Remember when you thought you could change the world? When former tennis superstar Billie Jean King was 5 years old, she told her mom, “I’m going to do something great with my life.” That she did, as King grew up to win 20 Wimbledon titles, best tennis pro Bobby Riggs…
First, it’s warm cans of Keystone Light in the parking lot in junior high. Then, it’s chilled Miller Lite at your friend’s house party. Eventually, bottles of Fat Tire or Sierra Nevada become the regulars, and knowledge of the best microbreweries in town has been established. Mix in a progression…
We’re not saying it’s the greatest draw in the history of the world, but here’s your first chance to see the Phoenix Suns take on the new-look – hell, new town! – Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City? In the National Basketball Association? Like, all permanent and stuff? Thunder? What is…
One of Saturday Night Live’s funniest funnyman, Kevin Nealon, recently authored a book documenting his wife’s pregnancy. Expect to hear some preggers jokes when he performs a standup routine at the Tempe Improv. Fri., Oct. 24, 8 & 10 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 25, 8 & 10 p.m., 2008…
Chris Jericho is quite the cad. In recent months, the villainous World Wrestling Entertainment icon has decked another man’s wife, cheated his way to the World Heavyweight Championship, and been an all-around cocky prick. Frankly, the dude needs a major-league ass-whupping, and we’re hoping that 6-foot-6, 300-pound Dave “The Animal”…
From workshops to some of the best storytellers from across Arizona and California, the Mesa Storytelling Festival is bigger and better than ever. Thu., Oct. 23; Fri., Oct. 24; Sat., Oct. 25, 2008…
There have been some moments during the 2008 ASU Sun Devils’ season – actually, four of them, to be exact – that we’ve been like, “Seriously, what the hell happened to this team?” A totally stupid loss to UNLV at home, a torched secondary against mighty Georgia, an uninspired performance…
Don’t you dare call the music sculpted by Paul van Dyk trance. True, the Berlin, Germany-based masher of noise still makes dance-floor-busting beats with the aid of two onstage computers that play music in synch. Yes, van Dyk’s art still emphasizes trance-esque elements, such as electronic noise, repetition, and upbeat…
There are some old-ass folks still rocking the rock/pop/soul music tip these days, such as Mick Jagger (65), Eric Clapton (63), and Bob Dylan (67), to name a few. But in our opinion, none is more superfly and rocking than Tina Turner. The Tennessee-born soul/R&B diva (born in 1939) has…
The refurbished Mission Revival building, one of three original structures remaining from the old Phoenix Indian School, will host musical performances and community events. The Phoenix Boys Choir and Phoenix Chorale will perform at this event to demonstrate the hall’s acoustics. Wed., Oct. 29, 6 p.m., 2008…
The “freakish forgotten festival” with an abandoned-circus theme features “eerie entertainment,” carnival acts, a costume contest, and a “disturbing” DJ. Sat., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., 2008…
Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, MayDay Pit Bull Rescue, and Maddie’s Project gang up to convince non-pit-bull owners that pit bulls have a bad rap. Bring the vicious beast — er, nice puppy. Sat., Oct. 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 2008…
By Lilia Menconi You’ll most likely come across a movie buff long before you run into an art freak. In our day and age, museums don’t have the pull that movie theaters (or home theaters and Netflix) do. Many would look at this as horribly tragic. I say it’s just…
By Martin Cizmar
Fear Farm
99th Avenue and McDowell
Glendale
The good: Great bargain at $18, fantastic scenery, realistic props, skilled and aggressive monsters, lots of startles and scares.
The bad: Location, no animatronics at all, too much chainsaw.
The ugly: None. This is a pretty great haunted house.
By Lilia Menconi I swear my pupils dilate every time I see a Fritz Scholder painting. Scholder, who is one-quarter Luseino, a California Mission tribe, has proven himself an important figure in the development of the Native American Art Movement. And, my God, the man knows how to rock a…
By Lilia Menconi I’m not going to bore you with the ga-jillionth summary of Frida Kahlo’s life. But, just in case you missed the movie with Selma Hayek, the autobiography, the children’s book, the plush toy, the poster and the endless websites made by teenage girls dedicated to this artist,…
They call it Arizona’s Original Scream Park, and though it’s hard to imagine that it is, indeed, the first haunted house in the state given that it’s only 11 years old, it definitely does have an old school feel.
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble tale of family pathology gussied up with vérité camera work, world music, and improvising actors both trained and not. You can find the worst and the…
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early ’00s by way of the late ’60s, this psycho-historical portrait of George W. Bush has all the queasy appeal of a strychnine-laced acid flashback. Hideous re-creations of the shock-and-awful recent past merge with…
It’s with a heavy heart we deliver the following news: Pac-Man Fever is a legitimate mental illness. Earlier this year, a study by the Philadelphia Research Center of Mental Illness found “an alarming rate of OCD” in kids who played ’80s video games like Q-Bert. You know Q-Bert, the orange…
To anyone who didn’t grow up here, the Coliseum probably looks like another of Phoenix’s outdated, oddly shaped architectural mishaps. A stack of giant Pringles chips surrounded by tattered outbuildings and acres of parking lot, perhaps. Or a saddle. A layer cake that’s fallen. Look at it with some detachment,…
Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York’s über-chic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of place among the bed-headed hipsters otherwise casing the joint (unless, perhaps, he’s instigating his own, retro-Yale fashion trend). Given that the perfectionist director, who has…
