Big-name drag racers like Tony Pedregon, Cruz Pedregon, John Force, Del Worsham, Tony Schumacher, Brandon Bernstein, and Hillary Will are scheduled to be in Phoenix for this fan-friendly NHRA preseason tuneup event. Fri., Jan. 23; Sat., Jan. 24; Sun., Jan. 25, 2009…
Unless “green” is on your words-not-to-utter list for 2009, you should check out this two-day expo, featuring reps from various environmentally friendly vendors and businesses. Sat., Jan. 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 2009…
For centuries, golf has been a game of class and distinction. A gentleman’s sport in which deals are struck and lifelong alliances formed. At least that’s what golfers tell us. But at the end of the day, a game that dull is more likely a chance for a bunch of…
There may be nothing new under the sun, but back in late 1978, four skinny British kids named David Haskins, Kevin Haskins, Peter Murphy, and Daniel Ash cooked up something totally unprecedented beneath the Northampton gloom. The band was Bauhaus. The foreboding, atmospheric sound was eventually dubbed gothic rock. Music…
Whenever we try to be sexy, we inevitably end up knocking over stacks of high-priced china. Still, there’s hope. Every Saturday, Scandalesque co-founder and “Queen of the Blazing Bustier” Pyra Sutra whips brainy types like us into hot-for-teacher doppelgängers with her Art of the Tease burlesque workshop at Team Yoga…
Laying outside in a T-shirt and shorts in the dead of winter is one of the benefits of surviving Phoenix summers. One downside? Unless you want to drive for six hours, there isn’t a wave-worthy body of water around. Instead of being bummed out, hit the beach, at least sonically,…
We love monster trucks. No, wait. Before you break up with us, understand that it’s completely gratifying to witness these growling behemoths, weighing upward of 9,000 pounds and standing more than 10 feet tall, grinding regular, steel-body autos into tin cans before breaking into a frenzy of freestyling donuts. It’s…
You hate fashion. However, as you pull on your tube socks and tuck your Far Side T-shirt into your leather-belted khaki shorts, you are, believe it or not, making one helluva “fashion” statement. Take it a little more seriously — will ya? — by checking out the premiere of Tiffe…
By the mid-21st century, repossession of organs right out of deadbeat transplant recipients will be legal. That’s the gruesome premise behind the 2008 film Repo! The Genetic Opera, which returns to Chandler Cinemas (where it played in December) as part of the Repo! Road Tour 3. Darren Lynn Bousman from…
If you want a steamy-hot weekend, there’s no time like the present to start warming up, so call that young breezy whose number you scored at Circle K and seduce her with the romantic atmosphere at SoulCicle. The evening features low- to mid-tempo indie and old-school classics by Chicago DJ…
Male and female cowpokes with guns hold one of them shootin’ contests at Estrella Mountain Regional Park during the Cowboy Mounted Shooters Competition. Sat., Jan. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 25, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 2009…
The last major event of the this year’s auto-auction sweepstakes brings Kruse’s ginormous line of collectible models to the Valley. Thu., Jan. 22, 1 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 23, 10 a.m.; Sat., Jan. 24, 10 a.m.; Sun., Jan. 25, 10 a.m., 2009…
This year’s tour centers on the city’s Evergreen Historic District. The price includes admission to the tour and the historical museum and lunch at nearby RigaTony’s. Sat., Jan. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 2009…
Michelle Kaisertian of Indiana University discusses the exhibit “Elihu Vedder’s Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.” Tue., Jan. 27, 7 p.m., 2009…
The Dow’s down 3.5 percent, Congress is preparing a second $350 billion bailout package, and Kia’s offering cars for a buck. It seems the only one who isn’t losing her shirt these days is local artist Kaori Takamura, who retired from graphic-design work to pursue her craft full-time. Takamura’s signature…
The ASU professor signs Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs. Mon., Jan. 26, 7 p.m., 2009…
If Portland’s not the next Seattle – the sonic boom town of the ’90s – then the Oregon town is at least the next Phoenix, considering all of the Valley musicians who have relocated there in the past few years. The latest defectors-to-be, Teague Cullen and Bri White, are about…
You wanna see Bill Shatner? Turn on Boston Legal. We prefer pop-cultural sci-fi icons who aren’t quite so, uh, iconic, and this year’s Phoenix Comicon will dish out a heaping helping of special guests from the pop-cult fringe. These include Richard LeParmentier, the Death Star Commander in the original Star…
Brother Augustine III of the Covenant of Christ’s Flesh was once blessed with a vision of the true Heaven. To everyone’s horror, it included no allusions to the classical depictions of God’s Kingdom – not a single chaste angel floated about and no eternal weight of saintly glory rested upon…
Because they’re antithetical to our moviegoing comfort zone of 20 minutes of previews and a 100-minute feature, short films require a special sort of patience that has nothing to do with time and everything with a different way of seeing. For those with the right kind of eyes, the payoff…
Neither artist Angel De Cora nor her art have anything to do with motor homes. The “Winnebago” in the title of Linda M. Waggoner’s book Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist refers to the Winnebago reservation in Nebraska where De Cora was born in 1871. De…
If you’re an eBay PowerSeller, you’ll scoff at this modest sale. Personally, we go to this low-key annual affair ’cause we like books. We like choosing them. We like reading them. When we’ve finished the last line, we like placing them on a shelf and feeling a small ping! of…
