In an urban landscape dominated by billboards, fast food signs, and other uninspiring fare, it’s nice to stumble on a nice work of public art now and then. Public art reminds us that there’s more to life than logos and taglines. And the Valley just happens to be one of…
Superhero fans may not know stunt coordinator Philip J Silvera’s name, but they do know his work. Silvera’s choreography turned heads in such recent comic-book adaptations as the Arkham Knight and Arkham Origins Batman video games, the record-breaking Deadpool film and Netflix’s Daredevil. Silvera’s imaginative, brutal work on Daredevil’s first…
Each week, we’re recapping the first season of Fuller House, episode by episode. Time to make some volcanos erupt. Up until this point, our main grievance with Fuller House has been the preemptively desperate cameos of the Elder Tanners. This was most notable in the last episode, when Joey traveled…
Sometimes in fantasy novels, less is more. Sure, there’s nothing like getting lost in a series of 10 or 20 books filled with magic and wonder. But it’s also nice not devoting the better part of a year to finishing them. Which makes Brian Staveley’s “Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne”…
Nail art may be today’s mosaic, and nail artists the new impressionists. We may be a tad dramatic, but just take a look at nail artist Sarah Waite of Chalkboard Nails. Go there now; we’ll give you a minute. Impressive, we know. Years ago, Waite was browsing the Internet at…
New Times picks the best events and things to do in metro Phoenix from April 1 through 3. “Alley Art” The First Friday art scene has a habit of overflowing from galleries to doorsteps and stoops, and eventually into streets and vacant lots. Now a new monthly show, “Alley Art,” has…
Known for describing his stand-up comedy as “a puppet show, but way filthier and without the puppets,” Ari Shaffir isn’t afraid to bluntly offend any sensitive people who accidentally wandered into his performance. After pursuing comedy for almost two decades, the New York native and longtime LA resident finally managed…
Fellow nerds, let us begin by saying: We know your pain. We know you must be going through a lot right now. The release of Batman v Superman has been hard on all of us. We can only accept the fate we’ve been given and move on. Should you need…
Some big changes are in store for Phoenix Comicon’s annual Fan Fest, which might come as good news to many local geeks. Plans are in the works to move the event – a smaller and more family-friendly spin-off of Phoenix Comicon that takes place in December at University of Phoenix…
You’re well ahead of the curve if you made the gallery rounds during Art Detour, which featured several exhibitions that will still be up for April’s First Friday – including the Fortoul Brothers show at their 40Owls Pop-Up Gallery. Several additional shows continue this week – including exhibitions of works by…
Turns out, you don’t have to be an architect or urban planner to have a say in how your city looks or functions. During Phoenix Urban Design Week from March 31 to April 7, you can be part of brainstorming a temporary art installation in Roosevelt Row. And that’s just one of…
You’ve probably noticed the flowers blooming a little brighter and the birds singing a little louder. The cool breeze is coming through the window, and there’s the slight urge to roll up your window at a stoplight upon hearing the music coming from the car next to you. Spring’s here…
I am listening to my Patty Duke records. I have everything she ever recorded for United Artists Records: Seven albums and six singles, all from the mid- and late 1960s, each groove a testament to the fact that this talented actress, who died yesterday at age 69, just plain couldn’t…
Some free advice: If you ever find yourself defensively reminding people that you’re not in a cult, you’re probably in a cult. This comes up early and often in The Path, Hulu’s new series premiering on March 30th, not that any adherents of the fictional Meyerist Movement seem fazed by…
The main attraction in the engaging, largely predictable chess drama The Dark Horse is the gripping lead performance by Cliff Curtis, a part-Maori actor from New Zealand who has spent more than two decades doing notable character parts in big films. You’ll likely recognize his face: His look suggests, at…
If you still haven’t recovered from the end of Mad Men, you’re in luck. Starting April 1, Modern Phoenix Week returns to the Valley for its 10th consecutive year. This 10-day festival of all things Midcentury Modern features films, lectures, previews of renovated properties, architectural wonders, a marketplace replete with mod…
Thirty-three large tear-shaped drops made from off-white paper file folders hang suspended at eye level inside a pop-up gallery space in central Phoenix. They’re part of the latest local exhibition by Isaac and Gabriel Fortoul, ages 36 and 39 respectively, who operate a nomadic gallery called 40Owls. Using the name Fortoul…
After three years of fundraising and community input, construction is scheduled to begin on the former Phoenix Indian School music building at Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix. The building, which has fallen into disuse, will become the site of a new Indian Center. The improvements and future center…
Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high-school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab bag of ideas, ruminations, and loose ends held…
The musician biopic might be stale and stupid as a genre, but it will endure. Each new one offers the possibility of the wondrous thing that made Hollywood into Hollywood: presence. You can guess from the trailers that I Saw the Light might be a botch job as drama, but…
Lord of the Rings fans of Arizona, prepare thyselves: the actor who played one of the most famed hobbits of Middle Earth will be making a trek to the Valley in June. And he’s eager to meet you. Actor Sean Astin, who starred as Samwise Gamgee in the LOTR cinematic…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from March 28 to 31. Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage It was never just the allure of traveling through space, fist-fighting ugly aliens, and having sex with green women. It wasn’t just Kirk or Picard or Worf or even Seven-of-Nine…
