In addition to the usual cornucopia of beautiful rocks, this year’s show features a rare showing of Peralta Stone tablet maps believed to contain clues to a lost Arizona treasure. Fri., Jan. 9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 10, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2009…
The annual street-hoops fest is held in conjunction with the Arizona Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee festivities. Some action takes place at Harmon Park, 1239 South Fifth Avenue. Jan. 12-17, 2009…
Feeling a mite poorly in these recessionary times? Watching the beauties fly off the block at this annual collectible-auto sell-off is manna for the auto lover’s soul, if a bit tough on the pocketbook. Jan. 14-18, 2009…
The folks who traffic in the international collectible-auto trade return to the Valley for Auto Auction Week 2009. Jan. 11-18, 2009…
The documentary looks at the independent-bookstore movement through the perspective of two indie-lit champions, Andy Ross of Cody’s Books and Clark Kepler of Kepler’s Books. Fri., Jan. 9, 6 p.m., 2009…
We’re not much into the quintessential “page-turner” – too many exhaustive strands of unimaginative dialogue and predictable cliffhanging endings to chapters – but Scott Sigler, acclaimed horror-story author of such reads as Infected, just cranked one out. Titled Contagious, it’s filled with creepy characters and a super-crayzee plot structure in…
One of contemporary life’s biggest challenges is separating the spiritual/New Age bona fides from the frauds. An example of the latter: Neale Donald Walsh and his Conversations with God series. Dude, really? You seriously transcribed a conversation with the Man Upstairs or whatever and made your publisher buy it? No…
What’s Monster Energy Supercross? Easy. Combine The Wild One with Death Race 2000, subtract the rampant hooliganism, and add a few dozen tons of dirt. Daredevil teams of two or four riders – including AMA Supercross champion James Stewart and challenger Kevin Windham – will rev and roll their super-powered…
You’re dead. Right outside of work. On the sidewalk. Didn’t get to say goodbye to anyone. Who you gonna call? Well, spiritual medium James Van Praagh’s “Connecting to Spirit” Tour can help you find your way. After a benediction, Van Praagh will provide meditation, question-and-answer sessions, spirit messages, and “random…
The college-football championship game is shown live from Miami’s Orange Bowl in Pure Digital Cinema technology. The Surprise cinema is the only theater in the state with the live 3-D feed. Thu., Jan. 8, 5 p.m., 2009…
We all know and love (and slightly fear, even?) international rapscallion Craig Ferguson, he of Late Late Show, Drew Carey, and ex-punk-rock-alcoholic-hell-bent-on-U.S.-citizenship fame. But the Emmy-nominated Scotsman’s career is far more vast and eclectic than most realize. The same confessional, self-deprecating, oft-befuddled style that informs his chipper ’n’ cheeky nightly…
Sure, we’ve got Americana up the wazoo in this dry-heated home state, but what about “Britannicana,” Britpop-rooted music made in three-digit temperatures? Could it ever happen here? It has, mate, in the form of Eurovox, a classic mod three-piece band styled after the Jam and the Who but without either…
Like most hardcore musical gormandizers, we’ve got a few “desert island discs” (i.e. albums we’d want in our possession if ever stranded on some abandoned atoll). The Dead Kennedys’ Frankenchrist is one. Perhaps surprisingly, so is The Ataris’ Blue Skies, Broken Hearts . . . Next 12 Exits. While we’ll…
You won’t find the PHX’s fastest and most furious street racers hauling ass down any public roads (and thus risking lives) this weekend. Instead, they’ll be putting pedal to the metal in tricked-out Hondas and Mitsubishis within the confines of SpeedWorld Dragstrip during the latest installment of Arizona Street Racers…
Here’s the thing about hiking: You’re either a lone nut like us or a people person. For the latter, hiking doesn’t get much better than the City of Scottsdale’s free Preserve Connections Hiking Tours of the northeast Valley’s still largely restricted McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Or simpler. Or cheaper. After registering,…
Like a secular Noah, George L. Ellis hand-built his Ark, the Scottsdale artist colony known as the Cattle Track Arts Compound, on the banks of the Arizona Canal beginning in 1937. Though he didn’t single-handedly found the Scottsdale arts scene, his numerous constructs housed many of the significant artists who…
Strolling into the office at 10 is trendy, and American CEOs are late to 80 percent of meetings, but German artist Klaus Rinke swears he’s always on time. In fact, he’s obsessed with it. “When I was young, I was required to be at home at 8 p.m. on the…
The last time you partied in Scottsdale, you intersected with a group of Amish teens on their Rumspringa who were imbibing silly pink drinks and gyrating ambitiously on the dance floor. Their imitation of “outer world” social conduct suddenly made you very self-aware of your own societal script. You may…
The last time you partied in Scottsdale, you intersected with a group of Amish teens on their Rumspringa who were imbibing silly pink drinks and gyrating ambitiously on the dance floor. Their imitation of “outer world” social conduct suddenly made you very self-aware of your own societal script. You may…
Two white-bread guys whose pretty folk duets digress into fraternal bickering – it doesn’t sound like the recipe for a long career in show business. Yet the Smothers Brothers, about a half-century after they started, remain comedy legends. Most of this iconic status is thanks to the short-lived CBS variety…
The work is based on a true story in which World War II-era American soldier Kurt Klein freed Gerda Weissmann from Nazi rule and fell in love with her. (Gerda now lives in Scottsdale.) Wed., Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Jan. 15, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 16, 8 p.m., 2009…
Herb Sendek’s squad hosts a Pac-10 game against the Ducks. Sat., Jan. 10, noon, 2009…
