A swanky pool party at a private Paradise Valley estate sounds like something we’d crash. Lucky for us the Liquid Pool Party, a fundraising event for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, invites us to ditch the disguise and break out the bikini for the Valley’s premier pool party event of the…
Chinese Arts Academy isn’t an Arizona public school, so all sorts of learning continues to take place there. No worries about picking up any forbidden “ethnic studies”-type knowledge — sprouts and adults may absorb all they like. Visual arts, dance, music, Chinese language, and martial arts are among the subjects…
There are people, one supposes, who wait all year to see Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island, that cool-as-an-ocean-breeze tuner that turns up each summer like sunburns and triple-digit temperatures. This time out, the duo’s tropical love story — a multiple Tony nominee and the 1991 Olivier…
Angela Cazel-Jahn’s work is diverse. She creates installations, sculptures, murals, and mixes media like nobody’s business. It’s really no wonder she’s consumed with visual representations of idea-generating processes. Throw in ideas about her own artistic processes and you’ve got real data-driven meta-art. Recently, Cazel-Jahn wondered how she might sidestep a…
Anyone who voluntarily lays his moist, twitching tongue across red hot glowing metal rebar gets our vote for loco rematado of the year. That’s how Zamora The Torture King rolls, pillaging through town with the Hellzapoppin Sideshow Review’s “Greatest Show In Hell.” Normally touring with gargantuan rock festivals like Vans…
If you think a cask is what you’re buried in and an oenophile is someone who has every screechy, irritating album by John Lennon’s widow, you’ve got a lot to learn about wine. Skip the boring educational classes and learn by experience at the Clos Pegase Wine Dinner. Chef Ryan…
When you’re an artist and you use light as a medium, things can get tricky. How does one control electromagnetic radiation anyway? Dan Flavin figured it out with his fluorescent light fixtures and James Turrell manipulates light by creating architectural space (yes, people, that’s what these artists are about). Local…
When you’re an artist and you use light as a medium, things can get tricky. How does one control electromagnetic radiation anyway? Dan Flavin figured it out with his fluorescent light fixtures and James Turrell manipulates light by creating architectural space (yes, people, that’s what these artists are about). Local…
If you thought The Wizard of Oz was pure kids stuff, think again as pop culture meets sexy striptease when burlesque group Dangerous Curves make their way from the Big Apple to the Trunk Space to present “Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go-Go!” The award-winning brazen and beautiful five-some…
Brides-to-be across the Valley will flock to see the latest fashions in wedding gowns. Sun., June 6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 2010…
More than any other genre, rappers rarely seem content just being rappers. Jay-Z is a business mogul, Diddy has a clothing line, Ice-T has played a cop on TV for a decade, and Snoop Dogg makes a lot of money simply by being a lovable goofball. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson…
Most comedians take a detour into kid-friendly work at some point. Filthy-mouthed Bob Saget cleaned it up for Full House and Eddie Murphy spent a few years in family-friendly purgatory with his Dr. Dolittle flicks. For Tommy Davidson, it was a spell with Disney’s The Proud Family. But don’t expect…
The Sail Inn in Tempe seems like a pretty unlikely place to catch a marching band perform. After all, traditionally you would expect to find a marching band at a parade or somewhere where they could, you know, actually march. But there isn’t very much traditional about Portland’s MarchFourth Marching…
When the original Arena Football League folded, we had to wonder if it wasn’t because the league paid too much attention to the “entertainment” aspect of their product. It’s undeniably entertaining to watch a live buffalo run onto the field during a timeout for no apparent reason, but there’s no…
In any form of entertainment, it’s natural to pay more attention to the most visible people. That’s why singers (not drummers) always get the girls and why sports players have higher Q-ratings than coaches. The Diamondbacks’ upcoming series with the Atlanta Braves may not be the most visible but that…
While Mario Matteoli might have outgrown his old band The Weary Boys, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter certainly hasn’t abandoned the multifaceted genre of Americana. In the two years since his former band went its separate ways, Matteoli’s been been racheting out plenty of country-fried ditties both as a solo act and…
The Tractor Pull Divas are our own version of a plucked-from-obscurity success story. Though, in this case, obscurity is defined as Chandler and success is defined as being one of two records from You Asked for It (our weekly online locals-only CD review column) to make my “Best of 2008″…
In the heat of summer, 35 degrees sounds downright blissful, which is why on this already hot May day, I am heading to the Lava River Cave, about 15 miles north of Flagstaff. That and I’ve always wanted to go spelunking, or maybe just use the word spelunking — the…
In his epic “The People, Yes,” American workingman’s poet Carl Sandburg wrote, “The fireborn are at home in fire.” Sandburg was probably not talking about astrology, in which fire signs — Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius — are said to be the action-oriented among us. Zonies, whatever your sign, we are…
First off, forgive us for not having the budget to upgrade this summer movie preview to 3D. Rest assured, there are plenty of eye-popping (brain-numbing?) epics in the preview list that follows, but to our pleasure and surprise there is a surplus of attention-worthy 2D flicks too. Happy summer, movie…
Turns out, size doesn’t matter. In fact, some may say that smaller is better. Computers used to take up entire rooms. Nowadays, our cell phones are a zillion times more powerful than those old clunkers. Anthology Poetry keeps in step and presents the Tiny Mesa Poetry Slam. The good folks…
Remember when brunch first came on the scene? Back in those days, it was only Los Angeles assholes that “did brunch.” Now everybody does it. It has become a part of the weekend’s ritual for even the common folks. And with local restaurants like Carly’s Bistro serving a special menu…
