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| Ska Shock feat. 2 Week Notice, Soulafide, La Banda Skalavera, & DJ Miss Upsetter The Clubhouse Music Venue | Thu., July 3, 7:00pm | Tempe | |
It may come as a shock, but Arizona has something of a vibrant ska scene. Granted, its not as expansive or off-the-chain as our states hip-hop or rock communities, but we can think of almost a dozen different ska bands that have been unleashing Rude Boy and 2-Tone beats around AZ in... More >> |
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| Dark Lotus Marquee Theatre | Sat., July 5, 6:30pm | Tempe | |
Dark Lotus is coming to town, and we best not mock them for fear of dismemberment. Composed of members of Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, and Blaze, the band is a dark clown conglomerate with a taste for doom. And with names like Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Monoxide Child, and Blaze Ya Dead Homie,... More >> |
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| Flobots The Clubhouse Music Venue | Wed., July 9, 7:00pm | Tempe | |
This politically-and-socially conscious hip-hop collective from Denver, CO hit big in April with their song Handlebars, off their second album, Fight with Tools. The tune tackles topics like gas-guzzling SUVs, corporate greed, and nuclear holocausts within the framework of a melody... More >> |
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| Laurie Notaro Changing Hands Bookstore | Thu., July 10, 7:00pm | Tempe | |
Why did Laurie Notaro leave her hometown of Phoenix, AZ? Had she sucked the last drop of marrow from every 1990s Mill Avenue moment and chewed the bones into dust? (She does have big teeth.) Whatever the case, the Muchacha del Idiota returns to her former stomping grounds to read from her... More >> |
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| Frida Kahlos 101st Birthday Celebration Changing Hands Bookstore | Sat., July 12, 12:00pm | Tempe | |
Nobody ever called Frida Kahlo an asshole, though, in 1939, the Mexican artist dubbed André Breton and the European surrealists the "bitches of Paris." Oh, snap! Frida existed to paint, and only then was the "Dove" allowed to fly free and depict her dark reality of surgeries,... More >> |
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| Hieroglyphics The Clubhouse Music Venue | Tue., July 15, 8:30pm | Tempe | |
One of the most lamentable facts about the 90s was the inability of underground hip-hop to register even the slightest blip on the mainstream radar. While gangsta rap rose to pop-culture ascendancy ruling Top 40 charts and pretty much directing the speech, fashion, and reference... More >> |
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| One O'Clock Shirtless Shots Monkey Pants Bar & Grill | Daily | Tempe | |
Been to the gym this summer? Make it pay off during One O'Clock Shirtless Shots, where you'll get a penny shot for exposing yourself from the waist up. Bring on the sweaty armpits, chest hair, or whatever your naked torso has going for itself. The naughtiness happens every night at 1 a.m. at... More >> |
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| FiestaCon Tempe Mission Palms Hotel |
Thu., July 3 more dates/times |
Tempe | |
Sci-fi/fantasy convention features various special guests, including artist Todd Lockwood, author Alan Dean Foster, editor Stanley Schmidt, and sci-fi superfans Jim and Doreen Webbert. An artwork by Lockwood is pictured. More >> |
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| Al Madrigal Tempe Improv |
Thu., July 10, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Tempe | |
West Coast Comedy 101: To springboard into acting, you strike out for LA. To perform standup for gasp! standups sake, you slug it out in the wilds of the San Francisco club scene. Al Madrigal falls into the latter category, having honed his deceptively baby-faced delivery... More >> |
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| "Masters of Illusion: Unveiling the Mystery of Trompe l'Oeil" Tempe Center for the Arts | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., May 3 until Sat., August 2 | Tempe | |
The greatest fakers in the art world arent forgers, wanna-bes, or even drones churning out 20 Mona Lisas a day for oil-painting stores. Theyre practitioners of trompe loeil. French for fool the eye, the art style was first used in ancient Greece, where landscape... More >> |
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| The Lucky Bitches Palo Verde Lounge | Every week Wednesday, 10:00pm | Tempe | |
We all know at least one. Daddy never touched her in the bad way. Instead, he loved and protected her. While you were struggling with overbites and baby fat, your sister looked gorgeous right through puberty. And even after squeezing out two perfect rug rats at 28, she doesnt have one... More >> |
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| "NOW: Selections From the Ovitz Family Collection" ASU Art Museum at Nelson Fine Arts Center | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 7 until Sun., September 28 | Tempe | |
Onetime Hollywood strongman Michael Ovitz used to make news for all the wrong reasons: voicing paranoiac slurs about the gay mafia, causing schisms in the Mickey Mouse fantasy factory during his star-crossed Disney stint, and manhandling the help as documented in Suzanne... More >> |
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| Third Friday Game Night The Spanish Place | Third Friday of every month, 6:00pm-9:00pm | Tempe | |
Ever played a partner-based card or board game and wanted to cheat? Well, heres one way to do it: speak Spanish, and make sure your opponents are a bunch of gringos who dont. From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 21, you can pick up some en español skills while playing card games,... More >> |
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| More Events | |||
| DJs JoeNice, Infiltrata, Terra, & more Club Red | Thu., July 3, 9:00pm | Tempe | |
| The Gaslamp Killer The Loft | Thu., July 3, 9:00pm | Tempe | |
| Ikonoklast, Mankind is Obsolete, Dismantled, Access Zero, American Gods, & more The Sets | Thu., July 3, 7:00pm | Tempe | |
| 4th of July the "All American Way" Kiwanis Recreation Center Indoor Wave Pool | Fri., July 4, 1:00pm-3:00pm | Tempe | |
| Home Jones, 9th Street Shakedown, The Beautiful Addiction, Embers Rise, Porn Junky, Treble Hook Company, Seventy Five Summers, Newborn Warhead, Rumi, Arvins Garden, & more Phase 54 | Fri., July 4, 8:00pm | Tempe | |
| July 4th Tempe Town Lake Festival Tempe Town Lake | Fri., July 4, 4:00pm-11:00pm | Tempe | |
| Mile High Klub, J-Roc, Lucky, Da Big Bully Organization, Glen Evans, Weigh 2 Sicc, Gettin' Cash Soldiers, & more The Sets | Fri., July 4, 6:15pm | Tempe | |
| Sectas, Downright Wicked, Flash Over Pass, & more Big Fish Pub | Fri., July 4, 6:30pm | Tempe | |
| The Impossible Ones, The Limit Club, Automatic Erasers, & Casket Life Yucca Tap Room | Fri., July 4, 8:00pm | Tempe | |
| The Top Cats Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que | Fri., July 4, 6:00pm | Tempe | |
| 4th of July Weekend Laughs feat. Comic Curtis, Dirty Red, Ray Love, & Myk the Way Cool Guy Big Fish Pub | Sat., July 5, 8:00pm | Tempe | |
| 80*D, Perfect Deception, Epidome, Crapple, Shindiga Digshin, Dinonicus, & more Phase 54 | Sat., July 5, 8:00pm | Tempe | |