Mexican and Mexican-American culture engulfs the Southwest region with various forms of expression. Murals, music, and even the food evoke passion and endurance of a people influencing the world around them. While keeping one eye on the future and the other on the past, many artists strive to spur reflection…
You’ll want to remember where you were during Red Is the Night (ideally, at Red Is the Night), because it will long be talked of. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and his wife, Nicole Stanton’s kickoff fundraiser for Aunt Rita’s Foundation’s HIV education and outreach program, ProjectHIVAZ, is the first annual…
Walking 101 miles outside in the middle of the summer is borderline insane, but HERO does it every year for good reason. Equality walkers trek one mile for every year that Arizona has been a state without giving full rights to its LGBTQ community. The HERO walkers will travel all…
Perhaps no question is asked with less sincerity than “What did you do this weekend?” People ask it because it would be rude not to, but unless you did something really out of the ordinary your answer ends up being a chore for both parties. You have to try to…
Steven Spielberg mercifully delivered us from crudely rendered on-screen dinosaurs with Jurassic Park 20 years ago. Whether the blockbuster was the beginning of your love of ancient reptiles or just one of the high points in your paleontological fixation, you’ll wanna claw your way to the Phoenix DinoCon Saturday, July…
Occasionally life imitates art, though more often than not art does the imitating. What’s more, it tends to imitate itself, leaving the doldrums of real life out of the loop entirely. Frankly, it’s better that way. Case in point: For several years Future Folk has been performing as an “Alien-Bluegrass”…
Family Day at monOrchid was an idea spawned by associate curator Nicole Royse’s own, well, spawn.“Downtown includes so many young families who are afraid to go to museums,” Royse, a mother of three, said. She sees Saturday as an opportunity reconnect children and their parents with their community.The day revolves…
Browse the discussion boards at Etsy.com for a few minutes, and you’ll quickly see that just because someone has opened a digital storefront doesn’t mean they have a clue how to run it. Let alone run it well. The “Etsy Success” discussion group has some 1,574 pages of questions regarding…
TBS sitcom Sullivan and Son works because it is based on the life of stand up comic Steve Byrne. Like his character on the show, Byrne is half-Irish and half-Korean, and he really has a mom named Ok Cha. It’s best left to our imagination if she ever called her…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have the worst bullpen in all of Major League Baseball, easily leading the league in blown saves. That said, skipper Kirk Gibson has somehow managed to turn his club into a formidable bunch of ballers. If — and that’s a capital IF — the bullpen can put…
Ever been mistaken for someone you’re not? It’s usually pretty awkward for both parties involved, but nothing worth making a movie about. Unless, of course, you were mistaken for a government agent by foreign spies who then kidnapped you, framed you for the murder of a U.N. Diplomat, and chased…
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 North Scottsdale Road, with a production fit for veterans and virgins alike.The transvestite tour de force chronicles the encounter between…
Baltimore 1962 was a turbulent place and time where “the races” did not intermingle. Music, however, was a meeting point, even if it meant dancing separately. Adapted from the 1988 John Waters movie of the same name, the stage production of Hairspray captures the trials and tribulations of ever-optimistic plump…
That Phoenix native Becky Nahom curated the group show “From The Sidelines” isn’t a sign the the curator is exhibiting her newfound love of sports. Instead, the show features works that use the element of line and show how the sometimes overlooked element interacts with color, shape, and texture in…
Gem presents one standout piece. Whether it’s a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it’s on our have-to-have list. What: Saks Fifth Avenue is synonymous with style, and this 1960s summery coral shirtdress from the store’s in-house label follows suit. In a light silk with a floral pattern around the skirt’s hem,…
The city of Phoenix threw down some serious cash for the PHX Sky Train. But that money wasn’t spent on train tech and architecture alone. You might not know it at first glance, but there was a fat budget for the public art projects scattered across the different stations and…
Slam U Wrestling doesn’t exactly pull any punches when it comes to its hard sell. Flyers for the new Phoenix-based indie wrestling promotion declare that its monthly smackdowns, which kick off on Thursday, July 25, at the Arizona Event Center in Mesa, will be adult-oriented and feature a mix of…
Before anybody even knew if 50 Shades of Grey would be made into a movie, there were bets being placed on who’d be a good fit to play the book’s main character, the infamous Christian Grey. The film’s producer, Dana Brunetti, announced last month that the movie’s set for release…
When was the last time you visited your parents? Be honest. Truth be told, once the birds leave the nest, not all of them make return flights as much as they should (if at all). Life is short, and your parent’s lives even shorter. This is the message behind a…
Liz OhanesianWhen religious protestors showed up at Comic-Con, attendees responded with absurd signs. In Southern California, you can be certain that the bigger the event, the more religious protestors you’ll see across the street. Oftentimes, convention-goers will counter the protestors with signs bearing absurd slogans. That was the case in…
Brace yourself, ’cause bingo is back. Well, almost. All you players who clamored for cards at Jackalope Ranch’s inaugural bingo night will be happy to know that we’re making a comeback and hosting four — count ’em — bingo bashes at Crescent Ballroom throughout August. And we’ve got a few…
As far as cosplay goes, San Diego Comic-Con is one of the prime spots for costuming in the country. Attendees of the world’s largest comics convention go all out, incorporating lighting, mechanics, and lots of papier-mache into their costumes. During out trip to San Diego Comic-Con 2013, we learned a…
