The Diamondbacks got smoked in Denver, and who gave a hang about a World Series featuring the Colorado Rockies? Blaaaah. Long story short, Major League Baseball’s over. But is it? Not with Arizona Fall League Baseball kicking up dust at five stadiums around the Valley. The six-team AFL features promising…
The hipster center of the universe in Oregon loves stealing some of our favorite creative peeps. Justin Cory from the brutal musical duo Bodhisattva. Marla Thayer, bowl percussionist in Tent/City. The latest defector, as of December, will be supercool artist Lisa Albinger, who creates fantastical works on canvas by painting…
Any transplanted Louisianan will tell you that authentic jambalaya and gumbo are hard to come by here in the land of arroz con frijoles negros. But 20-odd amateur chefs will give it their best shots at the Great Cajun Cook-Off. Proceeds go to the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity…
If Shakespeare had had a fashionable gay brother, gay Will might have reworked the soliloquy from As You Like It to read, “All the world’s a runway.” At least this week, all of Scottsdale will be one during the second annual Scottsdale Fashion Week, a less-ostentatious-by-design take on the Big…
The game pitting the Arizona State Sun Devil b-ballers against the (Christian) Grand Canyon University Antelopes might be an exhibition match, but if you think of it as Satan versus God, you’ve got yourself a real ballgame. While the ´lopes continue their rise to respectability under offensive-minded third-year coach Scott…
When Dr. Dre proclaimed, “Bitches ain’t shit,” he probably wasn’t talking about all of those darling pooches that will leap and bound to our heart’s delight during the U.S. Dog Agility Cynosport Games. Because, let’s face it, we’d rather hang with Fido and Phoebe than some slobbering hounds at the…
During a 1975 interview with Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, a prime mover and shaker in the American Indian Movement (AIM), the outspoken activist said, “The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedy-ass Pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass…
Bad news first. Ingrid Michaelson’s indie-pop songs have been featured in an Old Navy sweater commercial and on the soundtracks to Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill. This is a slippery slope for any musician with a desire to be taken seriously. Now the good. The Staten Island native’s got…
Ever dreamed of running an offending ass off the road? It’s street legal at the Arizona State Fair Demolition Derby — a red-state birthright that’s been handed down from yahoo father to yahoo son since the invention of the auto graveyard. The slam-bang spectacle’s kinda like a car wreck. You…
Dracula: The Musical?: The question mark in this Scottsdale Desert Stages productions title screams Careful! Hyper-clever campiness awaits you! But who can resist any show that includes a song called The Tippy, Tippy Tap of Love? Playwright Rick Abbot is taking pokes at Bram Stokers classic monster story in this…
He loves his baby sister and the Marx Brothers, but actor-director Mike Traylor — who’s appearing this week in iTheatre Collaborative’s Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad — isn’t above admitting when he’s blown an audition or copping to his similarities…
With Halloween just around the corner, time is running out for urbanites of the PHX to conjure up a killer costume for the annual celebration of everything thrilling and chilling. So whatcha gonna be? Better come up with something good, ace, and not just because you’re running out of bedsheets…
Dan in Real Life has this much going for it: It is not the worst Steve Carell film of 2007. That honor, of course, goes to Evan Almighty, which even the Lord walked out of during the second reel. Fact is, Dan in Real Life isn’t really much of a…
Before he snagged the lead in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1972 screen version of Anthony Shaffer’s 1970 stage play Sleuth, Laurence Olivier had, with his customary diplomatic finesse, dismissed the source material as “a piece of piss.” Two movie adaptations later, I’m inclined to agree with that assessment. Still, it’s not…
I gave up after about 100 pages of John Burnham Schwartz’s 1998 novel Reservation Road, a typically overwritten and contrived slice of mass-market literary pabulum that hopscotches between the points-of-view of three people — the grieving mom, the grieving dad, and the perpetrator — involved in the hit-and-run death of…
One takes a mighty risk when one attempts Arthur Kopit’s Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad, a frantic farce that mocks the Theater of the Absurd even as it honors that form’s peculiar rhythms and deeply weird possibilities. Fortunately for local…
Whether it’s $600 PlayStation 3s, $50 a year for the option to play your Xbox 360 online, or the five bucks Nintendo shamelessly charges for 20-year-old NES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console, devoted gamers have gotten used to assuming the position when it comes to the costs attached to…
Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen editions with poor pictures and virtually no special features. This set makes up for them with 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut (hey, who farted?), all looking great…
The Adventures of Aquaman (Warner Bros.) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One (Paramount) Battleship Potemkin (Kino) Breathless: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Commune (First Run) The Company (Sony) Fantastic Planet (Accent Cinema) Home of the Brave (MGM) Hostel: Director’s Cut (Sony) Hostel: Part II (Sony) Into Great Silence (Zeitgeist)…
Mono — bad. You don’t want to catch it, and you certainly don’t wanna listen to it. So head on over to Casa Blanca for the ((stereo)) Halloween Funk, Soul, and Reggae Fest featuring vinyl-shredding by DJs Legacy, Cypriano, and Gabo. Sun., Oct. 28, 9 p.m., 2007…
The thought of punks wielding clubs sounds vaguely unsettling, but it should be more like comic relief at the AZPunk Golf Tournament. The self-fundraiser for AZPunk.com is a nine-hole competition in which, says AZPunk’s Micah Elliott, “we can drink on the course, plus maybe get our fat, pasty-skinned punk asses…
It’s not terribly surprising that 95 percent of the Phoenix hipster population wants to move to Portland. In the great Oregon city, you can still smoke inside the bars, plus it’s chock-full of mom-and-pop businesses, good-looking twentysomethings, and a music scene crazy enough to spawn a traveling Gypsy-marching-band-sideshow-circus-extravaganza like the…
