Every year as the weather cools, Phoenicians take to the streets across the city. After a sweltering and seemingly endless summer, the city rustles itself awake with the promise of art walks, food trucks, vendors, live music, performance art, people-watching, and festival shenanigans. The Grand Avenue Festival is no exception…
For a tale about the undead, Lisa Starry’s A Vampire Tale certainly does make you feel alive. From the first scene, filled with discordant pounding drums, Scorpius Dance Theater transports the audience to an almost-scary world of hissing, writhing, and cackling characters. The nearly two-hour show blends classical dance styles…
Chitral Hays — not his real name — is Jackalope Ranch’s resident expert on medical marijuana in Arizona. In Perfectly Blunt, Hays delivers news, reviews, and must-know info. Wait a sec, there’s a medical marijuana farmers market? Indeed, fellow cannabis savants. Hosted by CAMP420 (Campaign Against Marijuana Prohibition’s AZ chapter),…
Well, color us excited. Recently, we stumbled upon Cosmopolitan’s list of “6 Ways To, Um, Decorate Your Vagina.” And while most of these twat treatments were old hat to us — vagina facials, vajazzling, lady-scaping — there was one beauty product that had us tickled pink. Labia dye…
Editor’s note: Tatiana Craine, web editor at our sister paper City Pages, got the inside scoop on the latest news about Star Wars: Rebels at New York Comic-Con. Star Wars fans got a teaser of the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Rebels show slated to premiere in 2014. Pablo Hidalgo, one of…
Tatiana CraineSmaug the dragon and Sherlock Holmes at New York Comic-Con.Editor’s note: Tatiana Craine, web editor at our sister paper City Pages, got a behind-the-scenes look at the cosplayers at New York Comic-Con over the weekend. It’s said that you’re never more than three feet away from a spider. At…
From must-see art exhibitions to theater and outdoorsy endeavors, here are Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for things to do in and around Phoenix this week. “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land” @ Heard Museum The brightly painted flowers and daring landscapes of American modernist artist Georgia…
Drive down 16th street between Thomas and Jefferson and you’ll take in more than just the sights and smells of of dulcerias, carnicerias, and a full spectrum of Mexican restaurants. Calle 16 is the road where art borders on action, as artists illustrate the ongoing struggles, injustices, emotions, and influences…
If you’re the sort who wishes that Halloween would stick around for as long as possible, that wish is about to come true. Thanks to the quirkiness of the calendar, the holiday happens to fall on a Thursday this year, which means there will be scores of spooky and swanky…
In the age of unwanted pregnancies, revenge porn, and STDs, the sexually active forget about a classic problem in the bedroom: incest. Fortunately, with a globalized population of an estimated 7.1 billion, we can all take comfort in the odds that sleeping with our cousins is slim to none. Well,…
If you’ve been searching for the right pair of jeans for months now, you’re in luck. Lawless Denim & Co. will open its doors on Saturday, October 12, at Cityscape in downtown Phoenix. The location will serve dual purposes with one side being used as a retail space where leather…
Phoenix, your weekend is planned. Hannibal Buress @ Stand Up Live Hannibal Buress is a one-man-army of comedy; he’s hitting you from nearly every possible angle. Less than a month after visiting with Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, the prolific stand-up comic returns with his own Rural Legend tour Friday,…
The NFL season officially kicked off last month and Phoenix has plenty of sports bars to choose from to catch a game. However, if you’re looking for a place to mingle with like-minded fans, check out our list of 10 team-specific sports bars…
It’s just like the saying goes: Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it… to their friends. And then their friends’ friends. And then OMG, like everybody knows…
“I dreamed of New York, I am going there,” Sylvia Plath wrote in a diary. When the aspiring writer was in college and 21 years old, she spent a month working as an intern at Mademoiselle in New York, living at the Barbizon, and experiencing the city. Though it’s hard…
The cast of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the previous Jane Austen modernization from producers Bernie Su and Hank GreenBernie Su and Hank Green captured the hearts, iPhones, Pinterest pages, Instagram accounts, and GetGlue music playlists of teens across America with their 2012 series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which updated Pride…
Hanging sports collectibles on the wall was a big step, but painting those walls purple and orange marked another level of dedication, says Gary Gauthier, Valley resident and massive Phoenix Suns fan. Gauthier moved to Phoenix with his family in 1968, which coincidentally was the very year that the Phoenix…
Jake Friedman moved to Phoenix a mere two years ago, but he’s already making his mark in the local writing scene. After working with Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Central Phoenix Writing Workshop, and Uptown P.E.N. (an open mic night at Practical Art that he still hosts regularly), this literary buff…
The setup: After surviving to adulthood (no mean feat for anyone born in 1832), Louisa May Alcott shunned marriage and motherhood and struck out on her own to minor literary success (with A Long Fatal Love Chase and other potboilers favored by readers of her era), partly to help support…
With the holidays coming up we find ourselves wondering, “What do you get the ostentatious, absurdly wealthy friend and/or relative who has everything?” Gold toilet paper, obviously…
Perhaps the best and worst thing about young teenagers is that they’re capable of what George W. Bush fans used to call “great moral clarity.” In HBO’s sure-to-make-you-bawl documentary Valentine Road, Aliyah, a student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, breaks down the differences between gayness and…
Something’s seemed different about number-one American action hero Bruce Willis lately. His action movie output in recent years has mostly been stunt casting in mediocre sequels (The Expendables 2, G.I. Joe: Retaliation), or supporting roles in little-seen B-movies (Setup, Catch .44, Fire with Fire), as if he’s in a who-can-co-star-with-50-Cent-the-most…
