Thu 10/7 As long as U2 continues to churn out rock anthems, the guys in tribute band Elevation have a bright future ahead. So bright, in fact, that Elevation front man Dan Burrow — a.k.a. “Danno,” a.k.a. Bono onstage — has invested a few thousand dollars in Bulgari shades, à…
When the presidential debate rolls into Tempe next week, Yaser Alamoodi, a 27-year-old political science major from Saudi Arabia, almost certainly won’t be in attendance. And not just because Arizona State University, which is hosting the event, is limiting the number of seats available to ASU students. Apparently, because he’s…
The nice folks at the Shakespeare Theatre have had the courage and temerity to attempt playwright Peter Weiss’ The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. It is, as you might imagine from…
There are at least three movies contained within the covers of H.G. Bissinger’s best-selling 1990 nonfiction book Friday Night Lights. One is concerned with the socioeconomic life of a small west Texas town built on the wobbly foundations of oil and racism and the out-of-whack worship of a high school…
Maybe it’s the mark of a great film that it can affect an audience member even when he sleeps through the entire thing. Such was the case with my father at a recent preview of David O. Russell’s I ♥ Huckabees, a philosophy lecture masquerading as a comedy in which…
Tweener fave Hilary Duff effortlessly maintains her wholesome image in Raise Your Voice, a coming-of-age drama (what else would you expect when the star is all of 16?) that is being marketed as a kind of updated Fame. Whereas director Alan Parker’s popular 1980 musical was set at Manhattan’s prestigious…
Prescott artist Paula Burr couldn’t help but to gawk at her own breasts. “Yeah, I stared at them for a long time,” the 26-year-old photographer admits. “I was just like, ‘Wow, those are my boobs.'” There they were, in a plaster cast mold, just waiting for some attention after Burr…
It’d be easy to paint L.A.’s Bob Bellerue and Adam Overton into a corner as members of the bohemian art set, clad in smocks and berets and a palette in hand. But you won’t see paintbrushes in their hands. In fact, you’ll never see their art, period. Bellerue and Overton…
Sat 10/9 If all that vanilla’s drying out your taste buds, try a taste of the Icehouse’s Fetish Ball II on Saturday, October 9, which promises a salacious exhibition of fire dancers, whipping demos, fetish fashion shows, exotic dancers, and full-body suspension. Erotica wear is required, and vendors such as…
“Harvest” at eye lounge: Fall has arrived, and with it comes a fresh exhibition at eye lounge. “Harvest,” according to curators Carrie Bloomston and Greg Esser, is focused on both the “literal reaping of botanical and horticultural bounty as well as the harvesting of the collective energies of the group.”…
THU 30 Reasons to panic? We keep a monthly schedule: Mom’s visit, our D&D mixer, paying our Live Links bill. . . . One more to pencil in: Come September 30, panic! resumes its monthly status — the last Thursday of the month at Anderson’s Fifth Estate, 6820 East Fifth…
At 5:30 on a Thursday afternoon, photographer Kristen Wright’s Tempe home looks like it could belong to any college student. Clothes pile up on a pool table in one room, the TV blares in another, and a tiny pug with a black, spiked collar just took a dump on someone’s…
Sit down with a couple of anti-Bush artist/activists and a pro-Bush children’s book author, and you get what you play for: lots of debate about politics, war, and the election, and not so much about artistic motivation or choice of medium. At least Emma Kratz, whose new single, “You’re Going…
Fri 10/1 You can get yourself clean and enjoy a good meal, but art at the YMCA? Sure enough, on Friday, October 1, the Lincoln Family Downtown YMCA, 350 North First Avenue, hosts its own First Friday event. Its Teen Center Art Gallery showcases paintings and murals by inner-city teenagers…
9/30-10/3 With everything Irish happening on campus this week, you’d think ASU president Michael Crow is tryin’ to get lucky. The ASU Herberger Mainstage Theatre production of Dancing at Lughnasa wraps up at the Paul V. Galvin Playhouse, 51 East 10th Street in Tempe, Thursday, September 30, through Sunday, October…
Shark Tale is an animated film, though after you see it you might wonder whether the term is intended as oxymoronic. Put simply, it has no life in it at all. Not even the kids roped into an afternoon preview screening seemed terribly interested. Perhaps they’ve grown tired of computer-made…
Revolutionary idolatry is an odd business. Just ask unruly pop singer Stew, of the unruly pop group the Negro Problem. On his Naked Dutch Painter album, the melodic rebel dares to challenge a very sacred image. “Don’t you wish there was, like, another picture of Che Guevara?” he inquires. “Like,…
David Cross isn’t so enthusiastic about his choices in November’s presidential election. “[George W.] Bush is dishonest. He’s a liar. He’s duplicitous. He’s a fake, phony populist,” says Cross, 40-year-old co-star of Fox’s Arrested Development, and former star of HBO’s mid-1990s cult comedy Mr. Show With Bob and David. “At…
College buds. Talented actors. Bright futures headed in the same direction, surely. Before long, Quincy Bernstine and Jennifer Morris might be referred to as “Quennifer,” provided their roles in the off-Broadway hit Matt and Ben, which comes to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts on Wednesday, October 6, serves as…
Sun 10/3 Remember learning how to drive in an empty parking lot behind the Quik Mart? Yeah, so does the neighborhood’s now-three-legged dog. While the drivers competing in the NASCAR Double Header at Phoenix International Raceway, 125 South Avondale Boulevard, on Sunday, October 3, possess more refined skills behind the…
Tue 10/5 Over-hyped pretentious film festivals of the world, listen up: You Cannes all just go to hell and watch us Sundance on your graves. Make way for the upstart film fanatics of the Gadabout Film Festival, who visit the Trunk Space, 1506 Grand Avenue, on Tuesday, October 5, and…
It was only a matter of time before Hollywood capitalized on the sympathy and admiration that have enveloped the nation’s firefighters since 9/11, and here we are. Jay Russell’s action-packed, flame-broiled Ladder 49 is an all-out valentine to the firehouse fraternity that might never have gotten to the screen were…
