Zombies get a bad wrap. Sure they’re undead, but they do have some redeeming qualities. After all, they only want you for your brains, unlike tvampires, who are all about looks. Sure, there isn’t exactly a storied history of zombie heroes, but that’s the fun of it. Bruce Campbell and…
Bill Burr is one busy guy. Between his is increasing presence in movies like The Heat and his reccurring role as Kuby in AMC’s recently finished Breaking Bad — and let’s not forget his weekly MondayMorning podcast — it’s a marvel how this comedian manages to deliver anywhere from 25…
It’s safe to say that Tempe Town Lake hasn’t really lived up to expectations (unless you expected outbreaks of dengue and West Nile viruses). So it’s always nice to see it get some use. The lake will be getting some serious use this Saturday when it serves as the last…
It’s that time of year when we’ve been jonesing for fall so long that we’ve already stocked our wardrobes with all this season’s on-trend items. Now what’s a Phoenix fashionable to do? Naturally, we’ll look to Phoenix Fashion Week 2013 for spring style inspiration.This year’s deluge of designers takes to…
The second Celebración Artística de las Américas (CALA Festival) will spend the next month sprinkling Arizona with cultural delights celebrating the contributions of Latino heritage to our vibrant life in these Americas. New Carpa Theater Company’s The Mighty Vandals, an official CALA event, tells a gripping story of Arizona’s 1951…
It’s a horror show you’ll want to see. The Rapture Horror Expo returns for a spook-tacular weekend. Just in time for Halloween, the convention presents workshops about the paranormal, surviving zombies, make-up tutorials, and costume and couture fashion shows. United Blood Services will be on hand to take your blood…
Optical illusions. A mirror maze. Frock coats and hoop skirts. Merging. Fracture. Is the soul made of waves or particles? Poe meets quantum meets illustrator M.C. Escher’s surreal trippiness in The Fall of the House of Escher, a MainStage production of ASU Tempe’s School of Film, Dance, and Theatre running…
It’s bizarre to think that this time last year the Arizona Cardinals were 4-0, sitting proudly atop one the NFL’s toughest divisions. Of course we all know how that fairytale ended. Equally as bizarre is the fact that, while not exactly 4-0, the prognosis for the remainder of the Cards…
It’s hard to imagine there would be much interest in Arizona Fall League Baseball, given that the Major League Baseball playoffs are currently underway. Yet, considering that the Diamondbacks aren’t in the show, this is the next best thing for local baseball fans. Besides, the league is loaded with talent…
Arizona Curriculum Theater is getting old school with its scare tactics as it brings back the fifth annual PoeFest. By now a Halloween tradition, this month-long series celebrating the gothic literature of Edgar Allen Poe takes signature stories to the stage including Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado,…
Growing up, everyone enjoyed putting pencil or pen to paper to turn doodles into masterworks aimed for gallery walls or, at least, the refrigerator door. The world might have squeezed out your artistic aptitude, but you can get sketchy once again with the first class in the free Learn to…
When it comes to killing bugs, butterflies always get a pass. Unlike bugs that creep, crawl, and carry concealed weapons, these flying beauty queens get the full VIP treatment at places like the Desert Botanical Gardens. Here at the Mariposa Monarca-Monarch Butterfly Exhibit, guests can pay to be encompassed by…
Sure, professorial styles look great in fall. But without the brains to back up those elbow patches on your tweed jacket, chances are the only thing you’ll be teaching is Poseurs 101. Instead of fronting like you’ve got I.Q. points to spare, bend and stretch your brain this October with…
Best of Phoenix hit newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
Editor’s note: This post has been modified from its original version to reflect that the Vernon Avenue Pocket Park will open in fall of 2013, instead of March 2014. Like many Phoenicians, Christiaan Blok and Laryn Callaway-Blok, the husband-and-wife team behind Shine Coffee, grew tired of seeing the dirt lot…
Arizona State University’s Hugh Downs School of Human Communication is a milieu where, among other things, a lot of fascinating public performances happen. Way beyond what you might remember from your own college days, when it’s possible you even made fun of communications majors. (We all eventually learned that human…
Randy Slack’s annual exhibition at Legend City Studios is easily one of the most highly anticipated Phoenix art events of the year. But the anticipation won’t last much longer, because the show opens Friday, October 4…
Comic books have been dominating the movie theaters for the last several years. Now they’ve set out to conquer television. DC Comics made the initial incursion into live action television with the successful Smallville series; they followed up with Arrow, and have announced that new shows about the Flash and…
We could handle your prolonged breast feeding plan. We tolerated your Alicia Silverstone-inspired regurgitation diet. But we draw the line — the crusty, body fluid based-line — at your placenta art prints…
Best of Phoenix hit newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
She looked like an Indian princess. Tiny and dark, with huge, sad eyes that filled up her face, like a kid in a Keane painting. I was 6 years old, so it was easy for me to imagine her riding atop a big, bejeweled elephant. Teresa Amelia Gomez was my…
Best of Phoenix hit newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
