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Evil Controllers in Tempe: Best Masters of the Science of Gaming

We've spent the last year in the laboratory putting Phoenix under the microscope to reveal hundreds of specimens of the best culture, outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer. And we're finally ready to publish our results. Nerd alert! Now presenting Scientific Phoenix. When video-gaming goes...
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Battling YouTube for Money and Creative Control

The video titled "Thank you, I will miss you guys" is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky handheld shot trained on the face of then-21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a fauxhawk, a stubbly goatee, and a British accent, discernible...
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Five Exhibitions to Check out During November’s Third Friday

Be it a ​First Friday or a Third Friday -- we're just excited about having an excuse (not that we need one) to see some great art exhibitions. And you better believe that we're making the loop and stopping by these five. 5. "Sue Chenoweth: Real and Applied" @ Modified...
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SNL Weighs In On Fieri Fiasco

While SNL didn't actually air this piece during their regular show, it's heartwarming to see that Bobby Moynihan did in fact reprise his role as Guy Fieri in a dress rehearsal released on Hulu. A shocked Moynihan-Fieri finally has an opportunity to read the soul-crushing take down of his latest...
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VegCo Market Update: New Investors and a Possible Move to Austin TX

VegCo Market, the would-be first 100% plant-based supermarket we mentioned in October has since experienced some ups and downs. And it might not wind up in Phoenix, as originally planned. While the creators have secured $150,000 toward the project, initial negotiations with a local capital acquisition firm to secure the...
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Fan Landers: Should My Band Hire a Publicist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you stop...
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Les Miserables Doesn’t Dream Daringly

You can hear the people sing — really hear them — in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a film musical lip-synch their songs to prerecorded tracks (a.k.a. "playback"), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) insisted that...
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The Hobbit Gets Neither There Nor Back Again

Welcome back to Middle-Earth. It has been nearly a decade since writer-director Peter Jackson last set foot on J.R.R. Tolkien's hallowed ground, signing off on a spectacular trilogy of films adapted from the British author's Lord of the Rings novels. There were box office billions and well-earned Oscars aplenty and...
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The Screwball Economics of Major League Baseball

Police in riot gear guard the dugouts, preparing for the worst with German shepherds at heel. This is Philadelphia in 1980, after all. It's the bottom of the ninth. Two strikes. Two out. Bases loaded. Human rocket Willie Wilson of the Kansas City Royals hugs the plate, curiously dressed in...