Arts & Culture

The celestial celebration features music, poetry, a memorial Ribbon Tree, and a bonfire ritual by Grove of the Rising Phoenix. Sun., Dec. 21, 4 p.m., 2008…

Hey, guess what? The Phoenix Chorale is the shit. Why? Well, they won a freaking Grammy this year, and they were just nominated for four more freaking Grammys for 2009. The shit, we’re telling you. For PhoCho’s “Home for the Holidays” program, they’ll perform numbers from the Grammy Award-nominated album…

Hey, guess what? The Phoenix Chorale is the shit. Why? Well, they won a freaking Grammy this year, and they were just nominated for four more freaking Grammys for 2009. The shit, we’re telling you. For PhoCho’s “Home for the Holidays” program, they’ll perform numbers from the Grammy Award-nominated album…

Hey, guess what? The Phoenix Chorale is the shit. Why? Well, they won a freaking Grammy this year, and they were just nominated for four more freaking Grammys for 2009. The shit, we’re telling you. For PhoCho’s “Home for the Holidays” program, they’ll perform numbers from the Grammy Award-nominated album…

Hey, guess what? The Phoenix Chorale is the shit. Why? Well, they won a freaking Grammy this year, and they were just nominated for four more freaking Grammys for 2009. The shit, we’re telling you. For PhoCho’s “Home for the Holidays” program, they’ll perform numbers from the Grammy Award-nominated album…

Hey, guess what? The Phoenix Chorale is the shit. Why? Well, they won a freaking Grammy this year, and they were just nominated for four more freaking Grammys for 2009. The shit, we’re telling you. For PhoCho’s “Home for the Holidays” program, they’ll perform numbers from the Grammy Award-nominated album…

The holiday show features fine art, gifts, and wearable art by various artists, including Rodgell, Kris Sanford, Melissa Hoffman, Jo Reifman, and Marilyn Szabo. Fri., Dec. 19, 6-10 p.m., 2008…

The Joneses covered their house in glittering white icicles. You bought a blow-up snowman. They countered with a herd of lighted reindeer (which you stealthily rearranged into sexual positions). Surrender now, because A Christmas Fantasy is clearly the victor in this year’s holiday decor wars. The free annual display, located…

Brothers are supposed to armwrestle, throw punches, and fight over chicks. Right? Not so for “Molten Brothers” Kenneth Richardson and Mike Goodwin, local artists who met at the 515 Arts gallery and immediately felt a kinship. They co-curated the popular “Deck” skateboard art shows, then started working on collaborative pieces…

Brothers are supposed to armwrestle, throw punches, and fight over chicks. Right? Not so for “Molten Brothers” Kenneth Richardson and Mike Goodwin, local artists who met at the 515 Arts gallery and immediately felt a kinship. They co-curated the popular “Deck” skateboard art shows, then started working on collaborative pieces…

Meet reps and see hot new stuff from the likes of Ping, Cleveland, Nike, Adams, Wilson, Sun Mountain, U-Pro, Titleist, and Ahead. Thu., Dec. 18, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 2008…

In this age of illegal wiretapping and 9/11 conspiracy theories, it’s a wonder that Beth Ames Swartz admits she hides subliminal messages in her art. No worries; this isn’t They Live, so there won’t be any commands to “obey” or “marry and reproduce.” The colorful paintings in the Paradise Valley…

Remember Hot Shots, the mechanical sports game with the moving hoop and a catapult to launch tiny basketballs? We sure do, because we totally owned that shit, finger-banging our way to god-like status. But when it came to real b-ball skills, we were — how should we put this? –…

The former host of KMLE Country’s Dave Pratt in the Morning signs his new memoir, Dave Pratt, Behind the Mic: 30 Years in Radio. Proceeds from book sales benefit the American Cancer Society. Sat., Dec. 20, 11 a.m., 2008…

Most pop-culture consumers don’t realize it, but there’s much more to being a professional comic than scoring a sitcom and some semi-humorous film work. A circuitous path, as a matter of fact, is far more often the exception than the norm. Take Kevin Brennan, for instance. The Saturday Night Live…

It’s about time someone made something of the fact that many of the best-known Christmas songs were written by Jewish composers, and no one who knows anything about his career is surprised that it was Jake Ehrenreich who finally did it. A Jew Grows in Brooklyn, the actor’s almost-one-man show…

With apologies to the zillion other Nutcrackers on tap this season, this one’s the one to see. Even non-Nutcracker nuts will be won over by the vision of co-artistic directors Anatoly Emelianov and Vladimir Troshchenko and the power and grace of their company. Tue., Dec. 23, 7:30 p.m., 2008…

The bitch of a Pac-10 season is upon the ASU Men’s Basketball team, so some home cookin’ against the cupcake-caliber Idaho State squad will be served. Tue., Dec. 23, noon, 2008…

During the period when Skinny Puppy was broken up – from the mid-’90s to about 2003 – frontman Nivek Ogre formed a new project called ohGr with composer/producer and fellow stray Puppy member Mark Walk. The group was (and still is) the shiz, because ohGr’s two-man sound storm departed from…

Despite its yee-haw history, modern-day Phoenix has kicked cowboy culture to the curb, and ropers and wranglers are as hard to come by ’round these parts as fans of the UofA. One place you can usually find ’em in droves is at Friday Night Bull Riding at Rawhide at Wild…

The 30K, 5K and 30K Relay winds through the mean streets of Surprise during this in-and-back course. Correction: Surprise has no mean streets. Sun., Dec. 21, 8 a.m., 2008…

The Nashville Predators, a team that wins more than the Phoenix Coyotes (yes, we know, that ain’t saying much) visit Glendale’s Jobing.com Arena. Thu., Dec. 18, 7 p.m.; Sat., March 14, 7 p.m., 2008…