If you’re still not ready to trade in the holiday ho-ho-hos for a 9-to-five time card, there’s the tiniest beam of light left at the near-end of the holly-jolly tunnel. Head to downtown Glendale for the city’s Glitter & Glow Block Party Saturday, January 12, starting at 4 p.m. The…
Our friend’s young son asked if he could help blow up the balloons at the fourth annual Cave Creek Balloon Festival at Rancho Mañana Golf Club’s driving range. Well, we explained, it takes a lot of hot air to get the giant, colorful balloons – one of which is a…
Last year was a bittersweet one for Ryan Villopoto. On one hand, the 24-year-old supercross star captured his second consecutive AMA Supercross title and had the most dominating season in the history of the sport. On the other hand, Villopoto’s dream season ended with him shredding his ACL, the second…
Bemoaning the state of the Disney princess is about as convincing as pretending you didn’t love Tangled — i.e., you are full of it, pal. We can’t blame you, though. Dorks that we are, we happily watched the Rapunzel retake, as well as The Princess and the Frog. While we…
Astrologers, that notoriously meticulous and scientific group, are running about 2-1 in favor of concluding that the Age of Aquarius did begin in the 20th century. (The rest are still waiting for the 24th century, when none of us will still be here to prove them “wrong.”) But what you…
Once a year the number of food trucks in Phoenix swells as nearly three dozen mobile eateries from across the Southwest gather for the Street Eats Food Truck Festival at Salt River Fields, 7555 North Pima Road in Scottsdale. In addition to a mob of mobile eateries, the festival brings…
As the clock struck midnight this past New Year’s Eve, you became older. All right, technically you’re always getting older. But when your birthday swings around in 2013, you’ll be some ungodly age you probably won’t want to reveal. And do you feel like an adult yet? You know, a…
As of this writing, the Phoenix Suns’ record is pretty abysmal — they’ve lost almost twice as many games as they’ve won. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Look a little closer and you’ll see that the Suns are among the league’s leaders in close games and overtime…
Too often discussions of history revolve around the prettiest, richest, and Frenchest. Case in point: Marie Antoinette gets a helluva lot more airtime than Catherine the Great. Never mind that Antoinette totally sucked at queening, and German-born Russian Empress Catherine had drama (and successes) aplenty. Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom…
We love our cars in Phoenix. With the spread of the land we occupy, how could we not? Miles upon miles are covered with various modes of transportation that represent our personalities, lifestyles, and a way to get from point A to B. History and innovation have spawned thousands of…
Alfred Hitchcock did one sort of thing when he made a movie based on John Buchan’s 1915 spy novel, The 39 Steps. The 1935 film became an indelible classic action-mystery and, therefore, ripe for parody. So Patrick Barlow did a very different sort of thing when he created his Olivier-…
Nearly Naked Theatre’s been around. Though we expect the company to spotlight the new and provocative, some of the plays it presented as a wee baby troupe remain as disturbing as they were initially. One such, Equus, Peter Shaffer’s troubling drama of violence, madness, and passion, returns through Saturday, February…
Carolyn Lavender, Monica Aissa Martinez, and Mary Shindell are no strangers to collaborating with one another. The three artists are all staples in the Phoenix arts community. While their individual styles and media are very different, the imagery they’ve created for their latest three-woman show, “Creature – Man – Nature,”…
Absentmindedly leaving your wallet at home is common enough, but heading outdoors without pants? If you’re down with this year’s No Pants Light Rail Ride Sunday, January 13, that’s your story and you’re sticking to it. The skivvy-centric mass transit tradition is in its fifth year, thanks to the efforts…
Cue up Chopin’s infamous funeral march because it looks like Monsterland in Mesa is headed for the grave. The proprietors of the East Valley attraction (which functioned as a haunted house, restaurant, bar, and nightclub) announced on both Facebook and Twitter earlier today that it will close on January 19…
If you’ve been wondering if and when this year’s Phoenix Idiotarod will be taking place, the organizers of the annual shopping cart race have ended the suspense. Members of the Arizona Cacophony Society, the mischievous urban prankster collective that puts on the annual event, announced last night that the 2013…
This weekend, SRP, in collaboration with Scottsdale Public Art, is offering the public a glimpse of a rare event that isn’t slated to occur again for another seven years: fish herding. The fish are white amur — a species of carp placed in the canals to keep the waters clean…
If you have 8 years to spare and would like to be one of the four lucky guinea pigs Dutch non-profit Mars One sends to the Red Planet, it’s time to hop in line. Mars One announced last year that it hopes to put a team of humans on Mars…
January is a dumping ground. Here lie your already failed resolutions, holiday cookie weight, and all the movies that weren’t up to December’s Oscar-bait snuff. But don’t fret. Thanks to a few theaters, museums, and Phoenix-based movie buffs, this month won’t be all lost when it comes to moviegoing. Mark…
Are you or do you know a young female mountain bike nut who’s looking for a chance of a lifetime? The good folks from the newly formed Arizona High School Cycling League along with the Sho-Air/ Cannondale pro mountain bike team are joining forces to send three high school girls…
What: This week’s find is partially inspired by Sunday’s premiere of Downton Abbey, which found our royal Crawleys celebrating a wedding and fearing the aftermath of a ruinous railroad investment. Like that episode, these earrings with their aqua stones reflect on elegance and downfall, as some of the art deco-style…
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