It’s easier to feel good about devoting time and money to shopping when you know your gift choices help support local artists and small businesses. So we went in search of 25 cool holiday gift options with a local arts-and-culture twist — including several made by local artists and artisans…
If you’re not the type who gets a thrill from camping outside of Best Buy for hours or fighting the crowds at the mall for a parking spot, check out some of these out-of-the-ordinary Black Friday deals. Many local Valley retailers will open their doors with special bargains for Black…
New Times is back with the December installment of Bar Flies, our monthly reading series at Valley Bar. This time we’ll honor our long(ish) standing tradition of celebrating the holidays with the theme “Eating Christmas” — tales of the winter holidays, and food. The lineup: Tricia Parker, Robrt Pela, Amy Silverman, Amy…
Many of the better publishing deals today go to actors, which means a steady stream of ghostwritten books about the lives of newly rich people on a predictable trajectory: poverty, fame, substance abuse and a very public divorce followed by a splashy comeback and, inevitably, a book deal. Actress Mary-Louise…
There’s a lot to be thankful for when you live in Phoenix, but this week we’re most grateful for all the free stuff to do. The lineup includes performance art, bike rides, light parades, and more. Last LAP Night of the Semester The Live Art Platform will host its final…
The Nazis lost World War II, but they’ve conquered the American imagination. Seventy years after his suicide, Hitler is still everywhere: in the movies, on YouTube, in political headlines and on the History Channel. The latest manifestation of our Third Reich fixation is The Man in the High Castle, Amazon’s…
Ready or not, the holidays are just over the horizon and everyone’s already busy making plans. That includes the members of local prankster group the Arizona Cacophony Society who have set a date for the 2015 edition of Santarchy, their biggest and most anticipated event of the year. Organizers of…
Thanksgiving is approaching and with the holiday comes visiting relatives, vacation days, and the serious consumption of deliciously starchy foods. We found a couple things to keep you and yours busy during Thanksgiving week 2015. No matter what you’re into, there’s something to keep you entertained including parties, runs, art…
Stray Cat Theatre, a Tempe-based indie theater company that presents classic and contemporary works with a smart and edgy vibe, will move to Tempe Center for the Arts in June of 2016, artistic director Ron May says. Stray Cat’s final production at its current venue, Tempe Performing Arts Center (TPAC) located…
Marvel’s Jessica Jones is smart, surprising, and occasionally terrifying, a human tale of trauma and healing in a superhero vein. Its first episodes have more (unexploitative) sex scenes than battles, more shrugs and eye rolls than mighty kapows. But it’s not the shock or novelty that gives it resonance. Jessica…
Gearing up for football games means a lot of things: body paint, beer, resting your voice for screaming really, really loud, and also pranks — especially if said football game happens to be the territorial cup between Arizona State and University of Arizona. ASU student Ben Kaufman took the pranking…
This time of year, people tend to fall into two camps: those dying to get out and find the perfect holiday gifts, and those who can’t quite fathom the fact that holidays are fast approaching. This month’s Third Friday has plenty to offer either way. For holiday shoppers, it’s a…
From ancient societies to Planet X, Arizona is no slouch in the scientific community. A multitude of discoveries have been made in our dear state, ranging from dinosaurs to tree rings. Arizona has contributed to countless archeological and astronomical advances, but some of the most notable ones include Pluto, dendrochronology,…
New Times picks the best in art, culture, comedy, and theater events in metro Phoenix from November 20 to 22. For more things to do, see our curated calendar of events. Emerging Artists II There’s not enough modern dance hereabouts. Meanwhile, performing arts grad students can’t just toil away at…
How funny, really, are dick pics? Millions of them must be snapped and shared each year, as inducement or harassment, celebration or shaming. Perhaps Harper’s Index could tell us the tonnage of coal mined each year to power the transmission of American crotches. So when a dick pic turns up…
With the spectacular The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, the best in the series, Jennifer Lawrence closes out the franchise that made her the biggest star of her generation. Since The Hunger Games started, in 2012, she’s starred in four of them and only six of everything else. Luckily,…
British artist Bruce Munro specializes in immersive large-scale light-based installations and has created works for several metro Phoenix settings, including Lisa Sette Gallery and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. His installation for the Desert Botanical Garden opens Friday, November 20, and his installation for Scottsdale Public Art, already on view…
The horror of Nearly Naked Theatre’s Monster has nothing to do with the macabre action of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the story on which this play is based. It hasn’t anything to do with the inferior production, the sluggish acting, the slow and dull-witted direction. The real nightmare here is how…
The alt-history premise of The Man in the High Castle, 10 binge-ready episodes of which load Friday, November 20, on Amazon Prime, is a huge hook: The Axis powers won World War II. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan control the east and west coasts of America, respectively, with a Rocky…
VICE Magazine called it “Comi-Con meets burlesque nerd orgy,” while Esquire minced no words in describing it as “beautiful young women with tattoos.” Each was describing the same scene, one of shimmying Stormtroopers and scantily clad tattooed women dancing and playing dress-up with pop culture references. The show is Blackheart…
Tempe boutique Here On The Corner announced in a November 16 Facebook post that it will close by the end of 2016. “This is not a change of choice for us, but one of the reality that we live in,” the post reads. “While we are profoundly sad, we are…
Aidan Ringo is an 11-year-old fan of Star Wars, tattoos, and hockey. He also happens to be the founder of CPForce. Starting a nonprofit organization might seem like too big of a task for someone Ringo’s age, but he was inspired to help others, particularly given his own constant battles…
