Trejsi Mulac comes from a long line of entrepreneurs, including her grandmother, Roberta “Bertie” Ballinger. Bertie ran a gas station and convenience mart that sold penny candy (when it was penny candy) and sweets with such enthusiasm that it inspired her granddaughter to open a shop of her own. Mulac…
If you have big plans to barbecue by the pool or hit the lake this weekend before it gets cool(er), you’ll want to pack sunscreen — and then check that the sunscreen isn’t going to burn you. Energizer Holdings announced this morning that it is voluntarily removing a number of…
The landscape of the Desert Botanical Garden is looking a little different this month, but the new additions aren’t plants (at least not technically). Carolina Escobar’s sculpture exhibition Whispers of a New World spans across the familiar garden trails and offers splashes here and there of something new. See Also:…
Mallets and forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social and Croquet Tournament on Saturday, November 3, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. Chow Bella’s profiling the all-star line up of pie-makers, and from now til Pie Social, we’ll…
When British dance club impresario Joe Fournier first visited Scottsdale in 2007, he instantly fell in love with the city and its nightlife. “I was fascinated with the Scottsdale, with its contrast of old and new,” he says. “I had one of the best nights of my life here and…
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. Hocus Pocus Screening @ Roosevelt Growhouse For kiddos who grew up in the 1990s, there’s a canon of Halloween flicks and scary ephemera that truly…
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 (including Chaos Theory at Legend City Studios). But you…
Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row’s third annual Pie Social will feature a new twist in this year’s event — not only can you enjoy the delicious culinary creations from celebrity and local chefs, but you will also have the chance to play a game or two of the timeless lawn…
You can thank blogger and marijuana fan Master Bong for making this holiday season’s high a little more festive. The self-proclaimed “McGyver of Pot” has a website and Youtube channel where he posts hundreds of videos full of pot puns and instructional(ish) videos. His goal: To “empower millions with the…
Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (GEOPLAN) will bring together students and professionals in the urban planning, community design, and healthcare fields for a one-day workshop called Place Maker Collaboratory: Health + Community Planning on Friday. The professional development and workshop program, which will take place…
Locally-based Internet shops upgrading to brick-and-mortar digs just might be the next big fashion trend. Last year we saw e-Bay favorite Meat Market Vintage open shop on Mill Avenue. Now, Etsy stores Ouma and Mignonne Handmade have opened Cleo & Clementine in the space next to Melrose Pharmacy that was…
Halloween is approaching fast, which means dads will be dressing themselves as bottles of Jack Daniels and their sons as packs of cigarettes, and ladies will be dressing up as sexy … anything. It also means you’re bound to be faced with a ridiculous amount of options for how to…
Objectively, what the world needs now is another teen-romance-slash-virginity-loss dramedy like we need a hole in our collective movie heads. But Jonathan Kasdan’s The First Time, against all odds, is something of a wonder, a palm-size ball of banter and irony and earnestness that never stops rolling and almost never…
English filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s atypical impressionistic approach to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is her adaptation’s main hook. As with Fish Tank and Red Road, Arnold’s last two feature-length dramas, the new Wuthering Heights is very much about the act of looking. The novel’s tempestuous plot is thus unmercifully filtered through…
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s remarkable new adaptation of Wuthering Heights comes packing some redoubtable weapons, including the most atmospheric ultra-realism the story has ever seen, an awesome sense of the Yorkshire landscape, and no small payload of brooding poeticism. But undoubtedly, its coup de grâce has everything to do with…
It wouldn’t be Halloween without the members of Scorpius Dance Theatre staging the annual production of the evocative and provocative work A Vampire Tale. This sensual yet scary yarn, penned and produced by Scorpius’ Lisa Starry, involves an innocent ingénue who’s led astray into the seductive underworld of vampires. Despite…
Keep your head on a swivel if you happen to be traipsing around Tempe on Saturday, October 27, as a number of cyclists, fixie fiends, and heavy pedalers will be zooming around the streets and sidewalks of the East Valley at breakneck speeds. They’ll be participating in the frenetic, fast-paced…
When it really comes down to it, All Hallows Eve boils down to one thing: Adopting the identity of someone else, if only for an evening or two. Several Valley punk bands will do just this on Wednesday, October 31, at the Yucca Tap Room, 29 West Southern Avenue, when…
“This film was born out of the rage of not being able to make other projects,” Leos Carax says of Holy Motors, an anomaly in the French director’s oeuvre as its production was relatively stress-free. Speaking at a hotel bar in New York, Carax says, “It was imagined very quickly,…
It’s tempting to snipe that the argument of Atlas Shrugged Part II — that the genius of an unregulated free market results in the greatest of all greater goods — is somewhat undone by the chintziness of Atlas Shrugged Part II, because, seriously, if this is the best promotion of…
It’s a Sunday afternoon in New York, and Tom Tykwer and the filmmakers formerly known as the Wachowski Brothers are talking about Zardoz, that odd and ambitious 1974 science fiction drama most infamous for featuring a gun-vomiting godhead and Sean Connery in a mankini. As a film that confronts viewers…
There’s plenty to be worried about these days. Just off the top of our heads, there’s the very real possibility of a Mitt Romney presidency, the horrors of the ever-lagging economy, and all that folderol about whether or not the world’s ending in a couple of months. Frankly, your brains…
