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15 Art Shows During September First Friday in Downtown Phoenix

By Lynn TrimbleAugust 30, 2017

Circle the date September 1 on your calendar, because that’s when you can see more than a dozen fresh art shows in and around downtown Phoenix. First Friday promises new exhibitions and one last-chance opportunity. The “Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera” exhibition at Heard Museum closes after Monday September 4…

Follow-up to Goon Lands a Lot of Jokes — and This Time, They Sting

By Mike LawsAugust 30, 2017

Here’s a shocker: What might’ve seemed an ill-advised sequel to a surprisingly not-bad little hockey comedy is … surprisingly not bad! In fact, in some ways Goon: Last of the Enforcers actually manages to improve upon its forebear, connecting on jabs at a rate roughly equal to that of the…

Spielberg’s Close Encounters Returns in All its Confounding Glory

By Alan ScherstuhlAugust 30, 2017

In one sense, Steven Spielberg’s 1977 UFO bliss-out, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is reprehensible. It is, after all, the story of a daydreamer dad (Richard Dreyfuss) who leaves his family for worlds unknown as he continually trades in one slender, luminous life companion for another: Teri Garr for…

Menashe Makes Slacker Comedy out of Orthodox Life

By Daniel FelsenthalAugust 30, 2017

On a crowded Brooklyn street, an Orthodox Jew adjusts his yarmulke, a tefillin bag under his arm. He speaks on a smartphone and practically struts. The man, as dandified as one can look in a black suit and a white shirt, is a red herring in Menashe. Several other Brooklynites,…