It seems fitting that our birds, so charmed in 2008, will meet the NFC’s other enchanted avians, who, in the post-Michael Vick era, are led by a big, burly Cinderella Man named Matt Ryan (pictured). The rookie QB from Boston College was recently named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year,…
Everything about Nanna Larsen is beautiful. Tue., Jan. 6, 7 p.m., 2009…
Open mic nights can be a bore Every other Tuesday, 8 p.m., 2008…
Most of us daytime working stiffs get our clubbing and drinking done on Friday and Saturday nights, but what about all those poor schlubs who serve us food and booze on our weekend benders? When do they get to ruin their livers? The poor babies have to sneak it during…
Sometimes an artist cannot find words, so he must create a vocabulary through his art. Sixty miles east of Phoenix in the tiny mining/antiques town of Miami, Arizona, Ken Boe produces work like a true artist and philosopher by focusing on the discovery of the universe, both at hand and…
“You’ve made the first movie of the Obama generation!” exclaimed an audience member, as he rushed up to Clint Eastwood after a recent screening of Gran Torino. “Well,” the 78-year-old actor-director replied, without missing a beat, “I was actually born under Hoover.” It was an ironic juxtaposition, given that Eastwood’s…
“Encanto” by Glen Allen.Most of my art education was whittled down to endless flash cards for college exams. There was a time when I could recite the title, artist, medium and year of the majority of the artworks pictured in Janson’s History of Art.Screw the memorization – my favorite part…
It’s okay, ladies, it’s almost over: Jenny Mulcahy and Rebecca Ruegg are featured in Blithe Spirit. Photo by Heather Butcher. I can’t say exactly why, in the 13+ years they’ve been around, I’d never been to a show at Scottsdale Desert Stages until the other day. But enough about me. Desert Stages…
See? She’s good.I could blog about a show that you only have a few days left to see…or I could blog about a show that you really should have seen already. But, being that it’s so close to the new year, I really don’t want to look back. No, it’s…
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers are scheduled to perform this afternoon at the “Destination Tempe” celebration at the Tempe Transportation Center.”I hear the train a-comin’/It’s rolling round the bend” — Johnny Cash Plenty of partying is planned for today’s long-awaited debut of the Valley Metro Light Rail system, with fetes…
Dame with Tailbone by Rinke.Okay, enough about downtown Phoenix. While I sure appreciate all the art options in that area, I’ve been blogging a liiiittle too much about it lately. So here’s a blog about someplace else…the land of milk and honey, Scottsdale.(That last sentence works better if you whisper…
Editor’s note/correction: The original version of this review incorrectly attributed statements made in a letter to the editor (“Feedback,” February 14, 2008) to Bob Adams, a Phoenix artist who designed one of the light rail installations. The Bob Adams who wrote the letter is not, in fact, Bob Adams the…
Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring teenage granddaughter text-messaging her way through her grandmother’s funeral, or when his good-for-nothing son and daughter-in-law suggest that he sell his house in a gang-infested corner…
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier by the age of 19 — and, by most accounts, a warrior with the soul of a poet (he was especially smitten with the…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of life and gradually regressing toward dawn, that has been adapted into a two-ton, Oscar-season white elephant. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Eric Roth,…
About a hundred years ago, when I was just out of short pants, I worked for a company called Associated Distributors. It’s a Phoenix-based business, owned by Leonard and Angela Singer, that distributes recorded music; when I went to work for Associated in 1980, that music came in vinyl, cassette,…
Like Doubt, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader is low-budget, high-profile, and beamed straight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Category of High Moral Tone. Only in this case, the stakes are way higher and the attitude muted to a fault. Based on a partly autobiographical novel by Bernhard…
Is it over yet? Can we look? Don’t know about y’all, but we’re more than ready to put the titanic clusterfuck that was 2008 behind us. Frankly, we’re hoping to forget the past 365-odd days (with the exception of November 4, natch) and welcome 2009 with open arms and more…
We were hanging out at the Trunk Space a few weeks back, listening to an awesome local noise artist, one that we once saw contact mic and rip up a cassette tape at the Grand Avenue venue. Following that set, a crazy, tribal drum-circle band with a vocalist who yelled…
If you asked Mr. Claus for a holiday-themed rave this year, you got it, thanks to the Mary X-Mas Superfest. The folks behind one of AZ’s longest-running dance parties have been hard at work creating the ultimate extravaganza featuring go-go dancers, falling snow, laser lights, and a metric ton of…
Choosing a New Year’s Eve party is not unlike purchasing a prime piece of real estate. Location, location, location. And you won’t find a more desirable destination than the W Scottsdale, the angular, glass-and-steel boutique hotel located a precious-stone’s-throw away from the Scottsdale Waterfront and nightclub districts. Let’s compare those…
Dancers from the ABC hit scheduled to appear include Marlee Matlin and Fabian Sanchez (pictured), Lance Bass, Maurice Greene, Toni Braxton, Mark Ballas, Derek Hough, Kym Johnson, Alec Mazo, Cheryl Burke, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Edyta Sliwinska, Lacey Schwimmer, and Karina Smirnoff. Sun., Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
