We’re recapping Difficult People, episode by episode. Ooh, what about a gay Gremlins? Can a difficult person be a difficult person without also being a stagnant person? We ask because the beauty of Billy and Julie of Difficult People is that they have, find, and create opportunities for themselves only to…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 49. Anita and Sam…
Michael Lanier, whose eclectic plant-centric boutique The Bosque opened in the monOrchid during July’s First Friday in 2015 (and promptly earned a New Times Best of Phoenix award), is already planning a second location. He’s opening an expanded iteration of The Bosque this fall in the Garfield Historic District, and says…
Alec Baldwin is no Steve Harvey. Unlike Harvey, Baldwin seems diminished on the set of a retro ’70s game show dedicated to getting contestants to say gently dirty nonsense. On ABC’s baggy, boozy Match Game, Baldwin crabs into a skinny last-century microphone about how everything’s stupid: his celebrity panelists, the…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 50. Liz Magura. Liz…
In New Times’ 2016 summer guide, we’re all about keeping cool — from eating and drinking to staycationing. Here’s your guide to shopping, partying, and recouping in style. Unless you perpetually and supernaturally glow all summer long à la J-Lo, the sweaty look likely isn’t your best. But this season,…
Harry Potter may be the biggest thing to happen to midnight since New Year’s Eve. For years, we lined up at bookstores for the new installment, crammed inside movie theaters on premiere night, and found a 24-hour store for the DVD release. We thought it was all over in 2011…
Theater Works, which performs at Peoria Center for the Arts, has promoted Chris Hamby to producing artistic director and Cate Hinkle to managing director, according to a July 25 announcement. The news comes just months after Dan Schay, who joined the company as executive director in February of 2012, passed…
Patricia Rozema is what you might call a “working director.” Her first credit was Second Assistant Director on three episodes of the acclaimed children’s series, Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Elephant Show in 1984, and since then she’s written, directed and produced art-house shorts, film-industry docs, a music-and-dance film (Yo-Yo Ma…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 51. ColorOrgy. As noms de…
Photographer Andrew Pielage has closed Drive-Thru Gallery in downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. But the artist isn’t done with the gallery business. He’s already announced plans for a new gallery opening later this year in the neighboring Garfield Historic District. Pielage is an occasional New Times contributor whose work drew widespread attention after…
New Times picks the best things to do from Monday, July 25, through Thursday, July 28. For more events, see our curated online calendar. “A Group Effort” It’s tough to find exhibitions featuring works by more than 50 artists outside museum walls or the art-festival circuit. But “A Group Effort,” a…
Through six seasons of Game of Thrones, there’s been plenty of nudity to go around. But compared to the first few seasons, the three more recent ones have been fairly tame when it comes to portraying sex. Still, there’s been a serious amount of nakedness in most episodes (even by…
Allison Janney is deflecting questions about herself to proclaim the talent and intelligence of her Tallulah co-star Ellen Page, whom she already step-mothered onscreen in 2007’s Juno, when she suddenly interrupts herself. “Oh my god,” she says. “I’ve been talking since six this morning. I’m bleary-eyed from all the conversations…
Brady Corbet has emerged as the face of millennial malaise on the strength of roles in films like Simon Killer, Clouds of Sils Maria and Melancholia, but what he really wants to do is direct — and direct he does in The Childhood of a Leader, his ambitious behind-the-camera debut…
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…
Ellen Page’s complicated onscreen relationship with children continues in Tallulah, which reverses the Juno dynamic — this time her title character wants a kid who isn’t hers. Orange Is the New Black scribe Sian Heder makes her directorial debut with the sympathetic indie, a maternal character study that loses its…
Can We Take a Joke? is a surprisingly self-righteous and unfunny documentary in which shelf-dated comedians spend 74 minutes misinterpreting the First Amendment to mean that behaving like an asshole should have no social consequences. The film and all of its subjects — including Penn Jillette, Lisa Lampanelli, Jim Norton,…
With unflagging honesty and compassion, Clay Tweel’s documentary Gleason charts the journey of former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason as he copes with the ruinous nerve disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. That description, however, can’t quite do justice to Tweel’s film, which is partly built around video journals…
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix’s creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we’re taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 52. Gabriela Muñoz. Forget life…
If there’s one thing to know about dancers, it’s that they’re seemingly always on the move. This is no exception for Jordan Daniels, a 25-year-old dancer, instructor, and choreographer. Daniels grew up performing musical theater in church, and attended high school at Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics. “Half of…
A new art venue called Herberger Gallery at Arizona Center is coming to downtown Phoenix. The opening for its first official exhibition takes place during Third Friday on September 16, although a soft opening and other activities are happening sooner, says A O Tucker, a local photographer who will co-curate…
