Mar
08
2017
The Jaleo Band is one of La Phoenikera's best Latin sounds band...From Salsa to Merengue, Bachata and Cha-cha-chá, The Jaleo Band's got it. This weekend you'll get to hear them perform the music of Cuba's quintessential band Buena Vista...
Mar
08
2017
La Phoenikera has a MASSIVE music festival all over the city and you can't miss it. VIVA PHX in its fourth year will have 100 bands at 20 different venues in a single night. We recommend you pack a flask...
Mar
08
2017
MAKE NOISE is an all ages Open Mic being held at the historic Santa Rita Hall in Barrio Campito. Poets, emcees, beat makers, singers, musicians, storytellers, artists, and dancers of all backgrounds are welcomed to participate on top of their...
Mar
06
2017
Last week there were immigration raids in different important cities in the U.S. They haven't happened in La Phoenikera yet but people have to be prepared.
The immigrant youth-led organization United We Dream, has created know your rights guides in 5...
Mar
02
2017
Immigration lawyers around the country are now recommending that immigrants, especially those without legal status, carry with them at all times physical proof of continuous presence in the United States for the prior two years. This will help protect...
Feb
21
2017
This week, Mexican movie Me Estás Matando, Susana (You're Killing Me Susana) opens in La Phoenikera. The film is directed by Roberto Sneider and the stars are Veronica Echegui and Gael García Bernal, who apparently is the only Mexican...
Feb
15
2017
If you’re like me and you’ve Heard the term “V-Day” and thought, what the crap is that? Here it goes.
V-Day is not Valentine’s Day, Virginity Day or Vloggers Day…It’s a global activist movement to stop violence against women and...
Feb
14
2017
V-Day Phoenix 2017 presents The Vagina Monologues + One Billion Rising. More than 50 women are participating in this year's production, which will benefit the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. There are three full casts, with...
Feb
11
2017
The #LightRailPlays by Rising Youth Theatre are back! Sign up for a tour of public art on the Valley Metro Light Rail System. Eight short plays will be performed on the trains and at the stops from Roosevelt to Camelback. You...
Feb
11
2017
ONE Spanish movie is playing in La Phoenikera movie theatres right now and you have less than a week to see it. In Un Padre No Tan Padre, when Don Servando Manuel Guadalupe Villegas de la Garza gets kicked...
Feb
11
2017
For the second time in La Phoenikera there will be a performance of Suéltate, a monologue by Spanish playwright Marc Egea. The play stars Peruvian actress and singer, Greta Skelly.
Suéltate is a 30-minute play in Spanish in which Vanessa, a...
Feb
06
2017
Last October I went to an event called Crossfade LAB and I was mind blown. Rita Indiana, a bad ass musician and writer from the Dominican Republic and equally awesome Tucson-based band Calexico, were sharing the stage in a...