Arts and Entertainment

In celebration of the end of the academic semester, the Downtown Devil's editors selected stories and columns that represented some of the publication's best work of the past six months.

After rising tensions within the event that culminated in a disagreement and violent threats between two poets, Lawn Gnome Publishing has shut down the Phoenix Poetry Slam. Poets in the community reflect on where to go from here.

What better place to capture the feel of the holidays in Downtown Phoenix than CitySkate? I decided that to capture the feel of the holidays in a large city, a small personal moment would not cut it. Instead, I decided to capture the unending movement that is the city.

The Arizona Theatre Company recently received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for Latino community outreach and programming, which brings the opportunity for diverse voices of Phoenix to be heard. But it also raises important questions about how we integrate those voices into a sometimes white-washed theater community.

Randy Slack’s one-night-only retrospective exhibition at the Luhrs City Center last Friday was a colorful collection of works that blended past and present, mingling reality with memory. The exhibit, titled “Randy Slack Retrospective: From the Luhrs Basement + Beyond,” was housed inside the Luhrs Arcade at the corner of Central and Jefferson.

Hair curlers, dried spaghetti and condoms are just some of the decorations on top of the Christmas trees for Space 55's 'The Weirdest Little Christmas Tree,' a festive event running until Dec. 20.

The power of television, and how it interacts with our minds, is the subject of "Under Television Skies," a new exhibit curated by Richard Bledsoe and on display at First Studio gallery until Jan. 30.

Artists Jeff Davis will present "Location Series," a new show featuring prints created via algorithms, at MonOrchid's Bokeh Gallery during December's First Fridays artwalk.

Grand Avenue’s rich history will be explored this month at the Frontal Lobe Gallery in the exhibit “The Lone Diagonal in A Grid Town: What’s Grand About Grand Avenue,” which will open at December’s First Fridays Artwalk.

[nueBOX], which will open at Phoenix Center for the Arts in February, will offer three- and six-month residency programs to performance artists and three-week residencies to installation artists who want to try something new.