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| Arcadia 4th of July Parade Jokake Road and Calle Tuberia | Fri., July 4, 8:00am | East Phoenix | |
If Ward and June Cleaver were Phoenicians, theyd live in Arcadia. Wally would be charming the pants off (not literally, of course) the pretty girls at Arcadia High, and Lumpy, Whitey, and the Beav would be bugging the crap out of the firefighters down at Engine Station No. 1. Meanwhile,... More >> |
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| Polka Dot Dot Dot, Porches, & Foot Ox Trunk Space | Fri., July 4, 10:00pm | Central Phoenix | |
Polka Dot Dot Dot embodies one of the great rites of American adolescence: the sleepover, a hootenanny of silly goosery and warm friendships. "We're totally in love with each other," coos Jordan Smith, who asked Colleen Johnson and Onyx of Olympia, two Pacific Northwestern singer/songwriters,... More >> |
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| Rise Up Summer Sessions: First Fridays Hotel San Carlos | First Friday of every month from Fri., July 4 until Fri., September 5, 10:00pm-2:00am | Central Phoenix | |
Youve subsisted on nothing but carrots, church wafers, and Chinese laxatives for the past three months, determined to have the perfect bikini figure. Youve withstood numerous suggestions to eat a goddamn cookie and are looking forward to flashing that ass-and-tit set of... More >> |
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| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition Arizona Science Center | Daily from Sat., June 7 until Sun., October 26, 10:00am-5:00pm | Central Phoenix | |
We're pretty sure that the prototypical fantasy geek and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis never imagined that his acclaimed children's series The Chronicles of Narnia would spawn something as scary-sounding as an "immersive marketing experience." So trust it to late capitalism to concoct such a... More >> |
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| The Grid II: Documenting Phoenix Through the Lens Trunk Space |
Fri., July 4, 6:00pm-10:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
As most people either love Phoenix or loathe it, so it is with Phoenixs gridlike nature. Oh, sure, there are a couple of roads that shamble drunkenly outside the lines Galvin Parkway and the Squaw Peak Parkway, or whatever its now politically correctly called but for... More >> |
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| Reefer Madness Phoenix Theatre's Little Theatre | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 7 until Sat., July 5, 8:00pm | Central Phoenix | |
Pssst. Yeah, you. Wanna buy some Reefer Madness? No, the musical, you hophead!
Why has Nearly Naked Theatre has chosen to present the Arizona première of this gaudy whirlwind of sex, drugs, and lounge music, based on the idiotic/cautionary 1936 movie of the same name? Says the... More >> |
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| Arizona Diamondbacks Family Fridays Chase Field |
Fri., July 4 more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
If youre like us, you loathe and despise the captive-audience price-gouging that goes on at sports arenas. Five or six bucks for a dog? Eight or nine for a brew? Hell, youll only shell out $5 for a sixer and another buck for the wiener at the neighborhood Circle K. The whole... More >> |
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| Arizona Diamondbacks vs. San Diego Padres Chase Field |
Fri., July 4, 6:40pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
If it werent for the munificence of the other teams in the National League West which have let the whippersnapping Arizona Diamondbacks run roughshod over em our Baby Snakes might top Major League Baseballs endangered-species list. The D-Backs racked up a 20-8... More >> |
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| Arizona Duck (DUKW) Tour Pleasant Harbor Marina at Lake Pleasant |
Daily, 10:00am more dates/times |
Peoria | |
Military intelligence, as the old saw goes, is an oxymoron. But the dudes in khaki got it right when they introduced the odd amphibious vehicle called the DUKW during WWII. The bastard spawn of a U-boat and a Hummer helped American troops survive beach attacks like Normandy by transporting... More >> |
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| "Branded and on Display" Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 14 until Sun., September 21 | Central Scottsdale | |
Its gotten so we dont even see them, the carefully placed product endorsements that are part of everyday life. On an episode of American Idol, Simon Cowell raises to his lips a monstrous neon tumbler emblazoned with the Coca-Cola logo, and what we see is a man taking a drink. Our... More >> |
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| Castles -n- Coasters Summer Fun Days Castles -n- Coasters | Daily from Thu., July 3 until Mon., September 1 | North Phoenix | |
The Castles -n- Coasters Summer Fun Days promotion is a smoking deal -- if you dont spontaneously combust. Were just tossin out a caveat emptor, cause you should know up front that your $15 buys unlimited rides on the theme parks attractions, plus a free round of... More >> |
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| "Chado Ralph Rucci" Phoenix Art Museum | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 21 until Sun., August 17 | Central Phoenix | |
High fashion in the Phoenix area is still associated with statements like, "Why, yes, I did get this at Macy's." In this town, you're more likely to be judged by the overall hue and breadth of your tan than for your taste in Balenciaga footwear. This may change some when Barney's opens in... More >> |
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| FiestaCon Tempe Mission Palms Hotel |
Fri., July 4 more dates/times |
Tempe | |
Sci-fi/fantasy convention features various special guests, including artist Todd Lockwood, author Alan Dean Foster, editor Stanley Schmidt, and sci-fi superfans Jim and Doreen Webbert. An artwork by Lockwood is pictured. More >> |
