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Upcoming Valley Art Festival Combines Different Mediums

By Jackie • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Art

Head to Cave Creek this upcoming weekend for the colorful and unique OutWest Art Fest taking over the Stagecoach Village. Featuring 100 local and nationally-acclaimed painters, sculptors, jewelers, wood and glass artists, photographers, and artists working with mixed media, this juried festival is one of the very few art shows in Arizona that is coordinated [...]



Must-See Broadway Musicals at ASU Gammage

By Jackie • Feb 19th, 2010 • Category: Art

Without a doubt, ASU Gammage is one of Tempe’s most prized possessions and has staged many celebrity artists and renowned Broadway productions. Located on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University, ASU Gammage is among the largest university-based presenters of performing arts in the world. It’s the home theater of M&I Bank Broadway Across America [...]



Celebrities Model the “Red Dress” to Raise Awareness at NY Fashion Week

By Jackie • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Art

Yesterday, more than 20 of today’s hottest female celebrities walked the famed New York Fashion Week runway at Bryant Park sporting an elegant “Red Dress” made by top designers. As part of “The Heart Truth’s” Collection to raise awareness, these pieces inspire us ladies to take action to prevent the number one killer of women [...]



Elizabeth Taylor Film Festival to Support SWC for HIV/AIDS

By Jackie • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Art

Celebrating “the Elizabeth Taylor,” one of the greatest actresses of Hollywood’s golden years, City of Phoenix Vice Mayor Tom Simplot and Harkins Theatres are hosting an exciting film festival to benefit Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS starting this Friday, Jan. 22 and running through Sunday, Jan. 24.

Taking place at Harkins Theatres Christown 14, the film festival [...]



An Evening of Opera & Art at the Heard Museum

By Jackie • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Art

If you have yet to experience The Heard Museum’s free third Friday evening series, NU (Native + You), now is your chance! On January 15 from 5:30 to 9 p.m., the series will mix opera with art, to create an incredible Friday evening. Guests can attend a panel discussion with several well-respected contemporary artists, experience [...]



Phoenix Art Museum’s Artistic Fashion Exhibition

By Jackie • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Art

Fashion Designer Geoffrey Beene (1927-2004) created such innovative and original collections that his designs have been celebrated as works of art. The celebration continues and is featured in our very own Phoenix Art Museum as it presents “Geoffrey Beene: Trapeze.” The exhibition employs stunning pieces from a Beene collection acquired in the 1980’s and 1990’s, [...]



Top Holiday TV Marathons

By Jackie • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Art

So you finished all your Christmas shopping and are finally on vacation. Now what? For those looking for some traditional R n’ R, turn on the tube and enjoy some great TV holiday marathons…

TODAY
“Man v. Food” marathon on The Travel Channel
December 23 at 9 a.m. ET/PT
See where host Adam Richman finds some delicious and not so [...]



JW Marriott Desert Ridge Displays Largest Gingerbread Village

By Jackie • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Art

Grab the kids and come see what the award-winning pastry squad at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa has spent more that 400 hours creating for this year’s holiday season… The largest Gingerbread Village in the Valley (AKA the “dazzling masterpiece of glistening gumdrops and sugary icing”) is themed “Holidays Around the World” and [...]



Tempe Festival of the Arts Kicks Off Today

By Jackie • Dec 4th, 2009 • Category: Art

This weekend is themed “art” as it is now overloaded with more than 400 artists from 27 different states here for the annual Tempe Festival of the Arts! Taking place in the Mill Avenue District, this free, three-day celebration (Friday–Sunday) of “fine art and funky crafts” also features an array of live entertainers you and [...]



Wedding Singer Musical in Phoenix!

By Jackie • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Art

If you loved the movie, starring the hilarious Adam Sandler and set in the colorful 80’s, than you must see the Broadway musical! Nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Wedding Singer features all the characters, jokes and 80’s songs (including “Somebody Kill Me” and “Grow Old With You”) from the movie and is coming to [...]