It’s hard to argue the revolutionary advantages of Facebook. The social media giant with more than 500 million users posting, chatting, and “liking” on the daily has connected friends, families, couples, and coworkers in a way that Big Brother only could have imagined. But as the saying goes, the virtual…
Phoenix Suns Dancer Auditions 2013 Hundreds of hopefuls battled it out for a spot on the Phoenix Suns Dancers 2013-14 squad at Phoenix Convention Center on Saturday, August 17…
Phoenix, here’s how to spend this week, from literary haps and a dead sci-fi icon’s birthday party to art and design events. Chelsea Cain @ Poisoned Pen Author Chelsea Cain’s debut, Dharma Girl, was inspired by her early childhood on an Iowa commune. But her fascination with death and sleuthing…
Hello Kitty, the Prius, sushi — our appreciation for Japanese imports knows no bounds. This week, Changing Hands Bookstore is celebrating one more with the work of Japanese scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki…
As students flood into the Valley of the Sun for their fall semester at ASU and other schools around town, there are a few things they should know. Chow Bella’s already given the lowdown on where and what to eat around the downtown and Tempe campuses. Now, Jackalope Ranch presents…
For many frustrated singles, dating can often feel like a crapshoot. The smell of exhaustion and desperation often reeks heavily throughout online match sites, speed-dating mixers, and now — quite literally — at London’s newest method of mingling: toilet dating…
If Bob Ross were alive today, he’d be painting happy little trees all over the place in ecstatic fervor for all the arts and culture happenings in Phoenix. To help you see the forest for the trees, here’s a recap of the top arts and culture stories of the week…
If you haven’t stopped by chic, LGBT-centric hangout Amsterdam for some late night weekend dance session, tomorrow evening will be your last chance to do so. As in ever. The downtown Phoenix dance parlor, which has been around since the late ’90s, will close after one final party on Saturday…
Welcome to the weekend. Here’s how to spend it. Comedy Slam 7 @ Celebrity Theatre There’s something about comedy that gets lost in translation if you’re not seeing it in person. “You had to be there” isn’t just cliché for crappy jokes, it’s also a genuine observation about the communal…
Surprise. The new Phoenix Suns uniforms are purple and orange. The team unveiled three new, minimalist looks for the upcoming season at a fashion show Thursday night at Scottsdale Fashion Square…
Good news, everybody! Elon Musk, the philanthropist/buisnessman/mad scientist who founded PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors has announced plans for a new form of transportation: the Hyperloop. The proposed Hyperloop would be a huge tube that magnetically transports capsules within it at speeds approaching 700 miles per hour. Musk claims that…
Hope you had a blast over summer, college cats, since it’s back to the old grind mere days from now. Bitch and moan all you want, but classes at the various campuses of Arizona State University and other nearby colleges will resume over the next week, which means your life…
There’s no denying that 50 Shades of Grey has sparked quite the open discussion about BDSM in the bedroom. The number one bestselling book, which sold more than 70 million copies in just one year, has spawned fan-based fetish events worldwide and in one of the largest countries to be…
The setup: Peoria’s Theater Works is right in the middle of their first annual presentation of New Works, so we can’t complain there’s almost nothing to see this month. (Phoenix Theatre has moved its Hormel New Works Festival up to March for 2014, so we didn’t get to enjoy the…
Whether your teen years shaped you, scarred you, or left you more or less unscathed, there’s no denying that Hollywood harbors a special love for high school movies. While they each have their own set of one-liners, dated fashion trends, and even more dated soundtracks, there’s a certain formula that…
Perhaps the best part of a new Batman movie announcement is the ever-churning rumor mill pumping out new speculation every day until concrete details are announced. This time, it’s spewing out nonsense at full blast because it’s not just the villain unknown to fans, it’s Batman himself. Christian Bale reportedly…
“Generations: Inspiration of Bird City” is about influence. The exhibition, on view at Willo North Gallery, presents works from three prominent Phoenix artists (though two reside outside Arizona currently): Martin Moreno, Luis Gutierrez, who now lives in the Bay Area, and Joseph “Sentrock” Perez, who’s currently based in Chicago. Influences…
Fans of Bill Burr know him as a regular on podcasts and the late-night comedy circuit. Pop culture pros probably remember him as Kuby, the assistant to Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman, the main comic relief on AMC’s Breaking Bad. His loud, angry comedic style is kind of like a toned…
If diamonds are forever, then caged-rodent jewelry surely is on the other end of the spectrum. In the crosshairs of going green and getting a rise out of people, conceptual artist and jewelry designer Cecilia Valentine has created a line of statement pieces that don’t so much sparkle as they…
Most women born after 1960 or so probably had parents or teachers who told them they could be anything when they grew up. Even so, plenty of fields remain largely boys’ clubs, métiers in which women aren’t necessarily unwelcome — just strangely invisible. In the world of In a World…
Despite the giddy, gory ridiculousness of Kick-Ass 2, this summer’s most violent yet least punishing comic-book movie, there’s a kernel of ugly human truth at the core of the Kick-Ass fantasy. In the first issue of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass comic, from 2008, a lonely high school…
Lake Bell can do incredible things with her tongue. She can touch her nose, twist it to both sides, and fold it backward as flat as an omelette. In a Silver Lake studio, recording vocal exercise warmups for an online campaign promoting her directorial debut, In a World . …
