21 Best Shops in Metro Phoenix

Earlier this year, Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for shopping in metro Phoenix. Best Beauty Supply Store: Citrine Natural Beauty Bar Have you looked at the ingredients in your skincare products lately? How…

7 Best Drinks in Metro Phoenix

In September, Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for cocktails, beer and even a sangria in metro Phoenix. Best Moonshine: Bootleggers If you think moonshine is a drink for hillbillies and country bumpkins, we’ve…

6 Best Concerts in Phoenix This Week

‘Tis the season for something. Whether you unironically don an ugly Christmas sweater and embrace the holidays or spend December bitching about consumerism and the inherent shallowness of modern society, there’s something about the last month of the year you’re doing differently. If you can spare the dough from your…

5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

Meet Me Downtown If you like to do fun-runs but think they’re too expensive, Meet Me Downtown. If you wish you had more folks to exercise with, Meet Me Downtown. If you’d enjoy walking or running a three- to five-mile course through Phoenix, Meet Me Downtown. If you want to…

5 Best Spots for Mexican Sweets in Metro Phoenix

In September, Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for places to buy Mexican sweets in metro Phoenix. Best Mexican Candy: Dulceria Pico Rico If you think Mexican candy begins and ends with Pelon, the…

Here’s Why We Love Chris Rock’s Top Five (PODCAST)

We begin this week’s Voice Film Club podcast with a Thomas Pynchon story, before hosts Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly, move onto Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie adaption of his novel, Inherent Vice. It’s “in some ways a godawful mess, indulgent…

17 Best Mexican Dishes in Metro Phoenix

In September, Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for Mexican dishes in metro Phoenix. Best Chilaquiles: Pepe’s Taco Villa Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, there is no wrong time to sink your teeth into chilaquiles…

20 Best Concert Photos of 2014

2014 was a hell of a year. Phoenix residents got a taste of a wide variety of awesome concerts, and our photographers were hard at work capturing the action. Here are our 20 favorite concert photos we took in 2014. Check out more than 100 more here…

6 Best Concerts to See in Phoenix This Week

The Thanksgiving-to-Christmas stretch is always light on concerts, since many touring acts take that month off and many fans choose to stay home and focus on the busy lead-up to the end of the year. While there’s not much going on, the shows you do go to will be populated…

5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

“Modern Spirit” Naturally, you’re a total expert when it comes to modern art — but is George Morrison on your radar? If yes, cool! If no, that’s okay, too. Because either way you can become well-acquainted through “Modern Spirit,” the first-ever comprehensive retrospective that looks back on the late Native…

25 Best Club Candids Photos of November

So, how was your November? You probably did the Thanksgiving thing with the family, watched tons of football, and got into it with other Black Friday shoppers in order to nab the biggest deals. As for the Club Candids crew, they spent the past month celebrating Day of the Dead,…

5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

“Before Dawn” In the summer, the lightless hours of the night are abuzz with activity in Phoenix and surrounding areas, the cover of night shielding all from the harshness of the sun. Valley artist Alexandra Bowers reverentially explores the desert rituals of the dark in her show “Before Dawn,” which…

5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

Alternative Black Friday We hate waking up early on regular days. So the odds of us rising at the crack of dawn to hunt down deals the day after a government-sanctioned celebration that revolves around binge-eating? Um, not great. We’d rather sleep in on November 28 and head to Alternative…