Ever wonder why straight women and gay men are natural besties? A mutually beneficial way to complain about boyfriends is a pretty big perk. Regardless of gender or sexual orientation, take two steps into any gay bar and you’re bound to meet some friendly people and make a friend (benefits…
Famously shoe-obsessed and unlucky in love, Sex and The City character Carrie Bradshaw mused that she would end up a most literal old woman who lived in her shoes, based on the whooping 40K she had spent on frilly footwear. While women of the 1920s likely didn’t have that kind…
Photographer Scott Baxter has spent the last few years visiting 100 Arizona ranchers whose families have been in the industry for 100 years or more. He’s been taking notes and large-format, black-and-white photographs while on the road (and often on the back of a horse) since 2004. Baxter has been…
Imagine how fun it would be to live in a Stray Cats music video. The retro pairings of pompadour-wearing guys and gals in poodle skirts innocently sharing a milkshake until they need to prove themselves in a hot-rod race sounds like a blast. Of course, real life is nothing like…
Ten years ago, Cirque du Soleil’s Normand Latourelle formed his own production, Cavalia, adding spirited equestrian performance to the foofy acrobat equation. This year, it’s Cavalia Odysseo, with a stage the size of 1.5 hockey rinks and an 80,000-gallon lake under a 10-story tent that has more technical capacity than…
Margaret Tafoya is often called the matriarch of the Santa Clara Pueblo potters. The late artist passed away in 2001, but her legacy lives as one of the carriers of Pueblo culture and tradition. Pueblo pottery dates back to A.D. 500 and has deep roots in New Mexico, where Tafoya’s…
Robert Putnam famously used bowling to demonstrate the decay of social interaction in the United States, observing that even though more people go bowling in the United States today than in the 1950s there are significantly fewer bowling leagues. There’s some dispute over whether Putnam was correct about Americans becoming…
The CO+HOOTS clan of local entrepreneurs announced it was moving out of its Seventh Street digs in July, and this month, the group is opening the doors to its new nest on Washington and 11th Street in downtown Phoenix. Designer and entrepreneur Jenny Poon opened the coworking space in 2010,…
To wrap up 2012 and kick off the new year, we’ve asked a group of local activists, artists, architects, and business owners to put together a Phoenix wish list for 2013. Up today: Marcelino Quiñonez. Marcelino Quiñonez is a bright light in the local performing arts community. He’s the Program…
Ah Strava, why must you tempt us so? We at Cycle are on the record of having conflicted feelings about the web-based cycling and running workout training log. It’s so easy to get addicted to improving efforts to best a personal record or gun for a top KOM ranking, yet…
Steve Wiley is Jackalope Ranch’s Parent Hood. He’s a slightly unorthodox father of five who will weigh in weekly with his mildly-rebellious views and observations. If you’d like to see how he came to write this column, watch the intro video. This week he admits to a few things he…
What: Reality, is that you? Prying us away from our cookie-induced holiday stupor? Surely, our fellow sluggards are about as ready for sugar plum-free days as we are. Which is to say: begrudgingly. Very Scrooge-y of us, we know. But this hooded duster (real talk: it’s a glorified/glorious robe) will…
Maybe 2013 Will Be Better at The Compound, 12/31/12 The local creative crowd came out in droves for the art-filled New Year’s Eve extravaganza Maybe 2013 Will Be Better, which took place on Monday, December 31, at The Compound in Tempe. The outdoor gallery and venue – which is run…
It is a new year, and for many that means time for new resolutions. Recommended resolution for this year: Do some yoga. It’s a bit easier of a “workout” routine than joining something intense like cross fit or training for a marathon, and if you’re already into intense exercising, yoga…
Continuing Manifestos, a collection of 10(ish) life lessons and rules written by local creatives and illustrated by local designers. Up today, lessons learned by attorney and the director of the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, Clint Bolick, illustrated below by Nina Miller: See also: – Jackalope Ranch’s 100…
It goes without saying that fuzz is gonna be hitting Valley streets en masse tonight, enforcing our states fearsome DUI laws (where John Q. Law states they can bust anyone impaired “to the slighest degree”) and hunting down anyone who’s idiotic enough to get behind the wheel after a couple…
PHX FMLY FEST in Downtown Phoenix Crowds bundled up to enjoy the 60 plus live bands, visual artists, and a zine exchange strewn up and down 5th Avenue between Roosevelt and Garfield for FMLY Fest on Friday, December 28…
Each week, Jackalope Ranch brings you a free event, workshop, or you-name-it happening in Phoenix. Because sometimes the best things in life really are free. This week’s freebie: First Friday Sock Hop If you’ve had enough bumping and grinding on the dance floor and find yourself reminiscent of a time…
To wrap up 2012 and kick off the new year, we’ve asked a group of local activists, artists, architects, and business owners to put together a Phoenix wish list for 2013. Up today: Jenny Poon. Jenny Poon is the fearless founder of two local startups. eeko studio, a Phoenix-based boutique…
A rather unique art event is coming to downtown Phoenix in time for February’s First Friday, and its likely to be of interest to gamers or anyone who’s ever killed an afternoon playing Ms. Pac-Man or Dragon’s Lair at a local arcade. The Artcade Show, an exhibition that will feature…
We know, the beginning of the work week sucks. But if you take a quick look at the calendar, you’ll see we’re off to a pretty good week of art events, sports games, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend… Monday, December 31:…
Looking for ways to fill up your weekend? Here are your five best bets for getting out and about in the Valley of the Sun. PHX FMLY Fest @ Fifth Street In all likelihood, you have now spent on your family every last bit of love and understanding on you…
