FRI 4/1 Get your ears spanked when the thick whip of verbal science comes crashing down Friday, April 1, at the PHiX gallery, 1113 Grand Avenue. A group of 15 Valley poets congregate to stir your minds and souls while laying down their collective abilities of articulation for the first…
Backstage at some nameless arena, the freakishly masked thrash-metal terrorists of Slipknot conduct their traditional pre-concert confab: “We really rocked the hizzle last night,” says frontman Corey Taylor (a.k.a. No. 8). “Although y’all are bummed that the crowds aren’t what they used to be, the single Duality from our newest…
SAT 3/26 How do you make a guy think about horses while watching nude cabaret? “Well, that’s not really the point,” says Janie Wiseman, a manager at Christie’s Cabaret, 44 North 32nd Street, which is hosting “Girls! Girls! Girls!”, a benefit for Wildhorse Ranch Rescue, on Saturday, March 26, starting…
Call it the naked truth. Although depictions of the bare-assed male form throughout history have always had more than a hint of homosexuality — from Grecian urns to the works of Michelangelo and Raphael — Wim Griffith rebukes the stigma that only the swishy set is interested in peeping paintings…
SAT 3/19 Grandpa’s been acting kookier than normal lately, whistling “Pennsylvania 6-5000” to himself, and doing a solo Charleston in the mirror. But don’t up his dosage of Xanax just yet, as the old coot’s probably just aching to skedaddle to “A Night in the 40’s” Big Band Dance and…
3/14-3/20 We may be saucy spectators at the FBR Open, but LPGA golfer and Phoenix resident Carin Koch says she’s never had any hecklers here. If she did, she says she would “probably tell them to go away or stop it.” Well, that beats a golf club to the head…
SUN 3/6 The revolution will be televised — if, that is, you happen to be at Thought Crime, 1019 North Central, on Sunday, March 6, for the Anarchist Library’s screening of the documentary The Fourth World War. Organizer Phil Freedom describes the 78-minute video as “riot porn,” since it features…
Long before they entrenched themselves in a spat rivaling the East Coast/West Coast rivalry of Biggie and Tupac, former Smiths front man Morrissey and fellow sad sot Robert Smith of The Cure somehow produced an offspring, a sullen young’un named Jamie Stewart. Details are sketchy as to how said progeny…
The rumors about ska’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Rude Boys have kept reinventing it again and again, and ska’s last incarnation, “the third wave,” saw its horns and tempo mixed with punk’s sound and drive, as exemplified by bands like the Voodoo Glow Skulls and MU330. Purists often deride…
It’s probably been terribly tough getting ahold of your artist friends lately. Don’t worry, that monolithic mixed-media piece of theirs hasn’t toppled over and pinned them helplessly. Chances are, your pals’ve been furiously focused with putting final flourishes on their contributions to this year’s Art Detour. After all, they’ve gotta…
SAT 2/26 It seems that KTAR personality Gayle Bass really knows how to shake it. And by “it,” we mean a martini — which also, it just so happens, serves as her moneymaker, when Bass and more than a dozen other local luminaries serve as wanna-be mixologists during the Celebrity…
FRI 2/25 So many people still shudder at the “F” word: Feminism, that is. The Guerrilla Girls don’t understand that — after all, they’ve been trying to reinvent the word since 1985, adopting the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms, donning gorilla masks, and using “facts, humor and fake…
THU 2/17 Something fishy this way comes, when the Tuna Helpers flop onto the stage at the Emerald Lounge, 1514 North Seventh Avenue on Thursday, February 17. The female trio call themselves a “pop-goth, performance art, puppet-wielding band,” and intersperse their own songs with performances by homemade puppets, some of…
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and experience the genuine, bona fide, certified humbug hullabaloo of the one and only Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. No siree, not even the legendary P.T. Barnum himself could’ve conceived such a clamorous concoction of sinister industrial noise, death rock, and portending lyrics offered by this…
If you run into Josh Provost this weekend, make sure there’s no spinach in your teeth. You never know — you might just wind up an extra in the 28-year-old’s latest short film. Along with the six other members of aptly named Matter of Chance Productions, Provost will be hurriedly…
2/11-3/11 Get your drink on, get your freak on, and get your strap-on, because the 22nd annual Exotic Art Show is back again. “People who like to dress crazy and sexy can come here, and nobody gives them a problem,” says Baron Dixon, one of 60-plus artists exhibiting work in…
Phil Buckman thinks he’s awesome. It’s not hard to see why the towering 24-year-old musician from Flagstaff feels this way, since more than 200 howling fans have packed Modified Arts to witness his whacked one-man act, I Hate You When You’re Pregnant. But if Buckman needed further reassurance, he might…
SAT 2/12 With plenty of cold nights left until the spring thaw, keep yourself warm at Fetish Revolution 5 on Saturday, February 12, at the Paper Heart, 750 Grand Avenue. Owners Jen and Scott Sanders will probably leave the heater off during the steamy soiree, with enough glimpses of the…
WED 2/9 Many a music fan has declared Hank Williams III to be more about image than talent. They’ve accused the Misfits-loving, tattoo-wearing cowpunk of milking the hellbilly persona of a hard-drinkin’, Southern-fried outlaw, labeled him a novelty act, and sentenced him to forever toil in the shadow of grandpappy…
SAT 2/5 We’ve got some deep divides in the Valley: Republican against Democrat, warmonger versus peacenik. But c’mon, people, now, smile on your brother, everybody get together for the free Unity Walk and Diversity Festival on Saturday, February 5, in Tempe. “Cities sometimes argue over the next mall or where…
If a band is known for its kooky costumes and outrageous theatrics, people might assume there’s something lacking in its sound. Not so with the J-pop punkers in Peelander-Z, who back their whack with some solid songs. Their origins are a closely guarded secret, but news reports from Area Z…
Rennie Harris doesn’t mind if you use a superlative or two to describe the funkdafied hip-hop and b-boy style his Puremovement dance company will bust out at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts this weekend. After all, he’s heard them all before: dazzling, dynamic, inspiring, compelling . . . the…
