There are few things – maybe even nothing – weirder than the late-night segment of a 32-hour marathon improv show. But that is exactly what I treated myself to on Friday night (or was it Saturday morning?) at The Torch Theatre, as they held their fourth annual Ghostfest improv comedy marathon.

It's an unlikely twist of fate: Treasure Mammal, the merrily experimental Phoenix-based band of spandex-clad provocateurs, is featured on the same record as spandex-clad provocateur Miley Cyrus.

Even though downtown Phoenix property owners will face higher property tax rates due to the use of a tax incentive, the city of Phoenix approved the incentive’s use earlier this month on a residential tower that will be built on the current Central Station site and is looking to use it for future development projects.

“The Bad and the Beautiful” was a fitting title for Center Dance Ensemble's season opener at the Herberger Theater Center this weekend. The work in the show ranged all the way from the organically beautiful work of guest choreographer Diane McNeal Hunt, to the archaically bad premieres of choreographer and artistic director Frances Smith Cohen.

Crescent Ballroom, a music venue that plays live performances every day from national or local bands, celebrated their third birthday with a free concert on Oct. 23.