When the Las Vegas hotel and casino of his then-residency seemingly stopped promoting his shows, The Amazing Johnathan channeled his inner Peter Gibbons from Office Space last December and simply stopped going. After 13 years of headlining in Sin City, the comic-magician’s hustling, and he’ll go for tricks and giggles…
Kelly Osbourne and Kate Moss can dye their hair gray all they want. Doesn’t change the fact that it looks better on a lady who’s earned her silver streaks, which signify strength and wisdom rather than a knack for trendiness.These are the qualities that make old women treasures, according to…
If you ask wine experts, they might say that Riesling, a light-skinned grape from Germany, is the world’s best white wine grape variety. History hasn’t favored the varietal, however, earning it a bad reputation with the majority of wine drinkers as low-quality sweet wine.On Tuesday, August 6, Lon’s at the…
Last year, Arizona was named the number one entrepreneurial state in the union by CNNMoney, via Kauffman Foundation’s Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Unsurprisingly, it takes maximum hustle to bring life to the desert and if you’ve got it, you’ll feel at home at CO+HOOTS’ Biz Book Club Tuesday, August 6.The…
“I don’t act that much,” says playwright/journalist/professor/activist James Garcia, founder and artistic director of New Carpa Theater Company, “probably because I just don’t have time.” But Garcia’s made time to create and appear in New Carpa’s one-man show, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Culture Wars* (*But Were…
Pencil in some time to “Get the Lead Out!,” the West Valley Art Museum’s exhibition of pencil-only artwork. The compositions span a century and are on view through Thursday, August 15.Two artists from the museum’s permanent collection are featured: George Resler a self-taught etcher who gained notice in the early…
Phoenix native and now-Chicago-based artist Joseph “Sentrock” Perez cannot contain his excitement when he talks about what’s going down this month.”Willo North Gallery is going to host a ridiculous art show with Luis Gutierrez, Martin Moreno[, and me],” he says, adding that he’s been inspired by both of the nationally…
Call us metalheads, but from big-name acts like steel and iron to copper and aluminum, we enjoy artists that bring the heat and break the mold.Artist Kevin Hummelgard uses high-heat processes to bend, break, and transform rigid iron into something completely new. In his first solo show, “Iron Interpretation,” Hummelgard…
I was too old for Sesame Street. When it debuted in November 1969, I was in the second grade, and this oddball educational show wasn’t yet a groundbreaking, game-changing cultural touchstone. It was a brand-new public TV kiddy program aimed at 3- to 5-year-olds just learning their ABCs. I already…
Shout!FactoryThe cast of Fridays Whether you love it or hate it these days, it’s still tough to compete against Saturday Night Live. Although the show certainly has seen much better and much funnier days, you still can’t knock it off its perch after all these years. The powers that be…
In his new documentary, One day, everything will be free, first-time filmmaker and Phoenix artist Joseph Redwood-Martinez goes deep into the Sadhana Forest reforestation project in Haiti. The volunteer-run initiative gives advice and assistance to local farmers dealing with soil erosion issues from the slash-and-burn deforestation that plagues the area…
For better or worse, sometimes high school nicknames never wear off. In the case of Cory Martinez, hers was more swell than square. Luxie, a reference to Lux Interior of The Cramps, caught on and never went totally away. Now it’s resurfaced as the name of Martinez’s recently launched vintage…
Ceci n’est pas un jeu vidéo. Whether you’re a patron of the arts, a player of Nintendo games, or a culture-balanced connoisseur of both, chances are you’ll get as much enjoyment as we do out of the new Tumblr, Super Magritte…
“I kept thinking she was the ugly duckling who was going to turn into a swan,” a 40-ish loudmouth complained as the crowd trudged out of a preview screening of The To Do List. “But she was an ugly duckling all the way through!” He was talking to two women…
The lauded “Golden Age” of television just makes Vince Gilligan sad. Let’s get specific: “The sadness for me at the heart of it is that television now makes stories for grownups that Hollywood movies don’t allow filmmakers to make,” the Breaking Bad creator/writer/director/producer said Sunday at New York’s Museum of…
Porn re-inserts itself into the arthouse with this week’s The Canyons, co-starring adult industry stud James Deen, and next week’s Lovelace, a biopic of the Deep Throat star — two highly publicized releases that reconfirm the hopelessness of going hardcore in mainstream movies. Whether it’s works that inject un-simulated sex…
Two of Saturday Night Live’s freshest cast members will bring a slice of the show to Tempe Improv in August. Aidy Bryant, who’s from Phoenix, and Tim Robinson will co-headline three nights at the Valley club…
Floating around in our cabinets is a magical ingredient that can help deodorize, exfoliate, and cleanse. Let us introduce to you: baking soda. This chemical compound, whose proper name is sodium bicarbonate, can be a key ingredient in your beauty regimen just as readily as a batch of chocolate chip…
David Beckham is no longer there to bend it for the L.A. Galaxy, but there are plenty of stars who might offer the Cristiano Ronaldo-led Real Madrid a challenge when the two teams collide at University of Phoenix Stadium on Thursday, August 1. The match is sure to be entertaining…
This summer we’ve rounded up our favorite vintage shops by neighborhood: East Valley, Scottsdale, Roosevelt Row, and Seventh Avenue. Our last stop is the West Valley — and it does not disappoint…
Say what you will about Gilbert — which is probably not very much — that East Valley town has its charm. There’s great barbecue, decent housing prices, and did we already mention the barbecue? Oddly enough, it turns out that being a boring city isn’t all that bad. In fact,…
Don’t let Monday (or the man) get you down. Here’s something to do every day of this here working week. Monday Karaoke @ George & Dragon We love Bill Murray, but his flick Lost in Translation may have given people the impression that karaoke is just for sad sacks’ thinly…
