To most people passing by the Monarch Theatre in downtown Phoenix, the dance club’s exterior is like a big, gray, monolithic slab of nothing, save for its smallish sign over the door. To local artists, designers, and muralists, however, it could be their next canvas, and a large and prominent…
From post-Halloween to-dos and sporting events to quirky conventions and artsy endeavors, here’s how to spend this weekend in and around Phoenix. Arizona Zombie Prom @ Fear Farm Who doesn’t remember their first prom? That magical night of dead flower corsages, zombies, and chipping in to rent a hearse with…
Well it appears that in the battle of sexiest state colleges, ASU is not going down without a fight. While other college girls spent their Halloween parading around as sexy nurses, sexy superheroes, and, yes, even sexy food, one highly tweeted Sun Devil is getting the Internet celebrity treatment for…
The biennial Celebración Artística de las Américas (CALA Festival) first celebrated the contributions of Latino heritage to our vibrant life in these Americas in the fall of 2011. A kind of rolling, virtual festival in spirit, it presented and helped sponsor plays, musical and dance events, art exhibits, food, food,…
Steve Davis opens a tattered old book and flips through the pages covered with photos and descriptions of Mexican folk art. He lands on the right image and points to a standing figure of a woman, dressed in white and carrying a blue umbrella, in the artistic style of the…
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club, the late Lou Reed, 1983’s Get Crazy, 1979’s The Visitor, and 2008’s In Bruges.Matthew McConaughey extends his streak of taking on challenging roles in Dallas Buyers Club…
Community members will have the chance to view the works of local student photographers in the 44th annual “Western Eye Photography Exhibition,” which will open Monday, November 4, at the Eric Fischl Gallery at Phoenix College. The contest is open to all students in the Maricopa Community College district and…
Arizona native Ashlee Molina has always had a thing for antiquing. Her mom would take her hunting and to auctions when Molina was a kid. After moving around the country for about a decade for academic and professional ventures, Molina returned to Phoenix about a year ago. And what struck…
It’s Halloween, folks. That means your two weeks of costumed partying finally are drawing to end. To send off Halloween 2013 in style, this Morning Buzz is going old school — early 19th century old school…
One of the tragedies of the Internet age is that sometimes movies get attention for all the wrong reasons. When Abdellatif Kechiche debuted Blue Is the Warmest Color in Cannes in May, the festival jury was so taken with the film and its two lead performances that it split the…
Attention, children! Thanksgiving will soon be upon us, and unless the cook in your household provides a vegetarian option, that means turkey — a bird that has been raised to be axed, packaged, and raced to your grocer’s freezer, ultimately to wing its way onto your family’s table. There it…
Actors Theatre returned last week from a self-imposed sabbatical with a reminder of why we might have missed them if they’d gone altogether. Keith Huff’s stagey police drama, A Steady Rain, is the sort of tightly wound, finely crafted morals tale that this troupe has long done so well. Rain,…
Recently, Anne Washburn’s astonishing Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, wrapped up a sold-out run at Playwrights Horizons in New York. I saw the show’s world première in June 2012 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, where I write about theater. It was one of the most imaginative and unpredictable…
It’s a dumbfounding irony that the fiction of the “entitled, selfish millennial” was invented by Baby Boomers. The generation that created Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon grew up to be weirdly deaf to irony and probably won’t even get what a damning metaphor Last Vegas accidentally turns out to…
It’s almost a relief that Ender’s Game turned out to be a glum bore onscreen, a far-future cadets-in-space military drama whose pretensions to moral inquiry boil down to the guilt a kid may feel after stepping on an anthill. If the film had turned out grand, like the best of…
Daniel Davis knows a thing or two about monsters. Davis illustrates them on the regular for his arts, prints, and goods company Steam Crow, which he runs with his wife Dawna. The duo’s designs of spooky-cute creatures have garnered quite the ravenous following. It’s such a success, in fact, that…
With Halloween falling on a Thursday this year, the real entertainment might end up being at the office Friday morning. As many of us know, the costume may be easily doffed, but the shame takes longer to scrub off. So if you’re one of those who has reached the pinnacle…
Who doesn’t remember their first prom? That magical night of dead flower corsages, zombies, and chipping in to rent a hearse with your undead date. The 5th Annual AZ Zombie Prom is returning to the West Valley the day after Halloween, giving you one more chance to put on your…
This could be a long year for the Phoenix Suns. Tabbed as the least watchable team in the NBA, the Suns have no dominant players and questionable depth, which is generally a recipe for an early vacation and a high draft-pick. In spite of this, the Suns looked solid in…
Beer is a big deal. Don’t believe us? Just ask the thousands of folks who flocked to Denver recently for the Great American Beer Fest, a.k.a. the nation’s biggest beer competition when several of Arizona’s brewers took home top prizes.For years Flanny’s has been a go-to beer spot in the…
The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts invites you to get your party on and soak up some culture as it hosts La Gran Fiesta, a daylong celebration of Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. La Gran Fiesta will let friends and family explore the sights, sounds, and movement of…
Everyone has their thing. For some, it’s knitting. For others, it’s comic books. So it should come as no surprise that there’s an entire weekend-long convention dedicated to rubber stamps. The 16th Annual Rubber Stamp Fall Fiesta is coming to Mesa to create a lasting impression on card makers, crafters,…
