This year Phoenix Public Library is taking its first stab at First Night, a cross-country, all-ages event that kicks off New Year’s Eve celebrations with free live music, dance performances, art, and more…
If you haven’t been exiled from modern society in the past six months, chances are good you know what Tinder is. If you’re a single millennial with a Facebook account and a smartphone, chances are really good you also have a Tinder profile. If you have somehow managed to avoid…
“Chihuly in the Garden” @ Desert Botanical Garden He’s back. World-famous glass artist Dale Chihuly returns to the Valley with a new exhibition, “Chihuly in the Garden” at Desert Botanical Garden…
Golden Globes are nice, and Emmys are swell, but Julian Fellowes’ British period drama Downtown Abbey is making its mark beyond pop culture. It’s headed to parliament…
If you didn’t get in as much celebrating and carousing as you’d hoped during 2013, you’ve got only a few more chances to do so — including the biggest party night of ’em all, New Year’s Eve. And there’s no shortage of places to do so, as every single bar,…
Next year is rapidly approaching, and the movie future is looking bright for film buffs, movie geeks, and indie flick lovers alike. Although some announcements, like Batfleck and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, may cast doubt in the minds of some (including us), the return of directors like Wes Anderson…
The setup: It’s that time of year to look back and remember what the most amazing and marvelous experiences of 2013 were. (You don’t have to, but it’s our job.) I am filled with a sense of personal development when I realize that at least three times this year I…
Al Madrigal @ Stand Up Live Al Madrigal is no stranger to Arizona, what with his coverage of Tucson’s Mexican-American Studies Ban, SB 1070, and government gridlock. Now The Daily Show’s senior Latino correspondent returns to the Valley with some breaking new comedy…
American pop culture has its fair share of Valley girls: the Heathers in Heathers, Clueless’ Cher and Dionne, and Daria’s younger sister, Quinn, along with all her Fashion Club members, to name a few. But this SoCal stereotype is about to get a serious facelift thanks to a team of…
Jackalope Ranch interviewed a slew of comedians in 2013. Here are the 10 best talks we had with some of the world’s funniest folks…
With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, you may have missed the new mural that went up earlier this month on the west-facing wall of Halo Piercing on Central and Camelback. The 43-foot-long work is the result of a collaboration between local artists Kristin Bauer and Emmett Potter…
Holding more than 40 statewide events, the weeks leading up to the battle between Baylor University and University of Central Florida Wednesday, January 1, at the 43rd annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl are the ultimate pre-game. There are the known highlights, of course. The anticipated and always colorful Fiesta Bowl Parade…
2013 was full of stellar television. Here’s a look back at the 10 best shows that aired over the past year…
When we’re not busy sifting through the Internet figuring out which state universities are the sexiest or which has the hottest college girls, we’re looking for the important data, the hard-hitting, state-by-state statistics that make our countless wasted hours on the Internet totally worth it. Today, we bring you the…
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is the kind of movie directors make when they wield money, power, and a not inconsiderable degree of arrogance. Sprawling and extravagant, it revels in all manner of excess, including sexual debauchery, hearty abuse of liquor and Quaaludes, even dwarf-tossing. Its antihero, the…
What becomes a legend most? After prolonged incubation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom offers the biopic’s usual reply: legend itself. Bigger, louder, more expensive legend, brought to bear by the best talents and technologies of the day. The name Nelson Mandela already shorthand for the things Mandela shows him to…
For professional film critics, you’ll notice, the year in film tends to conclude prematurely. Those “Best Of” lists you see popping up everywhere around now have often been tallied, decided, and finalized by mid-November — and in the web’s ever-harried race for clicks and pageviews, that date seems to be…
Celebrity Theatre 440 N. 32nd St. www.celebritytheatre.com UrbanAZ will present A Grown & Sexy New Year’s Eve Concert featuring R&B, slow jams, and pop hits from El Debarge, Guy, and Johnny Gill. 9 p.m., $55-$75. Call 602-267-1600. Circle K New Year’s Eve Block Party Mill Avenue District, Tempe After a…
Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves’ let’s-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it. First, the cockeyed sensuality of Rinko Kikuchi as a spider-puking evil witch who can transform herself into a fox, a…
The surprise in Grudge Match, the not-quite-a-comedy that pits Rocky Balboa against Raging Bull, isn’t that it has the chutzpah to posit a universe in which Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro have, since the early ’80s, been equally matched rivals. The surprise is in how easily audiences will buy it…
In the 20 years since Reality Bites, his directorial debut, Ben Stiller has metastasized from sketch comedy lunatic to Generation X darling to blockbuster king. Among the funny men, most of whom have calcified into cliques (yawn, Anchorman 2), he’s the last of the triple-threat writer-director-stars, and the only one…
Just because you’re feeling cash-strapped from buying a pile of presents doesn’t mean you have to become a social pariah until after the New Year. We’ve been on the hunt for drinking deals and found one that’s actually pretty sweet. On Thursday nights from 8 p.m. to close at The…
