SAT 8/20Runs. That’s what bikers do. They hop on their hogs, crotch rockets or whatever slang they use to describe their favorite hunk of motorized steel and go on runs. Sometimes they even do it in a good cause. That’s the case on Saturday, August 20, when the Salt River…
THU 8/18Whether you’re a historic preservationist, a developer with a wrecking ball or somewhere in between, you’ll dig Phoenix: Then and Now. The book is a collaborative effort between two native Phoenicians, Paul Scharbach (a professional photographer) and John H. Akers (a writer/historian), who discuss and sign copies at 7…
8/19-9/14The Trunk Space’s new exhibition “Old/New/Traditional/Radical” showcases “artists with classic training and a modern aesthetic,” says the gallery’s JRC. Alan Jones, Susan G. White, and Marc Liao — all from Arizona — take well-trod styles (ceramics, quilts, vessels) and mod ’em up for the new millennium. Jones, well-known for his…
A couple of months ago, Matt Brown bashed the heck out of a bunch of old computers to create what he calls “robotic sculpture.” This time around, he and several cohorts are constructing a humongous papier-mâché squid. This is the sort of creative otherness you’ll experience at Brown’s event The…
THU 8/11When we tried to call Wammo, co-founder of the wacky, acoustic alterna-swing/blues band Asylum Street Spankers, all we got was the sound of sirens and Wammo screaming, “Oh my God, oh my God, look out!” followed by a beep. We’re glad Wammo’s got a sick sense of humor; otherwise,…
8/13-9/2For five years, Darci Johnson’s reZurrection Gallery has lent a touch of funk and spunk to the downtown Tempe scene. Now, like a phoenix bird in reverse, reZurrection’s doors are closing because of rising rent prices in the area. Johnson plans to take her furnishings and accessories online (at www.rezurrection.com),…
SAT 8/13When rollerblades exploded into suburbia, they got caught up in the whirlwind of extreme sports, baggy pants, and unintelligible lingo of kids pulling “serious air” off “gnarly half-pipes.” Meanwhile, the general camaraderie and anachronistic charm that went with them were left in the dust. Until, that is, some marketers…
8/12-8/27What’s black, white and red all over? A penguin in a blender? A zebra with diaper rash? No, it’s a world-première drama presented by Is What It Is Productions at the Studio One Performing Arts Center, 4520 East Thomas. Black, White and Read All Over is a story that relates…
thursday january 1 Craig Shoemaker at the Improv: The alchemical comedian has transformed a miserable childhood as a hopeless geek into a he-man mint–he was the American Comedy Awards pick for best standup comedian of 1997, he’s slated to host this year’s VH1 game show My Generation, and he’s to…
thursday december 25 Salvation Army Christmas Dinner: If you’re using this publication for warmth as well as reading material, you may want to drop by this free, open-to-the-public repast in Exhibit Halls A and B at Phoenix Civic Plaza, Second Street and Adams, from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, December…
thursday december 18 Baby, It’s Bright Outside: Fiesta of Light; Ahwatukee-Foothills Festival of Lights; ZooLights; “Wild Winter Nights”: The City of Phoenix’s free Fiesta continues nightly, through Thursday, January 1, 1998, in the area surrounding Symphony Hall Terrace, Second Street and Adams (534-3378). Phoenix’s other major display, Ahwatukee’s bounteous, white-lights-only…
thursday december 11 Baby, It’s Bright Outside: Fiesta of Light; Ahwatukee-Foothills Festival of Lights; ZooLights; “Wild Winter Nights”: The City of Phoenix’s free Fiesta continues nightly, through Thursday, January 1, 1998, in the area surrounding Symphony Hall Terrace, Second Street and Adams (534-3378). Phoenix’s other major display, Ahwatukee’s bounteous, white-lights-only…
thursday december 4 Baby, It’s Bright Outside: Fiesta of Light; Ahwatukee-Foothills Festival of Lights; “Wild Winter Nights”: Phoenix’s free Fiesta continues nightly, through Thursday, January 1, 1998, in the area surrounding Symphony Hall Terrace, Second Street and Adams (534-3378). Phoenix’s other major display, Ahwatukee’s bounteous, white-lights-only bonanza, can be viewed…
thursday november 27 The Ben Folds Five: The piano-bass-drums trio from Chapel Hill, North Carolina–so named because “it sounds better than the Ben Folds Three,” says baby-grand man Folds–plows a deep furrow about midway between roots and alt. In fact, the BFF sounds a bit like a Gen X version…
thursday november 20 The Food Chain: Though Nicky Silver is one of America’s more promising comic playwrights, his writing sometimes straddles the line that divides standup patter from subtler characterization; there’s surely no little connection between that and men having an en masse attraction to Silver’s humor that mostly eludes…
thursday november 13 The Food Chain: Though Nicky Silver (Pterodactyls; Free Will and Wanton Lust) is one of America’s more promising comic playwrights, his writing sometimes straddles the line that divides standup patter from subtler characterization; there’s surely no little connection between that and men having an en masse attraction…
thursday november 6 The Food Chain: Though Nicky Silver (Pterodactyls; Free Will and Wanton Lust) is one of America’s more promising comic playwrights, his writing sometimes straddles the line that divides standup patter from subtler characterization; there’s surely no little connection between that and men having an en masse attraction…
thursday october 30 Three Semi-Automatics Just for Fun: The genesis of this black-comic, multimedia piece–produced by Arizona State University’s Institute for Studies in the Arts and billed as “June Cleaver wearing pearls and a pistol”–was a visit to an Albuquerque bookstore by one of the work’s principals, American actress Leslie…
thursday october 23 UK/AZ You Like It: Romeo et Juliette, Hamlet on Trial and More Stuff From Beyond the Pond: The UK/AZ Festival celebrates the–rather tenuous–connection(s) between England and Arizona. So what have France and Italy got to do with it? Well, Arizona Opera opens its season with French composer…
thursday october 16 UK/AZ You Like It: Phoenix Symphony’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ATOP’s The Essential Henry V, ATC’s Blithe Spirit and More Stuff From Beyond the Pond: The UK/AZ Festival celebrates the–rather tenuous–connection(s) between England and Arizona. Guest conductor Christopher Wilkins wields the baton in Phoenix Symphony’s presentation of…
thursday october 9 Further Stuff From Beyond the Pond: UK/AZ’s “Wallace and Gromit” Mania, “Rootstein Mannequins” and More: The UK/AZ Festival, continuing through October (though some of the offerings extend beyond Allhallows Eve), celebrates the–rather tenuous–connection(s) between England and Arizona. Nick Park’s beloved claymation characters “Wallace and Gromit” (Wallace is…
thursday october 2 UK/AZ You Like It: Othello, Zandra Rhodes, “Rootstein Mannequins” and Other Stuff From Beyond the Pond: The UK/AZ Festival, continuing through October (though some of the offerings extend beyond Allhallows Eve), celebrates the–rather tenuous–connection(s) between England and Arizona. Britain’s Royal National Theatre–making its inaugural visit to the…
