Bait and Switch: Artist Malena Barnhart’s Show at Eye Lounge on Roosevelt
The mélange of youthful feminine iconography is remixed into the shapes of bear traps and spider webs. The contrast with their constituent images creates a dissonance that is at once enticing yet discomforting. Barnhart’s point isn’t that there’s anything wrong with unicorns or princesses or cupcakes per se, but rather, as she put it, how...
Michelle Embree Talks About D.I.Y. Tarot Cards And Telling Stories
Michelle Embree is a storyteller, author, and Tarot reader. We talked to the touring artist about performance art and metaphysics before her upcoming show at The Trunk Space.
Words Within The Rhyme: An Intimate Evening Where Rap Meets Spoken Word
Mystic Blu elaborated on the idea of having rappers sharing poems minus the usual trappings of musical accompaniment or crews. She wanted to capture the intimate power of poetry, to highlight the words, the feelings, the people.
Jaime J. Soto Bares All on Selena, Stagecraft, and Ska
Jaime J. Soto will be performing on Monday night at the Tucson Noise Symposium. We talked to him about what it's like to do sexually charged material as a performance artist/musician, and the liberating power that comes from baring yourself to the public in more ways than one.
The Light Rail Plays Moves Us While We’re On The Move
Each year Rising Youth Theatre takes theater off the stage and gets it on the light rail for two weeks of live public performances. Our correspondent bought a metro pass and tagged along to see this year's Light Rail Plays. Was he impressed, or did he get off at the next stop?
Things That Don’t Suck in Phoenix This February
It's Valentine's Day across the valley. Don't get distracted from sucking face by a sucky show! Stick with these recommendations if you want a fantastic and yawn-free February in Phoenix (and outlying areas.) Click fliers for links to events.j
Trunk Space, Four Chambers, & nueBOX Pull Off A Menage Art Trois At Mesa Arts Center
The Trunk Space, Four Chambers Press, and nueBOX got together on Sunday night to put on an evening of interdisciplinary experimental art in Mesa. Our correspondent went down to see how their evening of dance, theater, and spoken word turned out.
HEALTH & HO99O9 made us sweat at The Rebel Lounge
HEALTH and HO99O9 played The Rebel Lounge last night. One band blew our correspondent away- Can you guess which one?
