When it comes to cheer, Smeeks candy shop knows what’s up. So if someone’s looking for holiday cheer, Smeeks is certainly worth a visit…or a photo shoot.Famous mommy blogger Stephanie Nielson thinks so, too. She suggested the sweet spot to celebrity lifestyle expert Matthew Mead, as the site for a…
Imagine hundreds of pre-teens in thick black mascara, fake fangs and themed t-shirts (plus a few out of place soccer moms) crowding together in one place to see the supporting actors in the film version of a bestselling book about sparkly vampires written by a Mormon mom from Arizona. Yeah, a few…
Condors are the most massive vultures in the Western Hemisphere. To imagine the wing span of Andean and California Condors at their largest, picture 7-foot-one NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal lying on his side. Now make him about three and a half feet taller. Need a better image? See real Andean…
Susie Clare, a local artist and art therapy major, fell in love with vintage clothes early in life. Going thrift store shopping as a kid opened her eyes to the creative possibilities in collecting vintage. “Vintage is great because most of the time when you find a vintage item, no…
Local cartoonists Brandon Huigens and Jeff Owens want you to think that their Bong Otter comics series is funny, even when you’re stone freaking sober. You may know the two from around town, especially on the comedy and comics beat. Since 2007, Owens has been sculpting a daily autobiographical comic…
84: Beatrice Moore Beatrice Moore moved to Phoenix in 1986. She found a studio in the warehouse district in 1987; founded Art Detour and Artlink in 1988-1989; created live/work space in the dark and dusty recesses of the old La Amapola Bar; and found a much loved feral, black and…
Ever wonder why there are so many palm trees in this place?…
Maybe you were watching for the World Cup. Maybe you were preparing for a day of drunken debauchery on the Salt River. It doesn’t matter, you missed Ignite Phoenix 7: the Valley’s presentation series that gives 18 people 5 minutes and 20 power point slides to share their passions with…
Earlier this month we presented a fun quiz in conjuntion with the review of Sue Chenoweth’s Spyhopping show at Scottsdale Museum of Contempory Art. Below are the correct answers to the quiz. If you participated, please email us directly and we’ll get you the details about how to claim your mini-prize: wynter.holden@villagevoicemedia.com. …
You drive by a cool building and think, “Oooh, I wanna work there!”We’ve done it. A million times.Designer Jenny Poon felt the same way so she created CO+HOOTS. “It started because I was getting tired of working from home,” says Poon. “Being isolated and alone was stunting my creativity.” …
New Times stopped by this past weekend’s Adult Swim at Hotel San Carlos to kick it pool side with the beautiful (we hoped) people. As luck would have it there were several examples of pool-side fashion ready to be captured by our cameras (see above). Of course, there were a…
Triangles Bikini Fashion Show at Drift New Times knows how to throw a party. We invited Triangles to Drift Lounge for a bit of a bikini fashion show along with a fire dancer and a drum circle. A Polynesian party in the heat of Summer? Yeah, we know how to…
Besides doing super-fun married stuff like yard work, going to Costco, and leaving the bathroom door open, New Times writers Laura Hahnefeld and Jay Bennett go to the movies.Laura: So you watched the A-Team TV show and saw Karate Kid when you were a kid. Did we make the right choice in…
We’re telling you, David Quan and Colin Chillag are two lucky art dudes. In early May, we wrote about Quan and Chillag’s participation in the “The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place” exhibit at London’s 176 Zabludowicz Collection. Well, a few weeks ago, New Times was fortunate enough to…
85: Dayvid LeMmon Formally trained in traditional black and white photography, Dayvid LeMmon is entirely self-taught in digital techniques. Growing up during photography’s transition from film to digital, he says, has provided him both a strong background and unique insight into his medium’s technical and artistic possibilities. He encodes references…
A man and his best friend jogging in County Island on the east side…
Being cutting edge is so exhausting, isn’t it? We feel your pain. Maintain your relevancy right through the weekend with this helpful list.Men of Playgirl Magazine @ Celebrity TheaterYou know, if Jackalope Ranch includes events like this, it’s only natural to cover this all-male strip show. Yes, on Friday, June…
(Note: This piece has changed from its original version.)Roosevelt Row’s street closures won’t happen in July and August — the two most miserable summer months. “The truth is that it’s too hot,” says Roosevelt Row Board member, Cindy Dach. “We as a Roosevelt Row board don’t want to put our…
The bummer of civilization, in general, is that the human craving for novelty leads people to cross mountains, rivers, and seas to see what’s there and, often, rob, rape, and oppress those they encounter at their destination. However, we have a choice to do otherwise — to listen to our…
Producers of the FOX television show So You Think You Can Dance auditioned thousands of people for the show’s upcoming seventh season, and of those thousands, 11 were picked to show their moves on national TV — including Phoenix resident Lauren Froderman.Froderman, 18, was born and raised in the Valley,…
In searching for a new wedding location on their 1200-acre grounds, the folks at The Boulders Resort in Carefree may have accidentally stumbled upon an ancient religious site. Managing Director Michael Hoffman found the small grouping of boulders and decided it was the perfect spot to build an outdoor wedding venue called…
For the past two years, Pages book store in Cave Creek has catered to everybody from fiction fans looking for cheap copies of the latest Dave Eggars postmodern rant or Twilight saga book to serious collectors willing to fork out serious cash for stuff like a first edition of Charles…
