Take a good look. Illustrator Kelsey Dake and Moscot have teamed up for a holiday trunk show at Biltmore UNION’s glasses boutique, Framed Ewe, on Thursday, December 19, that’ll be worth a double-take…
Though the story of Frances Smith Cohen’s The Snow Queen isn’t exactly a holiday tale, the local show has become a Christmastime tradition for many Valley families. In it, Cohen turns the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name into a 90-minute performance that includes students from dozens…
There used to be an appliance store way down at the end of South Central Avenue — past Buckeye Road, and across from the police station — called Camp Appliances. And one December, about a decade ago, it briefly became a vintage Christmas decorations store. Piled on and around the…
Way back when, nutcrackers actually served a purpose besides being quite possibly the creepiest of all holiday decorations. And as such you can bet there’s a heated debate between those who see them as a Christmas decorating staple and those whose dreams are haunted by wooden dolls with massive crunching…
It’s a well-known fact that Lifetime has a serious thing for making movies (and money) off of suspected and/or convicted female killers: Jodie Arias, Casey Anthony, Amanda Knox… Which is why we’re a little surprised it has taken the channel this long to tell the tale of a murderer so…
Christmas is next week and if you haven’t finished all your holiday shopping, you’re not alone. Fortunately the good people at Meat Market Vintage have put together the perfect event for retro-loving procrastinators…
Once you’ve wrapped up your seasonal shopping (for help, consult Jackalope Ranch’s ultimate gift guide), here’s how to fill in the gaps in this week’s schedule. Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Book-Signing @ Changing Hands Bookstore The assassination of JFK was one of the most devastating events in American history,…
Better crack open your piggy bank and start digging through the couch cushions, because we found a piece of real estate that’s worth everything you have — and then some…
If you’re looking to take a trip up to Sedona, we’d suggest waiting until February so you can attend the Sedona International Film Festival. The nine-day event features documentaries, animation, foreign films, and even some indie flicks with big-name actors. Although the full list of films and workshops for the…
In 2013, love came in many forms: girl on zombie, boy on smartphone, and James Franco on — count ’em — two hot bikini babes at the same damn time. Sure, romantic comedies are as extinct as Oprah Winfrey’s chances of winning Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, but…
BIG OL’ HOLIDAY THEATER UPDATE: Because of you people and how much you love to go to good plays, White Christmas has added two performances, one this Sunday evening, December 15, and one on Christmas freakin’ Eve! Back to our regularly scheduled weirdness: The setup: Can it be only three…
Just ’cause it’s cold doesn’t mean you should chill at home. Here are Jackalope Ranch’s top five picks for things to do in and around Phoenix this weekend. Phoenix Festival of the Arts @ Margaret T. Hance Park Downtown becomes a destination art haven for the second annual Phoenix Festival…
We’ve got some bad news, you snap-happy tourists, hipsters, and parents. While you were busy taking pictures of your food, your travels, and your child’s first ballet recital, your brain may or may not have forgotten to process the mental pictures. Oops…
Shine, our annual pocket guide to all things Scottsdale, is out. And this year, local artist Luster Kaboom is taking readers on an illustrated ride through the city’s best spots for food, drink, art, and entertainment. Here, in no particular order, are five of our favorite public works of art…
Unless you have tons of free time and a real love for shopping, keeping up with your fave local businesses can be exhausting. But if you’re following the right accounts on Instagram, you basically get to window shop from your phone without expending any effort whatsoever. The next time you’re…
A new year means new things. New opportunities, new perspectives and most important — or at least tangible — of all, a new calendar on which to track them. Chandler letterpress studio Letterpress Central has created a mockup for a zombie-themed 2014. The 12-page calendar features images of the walking…
If you’re wondering what to get the person who has everything, including some unsightly thunder thighs that could do with some smoothing over, we have found the absolute perfect gift. And obviously by “perfect” we of course mean “bat-shit ridiculous.”…
Elves snore, it turns out. Their maidens make teensy-peen jokes and pine for the hottest of dwarves. And Bilbo Baggins, so concerned about his doilies just three hours of screen time ago, now punches his sword right through the trachea of a goblin — and then looks rather proud of…
Some movies come barreling out of their caves like armies on the sociocultural warpath, self-consciously defining themselves as psychographic events, marking The Way Things Are Now and becoming part of history in the process. Given the ambition, we should embrace these rare explosions when they happen, even more so now…
The age of the riot grrrls entered like a screaming woman and exited like a cooing teen. The woman was Kathleen Hanna, the Bikini Kill frontwoman who kicked boys out of her mosh pits and insisted, “I’m not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody’s boot…
The late Paul Walker practiced the kind of manly American acting that often doesn’t look like acting at all. In movie after movie, many of them of the fast and/or furious variety, Walker performed the difficult trick of seeming to really be the apple-pie tough guys he played. In those…
The humanist virtues of John Sayles are readily apparent in the first scenes of Go for Sisters, his low-key border-crossing road trip mystery. Straight off, the writer-director-novelist treats us to two knotty, compelling monologues, a pair of showstoppers in the first 10 minutes, each delivered by characters you don’t see…
