The setup: 1949’s South Pacific, based on a few of the stories in James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific, is Rodgers & Hammerstein’s third big show to completely change the face of the American musical (a genre that typically had made even less sense before). Instantly both a blockbuster…
Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention at Old Tucson Studios If you’re fond of time travel, tea parties, and imaginary 19th century-style technology, look no further than the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention. It truly feels like you’re transported to another time as soon as you lock your car and enter…
With more than 76,000 students, Arizona State University has the largest enrollment of any public university in the country. And while that number might speak volumes regarding its academic, athletic, and community programs, for one software developer it equals one thing: a whole lot of singles…
Jomar Mesquita’s Dolores begins with a lone woman, arms outstretched and eyes closed, spinning in circles around the stage. Her full red skirt billows out around her thighs as the dulcet tones of “Cucurrucucu Paloma” gently waft over the audience. I was pretty much sold from the start. The Brazilian-based…
Quick PHX, our annual pocket guide to art, shopping, and partying in Phoenix, is on stands now — just in time for Viva PHX on Friday, March 7, and Art Detour 26 on Saturday and Sunday, March 8 and 9. Illustrated by Sarah Hurwitz, the hand-held guide will keep you…
From the Mini Stack to law offices to two-story suburbs miles outside metropolitan Maricopa County, the Valley is known for a sprawling façade of muted beige and brown, camouflaged in the desert. This weekend, a group of area artists plan to change that. Dozens of creatives are banding together for…
Courting Disaster is Jackalope Ranch’s weekly column of dating horror stories, observations, how-tos, and more by Katie Johnson. Names of ex-boyfriends, past hookups, and bad blind dates have been changed to protect the guilty. Look, I know picking up women isn’t easy. We’re not exactly the warmest creatures right off…
Dusk is falling quickly as Dagoberto Bailón steps forward and stands in the middle of a circle of people gathered outside the state Capitol on a Friday last October. He asks those around him if anyone would like to go first. It’s National Coming Out Day, and Bailón assures them…
Heads up, treasure hunters. A new Wickenburg property located at 14125 West Ben Jaffe Boulevard is currently up for grabs on the real estate market. And while owning property in Yavapai County could hardly be conducive for your weekday commute into metro Phoenix, we’re told this location is an absolute…
“I’ve got a certain amount of fame, I’ve got money — I wish I could fuckin’ drive,” 86-year-old Elaine Stritch carps just a breath into Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a gift of a documentary celebrating its subject’s brittle brilliance, still-here indomitability, brash comic truth-telling, and principled refusal to wear anything…
Special Events Fountain Park 12925 N. Saguaro Blvd., Fountain Hills www.plazafountainside.com Every drop of water shooting from the Fountain Hills fountain will be dyed emerald green during the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on Sunday, March 16, at the park. Meanwhile, the Fountain Park Amphitheater will host Irish music, a…
Other Quick PHX chapters: PARTY | SHOP | EAT ROOSEVELT ROW GALLERIES Though Roosevelt’s longest-running galleries can’t be described as old (the early 2000s don’t qualify as vintage just yet), they most definitely are reliable when it comes to showing must-see exhibitions. MonOrchid often offers large-scale group shows to fill…
Other Quick PHX chapters: PARTY | SHOP | ART PIZZA Thanks to a little spot called Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix became a pizza mecca. Try Pomo, home to outstanding pies with super-thin crusts, including the Regina Margherita. This restaurant’s new downtown location is almost as perfect as its certified authentic Neapolitan…
Other Quick PHX chapters: PARTY | ART | EAT MELROSE DISTRICT VINTAGE For vintage hunters, no nook in the Valley compares to the Melrose Curve. Marked by an iron arch erected late last year, the stretch of road’s a go-to destination for home décor of yesteryear. Upscale Modern Manor is…
Other Quick PHX chapters: ART | SHOP | EAT PLAY If your idea of going out centers around your competitive edge, there are plenty of spots downtown where you can get your game on. The new Vig Fillmore offers free bocce courts and plenty of craft cocktails (named after downtown…
Arizona native, artist, and new mom Sarah Hurwitz brought her singularly imaginative style to this year’s Quick PHX — and answered a few questions, too. What made you want to be an artist? I never have a great answer to this question! I decided to major in art without ever…
(Spoiler alert: The following piece discusses up to the February 16 episode of Looking.)HBO’s Looking has had a tough time winning over its intended fans. Upon its premiere, Gawker’s Rich Juzwiak yawningly summed up the political achievement of creator Michael Lannan’s wonderful half-hour dramedy about three homosexual men in San…
Alain Resnais’s last completed film, Life of Riley (2014), presents a group of aging friends who plan, hope, wish, dream, and scheme after they learn that one of their own is dying. The doomed man, George Riley, never shown onscreen, is enlisted to join an amateur theater production in the…
First, the pleasant surprises. In puffing up the slight, absurd Mr. Peabody and Sherman shorts from Jay Ward’s The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show into an 82-minute 3D save-the-timestream child-distractor, director Rob Minkoff and his many writers have preserved a few of the hallmarks distinguishing the Dada, deadpan, almost primitive original,…
Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and…
Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and…
Maria Poveka Martinez is a legendary potter from New Mexico. Maria, Black Pottery of San Ildefonso, a short film showing at the Heard Museum, offers unique perspective on the late potter’s life working with clay, from her beginnings with simple black vases commissioned as museum replicas to artistic masterpieces painted…
