Bargain hunters, this is a big deal. Nordstrom Rack’s grand opening at Tempe Marketplace is set for Friday, October 3. The 35,000-square-foot store is the sixth Rack location in Arizona and the fifth in the Valley of the Sun, offering discounts between 30 and 70 percent on Nordstrom items, as…
The designers are coming. Phoenix Fashion week revealed its final 2014 lineup of emerging and established designers on Monday, September 29. And the event, which will return to Talking Stick Resort October 2 through October 4, will feature a few familiar faces…
The Martha Stewart American Made Awards recognize makers across the country who create innovative and beautiful products. And this year, a few of the Valley’s top creators have been recognized as finalists. Samantha Irwin and Andrew King’s Chandler-based Standard Wax and Sebastian Sandersius’ Phoenix-based Bison Made were named finalists in…
Art meets hotel during ARTELPHX, but don’t expect boring wall art and bland elevator music. The event brings performance and installation pieces from area artists to The Clarendon, where they’re installed throughout the midtown hotel.Turn a corner and you could find a sculpture. Pop into a room and you might…
Storytelling is having a moment. The craze for first-person tales and re-tellings has swept the nation – and Phoenix right along with it. The city’s home to quite a few series, with Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s Lit Lounge a perennial favorite. On Thursday, September 25, the banner series teams…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 1. James Sallis. Though…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 2. Lisa R. Chow…
ASU Art Museum announced on on Monday, September 22, that Garth Johnson is its new curator of ceramics…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 3. Plastic Monsters. Plastic…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 4. Amy Radcliffe. Amy…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 5. Cody Nathaniel Johnson…
A photo’s worth a thousand words. And we probably shouldn’t have skipped math class. Because if we’d bothered to attend, let alone pay attention, then we probably could tell you just how many words the photobooks on view at Phoenix Art Museum are worth. Alas.To tally up the total yourself,…
Fifty years is nothing to sniff at, and for Gammage Auditorium’s half-century anniversary it’ll indulge the senses.Since opening, Gammage has hosted hundreds of shows running the gamut from Wicked to Wilco and Eugene Ormandy to Martha Graham Dance Company. As a look back at that performing arts legacy, ASU’s school…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 6. Elizabeth Maria Naranjo…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 7. Dan Hull. “Storyteller…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 8. Kendra Sollars. It’s…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 9. Nic Wiesinger. Nic…
Where did our obsession with nails — and particularly manicures — come from? Suzanne Shapiro broached the subject on Wednesday, September 10, with her lecture “A Century of the Modern Manicure” at Phoenix Art Museum. Her new book, Nails: The Story of the Modern Manicure, explores the growing popularity and…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 10. Rosalind Shipley. “I…
No offense, but there’s a fair chance you can’t handle Anthony Jeselnik’s jokes.And not to be all intense and Jack Nicholson-y, but, um, they don’t call this guy the “dark prince of comedy” for nothing. Yes, that is a nickname that sounds kind of silly and makes us imagine Labyrinth-era…
Literature meets light rail on Saturday, September 13, when Four Chambers Press presents the first-ever literary flash mob.The independent literary magazine is all about connecting and creating community (hence the name), and what better circumstances for connecting and creating than while in motion with a captive audience? Poets and storytellers…
Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 11. Mimi Jardine. One…
