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 vintage and antique shopping in metro Phoenix. Best Place to Buy Vintage Clothing: Vintage by Misty When Misty Guerriero-Navon announced plans to move her vintage…
Another month is on us. The Arizona State Fair has wrapped up, capping off an extremely good concert series with an epic old-school hip-hop show. Gone are the marquee names the state fair brought in October, but November ain’t looking bad, either. Check out our picks below for this week,…
Keanu Reeves in John WickOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). We also scoop out some time for John Wick, which helps restore our faith in violent movies, Horns, Nightcrawler…
Halloweekend is in full swing, with haunted houses and parties galore. Here are five more things to add to your spooky to-do list. Gotham City Halloween Though it’s been met with mixed reviews, we’ve got to say that we are pretty taken with Fox’s Gotham. While the comic book-inspired drama…
Darkness falls across the desert. Costumed peeps with orange drinks flirt. Phoenicians crawl in search of bands, providing entertainment for all the land. And whosoever shall be seeking musical help, should our list of parties and concerts consult. Well, there’s only so much co-opting of Vincent Price and Michael Jackson…
Last month Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for best DJs and bands in metro Phoenix…
Last month 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 medical marijuana or smoking supplies in metro Phoenix. Best Place for a Complete Medical Marijuana Experience: Medical Marijuana Farmers Market This twice-monthly…
When you aren’t bingeing on candy, watching scary movies, and visiting haunted houses this Halloweek, there are plenty more options for things to do in and around Phoenix. From ballet to bike riding, here are our recommendations. Interview with the Vampire It’s not hard to get into the Halloween spirit…
We hope you don’t have a music hangover from last weekend. The weather was gorgeous, and the music festivals were so plentiful we expect you made like us and saw music every opportunity you had, which was many. So it’d be understandable if you didn’t want to hear any music…
Seminar Writers are fun people (trust us), but we might be at our best one on one. In Theresa Rebeck’s play Seminar, five writers convene in a Manhattan apartment. One is renowned author Leonard, a teacher whom each of the others has paid $5000 to, no surprise, verbally abuse them…
There’s a little bit of everything this weekend, including a band called 40lb Vagina. Seemingly all the local bands you’re used to seeing playing around town are up at the Apache Lake Music Festival. There is a three-day R&B and smooth jazz festival, the Arizona Jazz Festival. And there is…
It’s awards season and the hyped movies are starting to land in theaters. On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we talk about Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, and Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip, and carve out some time to recommend Nothing Bad Can Happen and Glen…
Another great week for music. You have it good this month, Phoenix. Check out our picks for the best shows here, and browse our comprehensive concert listings for a giant list of musical options…
You have exactly 11 days to come up with a Halloween costume. While we’ve dealt you a lifeline with our roundup of 2014’s hottest costumes, we can appreciate that you’re waiting for inspiration to strike — or paralyzed by fear of choosing between being an emoji or banding together with…
Last month Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for healthy/specialty restaurants in metro Phoenix. Best Vegetables: FnB They don’t call her “the veggie whisperer” for nothing. Chef Charleen Badman really does have the magic…
With the news that Paul Feig is going to reboot Ghostbusters with an all-female cast, we wonder on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast what it would be like if they re-did another ’80s classic: Young Guns. We then move onto the latest Brad Pitt World War II movie, Fury,…
Wanda Sykes Love or hate her, Wanda Sykes doesn’t give a, well, you know. Her philosophy of “I’ma Be Me” has been brought on by a life of adversity and adjustment. The comic has tackled everything from race to gender, divorce to cancer, and homosexuality to parenthood, all while bringing…
Take a deep breath. Concert season is in full swing, and we have a full slate of shows to see this weekend. There is a massive local hip-hop festival, a show by a local hero, shows by rock legends, current rap stars. Everything you could want is happening this weekend…
By Joseph Hess While Aerosmith still flails around in a body without bones, propped up by the hot air of its backward-cap-wearing fanbase, most sensible bands know when to call it quits. Sure, reunion tours are a thing, but those tend to happen on the stinking fumes of nostalgia, and…
Last month Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for ethnic restaurants in metro Phoenix. Best Japanese Restaurant: ShinBay On the exterior, chef Shinji Kurita’s James Beard Award-nominated restaurant looks like just another sleek strip…
If nothing else, this week’s slate of concerts in and around Metro Phoenix is what you’d call diverse, or, at the very least, eclectic. How else would you describe a five-day span that feature everything from the indie power-pop of The New Pornographers and the Latin-infused trip-hop of French-Chliean emcee…
Billy Idol Book Signing It’s been a minute since Billy Idol last wrote one of his big hits, but he’s still one of those celebrities who needs no introduction. The ’80s punk rocker turned pop icon has had one hell of a ride, and now he’s telling all in a…
