Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra to take over MOCA

By Laura Hassett

Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his accomplices will conclude a 10-day workshop and book signing with a performance geared to inspire the community to think critically about art in which the human body is a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism.

High schoolers showcase free theater

By Allison Warren

What do 36 drama students plus a five-week drama camp equal? Four exciting days of free plays and musicals. Summer on Stage 2007 is an intensive program put on by Arizona Theatre Company for drama students, mostly local, looking to hone their acting skills.

Band hopes for album to become theater production

By Kara Slack

The Dear Hunter is striving for a unique sound. The band began as a side project of singer Casey Crescenzo when he was in the experimental band Receiving End of Sirens. Crescenzo wanted fewer restrictions on his music and yearned for a different sound. That resulted in a demo released in 2005, and a year later he left Receiving End of Sirens and put out his first EP, Act I: The Lake South, The River North.

Covering what's worth your time (and you've got a lot of it)

The Spectrum

Gravy Train!!!! Notice the four exclamation points. They mean that Gravy Train!!!! is four times as awesome as every other kitschy electronic act out there. It's probably because they have cool names like Chunx, Hunx, Junx and Funx, and they sing about cool things like coming out and having sex with fast food.

Reviews

Harry Potter ... (VII) And so the era of Harry Potter ends. Within the last week, more printed pages have probably been read then ever before, as a result of the recent release of J. K. Rowling's seventh and final book of the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.