Introducing Pin Up Girl, 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…
The annual Undie Run is arguably one of the biggest events at Arizona State University each year. Every April, thousands of Sun Devil co-eds strip down to their unmentionables to engage in a skivvy stampede across the Tempe campus for fun on the last day of classes.The Undie Run has…
I am not one of Rush’s feminazis. Really. Putting aside that I would never claim to be one of Rush’s anythings, I do admit to a little female bias: I browse a list or a bookshelf of graphic novels by first checking out the ones written by women. It’s a…
Summer’s around the corner, which means there’s plenty of time to get creative (and finish a few projects) before the heat sets in. Lucky you, there happen to be a handful of great opportunities for local artists to have their work displayed and recognized. From paintings to puppets, here are…
Fox Restaurant Concepts have whipped up a fresh batch of cocktails at their newest location of NoRTH Arcadia. Deviating slightly in menu and manner, NoRTH Fattoria Italiana offers a more rustic, industrial ambiance, making this week’s featured cocktail, the Julietta, seem a bit juxtaposed. This feminine concoction is a flavorful…
Matthew Moore grew up in Waddell, Arizona, on his family’s farm that’s been around since the 1920s. Much of the local artist’s work is influenced by the landscape he remembered from growing up and the changes to that landscape since his family began losing the land to development. Moore documents…
Note: Here be spoilers! If you haven’t absorbed the first season/book of Game of Thrones, you might want to consider waiting on this. If you don’t care, read on. If you’re an unabashed fantasy fan like me, you’ve probably seen the first season of George RR Martin’s celebrated Game of…
Introducing Closet Tours, an occasional look inside the wardrobes of Phoenix’s most fashionable — hooks, hangers, and all. Effortlessly unique. Romantic with boyish twists. That’s how Bunky Boutique owner Rachel Malloy describes her personal style. Casual comfort combines with asymmetrical lines, cowl necks, and soft, flowing shapes to make a…
Typography fans are in for a treat: AIGA is hosting two events next week that celebrate the ol’ printing press. On Monday, AIGA’s monthly FilmBar series offers a screening of Typeface, a 2009 documentary by Justine Nagan. The film follows the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum (http://woodtype.org/), a Wisconsin…
In the back of the exhibition space for “And the Land Grew Quiet: New Work by Matthew Moore” sits a crazy one-and-a-half-scale stud-skeleton house. Built askew and appearing to be sinking into the ground, the house is surreal. Walk through its beams and a disorienting sense of vertigo might knock…
Chicago Cubs fans are a miserable lot, but with good reason. It’s been 104 dismal, disappointing seasons since the Boys in Blue experienced World Series glory and the last century’s been a tortuous mish-mash of curses, June Swoons, and Steve Bartman. These days, however, there’s much optimism amongst the Cubbies…
It’s widely accepted that there’s nothing new under the sun. Nowhere is that more true than the literary world, where countless authors have homaged, remixed, or flat-out stolen a unique concept or killer plotline for their own works. To wit: When Suzanne Collins published her 2008 teenybopper tome The Hunger…
If you were born after 1985, Sinbad probably had a greater impact on your life than other single-name celebrities. Was Madonna in Jingle All the Way? Nope. Did Fabio have his own TV show? Nuh-uh. And you can bet your ass Cher didn’t play a role in Good Burger. Packing…
With four punk/ska punk bands performing — Buck-O-Nine, Voodoo Glowskulls, Goldfinger, and headliner Face to Face — plus local acts on a separate stage, a custom bike show, and an all-ages kid-friendly hangout, more than just barbeque will cook under the hot sun at Chandler’s third annual Great American Barbeque…
If the only fairies you know are Tinkerbell and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s Fab Five, brace yourself. Not all fairies are gentle, kind, or snappy dressers. Case in point: Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent, who casts evil spells and looks like a reject from RuPaul’s Drag Race. Hopefully, the frolicking…
When it comes down to it, true beauty is about two things – form and function. Tell that to an artist and they might scoff at the idea that their art needs to be anything but sanything other than eye catching, but the artists at PLAY! A Festival of Arts…
While costumed DJ twosomes are as much a fixture in the world of electronic dance music these days as pirated copies of Ableton Live, there are a few ultra-talented tandems who rise above the rest. Besides the groovy Gauls in Daft Punk, the Italian dance-punks of the Bloody Beetroots, or…
Being nice has a time and a place, but acting naughty is so much more fun. Ludacris was on to something: Gals who act like a “lady on the street, but a freak in the bed” make for ideal mates. The Festival of Flesh celebrates just about every sort of…
That skaters have a rep for being super-mellow slackers is no coincidence. After all, their sport was created by terminally laidback surfer dudes who wanted to translate wave riding into a more practical means of transport. Although we wouldn’t call the gravity-defying tricks displayed at Scottsdale’s 12th Annual Skate Competition…
Is there a car with a greater journey to acclaim than the Volkswagen Beetle? Created by Ferdinand Porsche at the behest of Hitler in 1933, the car was designed to get a family of five groovin’ across the Autobahn with maximum efficiency. The Volkwagen’s 70-year production history includes starring in…
In spite of being Olympic sport, archery often takes a backseat to sexier sports (ahem, tinier outfits) like track and field or swimming. Thing is some of history’s coolest dudes wielded bows and arrows — Robin Hood, Apollo, and William Tell to name a few. While the 2012 AAE Arizona…
Artists discussing their own work and impact makes a lot more sense to us than scholars attempting to decipher their depth and breadth in the past tense. The documentary Robert Motherwell: The Summer of 1971 finds the artist and founder of the loose collective known as the New York School…
