When editorial cartoonist turned amateur sleuth Robert Graysmith published Zodiac, his sprawling, meticulously researched account of the titular San Francisco serial killer, he wrote that the tale was “the most frightening story I know,” and it was easy to understand why. Graysmith was writing in 1985, some 16 years after…
Wild Hogs — in which John Travolta, William H. Macy, Tim Allen, and Martin Lawrence play emasculated suburbanites taking a cross-country motorcycle trip to rediscover their masculinity — doesn’t even sound like a real movie when you describe it to people. They give you that yer-shittin’-me stare, as though it were even possible to make […]
Lisa Jacobs, 31, known to many as Sticker Club Girl, is a multitalented designer of handcrafted “wearable art” textiles, ranging from jewelry and tee shirts to purses and fashion-show dresses. Her comfortable central Phoenix studio — a dolled-up carport filled with shelves of design mags, drawers of patterns, and salvaged…
About halfway through the second act of Christopher Durang’s wildly funny Betty’s Summer Vacation, a couple of electric saws appear out of nowhere and hack a giant hole into the back wall of the stage set. From that jagged fissure shoots a huge slide, down which come tumbling a trio…
For the aging videogamer, nothing’s as sorely missed as the corner arcade. Unlike the family-friendly Dance Dance Revolution discos you see today, classic arcades were seedy little dives tucked into strip malls — dark caves thick with the musty bouquet of cheap carpet and adolescent stench. They were also thick…
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (New Line) You probably already know where you stand on Tenacious D, the pudgy hard rock comedy duo that made Jack Black famous. And if you haven’t heard of them, this isn’t the place to start: Their DVD of short films and music…
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…
Art Detour is an annual event sponsored by artlink inc. The following venues are not all “official” participants in the event, so they may not be included in artlink’s promotional materials. The purpose of this guide is to list as many of the art, music, shopping and dining opportunities downtown…
Bratz: Fashion Pixiez (Lions Gate) Conversations With God (Fox) Cool It Carol (Image) Deep Red (Blue Underground) Dreamland (Image) Filmation’s Ghostbusters (Brentwood) George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing (MPI) Journey to the End of the Night (First Look) Little Einsteins: The Legend of the Golden Pyramid (Disney) Hawaii, Oslo (Film…
Click here to read the full-length comic by Deborah Sussman Susser and J. Haddock (PDF) Art Detour Listings by Benjamin Leatherman Art Detour Maps (PDF): Roosevelt/Evans-Churchill area Grand Avenue area House Party by Michele Laudig Can´t Miss by Benjamin Leatherman: “Absurdism” Uncle Sku’s Clubhouse The Lick at the Brick eye…
Is all that gallery hopping making you hungry — and thirsty — yet? Be sure to check out The Roosevelt, one of downtown’s newest drinking and dining destinations. Barely two months old, it’s already a popular watering hole with local artists and other creative types, who line up at the…
The entire 22-member roster of artists at eye lounge, 419 East Roosevelt Street, contributes their best and brightest works for the gallery’s annual Art Detour showcase. The lineup includes Lisa Sipe’s colorful encaustic wax and paint creation “The Bees Knees,” Aaron Abbott’s emotive photography, Leigh Miller’s perception-challenging designs, and more…
If you’re looking for some affordable art this weekend, visit the Icehouse, 429 West Jackson Street, during its Art Flea Market on Saturday, March 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, March 4, noon to 6 p.m.; where painters, photographers, and other creative types will hawk their works and…
The masterful black and white copper-plate photogravures from Angela Franks Wells’ “Parts & Labor” series are highlighted at Tilt Gallery, 919 West Fillmore Street. More than two dozen images feature an “intimate view” of the workspaces and tools of plumbers, welders, and other laborers to demonstrate the passion of their…
Any scene worth its salt comes with cliques, and the coolest club in the Phoenix art world is Collective Gesture, a group of artists, curators, and writers who communicate mostly via an invite-only listserv. Sometimes they come out to play, and this month, they’ve launched a show, “Do Me,” in…
“Tenacious” at Tempe Public Library’s Connections Caf: At first glance, artist Barbara Burton’s quirky monoprints of bunnies and teacups seem well-suited to a coffee shop that’s just a stone’s throw from dog-eared copies of Brer Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh. But there’s a darker subtext here. Check out Would You…
In serious art circles, “craft” is a dirty word. It means crocheted doilies and wooden birdhouses, the handmade kitsch you would find at church rummage sales. Form is secondary to function. Installation artist Bruce Nauman, who was featured in PBS’ Art:21 series, said, “It’s the intention that turns a staircase…
In 2003, Mark and Michael Polish made Northfork, though just barely; the brothers, also responsible for the art-house fave Twin Falls Idaho, about conjoined twins who fall for the same woman, lost funding just before shooting began and had to beg for money to finish their reverie about lost souls…
Morally irreproachable and flat as a pancake, Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace is set among bickering House of Commoners in late-18th-century London, but the movie belongs squarely in the currently blooming subgenre of Whites Saving Dark-skinned Victims of Empire. Or at least it would be were Apted able to bring a…
Having endured civil war, separation from their families, hunger and dehydration during a 1000-mile trek through sub-Saharan Africa, and 10 years in a U.N. refugee camp while awaiting the myriad challenges of resettlement in the United States, the three “lost boys of Sudan” in God Grew Tired of Us can…
The Number 23 grips hold of one stupid idea and runs so far with it, in so many directions, to such little purpose, that it nearly won me over from sheer berserkoid effort. In a nutshell, this nutso movie observes what happens to a man (Jim Carrey) under the impression…
We Americans complain of Big Brother’s unblinking eye in the post-Patriot Act, corporate e-mail era — as well we should. But, as The Lives of Others makes plain, things could be worse. Set in East Berlin circa 1984, when one in 100 citizens of the German Democratic Republic was a…
