We laughed, we cried, we fashion policed: Edward Prostak (Scrooge) and David Errigo Jr. (Christmas Past). Photo by Scott Samplin © 2008 I’ve brushed off my black trousers and Ugly Christmas Sweater one last time to review a production at a Broadway-style dinner theater (yes, that’s an oxymoron): the…
“Dip Dick” by Miller.You can’t blame me for starting this blog with the wiener picture. Such a racy image might snag some attention and get me some new readers.But enough about my strategy to keep Arty Girl alive. What I really want to write about is Ryan Peter Miller’s solo…
This is how Nochta snagged her victims -er- subjects.Everyone likes music on some level. I mean, come on – we’re alive, we’re human beings and we have emotions. Photographer Lindsey Nochta set out to find those who are beyond the casual music listener. She’s had her sights fixed on the…
Get Out, The East Valley Tribune’s Thursday entertainment tabloid will publish for the last time on Christmas Day. Today, I finally got an e-mail with memorial details for our vanquished — but respected — foe of 11 years. You can click here to leave thoughts and memories.The Trib is my…
You’re constantly on the run from the demonic forces of the undead. You’ve lost most of the people you care about and survival from this nightmare seems like an impossible dream. But hey, it sure beats the hell out of facing the mall crowds at Christmas time.See just how many…
For so major a movie star — at least, once upon a time — Jim Carrey seems to make a lot of awfully minor films, several of them over and over again. Isn’t Yes Man, in which Carrey’s self-absorbed Debbie Downer green-lights every bad decision in an effort to reinvent…
Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated of recent Hollywood movies, which starred Smith as a single father navigating a hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of San Francisco. Writing at the time, I…
About three minutes into Stray Cat Theatre’s newest production, I found myself thinking: This can’t be really happening. When you go to see it — and you must, if you do nothing else this holiday season, go see this astonishing stage production — you will almost certainly experience the same…
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…
Our favorite team ever (uh, never), a.k.a. the Los Angeles Lakers visit US Airways Center. Mon., Dec. 28, 7 p.m., 2009…
Create a little breathing room around your waistline in anticipation of the coming feast with this three-mile ranger-led loop hike. The views are mighty sweet, too. Wed., Dec. 24, 9-11 a.m., 2008…
The 1974 seasonal slasher classic stars Olivia Hussey, Andrea Martin, and Margot Kidder (pictured) as college coeds facing a Scrooge-like maniac with a big knife. The movie plays on a double bill with Christmas on Mars, the new Flaming Lips space oddity. Fri., Dec. 19, 9 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 20,…
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as long as thumping music, fun, and great friends exist. Case in point: This Christmas Eve, Pinky Ring collective deejays Benjamin Cutswell, D-JR, McKay, William Fucking Reed, Senbad, Tricky T, and friends – hailing from the hallowed Phoenix halls of hip-hop,…
It’s a Christmas Eve tradition to spend time in the presence of the divine. If you’re Christian, it’s congregating with holy men spreading the blessed word of the birth of Yeshua (his Hebrew name, you dig?). If your soul seeks a more entertaining form of enlightenment, try hanging out with…
We won’t go see art. You can’t make us. We . . . what’s that? Okay, we will go see art, frequently and with great enthusiasm, thanks to the Scottsdale Gallery Association’s new Mimosa Sundays art-walk promotion, wherein various “mimosa-friendly” member galleries ply attendees with free champagne mimosas and appetizers…
In the 1960s and ’70s, a time filled with social change and funny haircuts, Phoenix was one of the centers of the folk-rock scene. Now, we hate to belittle any point when Valley music was on the cutting edge of an entire movement, but we do have to admit that…
“Swank” is one of those smarmy words like “posh” or “smooth” or, well, “smarmy.” Originating from the German word “sway” and the Dutch word “supple,” it aspires to have the dazzle of a diamond, but is tacky like a rhinestone. We picture a dancing chubby girl with her bedazzled name…
Our musician friends like to argue that battles of the bands are what’s wrong with the “scene” today. Acts selling tickets to friends who vote? Still, losing is really the most punishing critique. That said, Trash City Entertainment and Gunslinger Promotions present the first in their “Clash in the Desert”…
People are into some weird shit these days. For example, mermaid porn, which some viewers may see in Jessica Dolence’s “Sequence” exhibit at eye lounge. In one of Dolence’s digital works, a mermaid coquettishly lifts her skirt, exposing turquoise pubic mounds that are known to grow on such nubile young…
People are into some weird shit these days. For example, mermaid porn, which some viewers may see in Jessica Dolence’s “Sequence” exhibit at eye lounge. In one of Dolence’s digital works, a mermaid coquettishly lifts her skirt, exposing turquoise pubic mounds that are known to grow on such nubile young…
It seems like only yesterday that we were stuffing ourselves with turkey. Adrian Orange can’t shake Thanksgiving, either, because that’s the name of the band with which he found a following for his unique takes on electric folk-rock. Even when the Portland, Oregon, artist gets increasingly experimental with pals and…
Meet the coaches of the four basketball teams participating in the 2008 Stadium Shootout (Herb Sendek of ASU, Rick Pitino of Louisville, Tubby Smith of Minnesota, who’s pictured, and Dave Rose of BYU). Fri., Dec. 19, 6-9 p.m., 2008…
