When Matt Storrs was asked in middle school about what he wanted to be when he grew up, the teacher probably didn’t expect him to answer “comedian.” Growing up, Storrs watched stand-up specials on channels like Comedy Central while other kids were watching cartoons. As a teenager, he’d take drama…
Brian Posehn We’re not sure where comedian Brian Posehn finds the time to hit the road but we’re pretty grateful to get a live taste of the jack of all trades. The masterfully funny dude visits the Valley on Friday, September 19…
Ultimate Consignment, a well-loved mecca for vintage and second-hand home goods, will close its doors. The store’s Phoenix location has already closed and soon the 68,000-sqare-foot Mesa location will follow suit. The latter’s official closing day has not been announced yet…
Grumpy Cat has finally found her voice. Well, technically Hollywood has found it for her. The online feline sensation from Phoenix, known as Tardar Sauce by her owner and Grumpy Cat to virtually anyone with a computer, is set to star in her own Lifetime movie, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas…
Photo by Atsushi Nishijima – © 2014 – Universal PicturesNeeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones.Special guest Inkoo Kang, film critic at TheWrap and news editor at Indiewire’s Women and Hollywood blog, joins Alan Scherstuhl of the Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of the LAWeekly to discuss a variety of…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 5. Cody Nathaniel Johnson…
Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. I’ve dated all types of men: butchers, bakers, candlestick makers. Okay fine, I’ve technically dated no…
Filmmakers: If you’re looking to compete in a film challenge but you don’t want to be limited to just 48 hours, IFP/Phoenix has just the event for you. See, unlike many local film challenges that force teams to entirely conceptualize, film, and edit pieces in two days, the Mystery Box…
Downtown Mesa is about to bump up its artsy image. The East Valley city has teamed with local artists and businesses to build “Main Street Art Love,” a series of unique planters along Main Street. The up-cycled planters, which will bring additional desert foliage to the main drag, will make…
Most of us who are raising young children in 2014 are grappling with a lot of challenging questions. How do we raise our children in the age of social media? What will become of all the perilous and seemingly ubiquitous bloodshed that’s ever before us? What will our tenuous planet…
The Tempe Center for the Arts will burst with color and pageantry when the second annual El Puente Theatre Festival & Mask Procession takes place. The festival is a day or music, food, games, mask-making and assorted art activities. There will also be cultural performances from area acts such as…
Fifty years is nothing to sniff at, and for Gammage Auditorium’s half-century anniversary it’ll indulge the senses.Since opening, Gammage has hosted hundreds of shows running the gamut from Wicked to Wilco and Eugene Ormandy to Martha Graham Dance Company. As a look back at that performing arts legacy, ASU’s school…
With the temperatures dropping (slowly but surely), it might be a good time to start thinking about cultivating your green thumb for the upcoming fall months. You can get a good head start at the Herb Gardening Workshop at Frances this week. Kenny Barrett, who co-owns GROWop and Grow House,…
We’re not sure where comedian Brian Posehn finds the time to hit the road but we’re pretty grateful to get a live taste of the jack of all trades. The masterfully funny dude visits the Valley on Friday, September 19.It was only this past May that Posehn brought his Comedy…
Ballet doesn’t always have to be a black tie affair. This week, Ballet Arizona is bringing back Ballet Under the Stars, an annual community outreach program that seeks to make dance accessible to everyone. Dance aficionados and novices alike can cozy up on a blanket or lawn chair in one…
Forget the estate sales and the eBay auctions. For those who want to get their hands of some one-of-a-kind finds, there’s no better buy than a ticket to the Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market. More the 100 vendors will gather in one space to sell antique and/or unique home…
Never hurry beer drinkers. There’s a certain joy in slowly working one’s way through a fine malted beverage, savoring the subtle nuances that develop as said ale warms to a room. That’s what makes the inaugural Urban Ale Trail such a fantastic idea — there’s plenty of great beer and…
A photo’s worth a thousand words. And we probably shouldn’t have skipped math class. Because if we’d bothered to attend, let alone pay attention, then we probably could tell you just how many words the photobooks on view at Phoenix Art Museum are worth. Alas.To tally up the total yourself,…
There might be a few current pop stars that can forge a catchy tunes but it’s unlikely they’d be able to wrap it in a memorable narrative like some of the singer-songwriters of the 1960s and ’70s. The Storytellers sings their praise in the latest Lunch Time Theater production on…
Blood might be thicker than water but playwright Tarrell Alvin McCraney explores the fluidity of family ties in his Brothers/Sisters Trilogy. His first offering, The Brothers Size, mixes the Deep South with West African mythology on Friday, September 19.In the back roads of Louisiana, Ogun Size pours his days into…
The trope of artist as shut-in isn’t completely fictitious; you could be living across the street from the next Picasso and never even know it. The “All Coronado Art Show” seeks to bring our talented neighbors out into the open with a hyper-localized exhibition that features artists from the Coronado…
“I’ll stay in Memphis,” Elvis Presley famously declared. The Southern city, a hotbed for blues, gospel, and soul, has been revered by everyone from Johnny Cash and Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding and Justin Timberlake. The Tennessee town’s contribution to modern music is the topic of Phoenix Theatre’s newest production,…
