The countdown to New Times’ 35th Annual Best of Phoenix is on, but it’s not too late to make your voice heard in our annual Best of Phoenix Readers’ Poll. Submit your top picks for the best Valley arts, shopping, and more and get entered to win free burgers for…
Attention yogis and yoginis: September is National Yoga Month, and we’ve rounded up some of the Valley’s yoga studio specials and events for you in one nice, little package. Wanna flow under the moon, downward dog under the sun, warrior in the dark with glow bracelets under blacklights, learn how…
Nowadays it seems like there’s a fine line between high-brow pornography and quality cable programming. While the more professional adult videos cost money and contain graphic sex scenes, explicit language, and hard-to-believe plot lines, cable networks like HBO offer, well, all of those exact same things. Seriously people, have you…
Tonight New Times hosts the finale of its three-party summer series to help you beat the last of the summer heat. Head to Maya Day & Night Club in Scottsdale for Odds & Ends from 7 to 10 p.m. This fashion-centric event will offer you the chance to browse the…
Local writer and director Nathan Blackwell is gearing up to show the anticipated finale to season two of his sci-fi comedy web series Voyage Trekkers at FilmBar this month. If you haven’t watched the series, its episodes (each less than 10 minutes) are easy to binge on in an afternoon…
Get ready, Great Britain. A trio of teenagers from Arizona are coming to save you with a very particular set of skills; skills they have acquired by practicing karate and studying the bible…
For folks who are big into ghosts and goblins, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year. And it never seems to get here fast enough. If you’re one of those types who can’t wait to get your scare on, the good news is that the spooky staff at two…
They say you can’t put a price on higher education, but that’s not stopping lady Sun Devils from trading in their transcripts for some tantalizing photos on www.seekingarrangements.com. The online sugar-daddy site recently conducted a survey based on its growing number of female ASU student users — and apparently, there’s…
If you’ve been watching the final season of Breaking Breaking, chances are you’ve lost more sleep than you’re willing to admit speculating on how the epic drama will end. Since the return of the final eight episodes, theories about the series finale have been running wild, involving everything from Walt…
Whether you think going green is the way of the future or the way of the left-wing tree hugger, Professor Peter Byck of ASU’s School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication invites you watch a free screening of a documentary that addresses where your carbon…
Good news, ladies: For those assertive sex kittens who have long since given up on finding Prince Charming and would rather make their fame the Kardshian way, porn star James Deen (known among more mainstream audiences for his “performance” with Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons) is now offering the chance…
Every First Friday brings a myriad of artistry to the downtown scene, so this week be sure to look out for the opening of Amanda Adkins’ first solo exhibit, “Unraveled,” at The Coe House Gallery from 7 to 11 p.m. Though the artist has painted for more than two decades,…
Being intimate with another person can be difficult. There’s the emotional barriers, the trust issues, and, of course, the charlie horses. Because cuddling is apparently a prime culprit of the nonfatal but potentially discomforting dead-arm syndrome, a new prototype has been developed to put the cushion back into your comfort…
At this point, it’s hard to say who doesn’t have a crush on Jennifer Lawrence or her Hunger Games character, Katniss Everdeen. The highly sought after actress and her even more in-demand alias have been ever in the favor of fans, film-goers, and fiction-lovers since the bestselling book by Suzanne…
If you’re a fashion student (high school senior or currently enrolled in a two- or four-year college fashion-based program), Phoenix Fashion Week is now accepting applications for its third annual Inspire Fashion’ T-shirt design contest. The winning sketch will be produced and made available online, at Phoenix Fashion Week’s Style…
If shows like TLC’s My Strange Addiction have taught us anything, it’s that human beings can be addicted to almost anything — tanning, cat-licking, dressing up as an adult baby… Thus it should come as no surprise that a Pennsylvania hospital has just announced plans to open the country’s first-ever…
Remember when the critics said your art was so simple that a monkey could do it? Well it turns out they were right. 37-year-old Brent is a retired laboratory primate living at the Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana. His most recent work, which he painted his tongue, has been…
Worm eats apple. Bird eats worm. Woman hunts bird, stuffs it, and turns it into a high priced pair of pumps. It’s the new circle of life, apparently. Divya Anantharaman’s love of taxidermy is no secret. The Brooklyn-based designer debuted her dead animal obsession on TLC’s My Strange Addiction and…
One man’s loss is another man’s gain. Or in this case, it’s another man’s tasteless selfie. When narcissism turns negligent, no photo blog documents it better than Selfies at Serious Places. Our new favorite Tumblr to love and hate simultaneously, this site pays tribute to the selfish men and women…
If you thought twerking was nothing more than a tragic phase that would one day thrust itself off of the dance floor and out of our vocabulary — you, dear friends, were wrong. Miley-Cyrus-VMA-performance wrong…
If Phoenix Fashion Week 2013 is giving you flashes of déjà vu, you’re not alone. You’re not hallucinating either. The annual string of fashion shows featuring burgeoning and established designers dipped into its pool of past participants to make up a fair chunk of its 2013 lineup. Six of the…
It’s been called “the defining decade,” and we believe it. Across the board — and the country — your 20s are the tumultuous time when immaturity and responsibility collide. From college to career, car ownership to home ownership — and of course, that devastating moment when you realize your miracle…
