While it’s not our cup of tea, we acknowledge the fact that many beauty-conscious individuals pay good money for services like vajazzling, colonics, and anal bleaching. But when we heard about the newest beauty craze (emphasis on craze) to hit the holistic spas — well, our eyes weren’t the only…
To paraphrase the Bee Gees, Joseph Gordon-Levitt should be dancing. He’s already done it in (500) Days of Summer, where he led an exuberant ensemble routine that out-Dr Peppered any Dr Pepper commercial. Then there was his smashing Saturday Night Live re-creation of Donald O’Connor’s “Make ‘Em Laugh” — like…
With so many violent movies and lurid movies and straight-up bad movies — most just so much murderous product — it’s rare anymore to be seized by that feeling, as a film plays, that maybe there’s a reason for this particular violent or lurid or bad movie to exist. They…
Isaiah Washington didn’t want to play John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway Sniper who triggered three weeks of terror in 2002. The man — make that murderer — felt too familiar. Like Washington, Muhammad was a veteran and a father of three. Both were analytical, observant, and quick to vent their…
When a relatively young actor dies suddenly, as James Gandolfini did in June, it’s tempting to wonder about the roles he’ll never get to play. When we didn’t know we’d be losing him so soon, it was always fun to see Gandolfini show up, a casual surprise: In 2012 alone…
The last time Metallica made a documentary, they let the cameras into their therapy sessions, their private lives, their struggles with their families. It wasn’t good for their image, but it made for a compelling film. This time they reverse tactics. In Metallica: Through the Never, the most immersive concert…
Kids are assholes, or at least cartoons think so. Animation has inked a grand tradition of cruelty, from Wile E. Coyote’s countless failed firebombings to modern-day kiddy cash-grabs where the most common punchline is a fall or a fart. Can’t we all just get along? In Cody Cameron and Kris…
Mild spoilers up to The Bridge’s ninth episode below. Artisanal murders are all the rage these days. On Showtime’s Dexter, NBC’s Hannibal, and Fox’s The Following, small-batch, labor-intensive, sold-with-a-story slaughters have become TV’s equivalent of the Cronut. Handsome, intelligent, and mannered as court eunuchs, serial killers have become the new…
Drag yourself away from your latest A Beautiful Mess-inspired DIY project. It’s time for an artistic take on the world of crafting. During the three-day FlashBackForward: Rethinking Craft Symposium, you’ll gain insight into the point at which craft and art intersect. The symposium begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 26,…
There was much that merited disappointment during the second half of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 2013 season, but one of the biggest disappointments for D-Backs fans has been the atmosphere at home games. Arizona’s collapse seemed to suck the life — and the fun — out of Chase Field. Say what…
With the lingering instability that comes from being an NHL-owned team now behind them, the Phoenix Coyotes are undoubtedly enjoying putting their ownership woes to rest and settling in for a while. That chilling sense that at any moment the Zamboni might be shipped off to a new town had…
Kathy Griffin might be our favorite person. Between her celebrity trash talking, being BFFs with Anderson Cooper, and her readiness to skewer her own life by poking fun at her abundance of butt sweat, badass wino mom Maggie “Tip It!” Griffin, and romantic woes we’re pretty sure that we could…
Modern horror movies, between gratuitous gore and vanishing boundaries, don’t have room for the campiness that made B-movies fun. Recapture the magic with the 25th anniversary screening of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Saturday, September 28.While Cassandra Peterson’s gothed up cleavage might have caught eyes first, it was her tongue-in-cheek…
In spring, swallows return to Capistrano. While we support swallowing in general, autumn reappearances are often even better — like The [sic] Sense Sketch Comedy Troupe, our fave performance group with a Latin editorial comment in its name. Formerly on Grand Avenue, the Siccies hit the comeback trail with Revenge…
If anyone has an argument against a beer celebration, too late: Oktoberfest is here. The traditionally German event celebrates the fall harvest — beer specifically — with a 16-day festival honoring this fine beverage. In the United States, the celebrations are shorter-lived, but no less a good time. The Fountain…
In this arid desert climate it’s not exactly easy to make things grow. But on the upside, that forces us to appreciate the things we can coax out of the soil, like chiles. The little peppers are great agricultural ambassadors for our region, with a wide variety of flavors and…
Some things you probably don’t know about Steve-O, the guy from Jackass: His real name is Stephen Glover, he’s fluent in three languages, and after spending a year at the University of Miami, he went to actual, factual lown college. Some things you probably do know: For more than 13…
Leave it to Steam Crow’s Daniel and Dawna Davis to bring us a much needed alternative to the commercial Halloween monotony. The indie artist duo that eats, sleeps, and breathes Halloween (and possibly candy corn) has taken charge yet again in the hunt for handmade, artisan, and retro-style tricks and…
It may sound like an episode of Orange is the New Black, but for one week a Colombian jail transformed itself, complete with evening dresses and makeup, to host the Miss Penitentiary Crown.Captive Beauty, playing at the Phoenix Art Museum for a one-time-only showing this Sunday, chronicles the lives of…
Herberger Lunch Time Theater’s 2013-14 opener is M Is for Marriage, a lively collection of courtship and coupling scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare. It’s part of a series called Alphabet Shakespeare, which has included Q Is for Queen and, if we’re lucky, will eventually bring us D Is…
For true adrenaline junkies Halloween is much more than just cutely carved pumpkins, trick-or-treaters, and adults in slutty costumes. To get the blood pumping these brave souls venture out into the Valley’s most terrifying attractions including the nightmare-fueled necessity that is Chambers of Fear.Coincidentally located in Surprise, this maze of…
We love Halloween. So much so that we do our best to drag that holiday out as long as possible, starting with the pumpkin. Rather than toss some mediocre store bought gourd into our grocery cart, we prefer to make a day of it.At Tolmachoff Farms not only will pumpkin…
