Editor’s Note: Since the publishing of this story, Carrie Marill would like to add that she and a group of volunteers will be repainting the mural tonight during First Friday. If you make it out to First Friday tonight, you might notice a missing mural. Under the white paint on…
As suggested by its title, Rinse & Repeat, a show curated by Becky Nahom on view at Bragg’s Pie Factory, makes the audience want to return to each of the artworks on display again and again. Nahom, an Arizona native and ASU transfer who began her art training at New…
When we last put the spotlight on 100 creative forces in Phoenix, it was no secret there were more than 100 individuals who were making waves in the local arts community. So in celebration of our Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome (back) to 100 Creatives. Eddie Sparr describes himself…
If the Xbox 360’s Kinect peripheral is the first step towards holodecks, Curtis Smith’s NBA Baller Beats is its first spectator sport. We all have a soft spot in our hearts for Guitar Hero and ironically 100 percenting Freebird, but it’s rare that a rhythm game teaches players a real…
New, temporary signs have gone up at Camelback Mountain to warn people about the danger of bees following the death on Monday of a 19-year-old hiker. Signs on sandwich boards were placed at the trail head of Echo Canyon trail, and also along the trail on the north end of…
If you missed one of Scottsdale’s public meetings last week that gave community members an opportunity to weigh in on future public art projects, you now have until November 9 to toss in your five cents. Two main projects in the works by Scottsdale Public Art are the Scottsdale Road…
Well, mother-stachers, it’s officially Movember. Toss out your razors, trimmers, and any excuse for facial grooming. For the next 30 days, that patchy, scraggly lip fringe is free to grow, catch crumbs, and (in all likelihood) repel ladies. However, face fuzz isn’t automatically unsexy. So, we figured we’d assist you…
Mallets and forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social and Croquet Tournament on Saturday, November 3, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. Chow Bella’s profiling the all-star line up of pie-makers, and from now til Pie Social, we’ll…
Local painter Lee Berger doesn’t want his work to be pigeonholed. It’s why the 44-year-old art scene veteran has attempted to change up with his visual style multiple times since first becoming an artist in 1992. Within the past two decades he’s gone from creating simple-looking charcoal nudes to incredibly…
The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can only embarrass a fine character study like Flight, whose prevailing tone is a heavy, elemental melancholy. The mood is there from the opening pan across the Orlando airport under gray,…
When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there’s nothing left to cut — and nowhere to go but up? Detropia, the evocative new documentary from filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), is a portrait of a…
It’s hard out there for a video game villain: always being attacked, never given the benefit of the doubt, and forever pigeonholed into a role no one wants to see you escape. Such is the fate of Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly), the bad guy in an old-school arcade game…
Attention, Eon Productions, Daniel Craig, and Heineken: James Bond is not a beer drinker! Sure, I know. Getting all worked up about the new James Bond installment is like freaking out about a new Tim Burton movie — past glories don’t justify contemporary relevance. The year 2012 marks 50 years…
Sean Baker’s Starlet stars Dree Hemingway (Ernest’s great-granddaughter) as Jane, a 21-year-old “girl next door” porn performer whose off-hours are spent getting high in the Valley house she shares with fellow “starlet” Melissa (Stella Maeve) and Melissa’s small-time impresario boyfriend (James Ransone). The story in the movie is the stuff…
The Phoenix Suns are missing a lot this season. Without Steve Nash, the Suns don’t have a proven playmaker. Without Grant Hill, the Suns don’t have a defensive leader. And without a highly-touted rookie, the Suns don’t have much to keep fans excited. Just about the only thing the Suns…
Halloween is over, but if you’re still looking for chills and thrills, you might head over to Biltmore Fashion Park. The posh-leaning shopping center might not seem like the spot for suspense-seekers, but its weekly Movies in the Park features Rear Window, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best, on Friday, November…
The amount of native Phoenicians who have never seen the Grand Canyon is astonishing, but it doesn’t rival the number of folks who live downtown and know very little about their hood’s history. Marilyn Monroe isn’t just immortalized through a mural on Indian School Road, she also walked past the…
Hustle and bustle often leaves us looking forward to our imminent needs and desires. We rarely find time to stop and reflect on how we’ve made it to this point or those responsible for getting us here. Most of us have in our hearts a special collective of important figures…
Okay, Hallmark…we get it. You too, Walgreens. Now that Halloween is in the history books, you titans of the Christmas industry are trying to turn the page and drag us into the land of Santa. But before exchanging monsters for mistletoe, we want one last blast of adrenaline, the kind…
Grab a fork and save some extra room. On Saturday, November 3, you’ll need both for an extra dose of pie. Roosevelt Row and New Times’ food blog Chow Bella are teaming up again for the annual Pie Social. They’ve invited a star-studded cast of celebrity chefs including Brady Breese…
Comedians don’t really tell jokes these days. What’s popular now, apparently, is getting the audience going with funny tales from your own life. To be a good comedian today, you don’t actually have to be funny at all. You just have to be a good storyteller — and there are…
Ever heard of synesthesia? It’s a neurological condition in which criss-crossed neurons enhance and combine your senses. Every person with synesthesia experiences it differently, but most hear, taste, or feel in color. Participating in Color Me Rad is like living a day as a synesthete. It’s five kilometers of running…
