If you’re reading this, I assume you keep up with the local arts scene, right?Either that, or you’re my boyfriend, my best friend or my mother and you’re fulfilling your obligation (thanks guys).If you belong to the first group, it’s time to think real hard…who do you know in the…
Valley child actress Sammi Hanratty lives in Scottsdale — when she can.Busy as a bee — but not a Mean Bee (we’ll get to that in a moment) — Hanratty travels frequently to Los Angeles for her work in the CBS show The Unit or The Suite Life of Zack…
Doesn’t this new Phoenix library card make you want to launch into a great piece of imaginative fiction?City residents can trade in their old cards for this cool, new one for free until the end of February. (It’ll cost you two bucks after that).The image designed by Kiyomi King, a local…
“matches do more than light cigarettes” oil 30″x40″ (dedicated to Faye M. Larkin) by Suzanne FalkSuzanne Falk is no stranger to the pages of our beloved New Times. Maybe you remember her from this…or this (btw – this photo of her sucks! She’s way pretty in real life).But it’s really…
No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why none of his books sold more than 12,000 copies in his lifetime and why it’s taken more than 40 years for one of them to reach the big…
As usual, I saw a hell of a lot of plays this past year. But I suspect 2008 is the year I’ll remember not so much for what took place on stage (although it’s hard to forget a production as flawless as Childsplay’s A Tale of Two Cities, or one…
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our often-contentious quintet of film critics (Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor, and Robert Wilonsky) put their heads together about the best movies…
As far as Jeffrey Katzenberg is concerned, there have been but two “revolutions” in the movie business: the mass introduction of sound with 1927’s The Jazz Singer (itself, a process 30 years in the making) and, a year later, the debut of The Viking, the first feature presented in Technicolor…
Michael Jacobs, a filmmaker based in San Francisco, is the director of a movie called Audience of One. It’s a documentary about a Pentecostal minister who says he’s gotten the divine green light to make a mega-budget, religious, science-fiction epic. If you attended one of 20-odd regional film festivals in…
“I hated the ’90s. The ’90s fuckin’ sucked,” says professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson early on in The Wrestler — and he should know. Over the hill and past his prime — his steroidal body a palimpsest of battle scars, his graying hair dyed a Nordic blond — Robinson…
The “interconnected indigenous experience” by mixed-media artist Cro features masked creatures reflecting “the universal myth of humanity’s subservient relationship to the Fates,” set to a soundtrack composed by the artist. Sat., Jan. 3, 1-5 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 17, 1-5 p.m., 2009…
The “interconnected indigenous experience” by mixed-media artist Cro features masked creatures reflecting “the universal myth of humanity’s subservient relationship to the Fates,” set to a soundtrack composed by the artist. Fri., Jan. 2, 6-10 p.m., 2009…
The Valley resident and host of the TV show Smart Spaces: Inside & Out discusses his green-living creation, the “holistic home” he calls the Urban Farm. Mon., Jan. 5, 7 p.m., 2009…
The two humongous gangs clash in a simulated “stadium” located just south of the department store. Sat., Jan. 3, 6-8:30 p.m., 2009…
Two-mile sunset to moonrise trek. Sat., Jan. 3, 4-6 p.m., 2009…
If there’s one thing that P-Town has its fair share of, it’s DJ collectives. There’s the VinylTech DJs (who dig on the house music thing), the Overmind Works crew (focusing in psytrance and downtempo jams), or perhaps the Ultra Lounge DJs (who are all over the musical map). But none…
He refers to himself as “the most fortunate person in the whole world.” To the rest of us, he is Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson, born Leib Lejzon. After two years in World War II concentration camps and several more in a displaced-persons camp near Frankfurt, Germany, Leyson went to work…
We knew that Matthew Reveles was too good a singer/songwriter to keep all to ourselves. The dude’s got a massive amount of talent coming out his ying-yang, and he’s been filling local venues like Modified Arts and Trunk Space with his rootsy, six-string strummings month after month. (Our personal favorites…
Slasher films were as much a part of ’80s-generation adolescence as awkward boners and acne. Speaking of hard-ons, we still get a little revved up when thinking about all the hot pseudo-action we used to get at the Bijou. We don’t know what was more awkward, the terrible acting on…
By the time the sun peeks over the horizon at approximately 7:33 a.m. on Thursday, January 1, most P-Town revelers will have already gone to bed. But not the hardcore dance freaks at Myst. No, these 24-hour party people will be rocking around the clock at Mystified Sunrise, an after-hours…
By the time the sun peeks over the horizon at approximately 7:33 a.m. on Thursday, January 1, most P-Town revelers will have already gone to bed. But not the hardcore dance freaks at Myst, 7340 East Shoeman Lane in Scottsdale. No, these 24-hour party people will be rocking around the…
Two days into the New Year and you already feel your commitment to those resolutions slipping away. You’re still justifying using leftover holiday snacks to lard your body (you can’t just toss them!) and you haven’t yet started your running regimen (it’s chilly outside!). As for your goal of being…
