doors two weeks ago, and while the complete remodel of what was once the Twin Palms is still in progress (management expects the finishing touches…
From maker meet-ups to undersea exploring and a must-see pop-up gallery, here’s how to spend your off-hours in metro Phoenix this week. Metal Mondays Though the term hackerspace probably sounds like a dark room with lots of computers and nerds doing some kind of espionage with coding, that’s not exactly…
Sure, you’ve heard of Marlen Grove and Al Beadle. You know the best spot to pick up a mint-condition Eames chair and the coolest Melrose District stores to stalk on Instagram. You also oughta know that the Midcentury Modern craze extends beyond the bounds of Phoenix. Southern Scottsdale happens to…
First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows you will not want to miss on Friday, November 7. “The Higher Plane” November’s First Friday is filled with dreams and imagination. Ashley Macias’s “The Higher Plane” takes this to…
He’s best known around these parts as the man who made the colorful geometric designs that infuse the SMoCA Lounge gallery and performance space at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. But James “Dalek” Marshall was making brownies with his 8- and 10-year-old sons the day we chatted, and looking ahead…
This weekend’s happenings are anything but weak. From arts festivals and a ’90s throwback to checking early holiday shopping off your to-do list, here are our top picks for things to do in and around metro Phoenix this weekend. 2014 CALA International Festival Finally, Phoenix is starting to cool down…
Star Wars fans, get ready to geek the eff out. Episode VII has a title: The Force Awakens. Conversely, Star Wars haters can now start dishing out the snarky puns, online or otherwise. Within the last hour or so, the Mouseketeers at Disney and Lucasfilm that are in charge of…
This fall Phoenix Art Museum will feature something a little bit different from its normal exhibitions: Ballet. Through a partnership with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Museum will stream live-captured performances by the well-established Russian dance troupe…
With this year’s dizzying array of activities, we figured you could use a little help making your game plan for this year’s Grand Avenue Festival, which takes place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, November 8. The festival folks have partnered with the 9th annual Phoenix Annual Parade…
Christopher Nolan’s space epic Interstellar is a big, ambitious picture but it didn’t connect with our critics. We discuss the film at the top of this week’s podcast before moving onto a few other notable films on screens large and small this week…
Ladies, we men say a lot of dumb things. We can all agree on that. However, we’re not alone when it comes to saying dumb, inconsiderate things that piss off our significant others. We might laugh it off or not say anything about it, but there are probably plenty of…
There’s more television today than at any other point in the medium’s history, but there’s a good chance you’re stuck in a TiVo rut. That’s because, with a handful of exceptions, this fall has delivered a truckload of mediocrity and dead-on-arrival trends. (Goodbye, “rom-sit-coms” like the already canceled A to…
On Thursday, Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), will host a three-course dinner at the PHX Renews site featuring some of Arizona’s up-and-coming chefs and C-CAP alumni. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour featuring drinks from mixologist Micah Olson of Crudo & Bar Crudo and…
Never underestimate the magic of James Franco. The multihyphenate actor’s star power is partially behind the Tony-nominated revival of the adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Men, but it’s Franco’s creative curiosity that’s led to the National Theatre Live presenting its first Broadway-based offering this Thursday, November…
During a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian journalist who, earlier that year, had been imprisoned in Iran for 118 days on espionage charges, Jon Stewart said, “We hear a lot about the banality of evil, but so little about the stupidity of evil.” Or about its…
If the universe is infinitely finite, an entity whose mystery is knowable only through an evolving progression of theories and equations, it’s nothing compared to a marriage. Every marriage or long-term partnership is knowable only to the people inside it — and sometimes not even then. The Theory of Everything…
Tales of fame and its trappings — and the way they’re never enough to build a life — are as old as show business itself. Maybe for that reason, almost any story about discovering the hollowness of fame is often written off as a cliché. But what’s the difference, really,…
The Pac-12 women’s soccer desert rivalry continues when the University of Arizona travels north to Tempe for an afternoon game against ASU’s soccer team. Both teams sport near identical conference records, with Arizona holding a slight overall edge. A win would move ASU past the in-state foe, but still would…
We’d trade all the leftover Halloween candy sitting in our freezer to spend a couple hours inside the creative mind of Phoenix artist Sarah Hurwitz. Lucky for our sweet tooth, her latest exhibition gives a glimpse.Hurwitz’s “Jungle Box” is a birdwatching safari experience that just so happens to take place…
Back in May, Scottsdale Public Arts and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art enlisted the help of skateboarding and graffiti artist James “Dalek” Marshall to cast the Old Town arts venue in a new light. Make that 60 different shades of light to be exact. Now, the artist is back in…
