Arts and Entertainment

Oh My Ears kicks off sixth annual festival with Japanese flutes and marimbas

Oh My Ears will be kicking off its sixth annual four-day music festival in downtown Phoenix tonight. OME is an organization dedicated to helping...

Green Leaf Arts District apartments to open new gallery First Friday

A new Phoenix art gallery will have its opening exhibition this First Friday, featuring Bassim Al-Shaker, an artist from Iraq, who worked to prepare...

Curtain Critic: “Bad Hombres” is Better Than “Despacito.” Change my mind.

A young, sharply-dressed Latino man silences the posh restaurant, announcing that he will perform his live poem: “Date Me or Deport Me, Just Do...

Arizona Center hosts first ever mid-week farmers market

Downtown Phoenix’s newest farmers market debuted Wednesday at the Arizona Center, hosting around 35 vendors selling local food and homemade goods. The mid-week market,...

In the details: Vibrant colors and sensual themes reveal ‘A Matter of Trust’

Artists Keely Finucane and Rick Naimark collaborated to display their work at Coe House in downtown Phoenix Friday as part of a showcase dubbed...

Curtain Critic: “Music Man” is a Nostalgic March Back in Time

The Arizona Theatre Company began the new year with a brassy bang in "Music Man", whose star swindles a small town with a fake...

Phoenix Mural Project brings life and color to historic neighborhoods

A few years ago, the brick and mortar walls of historic Phoenix neighborhoods were blank and colorless, some even deteriorating to concrete chunks on...

Curtain Critic: Humor flows from the Herberger Stage in “Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End”

Known as the woman who made feminism approachable, Erma Bombeck is given a loving dedication through Arizona Theatre Company’s newest show, “Erma Bombeck: At...

Curtain Critic: “Elf” is a Whimsical Joy Ride and a Holiday Treat

Snow may not fall in Phoenix this year, but the Phoenix Theatre's got the next best thing: paper snow flying through the hands of...

Filmbar pays tribute to Stan Lee in feature film ‘Mallrats’

In the wake of Stan Lee’s death, downtown Phoenix’s FilmBar paid tribute to the comic icon Saturday and Sunday with the showing of Mallrats. The...