New Times picks the best arts and culture events in metro Phoenix from December 14 to 20. “Dinosaurs in Motion” Remember when people believed that lizard people ran the country? They’re still around, but there are enough cretins and creeps running for president that the conspiracy-minded are pretty busy. If we…
Tempe dance company CONDER/dance has announced the 2016 edition of its annual film and dance festival Breaking Ground. Since 2007, CONDER/dance’s namesake and founder Carley Conder has organized the festival to spotlight local and international contemporary dance, choreography, and, more recently, filmmaking. Held Friday and Saturday, January 29 and 30,…
New Times picks the best art and culture events in metro Phoenix from December 11 to 13. See more on our curated calendar of events. Herakles We’d say that each performance of Orange Theatre’s Herakles is limited to 25 seats, but that isn’t quite right. More like 25 people, who…
For the first time ever, color authority Pantone has given two colors the honor of color of the year. In 2016, Rose Quartz and Serenity will share the spotlight, serve as go-to trendy shades, and, according to Pantone, “reflect societal movements toward gender equality and fluidity.” Pantone officials describe Rose Quartz…
Frances hosts its 10th annual Crafeteria on Friday, December 4. And, frankly, you’d be a cotton-headed ninnymoggins to miss it. The free-to-attend annual holiday craft marketplace takes over the Central Phoenix boutique’s parking lot area from 6 to 10 p.m. with food trucks, live music, and booths from more than 50…
W Magazine has named Phoenix Art Museum’s Amada Cruz one of the 11 most powerful female museum directors in America. The fashion magazine’s salute to “the women transforming some of the country’s foremost art institutions” includes Cruz’s image alongside Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art curator Naomi Beckwith, Metropolitan Museum of…
New Times picks the best arts and culture events and things to do in metro Phoenix from December 4 to December 6. Heathers Heathers could have passed as a horror movie, but with a tender-yet-squicky love story and a trio of characters basically dressed as a traffic light, it wound up…
Though movie-goers have known for a while that Harkins Camelview 5 is closing, the art house theater’s days are officially numbered. As of this writing, the much-loved 1973 movie house known for being a hub of indie cinema in the Valley has just over a week before its final films…
Gearing up for football games means a lot of things: body paint, beer, resting your voice for screaming really, really loud, and also pranks — especially if said football game happens to be the territorial cup between Arizona State and University of Arizona. ASU student Ben Kaufman took the pranking…
New Times picks the best in art, culture, comedy, and theater events in metro Phoenix from November 20 to 22. For more things to do, see our curated calendar of events. Emerging Artists II There’s not enough modern dance hereabouts. Meanwhile, performing arts grad students can’t just toil away at…
Tempe boutique Here On The Corner announced in a November 16 Facebook post that it will close by the end of 2016. “This is not a change of choice for us, but one of the reality that we live in,” the post reads. “While we are profoundly sad, we are…
Suns vs. Lakers There have always been rumblings that legendary Laker Kobe Bryant might at times be more of a liability than a luminary to his teammates. Well, in what may be Bryan’ts final season, no one is rumbling anymore. It’s obvious. On a roster chockfull of young talent, Bryant’s…
“It’s a great thing and a scary thing,” Randy Slack says, taking a seat in a vintage chair in his warehouse space at Legend City Studios in downtown Phoenix as The Pixies’ “Monkey Gone to Heaven” plays over a speaker. In paint-splattered shorts, a T-shirt, and battered sneakers, he’s prepping…
New Times picks the top weekend events in the Phoenix area from November 13 through 15. Disgraced The holiday season will soon descend upon valley stages with lighthearted, sugary fare. There’s nothing wrong with dessert but Disgraced is bringing heavy food for thought to the table. The 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play…
Los Angeles theater website Bitter Lemons published a piece by Jason Rohrer on October 23 in which Rohrer takes issue with New Times’ Robrt Pela, in particular his October 9 essay, It’s Not Okay to Review Plays After One Act, Christopher Frizzelle. Pela argued in that piece that it is…
New Times picks the best fashion, outdoors, and theater events in Metro Phoenix from November 6 to November 8. La Dolce Vita Garden Party We can sum up Phoenix Art Musem’s La Dolce Vita Garden Party in just three words: footloose, fancy, free. Starting at 6 p.m. Friday, November 6, patrons…
“I use the same approach to clothes as I did when I designed buildings,” the late Gianfranco Ferré once said. “It is basic geometry: You take a flat form and revolve it in space.” This hyper-technical, detail-oriented approach the Italian architect turned designer employed is evident in Phoenix Art Museum’s…
Autograph Collection Hotels opens its first Phoenix property, The Camby, in December 2015. Marriott International owns the Autograph chain, which includes more than 100 properties around the world, but individual hotels are independently operated. Host Hotels & Resorts is behind the Phoenix hotel. Located at the corner of Camelback Mountain at 24th Street…
Of all the places in the cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson is coming to Phoenix. In addition to serving as America’s favorite astrophysicist, Tyson hosts the StarTalk podcast and presented Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. You probably also recognize him from guest appearances on The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. Soon, he’ll take his…
Phoenix Ghost Tours Opening as part of the nationwide Orpheum Circuit of theaters in 1929, Phoenix’s Orpheum saw its fair share of vaudeville performers and touring Broadway productions pass through. It seems inevitable that in its storied history that eerie creaking, bumps in the night, and other imprints of the…
For years now, developers have been working toward transforming the former Lexington Hotel in central Phoenix into a boutique art hotel. Finally, the project has a name and a semi-firm timeline. On October 26, Habitat Metro and Bond Partners announced that renovations will be completed in spring 2016 and the new…
Day of Our Lives Book-Signing Watch out for fan apoplexy at the Days of Our Lives: 50 Years book-signing event at Changing Hands Tempe. It’s not just a soap opera; it’s a fiercely beloved soap opera that’s been on since 1965. The lovely commemorative book ($34.99) gets you and a…
