Arts and Entertainment

A new and unique art gallery has opened on Roosevelt and Fifth streets called Drive-Thru Gallery. The owner said he hopes to collaborate with the community with the space.

After being banned from various galleries downtown, artwork by Phoenix artist Eric Cox has finally found wall space alongside other censored works in an...

Hundreds of hardcore fans and casual convention-goers this weekend attended the Amazing Arizona Comic Convention at the Phoenix Convention Center.

Nearly 40 bands will converge on downtown Phoenix for Family Friendly Fourth Friday, a monthly all-day music festival starting Jan. 25. The festival will cater to high school and college audiences.

Shine Coffee has added its brick-and-mortar location on the corner of Central Avenue and Vernon Street. The coffee shop will sell original recipes for coffee, pastries and seasonal beverages.

On a regular Friday night, the Arizona Center is buzzing with people eating dinner or watching a movie, but a new art gallery in the center now offers a different entertainment option.

As is its nature, Third Friday brings the focus back on the art from the party vibe of First Friday. For this month’s edition, the highlights run far and wide, featuring downtown’s wildest open-mic, twin exhibitions from local mixed-media stars, and a peek at the finer side of the scene via guided tour bus. Style and variety are must-haves to break Phoenix into the art world’s upper-echelon, and this week’s artwalk has it in spades.

ASU graduate students in the Herberger Institute School of Art’s printmaking program took the sunflower stalks grown during the last Valley of the Sunflowers season, turned them into paper and asked local artists to create artwork out of it.

If Grand Avenue were a street on the Monopoly board, Beatrice Moore would be its owner. But instead of identical, characterless little red and green plastic houses lining the roadway, each unique structure has an interesting story to tell, just like the woman behind their preservation.

Local music magazine Tempe Starving Artist has partnered with FMLY, a national touring and arts collective, to host an arts festival downtown called Phoenix FMLY Fest.