Arts & Culture

Chamber music is given an captivating and unique twist by this award-winning saxophone ensemble, which will perform the compositions of Philip Glass, Krystof Penderecki, Mathew Rosenblum, and others. Thu., July 15, 8 p.m., 2010…

The heck with Toy Story 3. Some of us know what an IMAX theater is really good for: Opera. And so, we’re flocking to AMC Desert Ridge (or one of five other local movie houses) on Thursday, July 15, to listen to Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s masterpiece, La…

One of our favorite signs of a great party is hearing the buzz of the hullabaloo as we’re approaching from a block or two away. Wherever we stroll through the PHX during the weekend, we’re ecstatic to hear the raucous sounds of people having a good time. What gave our…

We know vinyl records and 112-degree weather don’t mix, but Revolver Records and air conditioning, plus free popcorn and a flick, is a sizzling combination. Revolver continues its weekly Movie Mondays series with the 1986 fantasy classic Labyrinth. Jim Henson directed a sweet-faced Jennifer Connolly, whose search for her brother…

Before Vinnie Babarino donned a white polyester suit and came down with a serious case of Saturday Night Fever, bad girls and jive talkers were putting on their boogie skates, further funk-i-fying the discothéque with a four-wheeled fad called the roller disco. Keeping the craze alive, Great Skate’s roller-disco night…

Either you’ve always longed for an urban adventure, or you can’t get enough of them. These mini-The Amazing Race-like events — unraveling clues, dashing hither and yon, rediscovering your stompin’ grounds with a teammate — are just plain fun for play-starved adults. “Ewww,” you astutely remark, “it’s a bajillion degrees.”…

If you’ve always wondered what Darth Vader would look like with some lipstick and false eyelashes, check out BS West this weekend. That’s because there are bound to be some Star Wars-themed characters in drag as Drag Wars: The Empress Strikes Back goes off at the popular gay bar for…

It shouldn’t surprise you that a country like Canada boasts hip-hop artists. However, it may be an eye-opener when you hear how freaking good Moka Only’s flows are. The Canadian born artist, aka Ron Contour, has been tearing up the north-of-the-border rap game for a minute, all while dropping more…

My husband is a piano teacher. Ninety percent of his students are children, and while I trust that playwright Rod Hayward has created a sincere portrait of the student-teacher relationship in his Living in the Spaces, I can tell you this: While Hubby has occasionally marveled over the arpeggios of…

Now that everything from televisions to the final two Harry Potter flicks are in 3-D, it’s no surprise that artists working in traditional flat media are rising to meet the demands of modern audiences. Local artist Nathan Feller turned printmaking into a three-dimensional art for his solo exhibit “Misc. &…

Game (he dropped the “The” for his new album) has a new album coming out in August. It might actually be pretty good. I don’t know if that’s news to you or not, but I was a) convinced he was quitting the rap game after his 2008 album LAX, partially…

We may not always “get it,” but for some reason the world is obsessed with club music. So whether or not you like house, trance, or electronica, it’s still pretty rad that the biggest names in the scene consistently hit Phoenix. (At least that’s one genre not boycotting us yet.)…

With the competition for August playoff positions as vicious as a bad case of fishnet burn, games nine and ten of the Arizona Derby Dames 2010 banked-track roller derby season are set to take place during the Saturday doubleheader with the roster-rebuilding Runaway Brides taking on the formidable Bombshells, and…

You’ve probably noticed: there are a lot of festivals. It doesn’t matter that not all are a rousing success (look at the rampant cancellation of dates from the reborn Lilith Fair) or that some get scrapped completely (San Diego’s Street Scene is taking the year off, much like Tempe Music…

Predictability is underrated in sports. There’s something to be said for getting exactly what you paid for when you go to a game. With that said, tonight’s game at US Airways Center between the Arizona Rattlers and the Utah Blaze is a contest that should promise to give you your…

Mapping out a bus route to make sure you get to all of your stops on time can be difficult enough, but imagine taking an entire bus system and putting all the intricacies on display using only wood balls and copper rods. It’s enough to make some people dizzy, but…

People feel bad when friendships fade away, but losing an enemy is just as sad. In both cases, you’re losing something that defines you. The matchup between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Mets is a good chance to rediscover a part of yourself that you might have lost…

French conceptual artist Sophie Calle and her collaborator/partner Gregory Shephard create a veoyuristic road movie. Each maintain a video diary resulting in two vastly different interpretations of the event. Wed., July 21, 7 p.m., 2010…

Things have been fairly quiet on the Pinback front since the math-y, emo-rooted San Diego indie-pop outfit led by Rob Crow and Zach Smith finished the short touring cycle behind their last album, 2007’s widely acclaimed Autumn of the Seraphs. Crow’s been away from Pinback, doing the semi-jokey doom-metal thing…

Terry Helland directs this performance about a young nun who claims to have no recollection of how a dead newborn ended up in her wastebasket. May 7-9; May 21-23; June 4-6; June 18-20; July 2-4; July 16-18, 2010…

Going to a Cousins of the Wize show is like attending one big party–the seven member band really fills up a stage, running around crazily getting the crowd hyped up. And because the group spans so many genres, there’s a little something for everyone–the band’s upbeat hip-hop music is tinged…