The high-pitched call of horses breaks the cool morning air as Chuck Browning stands near the corrals outside Banning, California, working the lasso he hopes will separate him from the scores of other rodeo cowboys milling about the show grounds. The others nervously fire their ropes at anything that doesn’t move —...
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Attention people in Phoenix under the age of 30: We have a list of things you pretty much need to do before you turn 30. Here are 30 things to do before you turn 30 (and if you're over 30, you can still knock out some of these):...
Public art nerds, take note. Local performing arts mavens Tania Katan and Katie McFadzen are boarding buses on the morning of Sunday, May 3, joined by fellow fans of public art, for a one-day, seven-city tour of public art works. Participants will get to see more than a dozen works...
ASU Student Film Festival You know, student films have gotten a bad rap. Sure these kids may not have the huge budgets or crews that studio productions have, but students know how to visually tell stories nonetheless. Plus, there's a lot more to a good movie than a few big...
One of the more aptly named and certainly descriptive titles, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, comes to Arizona State University on Friday. Written by noted playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer and directed by associate professor Erika Hughes, who specializes in youth theater, the comedic interpretation of the...
Last Friday, New Orleans-based dining company Dinner Lab hosted its first Phoenix event, a five-course Vietnamese-inspired pop-up dinner prepared by chef Nini Nguyen, formerly of Sucre (New Orleans) and Eleven Madison Park (NYC). Unfortunately for the brave diners who invested in the company's local debut, Dinner Lab's first Phoenix event...
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Poet, rapper, hip-hop artist, educator, activist, and community leader are but a few of the titles that define Phoenix resident Myrlin Hepworth, who got his start doing slam poetry on Mill Avenue while simultaneously studying English at Arizona State University. As Hepworth sees it, it was something of a double...
South of Gold Mountain When H.T. Chen & Dancers take to the stage at Tempe Center for the Arts on March 27 and 28 to perform South of Gold Mountain, they'll bring with them a multitude of stories. Through a series of interviews, compiled oral histories, historic photographs and footage,...
The Larder + The Delta, the Southern-inflected food counter inside downtown Phoenix's historic DeSoto Central Market, is the kind of highly touted new restaurant that makes you wonder whether it will measure up to the hype. People gush about the cauliflower, of all things, designed to evoke the flavor and...
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Phoenix Global Game Jam 2015
Tempe Beach Park has hosted major concert fests and outdoor gigs over the last decade -- a lot of 'em, in fact. However, few are as high-profile and star-studded as this weekend's four-day Pot of Gold Music Festival at the park. It's definitely one the longest, as the springtime music...
If you happen to go to 43rd Express (also known as Pho 43 Express) for lunch, the first thing you'll notice is how difficult it is to get a table. The dining room at this West Phoenix mom-and-pop Vietnamese eatery, sparsely decorated with run-of-the-mill landscape art and a few overgrown...
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Beer: Orange Bomb Brewery: Blasted Barley Beer Co. Style: Dry Stout ABV: 6.45 percent At least a half-dozen new breweries have opened up in the Valley in the past six months, and it's time to catch up. This month is no longer February; henceforward, it shall be known as Febrewery:...
"New Graduate Student Exhibition" Class is in session, and the graduate students at ASU’s Art School are busy as ever. How else could they present a gallery show a mere month after their first day? Working in media including paint, metal, fibers, and ceramics, 16 artists share their work in...
Arizona State University released a harsh statement on Friday night about the end of negotiations with USA Place, essentially accusing developers of lying. As we reported on Thursday, plans collapsed for the $350-million-plus downtown project that would have brought a hotel, conference center and the Colorado-based USA Basketball organization to...
When 2014 enters the history books less than 48 hours from now, it won't be remembered as the year that Tempe music died. Far from it. However, it was most assuredly a period of great upheaval and change for the city's live music landscape, as well as a helluva lot...
Heads up, Tempe! You've got a new dining destination that also will serve its own house-brewed beers -- eventually. For now, the new Blasted Barley Beer Co. pours 30 craft beer varieties and a menu of elevated bar fare courtesy of executive chef Jason Shaw. The restaurant and brewery has...
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Guys, you know all of those times you go out in Old Town or on Mill Avenue and it seems like 80 percent of the people you see are guys -- or more accurately, "bros"? Well, per a recent ranking from DatingAdvice.com, you must be looking in the wrong places...
They certainly don't make video games like they used to way back when. While modern-day blockbuster titles like Assassin's Creed: Unity, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Grand Theft Auto V pack high-tech thrills, lifelike graphics, and sophisticated A.I., there's a definite appeal to the games from the golden age...
Efforts to put together a financing deal for the basketball-themed "USA Place" development on Arizona State University land in Tempe have gone into overtime. The $350-450 million hotel-and-conference-center project was announced to the public in July 2013, with an expected groundbreaking that year. But it's so far been unable to...
We don't want to hear anyone say that Phoenix doesn't have any culture ever again, and we've got a list of 23 festivals to prove it. This spring will be anything but uncultured in the metro Phoenix area. Phoenix has everything from a modern dance festival and celebrations of Spanish,...