Jul
22
2021
Choose skipping T2 Trainspotting. Choose other flicks that gladly empty your pockets and deliver a sultry sip of pus. Choose to wait until you can stream it from the comfort of your house: pause it, check your social media...
Jun
28
2019
When we found out John Waters was doing stand-up at the Celebrity Theatre we almost choked with happy vomit.
I've been friend-crushing on this man for most of my life thanks to a really bad copy of Pink Flamingo in...
Jun
07
2019
When we asked Liliana Gomez what is the most important thing about BlakTinx and she answered "the brown and black experience through movement," our knees jerked a bit y sudamos frío de la emoción.
Although the festival focuses on contemporary...
Feb
28
2019
The McDowell Music Festival is on this weekend and we're ready to catch up some of its bands to see wuzzup wit dem live. We've heard most of them and we know some have new material out. Others, we're...
Jan
25
2019
We've never listened to Los Esplifs live, and we can't wait to check them out this Friday at Last Exit Live. However, we know about this project's musicianship and the talented peeps who hone it. Most of them are...
Jan
25
2019
Nuestra experiencia AMPLIFIED en el PAM activó nuestros sentidos, el auditivo deliberadamente fue el más sugestionado de todos.
Llegamos al Phoenix Art Museum cuando tronaba el zapateo de Angelina Ramirez de Flamenco Por La Vida, mientras otros miembros de la...
Jan
19
2019
First, we're stoked that local thespians are putting together shows lately that don't overindulge in the melodramatic sameness we've been force-fed for the longest time (of course, there are exceptions; however, in our view, they're not the norm).
We're also...
Dec
18
2018
En vista del craze por el nuevo trailer de Estar Guars que acaban de dumpearles como cajas de supplies gringos en Darfur, debo compartirles la inútil conversación que en un momento de grifés se dio entre un grupo de...
Oct
20
2018
We're stoked about the skinnyblk (Skinny Black) opening this Saturday. Sean Avery, writer, and performer, describes it as a hip-hop album/staged play about the journey of a black masculine individual figuring out what is authentic in a society prone...
Oct
17
2018
“If reading bears fruit, let the trees read,” said the writing on a Ministry of Education's wall in the city I lived a few years ago. Some scolded teenager wrote it after begging his teacher for a passing grade,...
Oct
17
2018
Nico Paredes doesn't care if people know who he is or what he does for a living; he doesn't want fame, to be recognized on the street or to be praised. He doesn't give a shit about the perks...
Oct
17
2018
No, the burrito from one of the Berto's at 4 a.m. doesn't count. What we're talking about here is the first thing that comes to mind after you've been macerating inside the covers 'till noon because you couldn't restrain...