Jun
12
2018
Every desert has its poets, coyotes who see things through a different lens and have a compulsion with written words; storytellers that survive under the most straining conditions. They are artists and culture pushers who continuously battle ignorance and...
May
30
2018
My dream is set on a Sunday, it's a warm sunny morning and I can't sleep in because my cat decides to serenade the whole neighborhood demanding its brekkie. A few minutes after the kitty decides to go full...
Apr
19
2018
Call for artists are popping up left and right in La Phoenikera and local artists should at least take a look at what is going on.
Murals, public art opportunities and connections with local businesses and institutions are hot right...
Mar
24
2018
Edson Madrigal and Pete Salaz got together last year to form Céntrico, one of the new Mexican-inspired food joints in dwntwn La Phoenikera.
Pete worked in the nightclub industry for many decades, co-owning Bar Smith and Monarch Theatre. He decided...
Mar
12
2018
La Phoenikera's litness is thanks to its arts scene. People can beat around the bush and say whatever, but it's true. Art made it "palatable" and attractive. It wasn't that long ago that people "yucked your yum" about living...
Mar
09
2018
Our list of unmissable acts for the McDowell Mountain Music Festival (aka M3F Fest) paid out like a bondsman on Thanksgiving. Most of the sets we set out to see delivered as expected and provided plenty of highlights. As...
Mar
01
2018
The McDowell Mountain Music Festival is kicking off and we're super psyched about all the bands playing over the weekend. We're also hoping to see all kinds of peeps having fun and Phoenikeando.
Although we love the line up and...
Feb
14
2018
It's Valentine's Day, and as much as we would like to, we can't seem to escape the flowers, chocolates, dinner reservations, and buying a whole bunch of sh*$t while retailers are moving on to milk the next holiday.
It's a...
Feb
13
2018
Check out some of the snapshots we took at the 2018 World Championship Hoop Dance Contest. This legit competition takes place every year at the Heard Museum, and if you haven't had a chance to experience it, you must...
Feb
03
2018
Dancing to the same tunes all the time must screw with your brain in some way. Seriously, that Top 40 or 100 loop never allowing you to venture to other sources of smashing hits must atrophiate it. The genre...
Jan
18
2018
About a year ago thousands of Phoenikerxs joined millions of people around the country for The Women's March. This event (the largest protest ever recorded in U.S. history), was mostly held as a public demonstration against the recently elected...
Jan
08
2018
If you think the world should hear or read the poetry you've locked away and only your friends stoically listen to, this is your chance.
You have a little less than 10 days to scribble some cool ish and submit...