Eduardo Montalvo, David Tinsley, and Jade Johnson in Revenge of a King. Photo by Laura Durant. Messing with Shakespeare can be a very good thing. It introduces audiences to a variety of genres and styles of theater that they might have overlooked or avoided in the past. The cross-pollination runs…
Where will you be watching Sunday’s big game?Tomorrow is shaping up to be one of the biggest days in Phoenix sports history. It all depends, of course, on how well the Arizona Cardinals do against the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s NFC Championship game. Will the Red Birds defy the predictions…
It’s Chihuly…again! Check our fabulous slideshow.Well, Arty Girl got caught in the crossfire between two other bloggers in the Valley and, consequently, was called out on dropping the ball on today’s previous Arty Girl blog.The free weekend at the Desert Botanical Garden has apparently been booked up, as was pointed…
Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies, it’s swastika flags and SS uniforms. Although the Holocaust movie has been on hiatus for a while, it seems lately as if everyone is trying to squeeze in their Schindler’s…
Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since 2000’s Men of Honor, about a sharecropper’s son who becomes the first black diver in the Navy who becomes the first amputee to return to…
Before his death last month, Dale Wasserman was among a handful of Americans to whom the title “Broadway legend” applied — although it seems likely that the famous (and famously grumpy) playwright would have disdained that title. Yet it was true. Wasserman wrote more than a dozen plays and musicals,…
About the only thing this swank culinary experience will lack is, uh, Barack Obama. Tea Loft owners and Virginia natives Glynis and Eric Legrand aim to capture this “amazing moment in time” with an evening-long celebration to warm even the most crimson of Red State hearts. Amenities include a cocktail…
The parade in honor of the late civil-rights leader will include floats, marching bands, and pep and cheer squads. The fest, which immediately follows the procession at nearby Mesa Amphitheatre, 201 North Center Street, features three hours of tribute. Mon., Jan. 19, 11 a.m., 2009…
Three and a half decades after Spencer Block and his Swedish wife, Kerstin, opened their first tiny clothing-consignment store in Tucson (Kerstin liked the Americana-tinged sound of the word “buffalo”), the now-nationwide chain celebrates with giveaways, entertainment, and more. The Exchange at 730 East Missouri Avenue in Phoenix will also…
The George W. Bush presidency is viewed through the eyes of Dubya’s neighbors in tiny Crawford, Texas, in this documentary crafted by an Austin-based film collective that was overseen by a governing board including actors Ted Danson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Mary Steenburgen. Mon., Jan. 19, 7 p.m., 2009…
The artists involved in this short-film fest used non-standard cinematic approaches such as digital video, homemade effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, and green screen to create “a program of experimental moving image work” about the queer experience. (Pictured: a scene from the short 9 Is a Secret.) Tue., Jan…
After the Philadelphia Eagles stunned the top-seeded New York Giants on January 11 at the Jersey Meadowlands, a friend e-mailed us the following missive: “Am I on crack, or are the Arizona Cardinals about to host the NFC Championship Game against the Eagles?” Nope, we’re not collectively hammered on gutter…
The subtle beauty of the Sonoran Desert’s gradual fade into the northern high country has no doubt been muse to many an art lover. But how many female Arizona artists can you name who have painted such stirring scenes? Get schooled when distinguished art collector Fran Elliott spreads the Copper…
Chronic Future. Back Ted N-Ted. Miniature Tigers. All awesome musical acts, all on the same awesome music label, Modern Art Records, the homegrown Tempe imprint that recently ditched its affiliation with Interscope and teamed up with Epic for financing and distribution. To celebrate, the label’s poster boys, Chronic Future —…
Next time you start whining about our sunny skies, stop. Just stop. You know damn well that if the clouds roll in for more than a day, you, along with everyone else in the Valley, will turn into a surly, sun-depraved a-hole. Just look at Scottsdale. As soon as the…
If you want to appeal to the better angels of our nature, seduce our inner demons. That’s the plan at SWAY Events’ Sugar & Champagne, a fundraiser for H.E.R.O. (Human & Equal Rights Organizers) that features “indulgent” eats, “decadent” drinks, and lounge-music spins by bad-boy PHX DJ William Fucking Reed…
Learn about the numerous beers brewed within the state borders. RSVP required. Thu., Jan. 15, 7-8 p.m., 2009…
Performance artist Ryan Avery and photographer Wayne Michael Reich used to get along about as well as Israel and Hamas. Around four years ago, the downtown artists engaged in quite the scenester spat: The ultra-serious Reich argued that the kooky 22-year-old’s goofy drawings and disruptive performances had no artistic merit…
One of the world’s heaviest hitters in the collectible-auto trade sets up shop every year for Auto Auction Week in a tent outside Scottsdale Fashion Square. Thu., Jan. 15; Fri., Jan. 16; Sat., Jan. 17, 2009…
Perhaps the snootiest of the Auto Auction Week sales, this one takes place on the rarefied grounds of the Arizona Biltmore. I say, would you pass the catalog, dah-ling? Thu., Jan. 15; Fri., Jan. 16, 2009…
The off-the-chain, all-local electronic music party also doubles up as the Thru the Wires 5-Year Anniversary show and features laptop battles. The lineup includes Exillon, Metrognome, Sonique des Fleurs, Terminal 11, Mike Holiday, Electronic Sleep, Chop/Shoppe, Brad Lee, Jynx, Shane Silkey, Menagam, Persian Mynx, Cable Car Crash, and more. Sat.,…
Finally. The holiday hubbub is over and we can start getting to celebrations that aren’t overblown and over-lame. One such shindig that has actually stayed true to its original intention is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which takes place this year on Monday, January 19. The PHX will celebrate in…
