Between professional athletes, business moguls, and international investors, the metro Phoenix area has its fair share of homes that cater to the one percent. And whether you yourself enjoy the finer things in life or like the rest of us, simply have to ogle them from a distance, here is…
Looks like it’s going to be a treat-yo-self kind of weekend for Aziz Ansari. The celebrity stand-up comic known widely for his role as Tom Haverford on NBC’s Parks and Recreation just received a rumored $3.5 million advance from Penguin Press for his very first book deal…
It could be said that Phoenix creatives had a super-secret meetup in Santa Fe this past weekend. Except, most everything they did was publicized in advance. Were you paying attention? Yep, Phoenix movers and shakers took the Santa Fe Indian Market by storm. Here’s a recap of some of what…
If you’re sick of the typical political debate about sequester this and debt ceiling that, join ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination, along with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, for a showing of AMC’s hit zombie series The Walking Dead on Thursday, August 29, in Tempe. Part…
Look. We know plenty of people want to claim Aidy Bryant as their own. She lives in New York. She made a name for herself in Chicago. But we Phoenicians really should have first dibs on the Saturday Night Live performer. A few reasons: Her fam lives here (her mom…
Good news, eccentric shoppers — the unnecessary and seemingly satiric items you find in SkyMall magazine are no longer limited to your travels up above. Jackalope Ranch’s newest online shopping destination Bermuda Triangle is the Japan Trend Shop. Offering everything from beauty gadgets and lifestyle items to fashion and food…
Since it’s called Austenland, and since it’s a romantic comedy, you probably expect it to open with “It’s a truth universally acknowledged” and to wrap with one lovesick sap madly dashing after another, right up to an airport’s departure gates, even though both presumably have cell phones and could just…
In David Lowery’s sublime new film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck), who’s serving 25 to life for armed robbery and wounding a cop during a shootout, frequently puts pencil to parchment and writes love letters to his girlfriend, Ruth (Rooney Mara). Bob’s aching, lovelorn voice can be…
The laddish pleasures of The World’s End, Edgar Wright’s comedy about a group of middle-aged guys drinking beer and facing mortality, come with a bittersweet edge. In the old days, the lead character, Gary King, used to be the coolest kid in school, at least in the outlaw sense: He’d…
No human has left near-Earth orbit since 1972, we’re reminded in Europa Report, a smartly marketed space-horror quickie that purports to be the one-giant-leap for found-footage scares — and also maybe Serious Space-Travel Movies themselves, which have failed to soar past our atmosphere almost as long as NASA has. To…
On September 17, 2011, 1,000 protesters set up tents in Manhattan’s financial district and dubbed themselves Occupy Wall Street. Four days later, Lionsgate purchased You’re Next — a home-invasion slasher that slices up a family of useless 1 percenters — and should have released it immediately. Instead, the studio sat…
Hong Kong genre film volcano Johnnie To rocks crime thrillers like it was still 1999, and in so many ways that’s a blessing — the pulpy textures of the HK gangster-policier are evergreen, and To always focuses his down-to-earth Sino-neo-noirs more on classical story beats rather than outrageous sensation. (In…
An average episode of the 1989-1999 cable show Mystery Science Theater 3000, in which a man and his robot buddies heckle bad movies, runs about 90 minutes. The 1955 film This Island Earth is 87 minutes. The 1996 feature Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, in which the man and…
Since being founded in 2000, design collective MK12 has been producing cutting-edge title sequence design, game cinematics, music videos, and more in both the commercial and artistic arenas. Their work has won awards including Best Experimental Film at the Miami Short Film Festival and Most Innovative Short Film at the…
Anyone who has recent memories of Arizona State University’s iconic Manzanita Hall knows that the place was in desperate need of some love. The dorm rooms hadn’t changed much, since they were opened to students in 1967. Before the residential hall was closed almost three years ago, the dorm rooms…
When three ASU art professors get together to put on an exhibition of their own work, you can expect some high quality art. And probably some shenanigans to go with it. This month, Phoenix art veterans Henry Schoebel, Anthony Pessler, and John Obuck are hosting an exhibition of new work…
We don’t know how up y’all are on lowbrow culture, but professional wrestling sort of a big deal in Phoenix. Locals can’t seem to get enough of this rope opera, which explains why there are at least three different indie federations operating in town and the glitzy grapplers of World…
If a picture is a worth a thousand words, a new trend of Tumblr selfies is certainly speaking volumes. Hispters, book snobs, and all genres of literary narcissists are putting their self-portraits to scholarly use in the new photo blog, bookshelfies…
The college crowd is typically flush with cash at the start of the school year, often because of overly generous parents or one of those soon-to-be-regretted student loans. But trust us, the money doesn’t last. Your bank account may seem loaded in late August, but things will get scarce by…
Holding a bake sale to fund an art gallery is either ridiculous or inspired. The five NAU art students who did it mostly remember it as embarrassing. Oil painters Devin Kelly, Patrick Keig, Sumer Khan, Andrea Newman, and Jeff Urdang had been sharing studio space while working on their undergrad…
Chances are you’ve seen Maddie on something. Be it balancing on a bicycle in Michigan or a basketball hoop in Iowa. Stretched out between two staircase railings in Pennsylvania or posing inside a giant watermelon in Mississippi. Driving a tractor in North Dakota or curled up inside a barbecue at…
Now that we’ve given away all our shopping secrets to ASU Tempe’s freshest folks, it’s time their downtown campus counterparts got in on the retail therapy. Whether you need a break from the books or you’re plumb out of clean shirts, the seven best shops near ASU’s Phoenix campus await…
