It stuns me each year as Viva PHX, Stateside Present's mini-South by Southwest that takes place in 17 venues in downtown Phoenix on Saturday, gets better and better, how difficult the decisions are about when and where to be. In addition to the sheer mind-blowing volume of touring acts booked,...
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What happens in the studio shouldn't always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a monthly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This month: Christine Cassano, whose most recent exhibition featured 330...
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Wolvves - "Ivory Drive" Around this time last year, Wolvves released its debut full-length debut album and upon doing so, immediately...
A Tempe police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man late Sunday night after two officers responded to a domestic-violence call on West Freemont Street. The shooting death comes at the end of a year in which officer-involved shootings dominated national discourse. According to Lieutenant Mike Pooley of the Tempe PD,...
Metro Phoenix tops the list for urban areas infested with creepy critters, a services-finding website says. Thumbtack.com is like an Angie's List competitor and one of the top websites in the country, hooking up Internet users with services like music lessons, home repair, and, of course, pest-control services. Unlike a...
Phoenix artist Eric Kasper caused quite the stir in Bisbee last fall, when Windows Gallery at the Copper Queen Plaza displayed his work alongside that of Ty McNeeley in an exhibition called "Spirits of the West." The show's aim was to blend Kasper's eerie, sometimes ghostly figures with McNeeley's photographs...
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Up for seeing a show? There are plenty to choose from around town. Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this week. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert calendar. The Milk Carton Kids - Monday, December 7 - Mesa Arts Center When L.A. natives Kenneth Pattengale...
1. Let's get this one out of the way early: The hottest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix was 122 degrees on June 26, 1990. 2. The opening scene to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was filmed downtown. 3. Only about 40 percent of the people who live in Phoenix were born in Arizona. 4...
What a year 2015 was for craft beer. Here in Phoenix, brewers won a hard-fought legislative battle with the signing of SB 1030, several new breweries opened, and one big purchase had everyone losing their minds. The changes were even greater nationally. Craft brewers continued to eat into big beer’s...
We present yet again, the Throwback Thursday edition of Heritage Hump Day. This week we ruminate shoulda coulda with local contenders Big Blue Couch. No less of an authority on rocking hooliganism than onetime New Times music editor and future Replacements biographer Bob Mehr called it back in June 2000...
In a city where you can count the number of Ethiopian restaurants on one hand, finding a good place to gather around a platter of injera bread dappled with heaps of fiery wot is no small feat. Since the 1990s, Café Lalibela in Tempe has been the Valley mainstay for...
“Why did you let me film this?” filmmaker Josh Kriegman incredulously asks Anthony Weiner late in Weiner, a documentary about the former New York congressman’s failed 2013 mayoral run. The disgraced candidate doesn’t have a good answer, but the question hangs over this fascinating film, which plays like it started...
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Bad news for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ex-executive chief Brian Sands, and more of the same for Joe. On Tuesday, federal Judge G. Murray Snow denied a motion by Sands for summary judgment in the ongoing civil contempt case against himself, Arpaio, Arpaio's chief deputy Jerry Sheridan, and two other Arpaio...
The biggest story at this year's Sundance Film Festival was the record-breaking bidding war for The Birth of a Nation, a prestige biopic about rebellious slave Nat Turner. When Fox Searchlight snatched it for $17.5 million — $5 million more than any other flick in the festival’s history — their...
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Emby Alexander — "In Your Doorstep Bleeding" For the third year in a row, Emby Alexander will kick off June with...
In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously left the White House with a warning to the American public about the rise of the military-industrial complex. When Barack Obama exits the Oval Office next year, he wouldn’t be remiss in cautioning the nation about the conspiracy-industrial complex, which has dug its tentacles into...
Two degrees and nearly two decades into the American educational system, I suddenly realized a simple truth: I learned more about life from Clarissa Darling than I did from any of my teachers or professors. For those poor souls who never got to know Clarissa like I did, let me...
A right-wing Sedona group is advertising what promises to be the throw-down of the year: A debate on the merits of marijuana legalization between staunch pot-prohibitionist Sheila Polk on one side and fellow anti-marijuana activist Seth Leibsohn on the other. Yes, you read that right: the group says Leibsohn will take...
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Convicted child-rapist Adrian Cruz is back in Phoenix, following a six-year vacation from his lifetime sentence behind bars, a vacation he owes to the negligence of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's boys and girls in beige. Cruz, who escaped from MCSO custody in 2009, was arrested in April by Mexican police, after...
Phoenix sound artist Tony Obr sat behind a table topped by a silver Apple laptop computer Friday night, amplifying the sounds created as visual artist Heather Couch pounded a large clump of clay on the stage at Tempe Center for the Arts. Fumihiro Kikuchi, the choreographer and dancer whose Amalgamations opened...
On a Friday afternoon in May 2014, Maricopa County health inspector Jessica Reighard entered the kitchen of Wahsun, a popular Chinese restaurant in Phoenix, and found a man cleaning furiously. Apparently not furiously enough. Health code violations stacked up quickly as Reighard gazed around the room. Food sat out on...
Downtown Phoenix nightlife fans, start digging up some quarters and get ready to get your game on. That’s because Cobra Arcade Bar is getting ready to open. The long-awaited and much-anticipated arts district nightspot, which will feature several dozen arcade classics and a full bar, will finally open its doors...