Oct
17
2018
First Friday's opening night of Teotihuacán: City of Water, City of Fire at the Phoenix Art Museum (PAM for short) was super dope. Especially because we saw so many local artists participating in the celebration, and the community came...
Oct
17
2018
When did you last sit down to have a meal without compulsively checking your phone for your social media fix? How long ago did you experience a chill time around a table and have genuine conversations with those you...
Oct
08
2018
If you're interested in the arts and how mayoral candidates plan to advance and promote our city's culture scene, then you must attend the forum where candidate Kate Gallego, Moses Sanchez, Nicholas Sarwark, and Daniel Valenzuela tonight at the...
Sep
06
2018
How did we get so effin' crazy to think we could pull this ish off, you may ask. Well, it started many years ago at house parties, jamming to tunes that local DJs weren't even dreaming of playing at...
Jul
27
2018
So, I've been a fervent fan of El Chullo since I first visited about 5 years ago. Every time I go, I have difficulty deciding what item on the menu I'll smash: the Lomo Saltado, Ceviche, el Escabeche de Pollo,...
Jun
12
2018
Every desert has its poets, coyotes who see things through a different lens and have a compulsion with written words, and storytellers who survive under the most straining conditions. They are artists and culture pushers who continuously battle ignorance...
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...