The setup: Part of the mission of Space 55 is to foster the development of new writers and performers (through their classes and workshops) and help artists like those share their work with audiences. Recurring free-for-alls/showcases such as the 7 Minutes . . . and A Bitch in Time series…
Members of the Arizona Preservation Foundation have been busy this year — they continue to fight for the livelihood of the David and Gladys Wright House, they lamented the demolition of the Madison Hotel in downtown Phoenix, and they’ve been focusing their efforts on identifying historic buildings throughout Arizona that…
Georgia O’Keefe was an american painter who was part of a movement that paved the way for women in the fine arts. She was known for her large-scale paintings of flowers, and while she worked mainly in Northern New Mexico, her work is currently displayed around the world (including Phoenix…
Forget the candy necklaces, glowsticks, and happy face pills — this rave is all about the crafts. Join hundreds of local creative-types on Saturday November 17 at Scottsdale Studios for the annual PHX Craft Rave — 10 hours of make-and-take madness. The event, hosted by Kathy Cano-Murillo, aka The Crafty…
All right, smarty pants, you think you’ve got a handle on all things brainy? We’ve got news for you: the Valley’s rife with all sorts of experts who dabble in arts, sciences, and everything in between. And those pros offer up their knowledge readily at lectures all over town every…
We’ve spent the last year in the laboratory putting Phoenix under the microscope to reveal hundreds of specimens of the best culture, outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer. And we’re finally ready to publish our results. Nerd alert! Now presenting Scientific Phoenix. See Also: -…
According to our estimates, the Thanksgiving weekend lasts approximately 112 hours, starting at the exact moment you leave work on Wednesday afternoon until the dreaded moment you report back to the salt mines the following Monday. Subtract the time it takes for the annual T-Day meal itself (as well as…
Every year on the weekend before Thanksgiving, my hometown of Winslow hosts a Christmas parade featuring traditions of northern Arizona cultures. With tribal princesses from Navajo chapter houses, local civic organizations, Hopi hoop dancers, and pieces of hard candy thrown to kids who watch from the curb, there has always…
Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg ably fill the hat. There’s an unfun tendency in American life to fictionalize our national heroes as rigid statue-people who only speak as though they are delivering commencement addresses with a kind of unlovable anti-charisma that would inhibit anyone in real life from becoming a…
The first few minutes of Lincoln play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg’s detractors. The Great Emancipator rests like a humble Solomon upon a hard wooden chair, surrounded by freely mixing black and white soldiers of that great war of his. One black soldier dares to…
That the American cinema is deader than Dillinger is a fact no right-thinking observer unwilling to be laughed out of the room would even think of denying today. To do the current round of think-piece writers one better, we will add that not only are the movies dead, but they…
Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper as a manic-depressive man-child attempting to get his life back together after a breakdown, won the coveted Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and subsequently shot to the top of most Oscar prognosticators’ Best Picture short list. The film’s…
Nabbing Native American imagery has gotten plenty of people in trouble. From No Doubt’s recent music video gaffe to Urban Outfitters’ “Navajo” underwear, there are posers aplenty. On the other hand, poet and writer Sherman Alexie has built his career on exploring his very real years spent on the Spokane…
Playing golf can be pretty intimidating. The high start-up costs make it tough for people to get into playing the sport, which means that when you finally try it out, you’re almost certainly terrible at it. Since golf is an individual sport, you can’t hide how much you suck the…
The short film isn’t just a fun-sized snack to whet your appetite for a feature-length meal. It can be the expertly delivered one-inch punch that’s powerful all on its own. The 2012 Filmstock Film Festival puts up its dukes to maximize the mini-movies on Thursday, November 15. Since 2009, the…
Food Network fans know Robert Irvine as the British-accented, tough-love host of Restaurant: Impossible. One horribly mismanaged eatery at a time, he’s making America a better place to dine. Now, he’s coming to the Valley, but this time the celebrity chef is bringing his theatrical, multimedia, and multi-sensory performance to…
On Friday, November 16, Valley dance aficionados will have an opportunity to see some of New York’s finest and freshest performance art when Garth Fagan Dance comes to the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street. Led by the Tony Award-winning choreographer of the Disney-inspired Broadway show…
Listen, man. We’re sick of all the whining about how everything (a.k.a. your life) turned out. We know that you rocked it on your high school football team, and if not for your grades, and your knees, and your damn coach, who just never gave you the chance to shine…
Beer pong, cornhole, hillbilly golf, and yackle ball; familiarity with any or all of these delightfully ignoble time-killers could suggest plenty about someone’s recreational preferences. But it ultimately suggests one thing, one modern and oft-besmirched compound word: tailgating. Not the pesky action that happens on the road, but the verb…
Etsy has made it easier for aspiring crafters to get their work out there — for better or worse. It begs the question: Do you really need to make and sell $40 earrings poorly modeled after The Beatles, an abstract painting of a weird tiger and Corvette hybrid, or anything…
Shakespeare’s larger-than-life characters and predicaments beg to be set as operas — grand, moving songs and gobs of spectacle. Romeo and Juliet’s a special case, though: ordinary people reacting way out of proportion to an inconsequential, everyday situation. Teenagers in love? We know better, but pull the right heartstrings and…
Midcentury Modern furniture, shrunken heads, and everything in between, that’s what shoppers will find at indie, vintage, and handmade festival The Big Heap. “Expect to find unique, unusual, intelligently designed and executed things.” event co-founder Lori Cowherd says. “This isn’t a craft, antique, or an art fair. This is a…
