At last, there’s a reason to be glad for the crummy housing market here, and for the lack of awareness among Phoenicians about our local architectural history. Both of these misfortunes led Brad Jannenga to a formidable real estate score when he recently bought architect Ralph Haver’s old house over…
Wanna hear live salsa, merengue, and reggaeton without 1) waiting ’til 3 in the morning and 2) sweating your balls off at the club? Then check out Carnival: The Third Annual Dominican Festival. Numerous legit purveyors of the above-noted genres are scheduled to perform. Sat., Feb. 23, 11 a.m., 2008…
Why would anyone but a germaphobe pay retail when the world’s full of gently used junk? Well, the wasteful can go to Needless-Markup while we thrifty types hit the Junior League Rummage Sale – a scrap-heap nirvana brimming with secondhand treasures. Sat., Feb. 23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 2008…
Rough, chapped palms and brown dirt caked under fingernails. Unruly waves of sun-bleached hair reeking of dusty sweat. The soft, squeaky caress of well-worn leather. Buns in blue jeans wiggling like puppies wrestling under a blanket. Cowboy boots rhythmically thudding like a headboard against the wall. Oh, cowboys . …
Call us shallow, but why are we attracted to the Memphis-based, down-home blues band Delta Highway? Because the cover art for the band’s latest album, The Devil Had a Woman, features a waaay-hot gal with a devil-horned shadow. We hope the hot-to-trot filly shows up with the Highway when the…
Grease monkey with mesh back cap says, “Hey, dere. What kine of oil you be usin’, boi?” We say, “Uhhh . . . what?” Then we direct strange being from another planet and his/her red neck to the Checker Schuck’s Kragen Nationals Presented by Castrol. He/she is sure to love…
If you’ve stepped into the trippy world of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s current southwestNET: Melinda Bergman exhibit and been wicked inspired, here’s a chance to be wicked creative with the artist herself. Check out Melinda Bergman’s Free Drawing Workshop. Art supplies will be provided. Thu., Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m.,…
For some, la frontera is a fence and a fixed concept. For others, it’s a porous membrane and a zone of dreams. American Book Award winner Benjamin Alire Sáenz drops readers just north of the physical border and into a chaotic edge in time (the year 1967) in his acclaimed…
This year’s featured filmmaker will be Krzysztof Zanussi. The five featured films are: The Constant Factor (1980) Wherever You Are (1988) The Silent Touch (1992) Life As A Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000) Persona Non Grata (2005) Feb. 18-23, 7 p.m., 2008…
There’s something about the work of Jill Simonsen that has the Valley arts community and its patrons more excited than usual about a show by an out-of-towner. Maybe it’s the loneliness of her acrylic-and-pen creations depicting neglected buildings and sparse power-line-scapes. Or, quite possibly, it could be the nostalgic quality…
It’s springtime in the Valley, which means it’s Cactus League season. Uh, yeah. Of course. Okay, let’s try this again. It’s springtime in the Valley, which means that ASU Baseball is in full swing. Oh, yeah, you forgot about them? Uh, yeah. Well, you damn well shouldn’t, because the squad…
It’s springtime in the Valley, which means it’s Cactus League season. Uh, yeah. Of course. Okay, let’s try this again. It’s springtime in the Valley, which means that ASU Baseball is in full swing. Oh, yeah, you forgot about them? Uh, yeah. Well, you damn well shouldn’t, because the squad…
It’s springtime in the Valley, which means it’s Cactus League season. Uh, yeah. Of course. Okay, let’s try this again. It’s springtime in the Valley, which means that ASU Baseball is in full swing. Oh, yeah, you forgot about them? Uh, yeah. Well, you damn well shouldn’t, because the squad…
It’s been a long time since a piece of art made us choke. But there we were, mouth full of water, and – boom! Out comes the wet stuff, dousing us and our computer. We howled, then toweled off. The art in question was a merry, glazed-ceramic piece titled The…
If you want to cop Lymbyc Systym’s latest CD, Love Your Abuser Remixed, you best show up at the Valley band’s one and only Phoenix show. The 1,000-copy-only release features Systym remixes by The Album Leaf, Daedelus, and so many more banging groups. Tue., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
All games start at 1:05 p.m. unless otherwise noted; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 2/27 vs. Royals; 2/29 vs. Angels; 3/2 vs. Royals; 3/4 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/5 vs. Brewers; 3/8 vs. Padres; 3/11 vs. White Sox; 3/12 vs. Cubs; 3/15 vs. Rockies; 3/17 vs. Mariners; 3/18 vs. Athletics; 3/21 vs…
All games start at 1:05 p.m. unless noted; (ss) = split squad. Schedule: 2/27 vs. Rockies; 3/2 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/6 vs. Rangers; 3/7 vs. Diamondbacks; 3/8 vs. Giants (ss); 3/10 vs. Mariners; 3/12 vs. Rockies; 3/14 vs. Athletics; 3/15 vs. Cubs; 3/18 vs. Padres; 3/19 vs. Rockies; 3/23 vs. Royals;…
Though Waters, Gilmour, & Company are no longer touring as a band (their last appearance was at Live 8 in the summer of 2005), Floyd fans have a good opportunity to experience the band’s music in a theatrical format in this show that covers that band’s career, from classics like…
Your woman just left you. You’re hurtin’, and can’t shake the grip of that badass mojo she left you – the endless drag of bills, progeny who can’t piss straight, and a serious case of castration anxiety. You’ve got the blues, boy. Options? Hit the bars — and eventually the…
Throughout their 40 years of balling, the Phoenix Suns have consistently made the playoffs. But once the team lost that star-crossed coin flip for the right to draft Lew Alcindor, one thing has plagued the squad in its NBA Championship quest: the inability to find a true center to enforce…
Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men was already a loud, furious play, adapted from the author’s 1950s television script, before director Scott Ellis got hold of it. In Ellis’ production, which began life four years ago at Manhattan’s Roundabout Theatre, the director turns up the volume on what is essentially an…
The Caledonian Society of Arizona presents the 44th annual affair, which features clan rumbles, Highland dancing and sporting competitions, bagpipers and drums bands, and much more. Sat., Feb. 23, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 2008…
