Green Day is coming, and we ain’t talking about the punk band, brah. Nope, it’s the annual alcoholic extravaganza known as St. Patrick’s Day, where liquor and leprechauns collide in one clamorous Celtic craic. Everyone can have a wee bit of Irish in them, especially after pounding a few pints…
Fortunately for the folks in the audience at Phoenix Theatre, Black Theatre Troupe executive director David Hemphill is appearing in PT’s current production of Guys and Dolls. That’s bad luck for the rest of us, because it means Hemphill wasn’t there to give his usual charming curtain speech on opening…
My Fair Lady: The rain in Spain will, these next several weeks, be falling mainly on the theatrical plain of Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, which brings us this famed Lerner-Loewe musical through mid-April. Based on George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion, My Fair Lady contains more classic tunes in its first act…
It’s obvious by now that we Phoenicians have fully embraced Cinco de Mayo. Not only does the blowout “holiday” provide a much-needed excuse to get completely hosed, but the traditional event always makes for one hell of a party. While Latin festivities don’t necessarily need improvement, leave it to one…
“Don’t Eat Tuna More Than Two Times a Week” was the unforgettable advice you may have received while driving north on Mill Avenue past Gammage Auditorium last spring. The posted chalkboard-style signs bearing wacky wisdom at the side of the road were part of Arizona State University’s first “Shared Terrain”…
“IN-CRIMI-NATION” at The Icehouse: If you think the Iraq War is our countrys low point, wait until you see The Icehouses latest sniper shot at America. Artist Mona Higuchis 12-foot-high woven paper reprint of a vintage photograph depicting Japanese girls stitching camouflage cargo nets at an internment camp is a…
A few years ago, a friend of mine had a great idea for a Halloween costume. His plan was to find a framed painting of a woman’s portrait, cut out the eyes, and peek through the holes. He would be the mysterious shifty-eyed spy seen in horror movies or the…
Long ago, there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amidst copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly…
I am sorry to say that Peter did not feel very well that evening. His mother put him to bed and gave him a dose of chamomile tea. “One tablespoon to be taken at bedtime.” But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper. — Beatrix…
Mexico City — Less than 24 hours after the Oscars capped the remarkable year of the so-called “three amigos” by handing out three awards to Pan’s Labyrinth and one to Babel, I boarded a plane bound for Mexico City and the fourth edition of the Mexico City International Contemporary Film…
Green Day is coming, and we ain’t talking about the punk band, brah. Nope, it’s the annual alcoholic extravaganva known as St. Patrick’s Day, where liquor and leprechauns collide in one clamorous Celtic craic. Everyone can have a wee bit of Irish in them, especially after pounding a few pints…
Unlike its Wii Sports predecessor, only two players can play Wii Play at a time — barely living up to the definition of “We.” And playing Wii Play alone is a hollow feeling. Strangely, Wii Play acts as a “Wiimote 101” tutorial instead of an inspired game collection. The emphasis…
Revenge of the Nerds: Panty Raid Edition (Fox) Revenge of the Nerds is a great movie. No, really. It’s got a bitching new-wave soundtrack and some truly inspired performances — memorable enough to wreck the careers of Robert Carradine (Lewis) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger). But mostly it’s the mix of…
A Brush With Death (New Light) Buster Crabbe Collection (St. Clair Vision) Captain Horatio Hornblower (Warner Bros.) Care Bears: Friends Forever (Lions Gate) Commissar (Kino) Confetti (Fox) Death Row (Anchor Bay) The Electric Company’s Greatest Hits & Bits (Shout) Fast Food Nation (Fox) The Full Monty: Fully Exposed Edition (Fox)…
On March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses saw a mysterious light formation hovering over the Valley. Local residents were terrified. Was this a supersecret military craft or were we about to become victims of anal probes? Find out more at the “Alien Images: UFOs, Photography and Belief” exhibit, a visual…
Betty Comden: As one half of the legendary musical duo of Comden and Green, Betty Comden produced six decades’ worth of Hollywood and Broadway hits. The duo penned screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, including Singin’ in the Rain, The Band Wagon, and On the…
Indigo Verton offers some freaky fun at The Red Door, 1229 Grand Avenue, with her “Absurdism” extravaganza. In addition to Charles Sanderson’s painting oddities, there’ll be “interactive installation art” (including bags of wine hanging from the ceiling) and absurdist entertainment all weekend, with a smorgasbord of sideshow acts, “chin puppetry,”…
Like the Wallace and Ladmo Show on mescaline, Uncle Sku’s Clubhouse is a whacked-out kids’ show of comedy and music shenanigans featuring Sku “T-Bone” Hadley, Rusty the Kid, Mr. Jangles the Chain-Smoking Puppet, and Maestro “Can Do” Andrew. The latest episode, on Friday, March 2, at the Trunk Space, 1506…
With his longstanding liquor-license problems straightened out, Brickhouse Theatre owner Roger Belfiore is planning some phat festivities for Friday, March 2, at his joint, located at 1 East Jackson Street. B-boy dance competitions kick things off at 3 p.m., followed by live graf work from Adam “Dumperfoo” Dumper (pictured) and…
Standing in the vacant lot beside Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt, this plywood wall created by (from left in photo) students Marcial White, Jordan Womack, and Ben Hyde, provides attendees with a chance to pick up some spray paint and create “live art chaos” alongside experienced graf workers in a…
Soul Invictus Cabaret, 1022 Grand Avenue, hosts two nights of gender-bending entertainment featuring the showing of six different queer-friendly short films. The lineup on Friday, March 2, includes Season of the Troll, Taco Chick and Salsa Girl, and Nightmare on Castro Street, with music by all-girl punkers The Pubes; while…
It may be hard out there for a pimp, but it ain’t too hard for a writer-director to make a movie whose marketing hinges on the lurid spectacle of Samuel L. Jackson pulling a half-naked Christina Ricci around on a chain. This sort of cheap trick is what they used…
