For some, The Woman in the Fifth is like the lullaby you hear before a nightmare: dark, foreboding, but still alarmingly beautiful. For others, it is like the lullaby you hear before you slip, confused, into a midday nap in your theater seat. Written and directed by award-winning Polish filmmaker…
Monster Brawl is the kind of idea that you and your friends come up with at around 2:30 in the morning, when the collective genius is stifled only intermittently by handfuls of pizza-flavored Goldfish. The setting: a wrestling ring in the middle of a spooky graveyard. Eight movie monsters –…
The Spot: Cornish Pasty Co., 1941 W. Guadalupe Road, Mesa, AZ 85202. (480) 838-3586. (Other location, newly expanding, in Tempe) www.cornishpastyco.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. until close every day; all day Sundays The Details: We’ve worshipped at the altar of Cornish’s $3 car bombs before,…
The Spot: Pita Jungle, 4921 E. Ray Road, Phoenix. (480) 785-PITA (7482). More than seven other Valley locations, including Tempe, Scottsdale, and downtown Phoenix. www.pitajungle.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Reverse happy hour is from 9 p.m. to close daily. The Details: On the drinks menu,…
The 12th Annual Phoenix Film Festival opens on Thursday, March 29 with more films, more seminars, and even bigger parties.More than 160 films will be screened this year over the eight-day festival, from horror shorts to documentaries to star-studded feature films. Weekend seminars, with topics like “Life as an Indie…
The Spot: Cafe Bink, 36889 N. Tom Darlington Drive, Carefree. (480) 488-9796. www.cafebink.com The Hours: 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday The Details: They’ve made it easy: All well drinks, beer (draft and bottle), and wine is 50% off. That brings a glass of the San Tan Sex Panther…
The Spot: Cafe ZuZu at Hotel Valley Ho, 6850 E. Main St., Scottsdale, AZ 85251. (480) 421-7997. The Hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday The Details: Labeled “Cool Redux” and printed on pretty cyan paper, the Cafe ZuZu happy hour features five appetizers for $5 (including Spinach Artichoke…
The Spot: Cheuvront Restaurant & Wine Bar, 1326 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, (602) 307-0022. cheuvronts.com The Hours: 4 to 6 p.m. every day; Reverse Happy Hour is 9 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. to Midnight Friday and Saturday The Details: A wide selection of martinis -…
The Spot: Coronado Cafe, 2201 N. 7th St., Phoenix, (602) 258-5149. coronadocafe.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday The Details: Beers, Mimosas, and Bloody Marys are all down to $3, while the Cocktail of the Day is a steal at $4. House wines are down to $5…
In August 2000, a San Francisco graphic designer – going by the unassuming handle “Someguy” – left 100 blank journals in random places around the city, just waiting to be found. Soon after, he released 900 more, posting them out one by one to eager participants across the globe. He left a…
The Spot: Skeptical Chymist Irish Pub & Restaurant, 15688 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, (480) 609-8677. skepticalchymist.com The Hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Every Day The Details: Wine and beer are $2 off, bringing Irish favorites like Guinness down to $4 and local favorites like Four Peaks Kiltlifter down to $3.25…
One of the first commercially successful films, screened to audience wonder and critical disgust in 1896, is a little, one-take moving picture called The Kiss. Produced and distributed by Thomas Edison’s film company, this 47-second film showed a close-up of two stage actors performing the kiss they share at the end…
The Spot: Mimi’s Cafe, 4901 E. Ray Road, Phoenix, AZ 85044, (480) 705-4811. Other valley locations include Scottsdale, Glendale, and Mesa. mimiscafe.com The Hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 4 to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday The Details: Domestic drafts and bottles are down to $3, with well…
Talk Cinema – the sneak-peek film series at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – returns this Tuesday at 7 p.m. with (spoiler alert!) quirky Italian comedy The Salt of Life. Started by renowned film critic Harlan Jacobson, the Talk Cinema series screens award-winning indie and foreign films before their theatrical…
It is probably only a natural result of the historical arc of democratization that celebrity today requires little more than Tweeting racy photos and being combatively untalented. In this new-media model of fame, Ezra Miller is decidedly out of place: a relic of the Old World hierarchies – like the…
The Spot: Hillside Spot Café & Market, 4740 E. Warner Road, Phoenix, (480) 705-7768. hillsidespot.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday The Details: Both draft beers – including Arizona favorites like the Oak Creek Heifeweizen and Four Peaks Hop Knot – and bottles are down to $3…
For a film titled We Need to Talk About Kevin, there isn’t much talking, and certainly not enough about Kevin. Instead, the story is told largely through the eyes of star Tilda Swinton – whose recent Oscar snub is considered one of this year’s top mistakes by an increasingly distrusted Academy…
The Spot: Yard House, 9401 W. Westgate Blvd., Glendale, (623) 872-3900. www.yardhouse.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. to close Sunday through Thursday The Details: Discounts on most drinks, like $2 off wine by the glass and well drinks for only $4.25-4.75, plus pints for $3.50-$5…
The fourth season of Logo darling RuPaul’s Drag Race hits television screens this Monday, January 30, promising more drama, more glamour, and (we hope) even more hot glue. This season brings a whole new line-up of guest judges, from Kelly Osbourne to Jennifer Love Hewitt to Modern Family’s Mitchell, plus the biggest…
Close to Hollywood, with a desert landscape and shining city as adaptable to “New Mexico” as “Saudi Arabia” (just ignore that non-native cactus in the corner), the Phoenix metropolitan area has a rich history of film production. Our time in the spotlight has been bright — from 1960’s Psycho, when Janet…
The Spot: Vintage 95 Wine Lounge, 95 W. Boston St., Chandler, (480) 855-9463. www.vintage95.com The Hours: 4 to 6 p.m. every day, 4 p.m. to close Wednesdays The Details: Just down the block from Urban Tea Loft and The Bistro at Kokopelli Winery, Vintage 95 offers different daily specials seven days…
Like us, you may be in mourning for the closing of The Royale in Mesa after only six months, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still a number of local venues for viewing independent and art-house films at decent prices (like, say, free). Sure, you’ll sometimes have to compromise on seating…
