Congratulations! You woke up this morning and officially survived the non-existent end of the world. Now, of course, theories will still swirl around a future date, a missed portal, or a parallel universe — if you’re asking us, there are still plenty of reasons we’re ultimately doomed. From jumping cockroaches…
In 2001, AZ DES reported that 40 percent of the Greater Metro Phoenix population changes every 5 years. This jarring statistic was the springboard for a series of projects undertaken by Matthew and Maria Salenger of colab studio culminating in their most recent endeavor, Individualocracy, which is up for funding…
Sebastien Millon operates in a world where bears are usually drunk, owls appreciate fat beets, and hamsters occasionally do meth. The Phoenix-based illustrator says he draws on a number of inspirations for his series of twisted-yet-charming characters, who have been displayed on the walls of Downtown galleries, printed on T-shirts…
We’ll be the first ones to admit that we’ve given Pinterest a hard time over the year- from the worst pregnancy trends to the 5 Christmas trends we want to avoid at all costs. But whether we’re chocking it up to the holiday spirit or one too many egg nogs,…
If you have a taste for extreme adventure and think you and a friend/family member/spouse/significant other/ex (really) could survive the wild, Bear Grylls is looking for you. The adventure expert and television personality known best for the Man vs. Wild series is kicking off a new reality series on NBC…
Be it a First Friday or a Third Friday — we’re just excited about having an excuse (not that we need one) to see some great art exhibitions. Some are opening tonight Downtown, others have opened this month throughout metro Phoenix. But you better believe that we’re making the loop…
Christmas has become awfully technical in the last decade or so. But if you’ve already caved and bought your child a smartphone and iPad or anything else with a webcam on it, you might consider buying them a Popar book to go with it. These books employ augmented reality to…
Looking for ways to fill up your weekend? Here are your five best bets for getting out and about in the Valley of the Sun. Doomsday Danse Party @ Apollo’s Lounge If you’re reading this, then the world has not ended — yet. That’s plenty cause for celebration (unless you…
Downtown Phoenix could be getting a very unique and spectacular-looking addition to its skyline sometime in the near future, if a local real estate developer’s plans become a reality. News broke online this morning that Phoenix-based developer NovaWest has announced its intention to construct a gigantic 420-foot observation tower that…
After the first anonymous buyer for the David and Gladys Wright house in Phoenix dropped his/her/its bid a few weeks ago, things seemed uncertain for the historic Phoenix property. But good news came in today through a press release from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, which says a new…
UPDATE: The Thursday, December 20, performance of this show has been canceled. Performances resume Friday, December 21, at 7 p.m. (post-apocalyptic hellscape permitting). The setup: Bless their hearts, the founding directors of Brelby Theatre Company are still wrangling with getting their Historic Downtown Glendale studio all properly remodeled for public…
Hmm… television guilty pleasures, eh? The trick is that I’m more adept at talking guilty pleasures with music than with TV. I’ve got a whole host of critic-hated albums at home, but with TV, I’m generally pretty solid. So I had to think a while. Then I sheepishly remembered Ancient…
In January, L.A.-based creative Cameron Rath is teaming up with Robbie Pfeffer of Tempe Starving Artist to put on a kickass festival in downtown Phoenix. Rath is the mind behind FMLY, a group of eco-conscious music fans who organize bikes and all-age music shows in nontraditional spaces. They refer to…
This third Friday, you can add another spot to your Third Friday art tour. 1Spot Gallery, which takes over the former Regular Gallery spot on 6th Street behind TH!nk Printing and Five15, will host a grand opening celebration with work by Damian Jim. Jim and local creative Michelle Ponce are…
Many adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby have seen the silver screen, and this summer director Baz Luhrmann will release his own starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki, and Amitabh Bachchan. The movie follows the literary story of writer…
Last November, Joseph “Sentrock” Perez gave the now-defunct Downtown Phoenix Public Market a pretty sweet paint job, that you better check out in the next few days — according to Aaron Chamberlin, who will open a farm-focused cafe in the space in 2013, the mural will be replaced by windows…
In his 2005 novel One Shot, writer Lee Child lays out nine rules for surviving a five-against-one alley fight, a challenge his hero, the ex-Army cop Jack Reacher, is about to face. These include “Be on your feet and ready.” “Identify the ringleader.” “Don’t break the furniture.” Rule number nine…
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama Rust and Bone without laughing. Loosely adapted from two works in Craig Davidson’s 2005 short story collection of the same name, Rust and Bone finds Audiard returning to the overdetermined characters and swift…
Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on the subject of marriage, the state in which just less than half of Americans spend the majority of their lives. A few years back, Brad Paisley, one of Nashville’s best, wrote and…
There’s traffic from Silver Lake. That’s why Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund, the stars of On the Road, are late to the Benedict Room of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. We’re as psychically far from Jack Kerouac’s Beat gospel as you can get: fidgeting under crystal chandeliers in…
Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: A) They stop being funny and start being all Hallmark heartwarming, i.e., by growing a beard and playing a psychiatrist. B) They accept unambitious, work-for-hire roles in mass-market family comedies about some combination of dogs,…
If you happen to be one of those notorious preppers or some other wingnut caught up in all the hoohah over this weekend’s allegedly impending Armageddon, it’s likely that you’re too busy huddling in your underground bunker with a shotgun in hand to worry about what to do on New…
