Happy November, movie lovers. It’s going to be a busy month for you full of intense dramas, artsy thrillers, and riveting documentaries. Don’t get overwhelmed, though. Despite the rapidly approaching Oscar season rush of films, we have five movies that you can’t miss this month — including one for the…
A photo posted by @pithandmarrow on Sep 9, 2014 at 3:54pm PDTThough stores are already hawking holiday doodads, we have a few suggestions for how to spend your post-Halloween week that don’t involve red and green decorations. Make that five. A floral how-to, a special appearance by David Sedaris, and a…
Living anywhere comes with a set of annoyances that can drive people crazy, and life in Phoenix is no exception. Below, find the top 10 things in Phoenix that drive people nuts:…
In September, Phoenix New Times celebrated the cream of the crop with our 36th annual Best of Phoenix edition. Here are our top picks for vintage and antique shopping in metro Phoenix. Best Place to Buy Vintage Clothing: Vintage by Misty When Misty Guerriero-Navon announced plans to move her vintage…
What is the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? Well, the comedian has been up to a whole lot of something lately, recently joining Facebook, making his first Instagram post, and finishing up the fifth season of his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which debuts on November 6. And today,…
UPDATE: Monti’s is closing November 17. A Kimpton Hotel is coming to downtown Tempe, according to a report from Phoenix Business Journal. The 16-story, 247-room hotel will join the Hayden House (home to Monti’s) at the southwest corner of Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway. It will be part of…
When the curtain opens on Ballet Arizona’s Swan Lake, the audience is transported to a world reminiscent of Grimm’s fairy tales. Layers of elaborate trees, looking like a cross between delicate ink drawings and woodcuts used to illustrate storybooks long ago, line each side of the stage. Scenic design by…
If there’s one crucial thing that’s missing from the art scene in Phoenix, it’s dialogue. That’s precisely why Dana Buhl, photographic artist and curatorial coordinator at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, opened her own space, The Table. Existing in between an exhibition and a critique, The Table functions through fostering…
Keanu Reeves in John WickOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). We also scoop out some time for John Wick, which helps restore our faith in violent movies, Horns, Nightcrawler…
Halloweekend is in full swing, with haunted houses and parties galore. Here are five more things to add to your spooky to-do list. Gotham City Halloween Though it’s been met with mixed reviews, we’ve got to say that we are pretty taken with Fox’s Gotham. While the comic book-inspired drama…
Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni wants to talk about race in America — and she’s got an idea of where she wants to start. The writer-actor-director-producer extraordinaire will bring her one-woman show, One Drop of Love, to Mesa Arts Center on Saturday, November 1. Inspired by her own experiences with race, family,…
Guys, it happens to the best of us. Sometimes you’re really into a chick, and she’s only interested in you as a friend. Hopefully, she’s forward enough to tell you that directly, but that’s not always the case. If you’re wondering whether you’ve been friend-zoned or not, you probably have…
Attention Valley shoppers, one of your favorite spots for recycled retail is relocating to be closer to the downtown scene. The Phoenix Buffalo Exchange is packing up its vintage suitcases and moving down Seventh Street from Missouri Road to Osborn Road, where it will open in a newly renovated space…
Note: All events take place on Friday, October 31, unless otherwise specified. SPECIAL EVENTS Alwun House 1204 E. Roosevelt St. www.alwunhouse.org As if you wouldn’t have guessed by the enormous, creepy-looking daddy longlegs spider perched in the front yard, Halloween is sort of a big deal at the Alwun House…
With the first two documentaries in her post–9-11 trilogy — My Country, My Country, a portrait of Iraq under American occupation, and The Oath, which focused on two Guantánamo Bay prisoners — Laura Poitras seemed to be making a bid for the title of film’s most vigilant observer of American…
This essay contains a spoiler or two for John Wick. There’s too much violence in movies today — too much of the wrong kind, though if you asked me what the “right” kind is, I would only be able to tell you that I know it when I see it…
When we first meet the title character in Olive Kitteridge, she considers the revolver in her hands and looks up at the cloudless sky above the woods one last time. The 25-year journey (and the accumulation of mistakes and bad luck therein) that leads the elderly Olive to that moment…
There’s so much space in Christopher Nolan’s nearly three-hour intergalactic extravaganza Interstellar that there’s almost no room for people. This is a gigantosaurus movie entertainment, set partly in outer space and partly in a futuristic dustbowl America where humans are in danger of dying out, and Nolan — who co-wrote…
Imagine if nerdy Clark Kent didn’t have to remove his glasses and pocket protector to save the world. Then imagine him as fat and sweet as a marshmallow. Meet Big Hero 6’s Baymax, Disney’s new cuddly champion: a waddling, inflatable healthcare companion who can sense your pulse, diagnose disease, and,…
It’s an unwritten rule that we’re supposed to feel most in step with people our own age, as if sharing the same cultural and historical references somehow enables our ability to look into each other’s hearts. So why do we sometimes tumble into deeper friendships with people who are 10…
Put on your most ghoulish Halloween costume, strap on a helmet, and get on your bike, because the Life After Death Race is hitting the mean streets of downtown Phoenix and pitting racers against each other for the glory of a race win.The second annual solo scavenger hunt and alley…
Youth, excitement, athleticism — these aren’t words that spring to mind when describing the San Antonio Spurs. Think more along the lines of methodical, precise, andselfless. But youth and athleticism sum up the current Phoenix Suns squad quite pithily.For Suns fans, the past decade has been a bitter dance with…
