There’s a sly smile that highlights Paisley Yankolovich’s face. It’s the kind of bemused calm of knowing that the Christian performance artist’s journey with Jesus is less a sunset-showered walk on the beach than an adrenaline-pumping roller coaster that invites people to hop on and throw up their hands at…
Pet the title nasties as well as bamboo and nurse sharks, who return for another season starting today. Starts: Oct. 18. Daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2008…
By Martin Cizmar Twisted Big Top Westgate City Center Glendale First, some introduction: This is the first of a few haunted house reviews that Up On The Sun – your favorite Phoenix music, arts and culture blog – is going to have this month. Why? Well, first off, haunted houses…
By Lilia Menconi Eve Plumb as we remember her. Celebrity and art – yum! – one of my very favorite topics. I’m endlessly fascinated with the way celebrities are able to assign instant value to an artist simply by purchasing a piece. Or, better yet, when a celebrity decides to…
By Lilia Menconi If you’re a local artist, I know you have a pile of pieces leaning against one of your apartment walls collecting dust, hairspray spritzes and probably the occasional splash of beer. Well, it’s time to bust those babies out of forced retirement, take some slides and submit…
By Jonathan McNamara AZ Fetish Ball at The Venue of Scottsdale “Rock ‘n’ rubber ruled the night at the AZ Fetish Ball on Saturday, October 11. Thousands of costumed cajolers brought out their best breasts and were treated to a variety of fetish performances and music from Venus De Mars,…
By Lilia Menconi By Joseph Labate. I absolutely love the West Valley Art Museum. But I didn’t grow up on the Westside, I only have a few acquaintances who live there and I don’t have any ailing grandparents in Sun City. So, other than the museum, there’s not much reason…
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the war on terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most of all in cyberspace. Directed with terrific verve by Ridley Scott (coming after the listless American…
The Duchess is the best women’s movie of the past few months. Don’t get too excited: Sex and the City, Mamma Mia!, and The Women set the bar so dismally low that almost any film with a dame in it who doesn’t channel her identity only through buying, boogieing, and/or…
Recently, I wrote on joystickdivision.com about a link between one of gaming’s biggest PR companies, TriplePoint PR, and a small gaming news and review site founded by TriplePoint’s general manager and founder, Richard Kain. Though the site — GameCyte.com — was set up via a domain privacy service and none…
To describe what makes Mark Schultz’s Everything Will Be Different such a magnificent piece of writing is to give away the tricks that are at the very core of its achievement. To simply detail its plot is to diminish this unique and perverse little play’s dark power. Fortunately, its Stray…
Patti Hannon returns as Sister in this sequel-to-the-sequel, which is full of fresh doctrine, “right off the net.” Saturdays, 8 p.m., 2011…
The 48th annual event features a scintillating mix of Greek goods, food, music, and more. Fri., Oct. 10, 5-10 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 11, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 12, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., 2008…
Midnite Movie Mamacita presents the sorority-house-babes-on-the-chopping-block flick by Gregg Simon, which won the Most Kick-Ass Film Award at this year’s Seattle True Independent Film Festival. Sat., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., 2008…
This annual blowout promises “a giant beer garden with buxom beer maidens serving Bavarian brews.” There’s lots of other stuff, too, but need we continue? Sat., Oct. 11, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., 2008…
Proceeds from the 16th annual 5K go to battle breast cancer. Sun., Oct. 12, 7 a.m., 2008…
Bru’s Musical Theater presents Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s Spanish-language interpretation of the Broadway musical in conjunction with the ¡Viva el Arte! Latino Arts Festival. Okay, remind us again: How do you say “This car is Auto-matic. Its System-matic. Its Hyyyyydro-matic. Why, its Greased Lightning!” en Español? Presented in Spanish…
Just stop watching the Dow. Stop. You’re going to freak yourself out. To help the economy, make sure not to cut down on any extra expenses. Keep your acrylic nails, get your weekly massage, shell out for the full-sleeve tattoo, and keep your standing appointment with your psychic, especially if…
Enjoy the spy-hard classic ‘neath starry skies on the shopping mall’s Center Lawn. Fri., Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
Have you high-tailed it down to the Arizona Exposition & State Fair yet and given yourself swamp ass from all of that super-weird-looking grub? Well, even if you have, you should hit it up once again this week, because there are a number of supercool events that can only happen…
John Huston’s noir masterpiece, starring Humphrey Bogart as anti-hero PI Sam Spade, screens in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Big Read” salute to Dashiell Hammett’s novel about “the stuff that dreams are made of.” Sun., Oct. 12, 1 p.m., 2008…
Santa, forgive us for saying this, but screw Christmas. In our opinion, Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year. And since the haunted holiday is just around the corner, there’s gonna be plenty of scary soirees that we’re going to be hanging out at over the next few…
