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Gays to provide fodder for pro-family propaganda
In spite of all of the bad economic news, Valley gays are giving pro-family groups a reason to smile. The 2009 Phoenix Pride Festival will sashay into Steele Indian School Park this Saturday giving activists from groups like Americans for Truth About Homosexuality plenty of opportunities to capture footage of scantily-clad revelers in a variety of suggestive situations, to be later edited into videos with captions like Could This Be Your Child’s Teacher? that will be distributed to righteously indignant church members.
Patience is a virtue
Well, it’s here. The long-awaited, often-delayed and somewhat-controversial flying netting now graces the sky above our soon-to-be-open Civic Space park. Her Secret Is Patience, while certainly pretty at night, is missing something. Great art should evoke some sort of emotion, whether its wonder or disgust, but all the giant fish net evokes is, well, questions…. Read more
Get Yer Culture Pass
If you have a library card with any public library in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale, Tempe or Chandler, you just won free admission to a number of downtown area museums. All you have to do is stroll in to your local branch, and say, “I’ll take a Culture Pass, please,” and you’ve scored free online… Read more
All-Star game coming to the Valley
Call it a celebration of America’s pastime, call it a break in the middle of the summer, call it the best all-star sports weekend ever, but don’t call it boring. The All Star game is coming to Arizona.
Record Store Day at Stinkweeds
Come celebrate national record store day at Stinkweeds (10 W. Camelback Rd.) next Saturday, April 18. Designated as a day to support your trusty independent record store, Stinkweeds is going all out, even releasing its own exclusive album, Phoenix: We Love It, full of great local bands (Go Big Casino, Sam Means from the Format,… Read more
Today is the best day of the year
The 2009 baseball season has begun. Time for Webb, Haren and the rest of the boys to take on the Rockies on their way toward another playoff push.
Diamondbacks Open Season Monday
Baseball is important. At least to me.
Monday marks the start of the 11th season of the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the first full season that the light rail will be running.
Art, Advocacy, Action Today At Downtown Phoenix Campus
Arizona State University’s “Action, Advocacy, Arts” will emphasize the strength of community dialogue and engagement through a series of free activities from 1:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 3 at the Downtown campus University Center, 411 N Central Ave.
Is Photography a crime in Phoenix?
When writer and amateur photographer William J. Nash-McAdam and a friend drove from Mesa to Downtown Phoenix today to take photos of the cityscape, they never imagined they would end up as subjects of a Homeland Security investigation.