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Season Preview: Actors Theatre Gears Up for 2011-12

By Julie PetersonJuly 15, 2011
When we crave a home-town taste of the kind of theater that makes us miss New York, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco -- more thoughtful (though often still gaspingly funny), less spectacle-driven works that audiences elsewhere have enjoyed relatively recently -- Actors Theatre is the place to go. The company's staked...
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Transformers Are Back and Kicking Ass in Dark of the Moon

By Dan KoisJune 30, 2011
The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow motion and splashing Decepticon blood (oil?). The destruction of...
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Cycle: Top Six Bike Flicks

By Jason FranzJune 8, 2011
June is upon us and the Valley's tarmac and trails are starting to bake. While these early summer mornings have remained nice so far, there is no question that the prime cycling hours are dwindling.With less than a month left before the 24/7-onslaught of Tour de France coverage, it's time...
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Cinematic Secret

By Colin LecherMay 5, 2011
In the mood for some gambling? The Talk Cinema film series, a cross-city event that gives advanced screenings of independent and foreign films, will hit the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, May 10. Tickets are available now, but there's a catch -- you won't know what movie...
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Musical Number

By Wynter HoldenMay 5, 2011
Famed Italian director Federico Fellini once said, “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.” Yet he denied his own films were based in truth, despite the fact that the main character in his Oscar-winning flick 8 ½ is a womanizing movie director who made the same exact...
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Meet Her Majesty, The Bacon Queen

By Jennifer WoodsMay 2, 2011
Former East Valley Tribune journalist Amy Vernon crowned herself The Bacon Queen in 2009 after a bit of online recognition pushed her into sweet, smoked stardom. So much so that she's the top female submitter of all time on Digg.com.   Among many other things, Vernon curates this amazingly large bacon...
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Southern Discomfort

By Tricia ParkerApril 28, 2011
The late Elizabeth Taylor once said of Tennessee Williams’ heroines, “They’re all on the brink of disaster.” Taylor earned an Oscar nod for her turn as Maggie in the film version of Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The timing of the famed actress’ recent passing is not lost...
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Hangers On

By Robrt L. PelaMay 5, 2011
Joan Crawford had a rather infamous reputation, although it wasn’t for her acting skills. Sure, she won an Oscar for her performance in the Warner Bros. classic Mildred Pierce, and was among Hollywood’s top-grossing film stars for five decades. She also revolutionized women’s fashions and answered every one of her...
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Have Dinner With Julie & Julia Author Julie Powell Tonight

By Wynter HoldenApril 29, 2011
Think you could cook your way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking without flattening a soufflé, burning a few roasts and tossing enough disastrous dishes to feed a small country? Julie Powell, popular blogger and author of Julie & Julia (later made into the film starring Oscar-winner Meryl...
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Lively Nudes

By Laura HahnefeldApril 21, 2011
The Full Monty done at a dinner theater? Cue some snarky “meat” jokes, stat. Such will be the situation when the grin and bare it (all) musical nominated for nine Tony Awards and based on the 1997 hit British film is staged at Arizona Broadway Theatre, where generous amounts of...
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The Dude to Make an Album

By Martin CizmarApril 19, 2011
As everyone knows, The Dude was in the music business, briefly. As a roadie for Metallica during the Speed Of Sound tour. The band was, reportedly, a bunch of assholes.Now the Dude, using his professional alias Jeff Bridges, will record an album with Oscar and Grammy award winner T-Bone Burnett...
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Oscar Party Edition: Dinner and a Movie

By Michelle MartinezFebruary 25, 2011
​Staying in? We've got you covered -- both on the culinary and entertainment fronts. Now presenting Dinner and a Movie -- a guide to a do it yourself evening of food and film. For many of us film and food nerds, Oscar Sunday is bigger than Superbowl Sunday. Each year...
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Oscar Night Cocktail Party Menu

By Carol BlonderFebruary 24, 2011
Oscar season and all those fancy LA parties are in full swing. Hollywood outsiders (us!) are planning to gather in front of the big screen (in ball gowns, jeans or p.j.s) to argue over best and worst dressed, critique the speeches, guffaw (yawn -- maybe?) along with the hosts, dry...
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Tom Leveen

By Wynter HoldenApril 7, 2011
PERFORMING ARTS Theater Published author, actor, and director Tom Leveen prides himself on being edgy when it comes to art. He co-owned the now-defunct Chyro Arts venue, where he tackled issues of child molestation in The Woodsman and debuted the stage version of Closer (the Oscar-winning film that starred Natalie...
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Bunnies and Bones in This Week’s Dinner and A Movie

By Claire LawtonMarch 18, 2011
Nothing goes better with a movie than dinner (and perhaps vise versa), which Chow Bella has all figured out.Dinner and a Movie pairs all sorts of films with themed recipes each week.Today features Winter's Bone, the Oscar nominated drama released this year, starring Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes. Chow Bella...
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10 Oscar-Worthy Cocktails (Part 2)

By Michelle MartinezFebruary 24, 2011
In preparation for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (this Sunday, Feb. 27) and the booze-filled parties, we've come up with a few pairings of our own. Yesterday we tackled five film/cocktail duos and today we bring you five more. One cocktail for each best picture -- some known, some completely...
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10 Oscar-Worthy Cocktails (Part 1)

By Michelle MartinezFebruary 23, 2011
In preparation for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (this Sunday, Feb. 27) and the booze-filled parties, we've come up with a few pairings of our own. One cocktail for each best picture -- some known, some completely invented (the cocktails, that is). So sit down and grab some popcorn, or...
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Wilde Night

March 17, 2011
Oscar Wilde's farcical classic -- which is described as "a trivial comedy for serious people" -- will be staged by the members of the Southwest Shakespeare Company. Thu., March 3, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., March 4, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., March 5, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., March 10, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., March 11,...