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, sports games, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend… Monday, December 3:…
It’s easy to get bummed out by Christmas — especially when the “holiday season,” with all the crass consumerism, bad music, and awkward family gatherings — seems to kick off earlier and earlier each year. But only the “grinchiest” can resist the charms of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Originally aired…
Ladies and gents feeling fit to be tied will have a chance to wrap themselves up like presents on Thursday, December 6. That’s when bow tie purveyor (among other things) Aaron Kimberlin opens the Dapper+Dash pop-up shop at the Phoenix location of Urban Outfitters. The accessory label specializes in repurposing…
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: Airing of the Grievances at Phoestivus ‘Tis the season to go stir crazy — blame holiday shopping, holiday party hosting, and holiday…
If Bob Ross were alive today, he’d be painting happy little trees all over the place in ecstatic fervor for all the arts and culture happenings in Phoenix. To help you see the forest for the trees, here’s a recap of the top arts and culture stories of the week…
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. Stylos Awards 2012 @ Phoenix Art Museum Music, fashion, and a group of hyper-talented folks come together Friday evening for the Stylos Awards. Every year,…
If you have a solid holiday show that people love and buy tickets to, obviously you have to do it at least once more. Or 18 more times. Or whatever. So here we go — this season’s reruns, with links to the original Curtains reviews. 1. Childsplay’s Junie B. in…
Tracy Perkins says she launched her own vegan beauty product company after years of searching for soaps and products she could use — guilt-free — without breaking the bank. Strawberry Hedgehog produces a variety of soaps in sweet mint, candy cane, and gingerbread scents (to name a few) — though…
The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture’s looking for local poets for its ninth annual 7th Avenue Streetscape exhibition. Up to four poems that aim to “broaden public thinking about reuse, recycling and a greener environment” will be selected for be selected for a yearlong public art display on the…
Vince Lombardi was a football coach known for his time spent leading the Green Bay Packers to two Super Bowl trophies and a number of league championships in the 1960s. He was enshrined in the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Lombardi never lost a season as a…
If you’re looking to pick up a Christmas present for the art lover in your family, you might want to try your luck this Saturday at Art Intersection’s second Annual Silent Auction. With some of the starting bids are as low as $60 and immediate purchase prices in a variety…
In April, 2011, construction began on a two-acre family fishing pond in Eager, Arizona. It was an Arizona Game and Fish project that, in its beginning stages, relied on an archaeologist to survey the land for potential historic properties and important cultural remnants. Unfortunately, the archaeologist wasn’t officially certified, a…
Everybody’s favorite holiday debacle comedy “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” will be showing during Civic Space Park’s PJ’ s in the Park event Friday, December 7. The Griswolds (who recently reunited for an Old Navy ad) will be shown in all their chaotic glory right after a screening of the Christmas…
Worlds are colliding. The place where we buy paper towels and kitty litter has teamed up with the department store that’s stocked with our dream shoes. That’s right. Target and Neiman Marcus have teamed up to release a collection of 50-plus items on Saturday, December 1, at the big box…
Dustin Diehl is extremely well versed in Star Wars trivia and lore. So much so that the Tempe geek has gushed about his obsession with George Lucas’ space opera franchise at a couple Ignite Phoenix events and can rattle off factoids concerning that fictional galaxy far, far away as adroitly…
Troy Moody has been creating original glass artwork around the Valley since the late 90s. His unique glass art can be found in a variety of places, including custom stained glass in historic homes in central Phoenix and luxury homes in Paradise Valley as well as large-scale public art installations…
Welcome back to Explicitly Graphic, a monthly column by Cynthia Clark Harvey (who’s working on a graphic novel of her own). From time to time, Harvey will review graphic novels, talk to artists, and dive into the scene of all things explicitly graphic. Today, she sits down with author and…
Monkey Pants Bar and Grill’s Thursday night comedy event will feature Jackie Kashian, a comedian who has toured with Maria Bamford, performed on NPR’s This American Life, and does a podcast called The Dork Forest. The show will feature local comedians Teddy Bearskovich, Anthony Desamito, and S&M Comedy Podcast hosts…
An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy of junkies, killers, and administrators to indict a present-day mainstream world — the world into which the film is being released by Harvey Weinstein, heralded by misleadingly generic TV ads…
Could there be a more unsympathetic character in today’s culture than a well-born white male who uses his privilege irresponsibly? A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy stars alt-comic superstar Tim Heidecker as Swanson, a trust fund 35-year-old hanging…
Depending on whether you count direct-to-video releases, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is either the fourth or sixth film in the low-rent, Panda Express-level Universal Soldier franchise, the descendant of a rip-off of The Terminator. But less money equals less studio oversight, and the directors of low-budget sequels to 20-year-old…
If David Cronenberg and Luc Besson had a mutant baby, it still wouldn’t be able to make a movie quite as hypnotically badass as Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, a fact that might be surprising to those who reasonably assumed that the Jean-Claude Van Damme-and-Dolph Lundgren-headlined franchise had died some…
