Arts + Entertainment
On this season-ending episode of Word, we highlight some of those who appeared during 2023. It's a "Fest Of Us" celebrating literature and the winners of KJZZ's "Tiny Library" drawing.
Dec. 25, 2023
For decades, the NCAA has held the men’s basketball Final Four inside football stadiums – including the Arizona Cardinals’ home venue in 2017. Local preparations continue as the mega sporting event will return to Glendale in April for a second time.
Dec. 22, 2023
Construction is underway for a new park in north Scottsdale that voters approved as part of the 2019 bond election.
Dec. 22, 2023
Jimbo Mathis is the founder of Squirrel Nut Zippers; the band will be performing Friday, Dec. 22, at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Mathis spoke with The Show about how their Christmas album came to be.
Dec. 22, 2023
The United Nations decided this year that Dec. 21 is World Basketball Day. And it’s to be celebrated every year on the anniversary of the first time the sport was ever played.
Dec. 21, 2023
Public safety crews in Mesa have been inspecting outdoor vendors selling fireworks in an effort to keep illegal fireworks out of their city.
Dec. 21, 2023
This holiday season, This Show is bringing you true stories about — what else — food. Local educator Nemanja Demic shared a story of old traditions including pig on a spit.
Dec. 21, 2023
Timothée Chalamet stars in a “WONKA,” prequel of sorts to the famous “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” But he’s not the first star to take on the role. Why do we keep returning to this odd and interesting character?
Dec. 21, 2023
The Show spoke with Catrina Kahler, CEO of the nonprofit Artlink, about what she thought about the Phoenix arts scene this year.
Dec. 21, 2023
High school teacher Teri Woods has been collecting Fiestaware since the 1980s, and she tells The Show why she started, and why she keeps going.
Dec. 20, 2023
The Show spoke with author Anthony Macías about "Chicano Chicana Americana," which profiles the film work of Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, Lupe Ontiveros and more.
Dec. 20, 2023
Historian and author Alaina Roberts spoke with The Show about how some efforts to focus on diverse icons of the West are more successful than others, and more about the historical figure Bass Reeves.
Dec. 20, 2023
For the end of the yearlong Saguaro Land series, The Show invited Arizona artists to map the Sonoran Desert. Here's what they came up with.
Dec. 20, 2023
This holiday season, This Show is bringing you true stories about — what else — food. And Phoenix writer Nina Newell recalls a holiday meal prepared with love — and a heaping side of guilt.
Dec. 20, 2023
The Show spoke with Paola Boivin, director of the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, about what she thinks were the biggest sports deals of 2023.
Dec. 20, 2023
This holiday season, This Show is bringing you true stories about — what else — food. And Regina Revazova shares how her family celebrates the winter holidays growing up in a frozen town on the other side of the world.
Dec. 19, 2023
The Show spoke with longtime member of the Arizona music scene Jason Patrick Woodbury about Christmas songs that you probably haven't heard a million times already this year — at least not in these forms.
Dec. 19, 2023
Matthias Mehl, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, joined The Show to talk about the role that small talk plays in our relationships with people and our ability to get along with the rest of the world.
Dec. 19, 2023
The John Philip Sousa Foundation awards the Sudler Trophy to a university that “honors the close historical relationship and outstanding contribution of college marching bands to the American way of life.” This year, the national honor went to the University of Arizona and the school’s band director, Chad Shoopman.
Dec. 18, 2023
This holiday season, This Show is bringing you true stories about — what else — food. And Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University Kris Vera-Phillips shares her own story of holidays spent in the newsroom.
Dec. 18, 2023
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