RoseAna Dodge and Stormy Love are the owners of Rocket A Go Go, the colorful rockabilly shop at the southwest corner of Mill and Southern avenues. They’ve been friends for almost 11 years, and opened the shop, originally called Rocket Resale, in 2011. They’re not only business partners, but soon…
Have a little extra time on your hands this summer? That’s not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a great time of year to hone in on your talents, or even take on a new craft. And luckily, there are plenty of art workshops happening all around the Valley 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 73. Rachel Egboro. For…
Summer is the perfect season to catch up on your reading. And it just so happens to coincide with the perfect season for spending an afternoon at the movies. For those who enjoy reading the book before watching the movie, it’s time to make more space on your bookshelf, because…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26. For more events, see our curated calendar. “Breach: Log 16” During an artist residency aboard a restored 1840s whaling vessel in Mystic, Connecticut, Courtney M. Leonard made an intriguing discovery – 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 74. Tom Budzak. Much…
Each week, we’re recapping the second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode by episode. By the standards of modern television, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt doesn’t brand itself a particularly groundbreaking or boundary-pushing show. Instead, it typically falls into the “fun” and “easy to watch” categories of TV despite its heroine’s dark backstory. But it…
The Miss Gay Arizona America 2016 pageant on Sunday, June 26, will mark a big night for Nevaeh McKenzie. The local drag performer and reigning Miss Gay Arizona will oversee 10 contestants at this preliminary competition, the winner of which will go on to compete in Miss Gay America 2016…
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 75. Matthew Watkins. For…
An inevitability as harsh as an Arizona winter, TV show cancellations are upon us. Like the leaves changing or avoiding the flu shot, finding out your favorite show won’t get another season is another annual tribulation. But we have hope, everybody, in the form of sweet, clickable lists such as…
John Muir once wrote, “The mountains are calling and I must go…” It’s a partial line taken from a letter to his sister Sarah Muir Galloway in which he discussed the intense research he undertook as a naturalist in hopes of contributing to the realm of science. And while it would…
Has Paul Rudd become Hollywood’s idea of the face of economic insecurity? There his handsome mug was, in Ant-Man, beneath a Baskin-Robbins ball cap, his character making do behind an ice-cream counter while Marvel made bank in promotional tie-ins. And now, in The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett’s alternately winning/cloying…
Let me tell you all the good things about Nicolas Winding Refn’s high-art, lowbrow horror film The Neon Demon before I tell you what I will not tolerate. After Drive, Refn seems obsessed with his idea of Los Angeles, one where there’s always a full moon, no traffic and everyone…
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it…
Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…
People made a stink about the walkouts during the Sundance premiere of music-video-and-advertising geniuses the Daniels’ first feature film, Swiss Army Man. It stars Daniel Radcliffe (Manny) as a farting, rotting corpse with superpowers and Paul Dano (Hank) as a sad-sack suicidal stalker trying to get home through a forest…
A wiener dog is the perfect mascot for Todd Solondz’s films. Dachshunds are ridiculous, funny without trying, but that zero-dignity waddle belies a much fiercer purpose: to hunt and kill small prey. Solondz’s body of work, stretching from coming-of-age cringefest Welcome to the Dollhouse to his newest, Wiener-Dog, has the…
Here’s an experiment. Tonight, after midnight, haul yourself out of bed and into the street and, for a minute or two, scream bloody murder. What would happen? Would neighbors call the cops? Would patriots dash out locked and loaded? Would anyone even hear you over their earbuds and white-noise machines?…
Xavier Woods is hardcore gamer, comic book junkie, a die-hard anime aficionado, and even a Brony. But don’t you dare label him as just another geek, since he’s more than just that. And we aren’t just referring to his current stint as a WWE superstar. Woods is also an athlete…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 20, through Thursday, June 23. For more events, see our curated calendar. Lisa Hanawalt Though it sounds like the grossest challenge ever, Hot Dog Taste Test is the second illustrated collection from cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt: a…
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 76. Kym Ventola. Say…
Take note if you’re making visual or performance art in metro Phoenix: Several local venues are looking for artists who’d like to show their works. We found 15 such opportunities for Valley artists to get a head start with finding creative places to show off. “Of Land, Sea & Sky”…
