Here’s How ASU Art Museum Is Bringing More Contemporary Craft to Arizona
It’s kind of a big deal.
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How Phoenix Collective ASAN Intergalactically Dissed Donald Trump
“@realDonaldTrump: Look at that, you son of a bitch!”
Say Goodbye to Lawn Gnome Publishing in Downtown Phoenix
Another Fifth Street business is closing up shop.
Graduation Lays Bare the Cost of Thriving in a Corrupt Society
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation is one of the best films I’ve ever seen about corruption. That’s true despite the fact that Mungiu underplays the typical elements found in tales about this subject: You won’t find many fast-talking crooks, sinister cops or elaborate sting operations here. Or a looming sense…
Street-Magic Drama Sleight Has One Great Trick But Needs More Magic
Keep your eyes on the magician’s hands. She’ll attempt to distract you with compliments and silly quips, but her most effective feint will be the story she tells as she shuffles the cards. She might give quaint mention to a lover’s spat between the King of Hearts and the Queen…
Rich with Atmosphere, Voice From the Stone Can’t Transcend Horror Cheese
In Eric D. Howell’s adaptation of Silvio Raffo’s ghostly 1996 novel, Voice From the Stone, a timid woman finds employment as a nanny with a rural family ravaged by grief. The longer she stays in their cavernous, stone-and-stucco villa, the more she comes to act, talk, and look like the…
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Things Could Get Worse: Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Sharp Slap to the Now
The Handmaid’s Tale premieres April 26 on Hulu In the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood herself shows up to slap our heroine in the face. The grande dame of dystopian fiction plays an aunt, one of the abbesses in charge of a new order of so-called handmaids:…
A Behind The Scenes Look at Ask This Old House‘s Upcoming Phoenix Episode
The episodes will air this fall.
ASU Grad Matthew Desmond Wins Pulitzer Prize for Evicted
He grew up in Winslow.
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Why a $1 Million Gift to Arizona Opera Could Mean a New Work
Riders of the Purple Sage cost about that much.
Why Pete Petrisko and Stacey Champion Want You to Take the Street Art Challenge
Maybe you’ve always yearned to yarn bomb a palm tree or wax poetic on a street corner. You’ll be pleased to know, there’s an event for that. It’s a street art challenge called Show It! Say It! Do It! And it’s happening in downtown Phoenix from 6 p.m. on Friday,…
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Peter Bugg Named Visual Arts Coordinator for City of Chandler
The artist previously worked at ASU and SMoCA.
Pride Month Wraps in Phoenix with Come As You Are
Mark you calendar.
Pinewood Classic 2017: A Guide to This Saturday’s Event at Short Leash
“Some are built for speed, some are built for craftsmanship, and others are just built for fun.”
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What You Need to Know About Through the Repellent Fence, the Documentary About Postcommodity’s Border Art
For starters, it’s about Postcommodity.
After the Storm, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Latest Masterwork, Is Indispensable
If civilization were to end tomorrow — and who the hell knows, it just might — we could learn a lot about building the next one from the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda. Back in 1998, the Japanese director had his U.S. breakthrough with the wildly acclaimed After Life. Since then,…
As Civilization Crashes in The Lost City of Z, an Explorer Discovers Something More
“I’ve been trained for this.” Those words — or some variation — come up several times throughout James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, and they serve as one key to this strange, sprawling, majestic film. In adapting the 2009 nonfiction book about the search for a fabled city in…
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Director James Gray on Working With Robert Pattinson in The Lost City of Z
“Rob has this ridiculous beard and it’s such great, self-effacing, wonderful work he’s doing,” James Gray says about his film recounting the life of a British explorer who disappeared while pursuing his lifelong obsession with a mythical city in the Amazon.
MST3K‘s Return Is Good Enough That You Should Really Just Relax
First things first. The new Mystery Science Theater 3000, that basic-cable and UHF puppet show that was above all else a treatise about what it was like to grow up on basic cable and UHF, is a cheery, companionable continuation, an almost business-as-usual new season Kickstarted and Netflixed that Febreezes…
The Mad King’s Splendor: Visconti’s Decadent Ludwig Hits Home Video
“Ludwig, you are the favorite of the Lord because more than any other man, you are exposed to sin.” A compassionate priest says this to the mad king of Bavaria about halfway through Ludwig, Luchino Visconti’s sprawling 1972 film, now finally available, in all its uncut glory, in a gorgeous…
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Like a Stunned America, Selina Meyer Searches for a Path Forward
HBO’s acid-bathed Beltway satire Veep didn’t exactly predict our absurd political reality. But it did come close enough that revisiting past seasons is like watching footage of a train wreck run backwards in slow motion. The episode called “C**tgate” brought a vaginal euphemism into a presidential election. “Election Night” saw…