Welcome to the Phoenix Bucket List. Robrt Pela and Amy Silverman — two New Times contributors and longtime Phoenicians — have put together a list of 100 things to do in this city before you die. Each week we’re presenting another 10; in March we’ll wrap it all up in…
Believe it or not, there are things that instill more fear than Valentine’s Day. FearCon 2014, for instance. Formerly known at the Phoenix Fear Film Festival, FearCon screens the goriest and greatest of local, foreign, and independent horror films…
Art Detour is back on March 8 and 9. But before the event highlights downtown’s art digs, it’s kicking things off with a little party and the help of Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton…
Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. My first kiss was with a porn star. Let’s back up. He wasn’t a porn star…
Great minds may think alike, but creatives ones are doing the community one better by teaming up to deliver more of what makes Grand Avenue so, well, grand…
Esmirna Tapia thinks it would be so cool to get paid to blog. After attending school at FIDM and the Art Institute of Phoenix, the 25-year-old San Diego native is ready to take her love of fashion to the next level…
This morning’s call to artists is being sounded off by the dinner bell, thanks to Bianca Lauren Galleries and its pop-up art party project…
In case you haven’t noticed, Tempe’s been getting a lot of hype lately. In addition to being the next potential trendy baby name, the Valley town also has been named one of America’s most creative mid-size cities and it got props for being home to the hottest college girls. Now…
Welcome to the Phoenix Bucket List. Robrt Pela and Amy Silverman — two New Times contributors and longtime Phoenicians — have put together a list of 100 things to do in this city before you die. Each week we’re presenting another 10; in March we’ll wrap it all up in…
We lost one of the greats Sunday. Critically acclaimed actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Sunday of a suspected drug overdose. The 46-year-old was recognized for his work on stage and screen, winning an Academy Award for best actor in Capote, garnering Academy…
Get your dancing shoes on, Phoenix, because there’s a new party in town. The Phoenix Festival de España is making its downtown debut this spring and we’ve got all the details for the never-before-seen event…
“Magic.” That’s how Rhonda Zayas describes the Tiffe Fermaint gown she wore to The 56th Annual Grammy Awards last Sunday…
Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. I am an old hag. Well, based on my family’s history anyway. My mom had me…
Back in November, Gawker’s Max Reed noted that while Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Bushwick had become international icons of “hipness,” they weren’t necessarily the only cool neighborhoods on the map. So he asked his online followers what they thought where the Williamsburg and Bushwick equivalents of their home states. Well, the…
Native New Yorker Eman Fendi always has wanted the best of the best. When it comes to anything luxury, pretty, or expensive-looking, she has to have it. Through her role as a “fashion architect” and full-time personal stylist, she wants to help you have the same…
Kara Rice and Allison Young consider themselves fitness matchmakers. The two friends have each made a career of working out — Young as a health and fitness writer and Rice as an occupational therapist and Pilates instructor. They know the difficulty of finding both a gym you love, and gym…
As all eyes are on Russia for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, a former ASU Sun Devil is making sure the gay rights discussion remains a visual one…
Excited for the Super Bowl parties but nervous because you don’t follow football closely enough to keep up with the conversation? Don’t worry. We’ve got your back with this handy guide that will help you talk all about the Sunday, February 2, game featuring the guy with the giant forehead…
Welcome to the Phoenix Bucket List. Robrt Pela and Amy Silverman — two New Times contributors and longtime Phoenicians — have put together a list of 100 things to do in this city before you die. Each week we’re presenting another 10; in March we’ll wrap it all up in…
Look, we’re not going to sugarcoat it for you. Dating sucks. Whether it’s online or in person, there’s no getting around the fact that romantic entanglements can be complicated. (That’s why we call it Courting Disaster.) A new Tinder drinking game is out to change the way we look at…
Sometimes, the best things in life really are free: vintage video games, blueprints of contemporary architecture, and now, thanks to one of the world’s foremost art institutions, some of the most valued images in history…
Native American Fashion blogger and scholar Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) has brought discussion about native appropriation to the fore in the past few years, calling out companies like Paul Frank and Urban Outfitters on her blog, Beyond Buckskin, raising awareness, pushing for change, and expanding that blog to…
