Thursday 5 AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Bar Smith: Thursday Ladies Night with DJ AL3, & DJ NERD (hip-hop, Latin, EDM) Bobby Q’s: All Star Thursdays with DJ Freshmaker, DJ Phlava, DJ Dark Vader, & DJ Skoolboi (hip-hop, Top 40, reggae) C.A.S.A. Sunba: House Party…
EDM artists, DJs, and producers could learn a thing or two from Lunice, at least in regard to how to hustle. The 25-year-old Montreal native cut his teeth as a b-boy in the early Aughts, popping and locking as member of the 701 Squad and working gigs nonstop before gradually…
Editor’s note: Here’s a guide to holiday lights displays in 2016. Try as you might, it’s sort of impossible to escape any aspect of the holidays, now that the most wonderful time of the year has rolled around. That’s especially true when it comes to all the pretty lights that are…
According to the folks who regularly participate in Phoenix’s annual No Pants Light Rail Ride, it’s generally a good idea to wear a jacket, hoodie, or pullover of some sort, not to mention some colorful socks and (obviously) a clean pair of drawers. Pants on the other hand, as the…
Attention, horror film geeks and promiscuous teenyboppers, Jason Vorhees is headed our way next year. And he’s bringing Repo! The Genetic Opera’s Paviche “Pavi” Largo and Riff Randell from Rock ‘n’ Roll High School with him. The actors and actress behind this crew of iconic cult and horror film characters…
Thursday 28 AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Bar Smith: Thursday Ladies Night with DJ AL3, & DJ NERD (hip-hop, Latin, EDM) Bobby Q’s: All Star Thursdays with DJ Freshmaker, DJ Phlava, DJ Dark Vader, & DJ Skoolboi (hip-hop, Top 40, reggae) C.A.S.A. Sunba: House Party…
Pete “SuperMix” Salaz is planning to lay out an impressive spread for his nearest and dearest on Thanksgiving, although its gonna be a feast that’s more audio than edible. The godfather of local house music has been rocking record decks for more than two decades, and he and a slew…
It might behoove the members of the Valley’s collective nerd-dom to ease off on their holiday spending, pare down their wish lists, and start squirreling away some cash ASAP. That’s because another major geek-friendly event will be happening exactly a week after next year’s Phoenix Comicon. And by all appearances,…
As any Whovian worth his or her weight in Jelly Babies can tell you — in between elated squeeing, at any rate — the last 72 hours has featured much feteing of Doctor Who’s 50th birthday, including that epic feature-length special that starred both David Tennant and Matt Smith and…
Call us huge nerds for making such a comparison, but local superstar DJ export Z-Trip has a few things in common with Doctor Who. Stick with us on this one for a moment. Both, for instance, scamper through the annals of history in pursuit of their raison d’être via equipment…
Depending on the state of your family’s interpersonal relations and the amount of emotional baggage they have stowed away, Thanksgiving will either be a joyous or hellish experience. If it’s the former, you might be in search of a place to knock back a few with some of your relations…
Remember that one music festival Liquid Sol? You know, the one that reportedly was originally going to happen in September out in Florence only to be rescheduled for November in Glendale and then finally put off once more until next spring. Yeah, well, it’s most definitely happening and now has…
Things seem to be constantly changing in Scottsdale, especially when it comes to the city’s nightlife district. In the past few years alone, we’ve witnessed old favorites like Axis/Radius and Martini Ranch close and new arrivals like Maya and Hi-Fi make stunning debuts. More changes are afoot, however, including the…
Thursday 21 AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Bar Smith: Thursday Ladies Night with DJ AL3, & DJ NERD (hip-hop, Latin, EDM) Bobby Q’s: All Star Thursdays with DJ Freshmaker, DJ Phlava, DJ Dark Vader, & DJ Skoolboi (hip-hop, Top 40, reggae) C.A.S.A. Sunba: House Party…
On the off chance you haven’t noticed, scads of reboots, makeovers, and metamorphoses have gone down in Scottsdale’s after-dark scene. In just the past month alone, Barney’s Boathouse was sold to new proprietors and became more of a hip-hop spot called Arizona Eye Candy, Jackrabbit Lounge underwent renovation and was…
The Scottsdale Waterfront is fast becoming one of our favorite places to check out dazzling and eye-pleasing public art in recent weeks, particularly the kind that lights up the night after darkness falls. Earlier this month, the waterfront and the adjacent Arizona Canal featured such stunningly vibrant large-scale works as…
The yuletide season can be an exercise in utter chaos. Or, at the very least, busy. There are gifts to buy, feasts and fêtes to plan, trees to trim, halls to deck, and family gatherings to attend. Making your to-do lists even longer are the hundreds of special events over…
Thursday 14 AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Bar Smith: Thursday Ladies Night with DJ AL3, & DJ NERD (hip-hop, Latin, EDM) Bobby Q’s: All Star Thursdays with DJ Freshmaker, DJ Phlava, DJ Dark Vader, & DJ Skoolboi (hip-hop, Top 40, reggae) C.A.S.A. Sunba: House Party…
Believe it or not, but it looks as though Adam Dumper’s been taking a few cues from both Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders lately. Over the past year or so, the local artist and impresario, better known as Dumperfoo, has transformed his signature event The Blunt Club into a veritable…
Hey geeks, did you happen to catch Thor 2: The Dark World this past weekend? If not, you were one of the few who didn’t, considering that Marvel’s latest entry into its cinematic universe raked in an estimated $86 million during its debut weekend. But if you did, however, you…
Guests of the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel — not to mention the patrons of the Arizona Center and the residents of a few apartments building along Third Street — got a bit of unexpected entertainment this past Saturday evening. The uproarious Phoenix Annual Parade of the Arts rolled past each…
On Thursday night, one of the Furious Styles Crew’s biggest prodigal sons made his return. And he did it in honor of the long-running b-boy/urban arts crew’s 20th anniversary this weekend. Local DJ kingpin Z-Trip paid a surprise visit to the Blunt Club at Tempe’s Yucca Tap Room (the event…
