It’s hard to imagine the end of the 20th century without globetrotting Brit Robin Leach to give us a window into the decadent tastes of the fabulously wealthy and cultural elite. Lunch Time Theater’s Secrets of the Rich and Famous gives us a glimpse of the well-to-do prior to the…

Kevin Smith is a talker. The rebel filmmaker’s built up a podcast empire, and two of his premier shows pop up in downtown Phoenix in their live incarnations on Saturday, June 7. The master of the View Askewniverse started the Jay & Silent Bob Get Old podcast as a laidback…

You’ve seen The Social Network and you think scoring a billion dollars with a new app or website would be way cool. But, oh man — this week has ground you down and the weekend seems nowhere in sight. CO+HOOTS’s Midweek Mindtweek is here to disrupt your blah-some existence.Downtown Phoenix’s…

If you find yourself zombie-ing out in front of the various screens in front of you, you might need less traditional entertainment to shake up your routine. Just imagine a carnival barker beckoning you and touting the amazing feats of The Strange Danger Thrill Show who make tracks to the…

The Balboa Poet House in Tempe, run by Deborah Berman and Joe Montaño III, has been hosting salon-style poetry readings in an intimate, domestic setting since 2012. The poetic crew teams up with downtown Phoenix’s Great Arizona Puppet Theater to go even bigger with Rise! A Night of Hispanic Poetry,…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is the most famous sleuth the world has known, and the 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles might be his most adapted outing. The gender-swapped play Bitch of the Baskervilles puts the latest twist on the tale on Friday, May 23.Current Theatrics of…

Cash Inn Country has long been known as a place where the cowgirls play, especially during line-dancing nights. On Sunday, May 25, the lady-leaning juke joint goes glam when the Viva la Femme variety show sashays in.Birthday Suit Burlesque diva Robin Harts is the ringleader for this many-splendored celebration. Under…

One inevitable fact of summer: the warmer it gets, the shorter the shorts. Instead of being a creep and gawking at exposed gams, focus your peepers on the short films from local filmmakers that’ll be featured in Theater 13’s Short Shorts with Short Leash on Saturday, May 24.The fourth annual…

Thanks to Mother’s Day, we get an annual reminder of where we came from but where did we all come from? The Encyclopedia Show AZ tackles creation myths on Sunday, May 11.Whether your preferred origin of humankind starts in complete darkness like in Genesis or involves, say, the world as…

Until Beyoncé comes out with a premium cerveza of her own, we have AZ Girls’ Pint Out getting the word out to the ladies about the finer points of ales, lagers, and porters. The brew crew celebrates four years of gathering gals to quaff craft beer throughout the Valley on…

We’ve known for a while that the Internet is for porn, but when Avenue Q initially hit Broadway in 2003, it was good to have its catchy ditty remind us. The hilariously raunchy musical has returned to the Valley this month.The Muppet-esque puppets and Sesame Street-style songs by Robert Lopez…

One of the pinnacle moments with comic book superheroes is when we get a peek at the secret identities behind the masks. The Third Annual Arizona Comic Mini Expo goes one step further and gives us a good dose of the artistic personalities behind the pages on May 3.Saturday is…

Maps marked with “Heyre Be Dragons” alerted astute travelers of the Old World to the uncharted parts of the sea where, surely, creatures noshed on the bones of explorers. Space 55’s Heyre Be Dragons, In My Mind takes us into the unknown on Friday, April 25.A cadre of local playwrights…

There’s something about the sheen of Old Hollywood that shines after all these years. The glamor of the golden age of the silver screen goes zany when the comic opera Don Pasquale splashes into downtown Phoenix on Friday, April 25.Updating one of Gaetano Donizetti’s 19th century masterpieces to the 1950s,…

Soothsayers have been predicting the end of the world since the dawn of time and we’re still here. It’s an entirely different matter, though, when the government sounds the alarm and tells us that even duck-and-covering can’t save us as in Binary Theatre Company’s latest production, Earthlings, on Saturday, April…

In 1980, Phoenix-based video game company Amstar Electronics released an upright cabinet called, what else, Phoenix. This vintage descendent of Space Invaders and cousin of Galaga will be right at home at the ZapCon Arcade & Pinball Convention on Saturday, April 12.Your smartphone has more processing power than any machine…

If you’ve noticed a resurgence of flannel shirts and Doc Martens, you’re not in a time warp to the early 1990s — it’s the cycle of what’s old being new again. Space 55 Theater’s solo performance extravaganza A Bitch in Time abides and goes way old school on April 11…

‘Tis the season to get back in touch with nature, take a few hikes, and head out for some camping adventures. The dangers, though, of spinning into the wild range well beyond simply getting a sunburn or bug bites. Award-winning author Nevada Barr revisits the great outdoors in her latest…

According to Back to the Future Part II, we have hoverboards to look forward to next year. Until then, skateboarders will have a headstart on the sickest of tricks. The 13th Annual Cowtown Skateboards PHXAM gets fly Saturday, April 5.Nearly 200 up-and-coming riders will hail from all over including Canada,…

The Valley’s gearing up to host the Super Bowl and its accompanying parties next January. Yawn. Holler at us when we finally land the insane international fiesta that is the FIFA World Cup. Until then, the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team vs. Team Mexico on Wednesday, April 2, will have…

Great cities have great centrally located parks where music & cultural celebrations and people seeking to commune with nature get equal play. A new vision for the much overlooked Margaret T. Hance Park will roll out at enHANCE, the Hance Park Master Plan Community Celebration on Thursday, March 27.While Hance…

To make or not to make, there is no question: humans are made to make things. The Southwest Maker Fest crams an abundance of tinkering and inspiration into one day on Saturday, March 22, in downtown Mesa.The Maker Movement pledges allegiance to taking ideas from the imagination phase to create…