Welcome to the Morning Buzz, a catch-up on interesting happenings around the city and country and a quick guide to what (and who) to keep your eyes on. We’ll be here, first thing every weekday, to get you going. Here’s what’s buzzing this morning: When the local chapter of design…
It’s a piece of cake for the organizers of the 11th Annual Phoenix Improv Festival to pack a lot into a little — that’s kind of a holy principle of comedy. So yes, the entire event fests your ass off between now and Sunday afternoon, April 29, and it doesn’t…
Former New Times staff writer-turned-fiction writer Christopher Farnsworth has just released the third book in his President’s Vampire series, Red, White and Blood. The series centers on Nathaniel Cade, a vampire sworn to protect the president and the nation from the unforeseeable forces that go bump in the night. (Because…
Sometimes Etsy gets us down. After all, it only takes a few clicks to fall into a bottomless pit of hopeless handmade ugliness. But every once in a while, Etsy browsing results in an unearthed gem. Such serendipity was responsible for local fashion designer Katie Walker’s label kt jean (interchangeably…
Oy, where to start? Well, first, for the sake of clarity, Soul Invictus’ The Golden Gays is not presented by our beloved AZ Gender Outlaws — so, for example, it’s neither the same show nor the same performers as this word-for-word drag re-enactment of an episode of The Golden Girls…
Pin Up Girl is a weekly guide to all things Pinterest. Our resident pinner, Laura Gill, will take a look at some of the best eye candy from around the web, provide a few pointers on how-to crafts, and weigh in on weekly trends and highlight local and national pin fiends. This…
“It was a great, great shame,” says Peter Lord of the 2005 fire at the Aardman Animations studio storage facility. “Hundreds of chickens went up in smoke.” Of course, Lord isn’t talking about live chickens; he’s referring to the hundreds of clay model chickens produced for the Golden-Globe-nominated Chicken Run…
Provided you can press pause on constantly fantasizing about Saturday’s sure-to-be mesmerizing Jell-O wrestling event at Cave Creek Smokehouse, it’s likely you’ll notice that there’s a ton of stuff going on this weekend (in addition to barely clothed girls duking it out in a pool of hospital food). Did that…
This week’s art feature takes a look at “Namingha Family: Landscape, Form, and Light.” The exhibit, comprised of art by Dan Namingha and his two sons, Arlo and Michael, is on display at the Heard Museum through January 27. Dan Namingha’s art, defined by his bold use of color and…
Arizona’s controversial immigration law SB 1070 has cause some heated confrontations across the country this week. In Washington on Wednesday, attorneys arguing both for and against the “papers please” legislation verbally duked it out in front of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, opponents of the law were arrested by Phoenix police…
We’d argue that J. Crew has cornered the market for All-American outfitting. And that being said, it’s only fitting that the wearable brand would work with up-and-coming designers. Hence the shop’s latest endeavor with the three finalists from the annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards, which rewards emerging designers with monetary…
Subject matter isn’t one of the generally accepted elements of drama (such as plot, character, theme, and dialogue) that we’ve ticked off on our fingers since classical times — maybe because every play has it, and excellence doesn’t really depend on exactly what it is. But it is an attribute…
The Internet has changed a lot of the ways we do business. You can pay bills online, buy cars online, meet friends online, and maybe, if you’re lucky, live out your dream job online. Author and artist Austin Kleon believes he owes his career to the web. Across blogs and…
According to Hopi legend, Spider Woman created twin beings from clay, a mixture of her saliva and bits of earth. One twin was charged with solidifying the Earth, the other with sending out sound, echoes of the Creator. When these duties were finished, one went south and the other north…
Bar owners have been busy lately ordering plenty of cerveza, testing out their blenders, and adorning the walls of their joints with colorful decorations. Such preparations are necessary, considering that Cinco de Mayo (a.k.a. one of the biggest drinking holidays of the year) is just around the corner. Countless fiestas…
With The Deep Blue Sea, the great British director Terence Davies returns to the post-war period — though in a sense, he has never left. The cinema of Davies (born in 1945) is defined by a mixed pity and fondness for the world of yesterday, a past he seemingly finds…
It seems unfair that only kids get to have play dates. Why should they be the only ones who get to party with entertainers like Flash the Magician!, Dizzie the Balloon Artist, and James Reid, Juggler Extraordinaire? Yelp Phoenix’s Ultimate PleyDate brings the awesomeness of kids’ entertainment to an adult…
We’ll never understand what makes us watch the NFL draft. No amount of football starvation can explain why we’re willing to spend hours watching a dude read off a bunch of names. And yet we still find ourselves glued to the television. If you can’t help but watch the draft,…
Martinis & Masterpieces dubs itself the valley’s premier after-work cocktail party, and from the looks of things, that could be true. It will be the place to network and hobnob with area artists, business professionals and community leaders, while bidding on artwork created and donated by said artists to benefit…
In 2009, friends and artists Matt Brown and Jay B Fail opened the doors of Push PHX Gallery at 1145 East Roosevelt with a vision of “pushing” the local arts movement forward with exhibitions and events. For three years, the duo brought in local artists in a variety of media…
Jim Henson and George Lucas’ beloved live action ‘80s fantasy flick Labyrinth was a box office bomb that eventually became a cult classic. It plays out like The Wizard of Oz meets Where the Wild Things Are with a David Bowie soundtrack and villainous role. Bowie portrays Jareth, a literal…
School of Earth and Space Exploration haven’t left to party the summer away in god-knows-where. Instead, on Friday, April 27, the school will host its Astronomy Open House. Astronomer and author Lawrence Krauss will begin the evening with a lecture on the genesis and evolution of the universe insofar as…