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| "Framed by Appearance: New Prints by Kathryn Maxwell" Mesa Contemporary Arts | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., April 25 until Sun., August 3 | Mesa | |
After a night of ego-tronic drinking, you wake up in a foreign bed, locking eyes with an unfamiliar woman. The beauty you followed home yesterday night was real cream, but this basement doppelgänger arouses nothing but your gag reflexes. Nevertheless, you suppress the urge to shit-n-bail... More >> |
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| "Gardians of the Camargue: The French Buckaroo Tradition" Burton Barr Central Library | Daily from Fri., May 9 until Thu., July 31 | Central Phoenix | |
Think cowboy and yall will most likely imagine vast expanses of the old American West. But as long ago as the first nomads got footsore and became farmers, human, horse, and bull forged a triumvirate that emerged around the world. For example, the Camargue region of France is... More >> |
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| Human & Animal Grossology Arizona Science Center | Daily from Sat., May 24 until Mon., September 1 | Central Phoenix | |
A friend of ours freaks out when he realizes the molecules he's inhaling have been inside our lungs, too. You other wusses better check out Human & Animal Grossology at Arizona Science Center beginning Saturday, May 24, and get desensitized to all the emissions and secretions of us... More >> |
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| Jason Koster's "Devil Claw" eye lounge | Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., June 20 until Sat., July 12 | Central Phoenix | |
The new iPhone drops and has the Internet going nuts like Paul Wall. Like the bling-mouthed Southern spitter, you feel compelled to stunt and cop the two-year AT&T contract just to keep up with Twitter.
In a world thirsty for attention and applause, Jason Koster seeks the Zen of one hand... More >> |
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| Mark Mothersbaughs Beautiful Mutants Perihelion Arts |
Fri., July 4, 6:00pm-12:00am more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
Mark Mothersbaugh lives a symmetrical life of wild extremes.
Consider:
Hes was born and still lives in Akron, Ohio all-American birthplace of the rubber tire, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the soap-box derby but made his name as frontman for the band Devo, which... More >> |
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| "Mass Consumption" Mesa Contemporary Arts | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 13 until Sun., August 10 | Mesa | |
Whats one of our favorite things about Mesa Contemporary Arts besides the kickass exhibits? The gallery's sheer size, which makes it the perfect fit for "Mass Consumption," a show that associate curator Tiffany Fairall describes (in a ginormous nutshell) as "everything about popular... More >> |
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| "Masters of Illusion: Unveiling the Mystery of Trompe l'Oeil" Tempe Center for the Arts | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., May 3 until Sat., August 2 | Tempe | |
The greatest fakers in the art world arent forgers, wanna-bes, or even drones churning out 20 Mona Lisas a day for oil-painting stores. Theyre practitioners of trompe loeil. French for fool the eye, the art style was first used in ancient Greece, where landscape... More >> |
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| Neil Gillingham's "Henry" five15 Gallery |
Every week Friday from Fri., July 4 until Fri., July 25, 5:00pm-9:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
When youre 6 years old and have an imaginary friend, you get a roll of the eyes and a pat on the head. If youre 30, you get a rubber room and a dose of anti-psychotics.
Luckily for Neil Gillingham, artists get a free pass when it comes to having pretend pals at any age. After... More >> |
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| "NOW: Selections From the Ovitz Family Collection" ASU Art Museum at Nelson Fine Arts Center | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 7 until Sun., September 28 | Tempe | |
Onetime Hollywood strongman Michael Ovitz used to make news for all the wrong reasons: voicing paranoiac slurs about the gay mafia, causing schisms in the Mickey Mouse fantasy factory during his star-crossed Disney stint, and manhandling the help as documented in Suzanne... More >> |
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| Salt River Tubing & Recreation Salt River Tubing & Recreation | Daily from Sat., May 3 until Tue., September 30, 9:00am-7:00pm | Mesa | |
Rednecks tend to be attracted to large bodies of water. Dont believe us? How else to explain the Redneck Riviera spanning the area from Mobile, Alabama, to the Emerald Coast near Apalachicola, Florida?
Though we live in the desert, that doesnt mean our state is running... More >> |
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| "The G R E E N B E L T: a photographic collaboration" eye lounge |
Fri., July 4, 5:00pm-9:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
There are plenty of words to describe Phoenix. Dusty. Sunlit. Sprawling. Somehow, green doesnt make the list. Artists Lindsay Palmer and Rebekeh Brems might disagree. Their joint exhibit The G R E E N B E L T: a photographic collaboration features large-scale... More >> |
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| "Underworlderness" Heard Museum |
Daily from Fri., June 6 until Sun., August 31, 9:30am-5:00pm more dates/times |
Central Phoenix | |
According to legend, the Diné (Navajo) underworld was a supercool place to live for the Holy People. The weather was perfect, food grew in loads, and the staples of Navajo art such as rug weaving, silversmithing, and basketry were cultivated and honed. In his... More >> |
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