Though we miss Planet Earth Theatre, we derive comfort from Stray Cat Theatre’s mounting of PET’s 1997-98 hit, Chicks with Dicks, through Saturday, May 11. The gals of Satan’s Cherries biker gang deliver violence, leather, radiation-spawned appendages, violence, nostalgic B-movieness, lots of skin, cuties named Vespa DeAmour, Varla, Chantalle, and…
Chris Maker’s visual art has an interesting perspective. The Phoenix-based artist was trained as an architect and city planner and uses his experiences with planning and structure to create dialogue.Maker describes his work as “an exploration of the composition of place and time through the interpretation of cultural phenomena, the…
There’s nothing we need more than a dose of bright colors in the summertime, and lucky us, Scottsdale’s LewAllen Galleries has just the exhibition to appease our appetite.”New York Color Field” includes the work of four New York School Color Abstractionists: Emily Mason, Ronnie Landfield, Dan Christensen, and Robert Natkin…
Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is still kicking up shit, this time via cross-media trickle-down. TV’s LL Cool J, not long before declaring Confederate flag apparel A-okay with him, dared to express in “Accidental Racist” one hard-edged complaint about the life of a black…
Kristin Bauer has been a busy woman for the past month. Immediately after de-installing Mixed Messages, a joint show of her and husband Emmett Potter’s latest artwork, she began preparing the same space at Modified Arts for The Sky Is Falling: A Group Exhibition about the Gravity of Things. Though…
Despite ongoing exclamations of the death of print, some of us, including the folks over at Frances Vintage, remain hopeful. This summer, Frances owner Georganne Bryant is putting out a printed style guide: Frances Hearts Summer Vol. 1. “It is kind of crazy making a magazine that will be in…
Fela Kuti was a man of many hats: Afrobeat pioneer, revolutionary, and outspoken crusader for political justice. Music was his weapon, a driving, pulsating, often hypnotic sound mixing jazz, soul, funk, blues and rock with Nigeria’s indigenous rhythms, which moved people spiritually and to action as much as it moved…
The members of Scottsdale scene better make sure their swimsuits, beach towels, and sunscreen are in order, as a major pool party venue is set to make its debut next week. Proprietors of Māyā Day and Nightclub, the 27,300-square-foot beach club and entertainment complex situated in the heart of Scottsdale’s…
Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it’s a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it’s on our have-to-have list. What: With this year’s Big Brains nominees on our minds (and Artopia just around the corner), we got to thinking about 2012’s nominees. With his literary shirt company, Miles…
Come one, come all to the newest yoga studio in town. A concept sprouting from New York City, Yoga to the People has since opened its doors to the Seattle, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Brooklyn communities. And as of April 13, we have our own studio in Tempe. See Also:…
Architecture and design fans, this is your week. Modern Phoenix Week is in full gear and, tonight, a panel of local architects will share their work for a live audience at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. See also: – Architect and Artist Paolo Soleri (1919-2013) – Jonathan Adler for…
Gigi Arredondo has been working in the industry for nearly a decade as a hair stylist, makeup artist, and beauty consultant in Old Town Scottsdale. She’s constantly learning, trend hunting, and shopping — all with access to beauty products not available to the public. And she’s here to share the…
Game developers across the Valley will have a new place to meet up and get productive when GameCoLab opens next month in downtown Phoenix. Co-founders Ben Reichert and Joseph Darnell have designed GameCoLab as a co-working space for game developers that will foster inspiration and innovative ideas by giving programmers…
Wave goodbye, folks. The good temperatures in Phoenix are about to leave us — and in their wake will be the sweat stain we call summer. Fortunately, Phoenix does well to make up for its desert state with a pool culture that includes water slides, river tubing, artificial beaches, DJs,…
From 230 miles away in space, Chris Hadfield couldn’t hear the chaos in Boston Monday, but after he heard about the explosions at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 140 spectators, he shared his very unique view of the East Coast city. See also: – Boston…
Two explosions have been reported at the Boston Marathon finish line at 2:50 p.m. EDT. Thousands of people were gathered to watch runners finish the race this afternoon. The headquarters at the Boston Marathon have since been locked down. Update (5:39 p.m. EDT): If you’re looking for a runner who…
Faythe Levine and Sam Macon’s “Sign Painters” is the kind of book you buy as a present for someone else because it looks cool and then can’t part with yourself. The photographs are what draw you in first, of old school sign painters and their work. There’s Ernie Gosnell’s cartoonish…
Gateway at Tempe Pool Party, 4/13/13 A day of wet and wild fun in the sun took place in and around the pool of the Gateway at Tempe apartment complex on Saturday, April 13. As DJ Ice Man of Valley radio station 101.5 Jamz kept the party primed with sizzling…
Each week, Jackalope Ranch brings you a free event, workshop, or you-name-it happening in Phoenix. Because sometimes the best things in life really are free. This week’s freebie: Astronomy Open House. Every so often the stars and planets align to bring us free events — case and point, the ASU…
Rumors have been afoot that the über-geeks running Phoenix Comicon are arranging a guest appearance by one of the stars of rampantly popular British sci-fi show Doctor Who. Turns out the scuttlebutt was, indeed, true as the event’s organizers revealed over the weekend that American actor John Barrowman, known to…
We know: The beginning of the work week sucks. But if you take a quick look at the calendar, you’ll see we’re off to a pretty good week of art events, sporting events, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend . . Monday,…
Working for the weekend? Never heard of it. Take a much-needed break from those TPS reports and head to a pool party, movie, or marketplace. For more guidance, read on. Pool Celebration @ Vista Del Sol Suit up, coeds. The folks behind the annual ASU Undie Run are hosting a…
