The Netherlands’ Afrika Museum and African Architecture Matters recently announced that Valley-based Fusion Architecture’s Garden City Park is one of three finalists for the 2010 “Blueprints of Paradise” competition. Kobina Banning, founder of Fusion Architecture (FA), and his team “were asked to visualize their vision on ‘future built Africa,'” says…
Angela Ellsworth and her “sister wives” are finally bringing their doctrine to town. At 7 p.m. Friday, performance artist Ellsworth and her crew present Where the Skies Are Blue, a piece that explores Ellsworth’s experiences of growing up Mormon and her family ties to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ…
Coronado Neighborhood History BookDonna Reiner, Jen Kitson, and the Coronado Neighborhood Association are compiling a history-centric tome about one of Phoenix’s coolest historic neighborhoods, and they’re looking for old photos, stories, and any other relevant materials. The effort will be printed by Arcadia Publishing, who recently dropped a book about…
SMoCA’s Spring Opening Celebration @ Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary ArtSMoCA, 7374 East Second Street, officially celebrates its new spring exhibitions that include “Dance with Camera,” “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other,” and “Imagining Dance.” (Read more about them in our SMoCA preview). The doors open at 6:30 p.m. tonight;…
Scottsdale’s pop-up gallery scene continues to gain steam. One of the latest participants is IDK Gallery, which opened in December and will be unveiling its second art show tonight. Idakatherine Graver has been an artist for 35 years, but IDK, located at 4200 North Marshall Way, Suite 1, is the…
When it came to fighting the power and abolishing slavery, Harriet Tubman was a total pimpstress. How else to explain that her productive life, which ended nearly 100 years ago, is still being immortalized today in productions such as Sister Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman? Local company Desert Dance…
The Willo district rules, particularly on foot, and especially during the Willo Historic Home Tour and Street Festival. A handful of dwellings in Phoenix’s largest historical district, which consists of more than 900 homes, will open their doors for the 23rd annual shindig. Meet in the Willo Historical District, 3rd…
This may be the only instance where you can say that you’re going to chase some skirts and not sound like a complete douche lord. On Saturday, February 12, the Skirt Chaser 5k goes off at Tempe Beach Park, 54 West Rio Salado Parkway. The dealio works like this: Female…
David Tabor is bummed out during a time when love is in the air. On January 4, Tabor, an ordained wedding officiant thanks to the Universal Life Church, posted an ad on Phoenix Craigslist. The gist of the post is to seek one lucky couple to join together in holy…
Waste Management Phoenix Open @ Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale”Waste Management” (aka – not getting sloppy drunk) indeed for this T&A booze fest big-deal PGA tournament that takes through Sunday. Second-round play is going off at this very moment at 17020 North Hayden Road in Scottsdale. For more information, check…
Medlock Plaza on Camelback Road and Central Avenue will soon have a prime spot in its mom-and-pop-centric retail center, and something has got to fill it. As was previously reported, Red Hot Robot, the toy gallery at 14 West Camelback Road, will be moving out at the end of the…
As glass towers and luxury lofts continue rising in downtown Phoenix, there’s been a shindig for the past half-decade that’s truly remained underground. More than five years ago, Bradford and Andy McPants started a modest music night at Bikini Lounge. Today, it’s morphed into 602’sdays, the longest-standing weekly underground party…
The biggest bummer about Black History Month? That it’s only a month, and not Black History Eternal, y’all. It’s cool, though. We’ll take it as well as the First Friday Black History Month Celebration at the Downtown Civic Space Park, 424 North Central Avenue. The outdoor public park is the…
Mesa is an ok place to hang out, we guess? Who are we kidding? The place kind of totally blows, but not completely, especially with spots like Pizza Mart, Hambone, and Mesa Arts Center as well as The Underground. Housed in the former spot of the famed Nile Basement, which…
Two of the league’s most prolific franchises – and some of today’s best QBs – square off when the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV. A couple of chill spots to watch the game – scheduled to kick-off at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas,…
Dude. It rules outside, so you best get moving after reading our Outdoorsy Round-Up for Thursday, February 3: *McDowell Mountain Regional Park, 16300 McDowell Mountain Park Drive in Scottsdale, will be the scene for its Thursday Fitness Hike that’s led by Ranger Amy and continues each Thursday through March 31…
CityCamp Arizona, the latest “unconference” brought to us by the techie and social media geeks of Gangplank, will feature local government officials, programmers, and designers gabbing about how the digital world can improve the community. Scheduled to take place on Tuesday, February 15, at Chandler City Hall, 175 South Arizona…
A local Phoenix artist is organizing an exhibit based on a New York City-started concept and she wants your contributions. Patricia Sahertian is putting together “A Book About Death” — a show that debuted at NYC’s Emily Harvey Foundation in 2009. The exhibition, as its title implies, explores the concepts…
Want to voice your opinion on arts in Arizona? Local arts educators, legislators, business leaders, and artists are looking for feedback and participation in the the 25th annual Arizona Arts Congress. Scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday, February 7, anyone with $15 can show up…
Exhibition of Graffiti Art @ Eric Fischl Gallery Fine Arts Building, Phoenix College Today from 1 to 8 p.m., check out the work of four graf artists, who transformed a movable eight-by-nine-foot wall at Eric Fischl Gallery. At 5, there will be live b-boying and dance. It takes place on…
The film-making crew of Coyote Requiem will be in town this weekend and they want folks, dressed to the Dia de los Muertos nines, to ham it up for the camera. From 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday, a Dia de Los Muertos procession will be recreated in Guadalupe Town Square,…
There was a recent episode of Hoarders where an “artist” couldn’t purge her junk because there was a chance that she would use it in an art piece. At one point, the camera panned over to a couple of her “completed works.” Yikes. You should have seen that stuff. Though…
