Dear tired individuals who can sleep during turbulence, through a thunderstorm, and/or well past your alarm clocks, NASA would like to talk to you. Unlike most employers who frown upon your late-for-work and on-the-job snooze regime, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is shelling out cash to civilians who carry…
Best of Phoenix hits newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
Home ownership is a big step. Made even bigger by the fact that you have to wade through an online shitpile of vague, misleading, and too often disappointing in-person pads before finding the right one. But if there’s one silver lining to your real estate woes, it’s knowing that others…
Best of Phoenix hits newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
If you happened to be one of the record breaking 6.4 million viewers that watched Breaking Bad last Sunday, chances are you tossed and turned your way into a disheveled state by Monday morning. Between the unforeseen plot twists, heart-stopping cliff hangers, and the looming fact that the story of…
Best of Phoenix hits newsstands Sept. 26. In conjunction with this year’s Vintage Phoenix theme, New Times is collaborating with R. Pela Contemporary Art to present “Hot Plate!” It’s an exhibition of one-of-a-kind, Phoenix-inspired commemorative plates made by local artists. Leading up to the show’s Oct. 4 opening, we’re profiling…
Put on your frowny face and pack up the Benedryl, Grumpy Cat is going on a book tour. Yes, between interview appearances, generating new content for memes, and rumors of a live action movie deal, the famous scowler, otherwise known as Tardar Sauce, is setting aside time to give fans…
October 13 at W Hotel in Scottsdale won’t just be a typical Sunday night. It will be a chance for Arizona to get to know Ben Mollin and the most talented salon teams in Arizona, who will bring out all the stops during Hair Wars the Supreme Salon Tour. Lucky…
Whether you believed The Office was over as soon as Michael “World’s Best Boss” Scott made his season-seven departure or you felt inclined to stick it out and stay tuned until the lackluster series finale two years later, fans of NBC’s Emmy-awarding show can all agree we had some good…
Adios, Arizona summer. Fall brings with it a slew of fun things. In case you’ve forgotten what the Copper State has to offer, thanks to spending the last few months cooped up in air-conditioned bliss, here are a few of our favorite things to get you up and at ’em…
Reach for the sky, Scottsdale. The town of Cave Creek wants to challenge you to a showdown. Long before Old Town Scottsdale spawned a reputation for high end shopping, dining, and douchebags, it was given the title of “The West’s Most Western Town.” And little did any of us know,…
The countdown to New Times’ 35th Annual Best of Phoenix is on, but it’s not too late to make your voice heard in our annual Best of Phoenix Readers’ Poll. Submit your top picks for the best Valley arts, shopping, and more and get entered to win free burgers for…
Attention yogis and yoginis: September is National Yoga Month, and we’ve rounded up some of the Valley’s yoga studio specials and events for you in one nice, little package. Wanna flow under the moon, downward dog under the sun, warrior in the dark with glow bracelets under blacklights, learn how…
Nowadays it seems like there’s a fine line between high-brow pornography and quality cable programming. While the more professional adult videos cost money and contain graphic sex scenes, explicit language, and hard-to-believe plot lines, cable networks like HBO offer, well, all of those exact same things. Seriously people, have you…
Tonight New Times hosts the finale of its three-party summer series to help you beat the last of the summer heat. Head to Maya Day & Night Club in Scottsdale for Odds & Ends from 7 to 10 p.m. This fashion-centric event will offer you the chance to browse the…
Local writer and director Nathan Blackwell is gearing up to show the anticipated finale to season two of his sci-fi comedy web series Voyage Trekkers at FilmBar this month. If you haven’t watched the series, its episodes (each less than 10 minutes) are easy to binge on in an afternoon…
Get ready, Great Britain. A trio of teenagers from Arizona are coming to save you with a very particular set of skills; skills they have acquired by practicing karate and studying the bible…
For folks who are big into ghosts and goblins, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year. And it never seems to get here fast enough. If you’re one of those types who can’t wait to get your scare on, the good news is that the spooky staff at two…
They say you can’t put a price on higher education, but that’s not stopping lady Sun Devils from trading in their transcripts for some tantalizing photos on www.seekingarrangements.com. The online sugar-daddy site recently conducted a survey based on its growing number of female ASU student users — and apparently, there’s…
If you’ve been watching the final season of Breaking Breaking, chances are you’ve lost more sleep than you’re willing to admit speculating on how the epic drama will end. Since the return of the final eight episodes, theories about the series finale have been running wild, involving everything from Walt…
Whether you think going green is the way of the future or the way of the left-wing tree hugger, Professor Peter Byck of ASU’s School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication invites you watch a free screening of a documentary that addresses where your carbon…
Good news, ladies: For those assertive sex kittens who have long since given up on finding Prince Charming and would rather make their fame the Kardshian way, porn star James Deen (known among more mainstream audiences for his “performance” with Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons) is now offering the chance…
