You say tomato, we say tomato. When the game industry calls it “art,” the rest of the contemporary art community calls it — what? As part of Phoenix Art Museum’s current exhibit “The Art of Video Games,” Associate Professor of Games and Learning at Parsons The New School for Design…
Know how to shake your groove thang and pump up a crowd? Well, then you might be a fit for the Phoenix Suns Dancers. Auditions for the 2013-14 season are less than a month away, and if you want a good shot at taking your show to the big stage,…
I was too old for Sesame Street. When it debuted in November of 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…
We’re guessing you’ve already noticed that summer is in full effect here in the Valley, but if you happened to have missed the memo and have yet to join the pity party we tend to throw ourselves annually, that’s okay. Your friends will make sure you join by incessantly posting…
“Tell us what you know about the Midwest.” It seems like a simple enough task, but according to a new exhibit at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Space, not so much. “Reinvention in the Urban Midwest” is a new exhibit curated by the design and planning firm Sasaki Associates…
Need plans? Here’s how to spend your weekend in and around Phoenix. The Rocky Horror Show @ Desert Stages Theater In a culture brimming with “cult classics,” only one can claim to have created the genre. After countless adaptations, The Rocky Horror Show comes to Scottsdale Desert Stages Theater, 4720…
Back in May, Welcome Diner turned from pop-up restaurant to pop-up theater when it hosted the première screening of Arrested Development’s new season on Netflix. Now the established diner calls to local filmmakers as it hosts its first ever Southern Summer 48-Hour Film Fest…
During the summer, between seeing musicals, drinking, and napping, we eagerly anticipate local theater companies’ announcements of their upcoming seasons. Shows to which performance rights have recently become available are politely competed for, actors look at their schedules and wonder what roles might suit them, and audiences keep their fingers…
By day, Reanna Diehl does the nine to five thing at a Scottsdale law firm as a paralegal. However, at night — or practically any other hour she’s awake and not clocked in — the fashion designer is swamped with making her custom snapbacks, camis, or swimwear pieces for her…
Tell your pygmy goat and your teacup pig to hit the road because there’s a new rare breed of adorable in town and her name is Ippo. Half zebra, half donkey, Ippo is the interspecies child of the equine world better known as a zonkey…
Any style-savvy gal worth her weight in paillettes knows the sale-crazed saying: The early bird catches the Louboutins. While neither a pair of stilettos by Christian nor a Last Chance-style shoving match over shoes is in store, Valley fashionables can snap up discounted tickets to October’s Phoenix Fashion Week 2013…
When you’re looking to jump on a trend bandwagon, there’s no better source than Pinterest. It’s a great starting point for inspiration, but it also houses horrifying (and hilarious) DIY results. Case in point: chalkboard paint. This trend is a few years old, so every good idea is already out…
Pacific Rim was released a couple of weekends ago, detailing humanity’s war with extra-dimensional giant monsters known as Kaiju. In the film, the Earth forces managed to fight off the monsters with giant robots known as Jaegers. These robots look to be expensive and resource-intensive and, in our times of…
Our sister blog Chow Bella recently rounded up Phoenix’s 9 Best Desserts. We will try to avoid them, but we will (in all likelihood) fail miserably. To make amends for our sinner’s appetite, we exercise. Some of us run, and others play squash. No matter what we do, we need…
Often, we’ve looked at someone on a bicycle and thought, “Why does that person look so happy?” Is it because she’s minimizing her carbon footprint? Is it because she’s shedding a few extra pounds to rock that new bikini? No. It’s because her seat is vibrating…
Friends ended less than a decade ago, but it’s already a relic of a bygone era — a critically respected network sitcom that enjoyed massive ratings. That’s the central irony of the Must-See TV show’s legacy: It was one of the last programs to enjoy a national audience before cable…
As summer comic-book blockbusters go, The Wolverine is not as elephantine as it could have been. It’s more, well, wolverine — bony, loping, a little shaggy — and, blessedly, director James Mangold doesn’t get bogged down in mythology. You don’t need to diagram the convoluted relationships between Stan Lee and…
With an offhand precision that suggests he might prove one of his generation’s major actors, Michael Cera lays bare two specific human weaknesses in writer-director Sebastián Silva’s altered states/group dynamics road drama Crystal Fairy — weaknesses you’ll likely recognize from life rather than from other movies. The first is the…
Like first sex, writer-director Maggie Carey’s debut feature, The To Do List, is quick and messy, fitfully pleasurable, full of promise but not quite adept at getting everyone off. It’s an impossibly huge deal yet also a modest achievement, something we have to go through but that will no doubt…
Michael Cera is growing up. It may be hard to picture, as at one point it seemed as if baby-faced Cera could forever play the awkward teenage boy next door. But in the last few months, other than a recent return to his Arrested Development roots, Cera has left behind…
Long before California became a tourist destination for Chardonnay-lovers, there was Rodney Strong, a Broadway dancer turned winemaker who helped transform the area into one of the world’s best winemaking regions. Travel to the Rodney Strong Vineyards in northern California and you can still taste his legacy today.If you can’t…
The moment when a daughter discovers that her mother’s so much more than a mother is pivotal. It also makes for a delightful summer read. Such is the case with Meg Waite Clayton’s charming novel The Wednesday Daughters.It’s a follow-up to Clayton’s bestseller The Wednesday Sisters, which told the story…
