Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 35. Jesse Perry. Jesse…
Tony Klett has seen the growth of the tattoo culture firsthand. When Klett began his tattoo apprenticeship in 1999, there were only three tattoo shops around the portion of Ohio he lived in, now Klett says there are about 20. “Tattooing is mainstream now. It’s in everybody’s face,” Klett, 37,…
Nearly a year after the August 31 resignation of Scottsdale Cultural Council president and CEO, William H. Banchs, the organization has announced it has found a new candidate to take the title. Succeeding the current interim president and CEO, Richard Hayslip, effective Monday, August 11, is Neale Perl, former president…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 36. Josh Kirby. “Illustration…
Didja happen to know that every dinosaur may have had feathers? What about the notion that the Tyrannosaurus Rex most likely had really bad breath, given that it ate nothing but meat and probably never brushed between meals? We boned up on these seemingly random factoids this past weekend while…
Day of the Dead celebrations may be months away — Friday, October 31, through Sunday, November 2, to be exact — but Phoenix Public Library is already on the lookout for Valley artists to lend their creative talents to the upcoming Día de los Muertos exhibition “Heroes: La luminaria de…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 37. Monica Robles. Creating…
Prepare yourself for cuteness overload. Thanks to the Internet, we’ve seen our fair share of unusual fluffy characters, from dwarf foxes to zonkeys to the unhappy but irresistible local feline celebrity Grumpy Cat . But now it seems a new four-legged farm animal in the Valley is about to give…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 38. Rossitza Todorova. For…
San Diego Comic-Con is an exhausting, chaotic mess. Going to panels and rubbing elbows with folks dressed up like Doctor Who and Game of Thrones characters sounds fun, but in reality, you spend most of your time waiting in lines. It’s a bit absurd when you think about it. Phoenix…
Comicon may be over, but don’t let that you get you down, graphic novel geeks. This weekend local publishing group Sloth Dojo is heading to Ash Ave Comics & Books for the signing and release party of Biker Mice From Mars. Created by Valley residents, artist and co-writer Chris Ness…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 39. Gavin Sisson. Being…
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. Heads up, bitches. This one’s going to sting. Whether you love her, hate her, or secretly…
The 2013-14 theater season may be over but the rounds of applause are just getting started. On Monday, July 28, the nominees for the 2013-14 AriZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence were announced at Phoenix Theatre with numerous categories ranging from the overall production of contracted and non-contracted plays to original…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 40. Melissa Dunmore. “I…
Mark Walters is just another victim of the evil subject known as math. The owner and one of the artists at Living Canvas Tattoos in Tempe didn’t intend to go into tattooing, he wanted to work with his dad as an architect, but he always found himself struggling with the…
Frances, oft-heralded one of central Phoenix’s best boutiques, continues its popular hands-on craft series this fall. Taught by local talent, the monthly workshops, which in the past have ranged from terrarium building to jewelry making to cocktail creation, are designed with both the craft capable and novices in mind…
Looks like Actors Theatre’s couch-surfing days are officially over (for now, anyways). The local theater troupe, which spent its 2013-14 season bouncing around between different Valley venues, announced in a press release on Friday, July 25, that not only would it premièring four new plays during the 2014-15 season, three…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 41. Brandon Boetto. Brandon…
Ladies, the time of female cosplay is here, and it’s a great thing. If you’re looking to inject a little escapism into your day-to-day grind, dressing up as your favorite superhero and stomping around a convention like you own the place is the way to go. All rude comments and…
So your kids share your surname? Big deal. Some people have entire minor planets named after them, including professors Phil Christensen and Dave Williams of the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration. The newly credited outer space insiders received their solar system namesakes from the International Astronomical Union (IAU),…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 42. Jaclyn Roessel. It’s…
