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What is it like to eat at one of the world's best restaurants? A handful of lucky metro Phoenix residents will find out next week when one of Spain's highest-rated restaurants sets up shop in north Scottsdale for a series of invite-only pop-up dinners. Unfortunately, you’ll have to be a BBVA...
If your city’s power grid shuts down this summer, it may be a brownout, or it may be an act of cyber-warfare — a straight-out-of-Hollywood scenario that suddenly seems scarily possible thanks to the labyrinthine story director Alex Gibney tells in his riveting documentary Zero Days. It’s complicated, but know...
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix's creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we're taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 15. Leah Marche. Leah...
Been craving an Oscar Mayer weiner? You're in luck. Today, from noon to 6 p.m., Uber will deliver up to 10 free Oscar Mayer hot dogs to diners in Old Town Scottsdale. All you have to do is open up your Uber app and request away. And it gets better:...
Despite its size and number of restaurants, Phoenix does not enjoy the culinary reputation of many other U.S. cities.
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Can Steven Spielberg do comedy? That seems like a dumb question, since nobody has done more to bring wit to the modern blockbuster; Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jaws boast as many laugh-out-loud moments as they do thrills. But those gags are often incidental, of the tension-breaking kind. When...
The People's Champion, the Louisville Lip, the Greatest — whatever you called him, Muhammad Ali was one of the world's most famous athletes. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., the internationally renowned boxer died at the age of 74 on Friday, June 3, in Scottsdale. Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Ali was...
Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams-ified Trek era. That is to say, it’s the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do. That’s not...
Ira Sachs has become one of our great American filmmakers. His newest, Little Men, about two teenage boys (Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri) who become best friends even as their parents face off over the fate of a small dress shop in the ground floor of a Brooklyn home, is...
Sporting sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, a golden retriever mingles with two furry friends. Lounging in a pink pet stroller, a cat named Coco curls up in a red dress and pearls — one of four costume changes she has come equipped with for the weekend. Not to be outdone,...
In one of many throwaway gags in The Secret Life of Pets, a group of dogs gathering for an all-important rescue operation is momentarily sidetracked by a butterfly, which sends them into a riot of leaping and yelping. Pets are easily distracted, you see. And you know who else is...
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Spring is usually a cinematic wasteland. Oscar season is almost a year away, and the glut of bloated summer action flicks hasn't started its assault on our senses (Batman v. Superman aside). The Phoenix Film Festival fills in the gaps, in the best ways possible, starting on Thursday, April 7, with...
Unless you've been living without network television and/or the Internet for the past month, you're probably fully aware that it's awards show season. Either you've spent hours glued to a screen to see who will be arbitrarily immortalized in front of their industry peers, or you're painfully annoyed by everyone...
If you haven’t already noticed by now, August has already been a month of great concerts and memorable. However, the best is yet to come. More specifically, some of the biggest concerts of the month will be taking place this coming week, including some long-awaited performances by some quite legendary...
“Oh, look! There’s the old Trader Vic’s!” Verity Bendel is pointing at Citizen Public House, a sleek bar and restaurant in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale. She’s right. From 1962 to 1990, the spot was home to the Valley’s original location of Trader Vic’s, the iconic Polynesian-inspired chain. Past...
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it...
In 2013, a 22-year-old Palestinian named Mohammed Assaf won the second edition of the Middle Eastern singing competition Arab Idol, a spinoff of the same popular British Pop Idol franchise that also gave us American Idol. Mohammed had snuck out of Gaza and crashed the auditions in Egypt before making...
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We've all been there. You finally get around to watching this year's nominees, and you think, “Didn't I see pretty much this same Oscar-bait movie last year?” You probably did, thanks to the McKee/Weinstein-driven formula behind most Best Picture noms. You can even build your own! Just mix and match...
It often feels like we watch the Oscars every year more as a matter of routine more than anything else, as usually one or two movies seem far more likely to win than the rest. While Beasts of the Southern Wild or Amor might have been the best films nominated in the...
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The Best-Picture-o-Matic
It's hard to explain the musical phenomena that was the Smiths at the height of their glory to anyone who wasn't lost in their fandom at the time. No matter if you were there or not, you probably would agree that the band's 1986 album The Queen Is Dead is...