Arizona foodie Robin Miller is a chatty Kathy. It’s irksome. The cutie-pie host of the Food Network’s Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller can talk your friggin’ ear off, though – granted — it is hard to imagine a cooking show hosted by a sullen chef with a speaking disorder…
Shemer Art Center and Museum, the art oasis located smack-dab in the middle of lovely Arcadia, opened in 1984, back when “new media” referred to anything not made exclusively with traditional art-making materials. Computers were the hot new things, and as the decade progressed, digital media rendered even formerly cutting-edge…
Three years after dissolving Rocket from the Crypt and Hot Snakes nearly simultaneously, John “Speedo” Reis is back in the fold with a formidable new San Diego-based quartet called The Night Marchers. On the band’s debut CD, See You in Magic (released this week on Vagrant Records), Reis — collaborating…
On a recent evening, as the clock approached midnight, I created a makeshift altar with a photo of late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon, then lit a mixture of wormwood, patchouli, vervain, and Mrs. Dash, then chanted over and over, “I summon you from the other side; come to me…
Last year, the Arizona Diamondbacks surprised most baseball minds when they locked up the NL West and fell a smidge short of a second World Series appearance. Because of that triumphant 2007, the current squad is shocking no one with its early success in ’08. However, when it comes to…
If you’ve guaranteed your season-ticketholders a playoff appearance or a complete refund, you’d better be protectin’ the ball. The Arizona Rattlers have not, and our Arena League footballers have subsequently been grinding their gears at a .500 pace. The Rattlers try, try again against the Georgia Force. Sat., April 26,…
During the early part of this decade, capturing the impoverished of the Far East was all the rage. U.S. photojournalists snapped heartbreaking images of Chinese slave laborers while Naomi Klein’s written manifestos, No Logo and the subsequent Fences and Windows, detailed corporate globalization with a focus on Asia. Basically, it…
By Joseph Golfen It’s not often that you see something truly unique. Most things in life feel familiar, more of a variation on a theme then an actual new experience. But the night Philip Huber and his marionette show performed at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater was like nothing I’d…
This weekend reads like a recipe for undiluted joy.
Lifetimes are spent trying to tackle and pin down the constant state of flux of the human mind. Even pros like Freud, Jung, and Dr. Phil have grasped only morsels. The task is arguably impossible. But painter Mark Keffer accepts the challenge in his show “The Future of Heads” at…
“Chado Ralph Rucci” at Phoenix Art Museum’s Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery: If you just splurged on a ridiculously expensive piece of clothing — whatever you do — don’t wear it when you see this show. Why? By comparison, the garments on display will make you feel like a bum…
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in “body art” into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns — this time expanding his horizons rather than his girth. Paraphrasing the title of a venerable computer game, Where in the World…
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole season of NBC’s Freaks and Geeks, on which Segel played bright-eyed burnout Nick Andopolis. On the episode “I’m With the Band,” Nick imagined himself an…
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long. Going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it’s worse than that. Pacino plays a Seattle forensic psychiatrist in symbiotic thrall to the serial killer he helped put…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban-American, and a grieving mother walk into each other’s lives, laugh together, cry together, grow, change, and heal each other’s emotional wounds. Cue Sundance prizes, Miramax pickup, torrent of glowing reviews, and surprisingly robust indie box office…
If you don’t remember a game called The Typing of the Dead, you’re not alone. Released on the failed Sega Dreamcast system, this gory, hilariously titled arcade-style shooter was in many ways exactly like its popular counterpart, The House of the Dead. But instead of aiming a gun at the…
Once again, the hippest place to be this weekend is gonna be the Theonix Arts Showcase on Friday, April 18, at Hollywood Alley in Mesa. For its third edition, the monthly music and artistic showcase features performances by the she-punks of The Green Lady Killers, and the rockers of Brewed…
The former member of the Bloods gang signs and discusses his violent, searing memoir, War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier’s March Toward Redemption. The reformed banger now heads the To Overcome Discrimination Against Youth (TODAY) organization and represents the Stay Strong Foundation. Thu., April 17, 7…
Kaku’s not your grandpa’s egghead, that’s for sure. In addition to co-founding string field theory — kinda egghead, right? — the hip dude writes for Wired, makes regular appearances on CNN and the Discovery Channel, and pens best-selling books like the groovy Hyperspace that are accessible even to folks who…
Heard of the drug Lingo? Oh, boy, are you missing out. It’ll get you higher than Amy Winehouse while simultaneously ramping up your verbal IQ. As with any designer drug, there are a few problems. There’s the homicidal-rage side effect, plus you may need to deal with a female police…
March showcases the get-shitfaced Irish festival. In May, we have the white-boy/dude/bro-friendly Drinko de Mayo. So what so-called holiday can we waste our pathetic lives celebrating in April? Hmm? Oh, yeah. Duh. The international holiday of cannabis appreciation, otherwise known as 4:20. (We promise we’re not stoned. Well, at least…
You could, we suppose, wander around some of the Valley’s more upscale neighborhoods looking for contemporary homes and hoping to bump into the folks who designed and live in them. But why not, instead, head to the Phoenix Contemporary Design Fair, where people who love things stylish and modern go…
