Arts and Entertainment

Japanese Friendship Garden welcomes spring

The Japanese Friendship Garden hosts a festival every year known as “Haru in the Garden” to welcome the spring season. The celebration includes art,...

Morgan Saint ends trip to Phoenix on a high note

Morgan Saint performed at the Crescent Ballroom on March 24, 2018. Saint is a New York singer/songwriter who began taking piano lessons at 8...

Downtown Digest: Race against cancer, then make up for lost calories at Cultural Crawl

The Downtown Digest is back and better than ever! Well, maybe not ever. I’ve probably done better ones before… Anyway, my name’s T.J. Triolo...

Downtown Digest: Dinosaurs and Japanese jazz

Hello, lovely readers! I hope you had a good St. Patrick’s Day weekend and took advantage of some of the great events that went...

{9} The Gallery’s new management looks to continue what Laura Dragon started

As Laura Dragon steps down from operations of her art gallery, {9} The Gallery, the new management is expected to keep the business going...

Art Detour to celebrate 30 years this weekend through art and music

Downtown Phoenix will be filled with color, art and music this weekend for the annual Art Detour art walk. Since Artlink started it in...

Downtown Digest: St. Patrick’s Day, ’90s music, 30 years of Art Detour

Welcome back to the Downtown Digest! It’s time to take a look at what events downtown Phoenix has coming up this next week with...

ArtPrize invites local artists to informational meeting for Pitch Night in May

Phoenix artists will get a chance to go to Michigan for the annual ArtPrize contest this May, as the FOUND:RE Hotel will host a...

AcroCATstic: Acro-cats and other animals perform

Olympic athletes sometimes find it difficult to land on their feet. For cats, that ability is built into their genetics. Cats and other creatures leaped...

Curtain Critic: Boobs, boobs and more boobs at Phoenix Theatre’s “The Boob Show”

It’s important to keep abreast of topics such as body image, feminism, sexism and objectification, and no play makes it more titillating than “The...