Thanks to friends in Amsterdam, Rembrandt and the Dutch masters are in town from January 28 to May 6 at the Phoenix Art Museum.

The mighty sledgehammer of the law quivers over the heads of those uncooperative subterraneans who dare to even appear considering stepping out of line. Such is the potential fate of the despicable perverts who inhabit the Trunk Space.

Phoenix has a immense palette of available dining destinations, but why not take a break from the over-designed and homogenized chain restaurants and spark your taste buds as well as your brain?

Somewhere between the economic goliath of corporate bottom lines and the airy abstraction of artistic ambitions is a hazy gray wonderland of secondary markets that defy our definitions of art versus business.

For the longest time I always thought that in the Field of Dreams, Ray Liotta told Kevin Costner, "if you build it, they will come." But as it turns out, that isn't what Ray Liotta said at all.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school during the fall of 1964, “Doubt”, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winning play by John Patrick Shanley, was recently performed at ASU's Gammage Theater as part of the Off Broadway series.

I said good-bye to a city with so much historic body and endless inspiration, a place known for its magical spirit and artistic flesh. I left behind the place where so many people willingly struggle knowing that a dream will pay off.

I awake, head in a vice and carpet marks firmly tattooed upon my cheeks. As my head clears and I take full survey of all that has passed buried beneath the changing of one tiny number, past ambitions seem no more satisfied than the red circular stains at the bottom of the littering of wine glasses.

On a seemingly all-too-perfect day (set against a backdrop of gray skies, falling rain drops, and the scarce, yet festive, scattering of Christmas lights along the city), I couldn’t help the overwhelming sense of nostalgia and childlike joy for the all-too-fast approaching holidays.