For those who think the Heard Museum is just about beading and dreamcatchers, artist Jacob Meders is hoping to give visitors a better insight on contemporary native art. He and artist Alex Peña open their show resurfaced tonight at the Berlin Gallery at the Heard Museum. The event will feature live music,…
In the 1958 noir crime film Touch of Evil, classic movie actress Marlene Dietrich made a comeback as a cigar-smoking bordello madam. Dietrich’s hard-cut elegance blended brilliantly with the setting — a shadowy, secret world where thrills always came kicking around corners.Now, picture a place like that in Old Town…
Scottsdale resident Phil G. Giriodi spent 48 years chronicling the best and the worst this crazy orb has to offer. From the eruption of Mount St. Helens’ to the mid-air plane crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, Giriodi has photographically been there, done that. One thing he hadn’t accomplished…
Misha Renteria loves running but not nearly as much as she loves fashion. After spending most of 2010 traveling Europe and swooning over street fashion, she’s back in Phoenix, managing the new G Star RAW store in Fashion Square Mall, finishing half marathons and inspiring others with her fresh fashion…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Picture your 15 seconds of fame in bright, glittery lights … on the other side of the world. Kaldor Public Art Projects and the…
As reported on Chow Bella this afternoon, Liam Murtagh and Emily Spetrino-Murtagh — the husband and wife team behind Sweets and Beats — are closing the doors to their candy, record, and locally made craft store at the end of the month and liquidating inventory this week. Read more about…
What do you see in the image above? Breathe easy: This is not a test. This week’s cover story, Unbalanced, Amy Silverman and Paul Rubin explore the state of mental heath services in Arizona following Jared Loughner’s shooting spree in Tucson, which killed six people and injured 13, including Rep…
This weekend, a building where thousands of little girls practiced pirouettes and jazz hands will transform into a hip new space called Art Intersection.The new gallery is the brainchild of art instructor Carol Panaro-Smith and executive director Alan Fitzgerald. They’ve taken a building in Gilbert that used to house Dance…
Since there’s really no better accessory than a cocktail in your hand, each week brings you a tasty adult beverage from one of our favorite drinking establishments, complete with recipe. This week: The After School Special at Culinary Dropout Lets face it: the scene at a drinking establishment can make…
Get ready — this year’s bringing a host of art, film and cultural festivals to the Valley.Take a look at our first-quarter list to ensure that you don’t miss an old favorite festival (Matsuri is always a good bet) … or find some new events and explore new artists, areas…
Chronicling the history of skate culture from the past half-century is a vast undertaking, but “Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art” pulls it off pretty well. The traveling exhibit, which posts up in Chandler starting tomorrow, showcases historic decks from private collections (including boards on loan from skate…
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and let’s be real: Drugstore candy boxes, stuffed animals and red roses are so unoriginal. Luckily, we have some local creatives who are cooking up a few things for the holiday and taking orders ahead of time …1) Set of 5 morbid valentines ($12)…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Thomas Schultz followed his photography passion to El Mirage. The West Valley city — barely 10 square miles with 40,000 residents — was, at…
Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave) would seem an unlikely candidate to direct No Strings Attached, an extremely low-concept, low-key romantic comedy of contemporary sexual mores centered on the dating foibles of attractive nerds. Fully devoid of the fantasy contrivance that often sets a Reitman…
Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The Company Men is transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now from a sensitive, equitable — rather than a withering and satiric — point of view. Writer/director…
I think I need a break from camp. I realized this after attending Devil Boys from Beyond at Nearly Naked Theatre last weekend. It was, I thought, a perfectly executed send-up of old Z-grade science fiction films. But just the fact that I’m typing the phrase “send-up of old Z-grade…
“Well, we’ve got the results from your tests.” I’m in the examining room at my doctor’s office. It’s been three weeks that I’ve been out of the hospital, two weeks since I swallowed a camera to take thousands of pictures of my intestines — a Fantastic Voyage of all guts,…
It’s nearly midnight and I’m sitting in an IHOP. Somewhere in the dark of the East Valley night, trick-or-treaters are cataloguing their confectionery haul. Me? I’m sipping stale coffee with a room full of would-be famous, published writers waiting for the clock to strike 12 and officially kick off National…
I walk into Gold’s Gym on a Wednesday morning and remind myself to act natural. Truth is, I take no pleasure in working out and take even less pleasure in watching people who work out watching me not work out. So I hesitated when Helene Neville suggested we meet after…
The moment I walked through the front door, arriving home from my sewing class, I saw it. There was no mistaking it, and I immediately felt the flush of anxiety rush up from my stomach and swallow my head in a fiery gulp. On the side of the box, in…
After some belly laughs at Grand Avenue Live!, snag a sugar rush and saunter over to Sweets ‘n’ Beats where the record store/candy shop hybrid will be open for business. Tue., Jan. 25, 6-10 p.m., 2011…
No more boring Tuesday nights . . . At Trunk Space the longest-running, locally-produced live talk show, Grand Avenue Live!, goes off with host Ernesto Moncada (aka Ernasty) and his shenanigans. Tue., Jan. 25, 8 p.m., 2011…
