The show features teensy-weensy works — none larger than 12″ x 12″ — in various media by artists from Arizona and around the country, including Effie Bouras, Dayvid LeMmon, Barbara Love Newport, Byron Carrick, Monica Chevalier, Chris Day, and Aleta Lynch. A reception is slated for 4 to 8 p.m…
A performance by the cast of Artists’ Theatre Project’s Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical follows the screening of the original — the all-time best — soft-core cheerleader-exploitation flick. Another soft-core fave, Sugar Cookies, wraps up the evening with an 11 p.m. start time. Fri., Nov. 16, 9 p.m., 2007…
Artist and instructor Solana Yuko Halada’s works focus, she says, “on simplicity, beauty, and a mind-body connection that follows the Zen precepts that greatness in brushwork can only be achieved through mushin, or ‘no-mind.'”. Nov. 26-30, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 2007…
This T-Day feast’s the best in town. Period. And a menu from a previous year (this one’s is not yet finalized) illustrates why: baby lamb chops with a mint glaze, grilled salmon with a roasted red pepper coulis, and that old standby — turkey — gussied up with cranberry chutney…
The founder/president of the controversial organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reads from and signs her latest book, Let’s Have a Dog Party! Tue., Nov. 20, 7 p.m., 2007…
The ever-supercool classical-music series, featuring moonlighting members of the Phoenix Symphony, strikes again in this concert held in conjunction with Legend City’s “Chaos Theory” exhibit. The program includes works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Grebentschikov. Seating is limited. Sat., Nov. 17, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 18, 8 p.m., 2007…
There are those of us who will do almost anything to hear someone sing “Alfie,” arguably the most famous and most-often-recorded of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s many hundreds of pop standards. We (who also don’t mind hearing “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” “Baby It’s You,” and the…
What does Tempe have in common with Reykjavik, Iceland, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Manchester, United Kingdom? The 700IS Reindeerland: International Experimental Film and Video Festival, a well-traveled celluloid fest that will screen anime, shorts, documentary, and experimental fare. Tue., Nov. 27, 7-9:30 p.m., 2007…
You think your marriage stinks. At 18, this former fundamentalist Mormon from Colorado City says she was forced to marry a stalwart polygamist nearly 40 years her elder — and to bear eight children by the geezer — before escaping from the grasp of the creepy Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints…
The gentle documentary, which took the Best Film award at the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival, was the brain child of Andrew Jenks, a then 19-year-old filmmaker who decided to live among the residents of an old-folks home and get their take on life, and occasionally death. Mon., Nov. 26, 7…
“Two Ladies,” indeed! Cabaret director Phillip Fazio apparently has a thing for impersonating the fairer sex. Here, the former child actor fesses up to an affection for Maggie Smith and a likeness to Bridget Jones, and cops to preteen stints in full-on drag and a secret desire to be the…
Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on outside the classroom window than inside. But there’s one moment from Redford’s academic past that burns brightly in his memory…
Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, may be the most well-meaning filmmaker in Hollywood. Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human…
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is less Sidney Lumet’s comeback than his resurrection. Three years after being presented a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, the 83-year-old director comes forth with a violent family melodrama that is his strongest movie in at least two decades. Robustly directed from Kelly Masterson’s bear-trap screenplay…
“There’s a reason I’ve had some good pictures and other guys will never have good pictures,” Sidney Lumet says matter-of-factly on a recent afternoon in his New York office — four cramped white walls, unadorned by awards or other memorabilia, on the top floor of the Ansonia building, where Enrico…
“Hold still.” That’s what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear it, it’s the out-of-work Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) whispering optimistically to the antelope he spies through his rifle sight while perched on the crest…
Banking on the career choices of Vince Vaughn garners increasingly erratic returns, which is ironic, given that he has finally settled on (or surrendered to) a consistent onscreen persona: his own bad self. Uneasy from the beginning, Vaughn avoided the superstardom that seemed within reach after Swingers by trying on…
Wristcutters: A Love Story, a well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie flicks: Its walking dead are a bunch of attractive slackers whose wounds are largely internal. They’ve got attitude. Before the opening credits end, the movie’s glum protagonist has…
Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy — and it wasn’t even written by Aaron Sorkin. Hot young screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan is fresh off his alpha-male script for The…
Phillip Fazio, a youngish local stage director and artist in residence at Phoenix Theatre, e-mailed me recently to tell me, in effect, it isn’t fair that I’ve given up on the smaller East Valley theaters because I think they do only tired old shows everyone’s seen a hundred times. I…
Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical: Artists Theatre Project launches its fifth season with a reprise of the company’s popular 2004 staging of this campy tuner about a whorish teen with her eyes on the big prize. This adaptation of the classic 1978 skin flick was already old news when @Pro…
Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that stretches over 20 years and as many games, has two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who’ve followed the games since they were straight-up action titles with thumb-busting combat and infamously steep difficulty curves. Most agree that the best of the old-school Castlevanias is…
