Thirteen, an unlucky number to many, is actually an impressive figure if you’re talking about the life span of a typical indie business in Phoenix. Maybe that’s why Arizona’s most renowned tattoo/piercing destination is throwing a big-ass party to celebrate its 13th birthday. The Club Tattoo Anniversary Party goes off…
Oh, the lovely, majestic butterfly. There isn’t a person in the world who could hate these gorgeous critters. They give unattractive people hope that morphing from a fat blob to a stunning beaut is, indeed, possible. Little kids love them because they’re reminded of the dramatic climax to Eric Carle’s…
In this hell-ride of a season, the ASU Baseball team is looking to play somebody (anybody!) that isn’t a powerhouse program. You’d think that Loyola Marymount would provide said relief. Not so, as the 2008 Lions have chalked up impressive wins against Oregon State, USC, and Cal. Sat., May 10,…
Heed our command, insignificant humans: Attend Pagan Fest USA or we lords of Asgard shall smite thee with our mighty gavel, Mjolnir! The thundering Norse beasts we have selected to pummel your puny Midgard include Finnish “Viking metal” bands Ensiferum and Turisas, Switzerland’s Eluveitie, Germany’s Suidakra, and the terrifying Tyr…
We were leaning against the DJ booth at Homme for the Thursday-night weekly FALLOUT when someone’s shadow sidled up and queried, “So, you a rivethead or a cybergoth?” Granted, we were wearing a black, nylon trench coat, but honey, please, it’s a Marc Jacobs. We quickly turned, unhinged our jaw,…
Get a sneak peek — a free one at that — at this Arizona-made film from UofA alum Georgina Garcia Riedel. The movie, which opens nationally May 16, centers on three generations of women in a Mexican-American family. A reception precedes at 7. Tue., May 13, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
The planetarium’s sky has been dark for more than six months during renovation, but the facility’s back — and looking pretty slick — after a big-time makeover. New features include a state-of-the-art NanoSeam Dome that provides 3-D and high-def graphics, a Digistar 3 projection system and astronomy package, a Bowen…
By Joseph Golfen Art is all about trying new things. Artists at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art on Thursday stuck to that concept as they explored the relatively untapped potential of magnets. Local art groups such as Alpha Monster Art Collective, Spraygraphics and Consp!re turned out for the launch…
By Jonathan McNamara Let’s cut to the chase here. There are a lot of great things going on this weekend, but none of them are as important as seeing Mini Kiss as written about in our Cinco De Mayo Guide. I saw a video of this awesome foursome on Jimmy…
A dense, menacing thicket looms. Green and pink stems, yellow flower buds, fuchsia seed pods and burgundy leaves intertwine, overlap, and suffocate the surface. Enormous industrial bolts, large wing nuts, and clusters of threaded screws — pointing every which way — invade the great mass of thriving, oozing vegetation. It’s…
If there’s one celebration that P-Town knows how to do with style, it’s Cinco de Mayo. Nearly everyone in the Valley’s gonna be living la vida loca and feting Latino culture nonstop from Thursday, May 1, until Monday, May 5. Myriad Mexican-themed parties are on tap around the PHX, offering…
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. Like Bruce Wayne, whose transformation from average Joe into masked crusader is an act of will instead of the unintended result of a genetic mutation, a spider bite,…
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” who is, slowly but surely, domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who’s on her way to Scotland to marry Mr. Right Now since Mr. Right’s too chickenshit to say boo…
When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out — essentially paying full price for a fraction of the final product. Superfans are happy to do that sort of thing…
I’ve gotten pretty good at acting bored when I meet someone who feels as I do about old buildings — that we don’t have enough of them here, that we tear them down too readily, that without them we’re a city with no sense of place — but inside, I’m…
Magnet lovers can bring their attractive implements down and stick ’em on the metallic outer walls at SMoCA to create a community mural. Special guests at this year’s event include Magnet Mafia, Alphamonster Art Collective, Spraygraphic, Conspire, Crafty Burritos, and Red Hot Robot. Thu., May 1, 5 p.m., 2008…
As you know, because you lived it, the goings-on surrounding Super Bowl XLII were monstrously off the grid. There were at least 30 bashes with price tags of $500-plus, and the nouveau-gauche admission price for one gig alone was $12,500. Per person. Then there was the endless scroll of participating…
Cristina Garcia — whose acclaimed new novel, A Handbook to Luck, tells the tale of three political exiles from the ravaged countries of Iran, El Salvador, and Cuba — probes seldom-told stories of an extraordinary America because she is, herself, an extraordinary American. Her family fled Castro’s Cuba in 1961,…
No demolition-derby promoter ever went broke underestimating the desire of the American public to witness vehicular carnage. It’s innate. We’re a country on the move, the car is our god, ain’t no way you cuttin’ in on me, muthafucka. That unchained aggression defines the demo-derby experience and our collective birthright…
In the soundtrack of our lives, there’s no ignoring Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It,” a tune that seemed to be going through the heads of some of Marvel Comics’ most popular and notable young artists of the ’90s. In the early part of that decade, Erik Larsen,…
You say you’ve never been much of a joiner. Perhaps you’re waiting for the right club to join – the right movement to believe in. Perhaps you’re just motivationally challenged. Or perhaps you simply feel uncomfortable around other people unless you’re stoned. Well, do we have just the thing for…
Tribute bands can be a rather divisive subject in the rock world. Copycat acts like Beatallica and Atomic Punks pack in crowds across the country by aping bands like the Beatles and Van Halen, but they also get grumblings about siphoning off the glory of has-beens. Frankly, we dig ’em,…
