It’s either fortuitous psychic planning or just plain dumb luck that The Green Lady Killers released an EP that opens with a song called “Psycho Ellen” in the same week Ellen DeGeneres cuckooed up the airwaves weeping about a troublesome doggy she couldn’t handle with some kind of Michael Vick…
Shown in conjunction with the exhibit “Edward Weston: Mexico,” the documentary tells the bigger-than-life tale of Tina Modotti, the photographer and lover of Weston. Phoenix College’s Dr. Cecilia Rosales introduces the film and hosts a post-screening discussion. Sun., Oct. 5, 1 p.m., 2008…
Learn beginning watercolor techniques from way-talented painter Suzanne Falk, who will teach participants translucent color and traditional techniques with a contemporary flair. Wednesdays, 6:15-8:45 p.m. Starts: Oct. 8. Continues through Nov. 12, 2008…
We can’t blame Valley sports fans for throwing a conniption fit these days, considering that the D-Backs screwed the pooch, the Mercury dipped far south, and the Sun Devil football team seems to be stumbling. Now your Phoenix Suns are officially back in business, with the 2008-09 preseason commencing tonight…
Bizarre-o New Orleans solo musician Robert Rolston, a.k.a. Quintron, is known for pumping out “swamp tech” dance tunes via custom-made instruments, such as a Hammond organ/Fender Rhodes synth combo and a Drum Buddy. For his current tour, Quintron has doubled the size of his act by including his wife, Panacea…
Henry Rollins says he is down on bended knee, begging you — to vote. It may be hard to imagine Rollins — muscle-bound, sweaty, tattooed — begging, with his furrowed-brow intensity, for anything. But he’s known for being a man of a thousand media, showing he’ll get his point across…
This season, the Arizona Cardinals have decided to try something rather new: win occasionally. We’d like nothing better than for the Buffalo Bills to learn that firsthand. Despite a strong start, the Bills seem ripe for a good beatdown in their cross-conference game on Sunday, October 5, against the strong-at-home…
Check out the new look Suns at this free, open-to-the-public practice. Fans can also kick it with the Gorilla, the Suns Dancers, and Verve Sol Patrol. Sun., Oct. 5, 7 p.m., 2008…
By Lilia Menconi Some of the goodies for sale by Roy Wasson Valle. If I don’t see something art related at least once a week I just kinda feel yucky all over. First off, it’s my job to check out local museums and galleries on a regular basis and I…
On some level, you’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put together the financing for a three-hour war movie lacking any marquee names and performed largely in Italian and German with English subtitles. Spielberg…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues — fucking in a cramped airplane bathroom, on a barnyard’s itchy haystack, in a grimy toilet stall, in a hospital chapel even…
After years of development and nearly as many years of hype, Spore has arrived — an event made so big by the association of Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims) and EA’s impressive marketing efforts, even the non-gaming press was reporting it, happily parroting bits and pieces of press releases that…
There’s no preaching in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, A Parable, which is set in a Catholic boys’ school in 1964. Its story concerns that ages-old tradition of priests molesting little boys, but its aim is to address not the various horrors of that issue, but rather the difference between what…
There are many reasons to visit the Downtown Phoenix Public Market. Chief among them is the spectacular selection of eats available every weekend at the outdoor bazaar. And sometimes, the amazing eats come from an equally amazing person such as the captivating Belinda Powell. The local pickle maker’s homemade creations…
There are only two things restaurateur Peter “Kaz” Kasperski can’t live without: work and good food. For him, the two are so deeply intertwined that the thought of losing either blows his mind. And that’s meant a windfall for Valley diners. Kaz began his torrid love affair with the restaurant…
Jeffrey Hattrick is a real-life Mad Hatter, minus the shaggy gray sideburns and cartoonish purple getup. Most days, you can find this self-proclaimed “tea guy” in a top hat and tails, pouring fragrant oolongs into delicate porcelain cups for little Alices and their moms in the Ritz-Carlton’s tea room. (See…
Dani Danger ain’t shy about discussing the body modifications she’s endured over the years. The outgoing, tattooed-and-pierced 25-year-old eagerly gushes about the subdermal silicone crucifix embedded in her chest or the trilobite-shaped scarification located above her left breast just as breezily as she discusses the weather. The aptly named Danger…
Don “Hollywood” Yates isn’t someone you wanna mess with. Boasting a fearsome countenance and muscle-bound physique, the 6-foot-4, 235-pound badass has made a career out of battling both man and beast. As the villainous “Wolf,” a breakout star on NBC game show American Gladiators, he’s fiercely taken out contestants, unleashing…
By day, he is mild-mannered Tait Johnson. But when evil strikes your carburetor, he finds the nearest open phone booth and becomes . . . Honda Man! Okay, not really. He doesn’t have a cape or a fortress of solitude (though his repair shop, HON-MAN, is well-hidden, behind an East…
When Georganne Bryant thought about opening her own boutique, she researched boutiques in L.A. — you know, the stark shops in super-edgy ‘hoods that buzz customers in — and found exactly what she didn’t want. Bryant wanted to peddle her wares in the north central Phoenix neighborhood she calls home…
Gregory Gordon has style. And it’s pretty obvious, considering he and partners Brad Plumley and Lew Gallo are the triumvirate of taste behind Haus Modern Living, one of the premier urban furnishing stores in the nation. Besides being lauded in the pages of influential shopping mag Lucky, Gordon and company…
If ever there was an embodiment of Phoenix’s weirder side, then Stephen Strange and Sahar Mitchell are it, and proud to be. He’s a 32-year-old occultist and magician with a flair for the fantastic. She’s 34, a graceful serpent-wielding dancer dubbed “the Mother Fakir.” Collectively, they’re the Strange Family Circus,…
