Okay, enough with the piddly-squat San Jose States and San Diego States. It’s time for some major-league fur to fly when the ASU Sun Devils open what looks to be a tough Pac-10 schedule with a game against the Oregon State Beavers. Pardon our pottymouth, but those East Coast “experts”…
The Rockabilly Revival conjures images of slicked-back dudes with oil-spill hairdos crankin’ out “Ring of Fahr” on sunburst hollowbodies and big-ass slap basses. According to “The Wolf,” a Valley music promoter and founder of azrockabilly.net, rockabilly is a lifestyle that connects folks to a simpler time. “It’s a romance of…
The thing about our beloved Scottsdale socialites is that they’d all rather be in Vegas. In fact, with enough booze, drugs, and scantily clad women, many of them actually believe they are. This weekend will be no exception, as Sin City nightlife guru extraordinaire DJ Shift hits the decks at…
Picasso? Pottery? Who knew? Yep, in addition to his paintings and sculptures, the King of Cubism liked to make dinner plates. His kiln of choice was France’s Madoura workshop, where he created 600-plus objets de clay from 1947 to ´71. Sixty-five are included in the “Picasso: 25 Years of Edition…
Cardiac Recovery. Cute. As some of you know, Paper Heart suffered a fiscal-angina incident late last year, and it’s celebrating its ongoing rehabilitation with a big bash featuring “donated” performances by many of its closest pals. The free multimedia event will showcase performance art, short films, comedy, poetry, burlesque, and…
Mayor Gordon may have declared last November 10 “Alwun House Day,” but for locals looking for offbeat and sometimes off-putting art, it’s been Alwun Day for decades. The folks over at Alwun House — which opened in 1971 and is now in its 36th year of unveiling works old and…
Pretend it’s 1826, you’re inside the Metropolitan Hotel in New York City, trying not to stare at all the pretty wrists and ankles, when someone orders a cocktail and Jerry “The Professor” Thomas picks up his steel tumblers, lights the ingredients on fire, and streams the contents of Blue Blaze…
We’ve been boning up on Calculus for Dummies in an effort to figure out how Coach & Willie’s is gonna cram in all of those Arizona Diamondbacks fans for its D-Backs Fan Appreciation Night bash. Then we remembered that Chase Field’s been half-empty all season — half-full if you work…
Only superjocks and mental patients go bouldering in these temps, so if you’ve got the jones to dyno, hit the climbing walls at AZ on the Rocks, Arizona’s king of the fake mountain. Public “free” climbing is available from 3 to 7 p.m., but “free,” unfortunately, does not mean, “Cool,…
We won’t spend a lot of time jawing about why Ballet Arizona’s annual Ballet Under the Stars outreach series is so crazy popular (you’re welcome). The quick and dirty: 1) it’s free; 2) it’s easily digestible, even for non-ballet fans; 3) it’s that rarely encountered beast called outdoor summer entertainment…
Will Master Chief save the world? We’re on pins and needles, man. The nigh-unendurable wait for the final episode in the Halo trilogy comes to a blessed end with the midnight release of Halo 3. Play N Trade celebrates with a Halo 3 Tournament. Tue., Sept. 25, 11:59 p.m., 2007…
If you’ve got a mustache, you can cash it in like a grocery-store coupon at Mustache Monday and keep that lip caterpillar wet and foamy all night long at happy-hour prices. If you don’t have a ‘stache, but still wanna drink on the cheap, they’ll rent you one. Mon., Sept…
We tend to frown on critical darlings, who are typically so obtuse that critics can’t understand ’em. Ipso fathead, they must be good. Take Jana Hunter — please. The “New Weird America” icon is soooooo in, and soooooo painful to the ears. It’s the rare performer who casts off the…
Once upon a time, art openings and museum shows were the domain of high-falutin’ art-school types and their pretentious wanna-be fan boys and gals. But ever since pop-surrealist painters from the lowbrow-art movement began to have their way with the fine-arts establishment, museum shows have gotten a whole lot more…
George A. Romero once said, “Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.” That sounds familiar, because if you wake up morose, stagger into the bathroom, spill the same bitter cup of coffee, and then lunge to work every day, hell, chomping your cuticles could pass as a taste for human flesh. Film…
Though NASCAR’s position in popular culture is totally solidified, the sport has never been what you’d call art-gallery material. Shawn Hardegree, who grew up in Georgia and spent hours at the racetrack with his father, is looking to change that with the sophisticated “paint what you know” techniques displayed in…
Will 24th centurians look back on what we call “new music” as the inevitable spawn of Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach, or will they see it as a radical break with the past? Either way, we’re pretty sure the works of John Cage, Steve Reich, and Harry Partch will live on,…
Boom! Madden NFL rules! Need proof? Follow the EA Sports Madden online forums — 563 pages and hundreds of thousands of posts strong. The hot topic? The EA Sports Madden NFL Challenge 2007, a 17-city game fest for PS2 and Xbox 360 players who kick ass on the startlingly realistic…
When the spotty youths of Arctic Monkeys arrived on the eager-but-fickle British music scene via a digital grassroots campaign, they were heralded as the latest incarnation of The Type of Band Brits Love to Love — i.e. of northern, working-class stock (read: Oasis, The Smiths). Their first album, Whatever People…
You’re young, you’re hip, you have a Tool bumper sticker on your truck, and you have a secret. It’s a really secret secret, ´cause if your Tool-loving friends found out, you’d be a social corpse. Truth is, you really don’t like Tool that much, and have always had this mad…
Dracula: The Musical?: The question mark in this Scottsdale Desert Stages productions title screams, Careful! Hyper-clever campiness awaits you! But who can resist any show that includes a song called The Tippy, Tippy Tap of Love? Playwright Rick Abbot is taking pokes at Bram Stokers classic monster story in this…
Andre Rieu: Live in New York (Denon) Away From Her (Lionsgate) Bones: Season Two (Fox) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (HBO) Casper Meets Wendy: Family Fun Edition (Fox) Charmed: The Final Season (Paramount) DOA: Dead or Alive (Weinstein) Ever Again (Starz) Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes — Volume Two…
