Considering its namesake comes from a 17th-century Zen Buddhist linked verse, upcoming exhibition “Narrow Road to the Interior,” is designed to take museumgoers on a journey through the immaterial.Galleries host work from contemporary Japanese artists, including more than 100 photographs and instillations using raw materials like light, wood and stone…
The brightly painted flowers and daring landscapes of American modernist artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) are well known. Less-known is O’Keeffe’s fascination with katsina dolls (carved and painted portrayals of Pueblo and Hopi spirit beings, frequently called kachinas), which she studied and “interpreted” beginning with summering stints in New Mexico in…
By Jose Gonzalez Warning: Spoilers follow. This past Sunday, the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, “Granite State,” seemed to set the stage for tying up of all the loose ends from the past five years in the finale of AMC’s hit TV show. Well, almost every loose end is accounted…
The Desert Botanical Garden is celebrating 75 years this weekend with — what else — a garden party. Since opening in the late 1930s, the 140-plus acre garden has been home to more than 50,000 plant displays and is no stranger to hosting a myriad of cultural events — from…
Best of Phoenix hits newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
Hot dudes sporting cosplay gear, acrobatic “flow ninjas” leaping over fences, bookworms obsessing over Jane Austen tomes, and hipster haberdashers looking decidedly snazzy. So is this the bizarre cast of characters you’ll find starring in one of the fall television season’s newest shows? Negatory. Instead, it’s just a small sample…
Over the years New Zealand has picked up some serious bragging rights. The down under destination served as the backdrop for the highly popular Lord of the Rings trilogy and is the home of musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. Now on a roll, the island country is putting…
It’s 1976, a year when all the groovy girls are traipsing around in tiny suede skirts and all the cool guys have Badfinger hair. One of those guys was English racing driver James Hunt, the charismatic rapscallion who won that year’s Formula One World Championship — the embroidered badge on…
Twenty years ago or more, Phoenix Theatre operated a black box, where those of us who liked edgier plays and musicals could go for offbeat theater. Last week, the now 93-year-old company unveiled, as part of its multimillion-dollar renovation, a new black box space. Those of us who once laughed…
Best of Phoenix hits newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
November, shmovember. The good folks at Hotel Palomar’s Lustre Rooftop Garden are growing out the mouth brows early. And to get people feeling the facial hair-friendly season that is fall, they are holding their first-ever (and free) Moustache Competition…
Chitral Hays — not his real name — is Jackalope Ranch’s resident expert on medical marijuana in Arizona. In Perfectly Blunt, Hays delivers news, reviews, and must-know info. From time to time, I’ll review a local dispensary. First up, Nature’s AZ Medicines. Despite its location in a pretty run-down industrial…
Halloween is not what it used to be, folks. With an ever-growing number of desensitized thrill-seekers, it seems haunted houses are getting desperate to keep the terror alive. While midnight corn mazes and abandoned hospitals are safe bets on the fear front, one attraction in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, is taking…
Grumpy Cat, the most famous feline in the Valley — if not the entire Internet, made its first-ever public appearance on Sunday afternoon at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe and more than a few fans were there for the occasion. Employees at the store estimate that more than a thousand…
For those of you who missed the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news: Roastmaster General Jeffrey Ross closed out the four-hour stand-up special by thanking everyone for attending the “2013 Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival.” That subtle denotative remark…
Get out, Phoenix. Here are Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for things to do this week. Intro to Stand-Up Class @ Tempe Center for the Arts Whether you have only a tiny kernel of a funny idea that wouldn’t add up to half a tweet or you have long, entertaining stories…
Best of Phoenix hits newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
“People think everything interesting in Phoenix happened yesterday,” says author and Arizona State University Regents’ Professor David W. Foster. Foster, a professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at the university’s School of International Letters and Cultures, recently wrote Glimpses of Phoenix: The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual…
We all have that friend. You know the one: a few pints in suddenly every sentence starts with the all-condescending, “actually…” followed by some obscure nugget of knowledge most of us either never knew or would never remember. The kind of friend who makes the perfect asset to any trivia…
Dear tired individuals who can sleep during turbulence, through a thunderstorm, and/or well past your alarm clocks, NASA would like to talk to you. Unlike most employers who frown upon your late-for-work and on-the-job snooze regime, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is shelling out cash to civilians who carry…
If Bob Ross were alive today, he’d be painting happy little trees all over the place in ecstatic fervor for all the arts and culture happenings in Phoenix. To help you see the forest for the trees, here’s a recap of the top arts and culture stories of the week…
Phoenix Art Museum curator of modern and contemporary art Sara Cochran has resigned. Though a formal statement wasn’t released on the matter, the museum’s public relations manager Nicole DeLeon confirmed that Cochran submitted her resignation Thursday, September 19. Cochran has served as PAM’s modern and contemporary art curator since 2008…
