For those who really want to get away, Orbital Technologies has great news. The Private Russian company and lead contractor for the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation have teamed up to create a commercial space station for research and tourism purposes slated to be built, shot into space,…
First Friday in Downtown Phoenix (4/5/13) Art walks are more often about people-watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. Luckily, we captured a little bit of both. April’s First Friday welcomed art openings along Roosevelt Row, Grand Avenue, and 16th Street. Here were just a few of our…
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: 12th Annual Katsina Doll Marketplace Calling all beginner and veteran doll collectors, the 12th Annual Kastina Doll Marketplace is returning to the…
Although the Phoenix Film Festival is a locally run event, the movies shown feature talent from all over. It was refreshing to see one film that was made by a local, Elise Salomon. Her documentary about L.A.-area indie record label Wild Records and its close-knit group of artists is a…
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 . . …
Get your weekend on with these five must-attend events in and around Phoenix. Phoenix Film Festival @ Harkins Scottsdale 101 Certainly, Phoenix isn’t the biggest of movie towns, but Bird City has served as shooting grounds for such notable flicks as Psycho, Everything Must Go, and Bill & Ted’s Excellent…
If David Dimmick and Chuck Huus look a little tired lately it’s only because they’ve been busting much ass gearing up for the opening of the Coolin Out Hip Hop Shop in downtown Phoenix. The cozy Roosevelt Row boutique — which features an emphasis on street art, clothing, and all…
We’ve been getting swarmed with World War Z news recently — a trailer, a poster, and various stills surfaced this week from the summer blockbuster set for release June 21. The more we see of this movie, the more it seems like an action film with a side of zombies…
Patrick Fischler (currently of Californication) and wife Lauren Bowles (True Blood) have established impressive résumés in Hollywood, but their new short film The Test (screening this Friday and Saturday at the Phoenix Film Festival) is first time the pair has tried their hands at executive producing and writing for film…
Don’t be alarmed if you hear the thunderous roar of motors and the screeching of rubber against road over the next several days. It’s just the sounds generated by the thousands of motorcyclists who are revving up their rides and hitting the streets during Arizona Bike Week and are likely…
Hopefully your Phoenix Film Festival list of movies to see isn’t already full, because you’re going to want to add Fight Like a Girl, a film told from a first person perspective about the greatly unknown world of women’s boxing. We talk with the film’s director and star, Jill Morley,…
Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We’re here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide — an evolving guide to art walks around town. From time to time, we’ll introduce some of our favorite spots and…
Roger Ebert was an American film critic, screenwriter, and journalist whose columns and reviews appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and were syndicated in more than 200 newspapers across the country. Ebert made a name for himself in the candid and no-apology approach he had toward film review, earning him a…
If you’ve always wanted to raise a glass to internationally celebrated photographer Ansel Adams, you’ll have a chance to do so this weekend at World of Beer in Tempe. Arts and Drafts is a partnership between World of Beer and the Tempe Festival of the Arts, which have teamed up…
It’s been a rough day for arachnophobes — news traveled from Sri Lanka this morning that scientists have identified a spider the size of a human face. Introducing the Poecilotheria rajaei. See also: – Scientists Discover Genitalia-Headed Fish – Scientists Discover Jumping Cockroach – We’re Doomed: Scientists Discover Spiders with…
Pass the popcorn. Here are five movies you’ve gotta see this month. Kiss of the Damned @ Harkins Scottsdale 101 There are a few reasons Kiss of the Damned is on our must-see list. It’s directed by Xan Cassavetes, daughter of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Milo Ventimiglia (a.k.a. Rory…
Steve Wiley is Jackalope Ranch’s Parent Hood. He’s a slightly unorthodox father of five who weighs in weekly with his mildly rebellious views and observations. If you’d like to see how he came to write this column, watch the intro video. This week he tells a little baseball story in…
With gardening season getting into full swing, Pinterest has exploded with ideas on how to personalize your very own modern provincial urban organic Tuscan-inspired garden (oof). Pinners seem to the think the best way to achieve this is to fill the garden with extraneous weird shit under the guise of…
The nightlife scene along Mill Avenue in Tempe isn’t really much of a haven for the button-pounding and joystick-loving crowd, as far as gaming action goes, save for those Golden Tee and bar-top touchscreen things found at most watering holes. That will change in a few weeks when Gringo Star…
The Place Beyond the Pines opens with a close-up of Ryan Gosling’s chiseled abdomen — surely one of the more salable quantities in movies today — and heavy breathing on the soundtrack (or was that just the person next to me in the screening room?). Then in a single, five-minute…
The hills of Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills are a barren canvas of straw grass and leafless trees, framed by a winter’s sky. Nothing, it would seem, can grow here — save for fanatical faith. It is on this barren land that a priest known as Papa (Valeriu Andriuta) has…
“They do move in herds,” Sam Neill marvels, purportedly gazing at his director’s miracle dinosaurs but in reality directing his wonderment right into the camera — and right out at us, the viewers whose herdability made such smash successes of Jurassic Parks one and two. (Our failure to turn out…
